Melissa C. Macero

Melissa C. Macero is a PhD candidate in English literature at University of Illinois at Chicago, specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and film with a concentration in popular culture, horror studies, and critical theory. Her dissertation explores the aesthetics of the horror genre and in particular the genre’s imagined relationship to its working-class audience, from Henry James to contemporary slashers. Her work is forthcoming in Genre , as well as two edited collections: The Many Lives of The Purge and Women in Folk Horror: The Cauldron and the Cradle. Twitter: @meliss1900