Dawn Keetley

Dawn Keetley is a Professor of English, teaching horror /gothic literature, film, and television at Lehigh University in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. She has recently published on AMC’s The Walking Dead in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and the Journal of Popular Television, is the editor of We’re All Infected’: Essays on AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ and the Fate of the Human (McFarland, 2014), and the co-editor of a second collection, Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead, also forthcoming from McFarland. She has recently published on the classic horror film, Thirteen Women (1932) in the Journal of Film and Video and on FX’s American Horror Story in Gothic Studies. She is the co-editor (with Angela Tenga) of Plant Horror: The Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film (forthcoming from Palgrave), and (with Matthew Sivils) of The Ecogothic in Nineteenth-century American Literature (forthcoming from Routledge). She also has a monograph on nineteenth-century Boston murderer, Jesse Pomeroy, Making a Monster, forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press. She writes regularly for a horror blog she co-created at www.HorrorHomeroom.com.
Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ Is No Less Shocking in This Graphic Adaptation
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Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ Is No Less Shocking in This Graphic Adaptation

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 / 9 November 2016
Miles Hyman implicitly connects Jackson's stoning ritual and the reaping of grain; illuminating, perhaps, the interconnection of life and death in both.
How to Break a Person: Is ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Examining Slavery?
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How to Break a Person: Is ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Examining Slavery?

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 / 25 October 2016
Despite claims by both villains and producers, can people really be "broken" so quickly?
On Very Visceral Mysteries: ‘The Woman in Cabin 10’
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On Very Visceral Mysteries: ‘The Woman in Cabin 10’

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 / 22 September 2016
Much of what happens to the protagonists here and in the comparable The Girl on the Train evades their control.
‘The Age of Lovecraft’ Wonderfully Elucidates the Central Dilemma Posed by Lovecraft
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‘The Age of Lovecraft’ Wonderfully Elucidates the Central Dilemma Posed by Lovecraft

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 / 21 July 2016
The Age of Lovecraft asks readers to weigh his undeniable revulsion toward non-white, non-male bodies against his vision of a cosmos indifferent to all humans.