 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: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain. Ed. Marlene Tromp. Ohio State Univ. Press, 2008,180-99
"Abject and Grotesque.” Routledge Companion to the Gothic. Ed. Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy. Routledge, 2007, 137-46
"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)