Ian M. Clark is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of English Literature. His research focuses on the intersection of gender and sexual queerness in the monstrous or transformational body, particularly in long nineteenth-century British Gothic literature. His work has appeared in The Journal of Dracula Studies, MONSTRUM, and Revenant, for whom he co-edited the forthcoming special issue, "Vampires: Consuming Monsters and Monstrous Consumption," with Dr. Cameron. Upcoming projects include co-writing the entry 鈥淰ictorian Slums鈥 for Oxford Bibliographies, a chapter on allegorical vampirism and class for Rowman & Littlefield鈥檚 collection on Sheridan le Fanu鈥檚 Carmilla (both with Dr. Cameron), and an article on queer cruising in Eric Stenbock鈥檚 鈥淭he True Story of a Vampire鈥 for The AnaChronisT Journal. Other research interests include Victorian queer history and culture, the supernatural, drag, and depictions of the metaphoric Other in contemporary film and television.
- Victorian Literature and Culture
- Romantic Literature
- Queer Theory
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Gothic Studies
- Monster Studies
- Animal Studies and Posthumanism
- Victorian Sexology
- Contemporary Film and Television
- R: 鈥淚nfectious Queers: HIV/AIDS and the Vampiric Body in Interview with the Vampire (1994).鈥 Journal of Dracula Studies, no. 24, 2022, pp. 28-58.
- Review: 鈥淰irginia Fusco鈥檚 The Symbolic Potential of the Hybrid: Anita Blake and Horror and Vampire Literature.鈥 MONSTRUM, vol. 5, no. 1, 2022. pp. 78-81.
- Forthcoming: 鈥淪lumming.鈥 Co-authored with Dr. S. Brooke Cameron, Oxford Bibliographies.
- Forthcoming: Guest co-editor for Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural. Special Issue: 鈥淐onsuming Monsters and Monstruous Consumption.鈥
- Forthcoming: 鈥淜evin Dodd鈥檚 The Tale of the Living Vampyre: New Directions in Vampire Studies.鈥 Revenant, Issue 8.
- Accepted: 鈥淥n Class in Le Fanu鈥檚 Carmilla.鈥 Co-authored chapter with Dr. S. Brooke Cameron, untitled collection. Edited by Simon Bacon, Rowman & Littlefield.
- Accepted: 鈥淭he Social Darwinism and Repressed Colonial Anxiety of Grant Allen鈥檚 Canadian Folk Horror.鈥 Co-authored chapter with Dr. S. Brooke Cameron for The Cursed Earth: Places and Spaces of Terror and Environmental Revenge (publisher TBD).
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I examine nineteenth-century depictions of vampiric bodies (diseased, decayed, distorted) in tandem with emergent medical discourses on sexuality, race, and gender. Identity is strongly tied to the body, so how do conceptions of identity shift when presented in a monstrous body, and what if this body is medicalized?
My dissertation uncovers the pre-蹿颈苍-诲别-蝉颈猫肠濒别 history and cultural production of the modern queer male by revealing how literature鈥擥othic fiction, specifically鈥攃reated an alternative, encoded space for fluid gender and sexual expression as 鈥渉omosexuality鈥 developed and homophobia intensified through the century.
