lyssa Q. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of English at Charleston Southern University. She completed her Ph.D. in English at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Her research interests are at the intersection of religion and the Gothic in long-nineteenth-century British fiction, often coalescing around the vampire figure or representations of failed religion. Her work has appeared in Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, the Journal of Dracula Studies, the Victorian Jewish Writers Project, and Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom. Her first book, Gothic Fanaticism: Protestant Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, is under contract with Edinburgh University Press.
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