Carol Senf
Professor
Member Of:
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
- ADVANCE IAC
Office Location: Skiles 335B
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 3 - 4
Related Links:
Email Address: carol.senf@lmc.gatech.edu
Overview
Personal Pronouns:
she, her, hersDr. Carol Senf received her PhD in Victorian Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979 and came to Georgia Tech in 1981. Currently Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, Senf has published articles on Victorian literature in BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History, English Literature in Transition, 1880 – 1920, Gothic Studies, Victorian Studies,College English, and Victorians Institute Journal. Her books include Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction (Greenwood, 2002) and Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism (Twayne, 1998), which won the Lord Ruthven Assembly award for best non-fiction in 1998. An annotated edition of Bram Stoker's Lady Athlyne was published by The Desert Island Dracula Press in 2007 and an annotated edition of Stoker's Mystery of the Sea was published by Valancourt Press in 2007. Bram Stoker was published by the University of Wales Press in 2010. She also collaborated with Sherri Brown and Ellen Stockstill on A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English: Print and Electronic Sources (2018).
Interests
Research Fields:
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Science and Technology Studies
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Europe
- North America
Issues:
- Gender
- Inequality and Social Justice
- Race/Ethnicity
Courses
- ENGL-1102: English Composition II
- LCC-2100: Intro-Sci,Tech & Culture
- LCC-2813: Special Topics in STAC
- LCC-3112: Evolution&Industrial Age
- LCC-3226: Major Authors
- LCC-3304: Science, Tech, & Gender
- LCC-3823: Special Topics Lit/Cult
- LCC-3853: Special Topics in Film
- LCC-4100: Seminar in STAC
- LCC-4102: Senior Thesis
- LCC-4200: Seminar in Lit/Cult
- LMC-2000: Intro-Lit, Media, & Comm
- LMC-2050: Lit, Media, Comm Seminar
- LMC-3112: Evolution&Industrial Age
- LMC-3202: Studies in Fiction
- LMC-3234: Creative Writing
- LMC-3302: Sci, Tech & Ideology
- LMC-3304: Science, Tech & Gender
- LMC-3318: Biomedicine & Culture
- LMC-3823: Special Topics Lit/Cult
- LMC-4000: Senior Seminar in LMC
- LMC-4100: Seminar in STAC
Publications
Recent Publications
Chapters
- "Dracula, Blood, and the New Woman: Stoker's Reflections on the Zeitgeist"
In: Blood (The Darwin College Lectures) [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2022
- "Vampires and Detectives Over Three Centuries: Haunters and Hunters" with Marius-Mircea Crisan
In: Towards a Theory of Whodunits: Murder Rewritten
Date: 2021
- “Blue Books, Baedekers, Cookbooks, and the Monsters in the Mirror: Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
In: Food for Monsters [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2019
- “The Evolution of Gothic Spaces: Ruins, Forests, Urban Jungles” with Marius Crisan
In: Dracula: An International Perspective
Date: 2018
- Bram Stoker’s Ambivalent Response to the Frontier and the American Frontiersman”
In: Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018
All Publications
Books
- A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English: Print and Electronic Sources
Date: 2018
Journal Articles
- “Realism, Horror and the Gothic in Dracula and Thomas Hardy’s “The Fiddler of the Reels”
In: Palgrave Communications [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- “Bram Stoker’s Reflections on the American Character”
In: English Literature in Transition, 1880 – 1920 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
- “‘The Fiddler of the Reels’: Hardy’s Reflection on the Past”
In: BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
Chapters
- "Dracula, Blood, and the New Woman: Stoker's Reflections on the Zeitgeist"
In: Blood (The Darwin College Lectures) [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2022
- "Vampires and Detectives Over Three Centuries: Haunters and Hunters" with Marius-Mircea Crisan
In: Towards a Theory of Whodunits: Murder Rewritten
Date: 2021
- “Blue Books, Baedekers, Cookbooks, and the Monsters in the Mirror: Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
In: Food for Monsters [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2019
- Bram Stoker’s Ambivalent Response to the Frontier and the American Frontiersman”
In: Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018
- “The Evolution of Gothic Spaces: Ruins, Forests, Urban Jungles” with Marius Crisan
In: Dracula: An International Perspective
Date: 2018