 Associate Professor of EnglishOffice: Denison 135 Telephone: 303-492-8951 E-mail: Kelly.Hurley@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Victorian studies; literary theory; popular genres (Gothic, horror, science fiction), film studies
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1988
B.A., Reed College, 1980
Publications
Books
The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle. Cambridge University Press, 1996; rpt. 2004
With Alfred David and Philip Schwyzer, Teaching with the "Norton Anthology of English Literature, Seventh Edition": A Guide for Instructors. W. W. Norton, 2000.
Essays
“The Victorian Mummy-Fetish: H. Rider Haggard, Frank Aubrey, and the White Mummy." Victorian "Freaks." Ed. Marlene Tromp. Ohio State Univ. Press, forthcoming
“The Abject and the Grotesque.” Routledge Companion to the Gothic. Ed. Emma McEvoy and Catherine Spooner. Routledge, forthcoming
"British Gothic Fiction 1885-1930." The Cambridge Companion to the Gothic Fiction. Ed. Jerrold Hogle. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002, 189-207
"The Modernist Abominations of William Hope Hodgson." Gothic Modernisms. Ed. William Hughes and Andrew Smith. St. Martin's, 2001, 129-149
"Reading Like an Alien: Posthuman Identity in Ridley Scott's Alienand David Cronenberg's Rabid." Posthuman Bodies. Ed. Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston. Indiana Univ. Press, 1995, 203-24
"'The Inner Chambers of all Nameless Sin': The Beetle, Gothic Female Sexuality, and Oriental Barbarism." Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature. Ed. Lloyd Davis. State University of New York Press, 1993, 193-213, 248-49
"Hereditary Taint and Cultural Contagion: The Social Etiology of Fin-de-Siècle Degeneration Theory." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 14, 2 (April 1990): 193-214
"Seduction by Surrogate: Bram Stoker's Dracula." Sequoia 28, 2 (Spring 1984): 24-36
Selected honors and awards
Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 2003-2004
Elizabeth Colwill Wiegers Faculty Fellowship, 1993-1994
Current projects
Heteromorphosis: Processes of Identity-Formation in Science Fiction-Horror Cinema (book)
"Terra Incognita": Late-Victorian Imperialism and "Lost World" Fictions (book)