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Sabrina Zacharias

Research Interests

Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture (Specific interest in the Victorian); The Victorian Gothic; Identity construction, and marginalized identities (Race; Disability; Gender; LGBTQ2S+); Class Dynamics; Neo-Victorian and Neo-Victorian Gothic Literature; Contemporary Reception of the Victorian Period; Reconstructions/Disruptions of identity in Contemporary fiction (Primarily marginalized identities).

My dissertation centers on the act of Slumming; I argue that re-engaging with the Victorian, through acts of "historical slumming" in neo-Victorian media, is an inherently Gothic practice. We revive the past in the hopes we might exorcise it - even if it can never truly be laid to rest.

I look at a range of different textual forms: novels, comics, manga, video games, and film and television. How we tell stories through these forms and how the reader/viewer/player is asked to engage with the text is something I find fascinating and grapple with in my work.  

 

Selected Publications

Guest Lectures

1. Jekyll & Hyde: Degeneration and Slumming
ENGL 200: History of Literature in English
February 6, 2023

2. Neo-Victorian Video Games
ENGL-365: 19th Century British Literature
Queen鈥檚 University
February 3, 2023

3. "Who's Taylor Swift Anyways?": Taylor Swift's Performance of Identity
ENGL-294: Taylor Swift's Literary Legacy
November 7, 2022


Conference Presentations

1. (Re)Writing the Victorians: Neo-Victorian Fiction Performing as History.
VSAWC 2023: ReMaking the Victorians, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 2023.

2. Unsettling Colonial Narratives: Indigenous Gothic Comics.
NAVSA 2020: Unsettling Victorians (Postponed due to COVID-19) Vancouver, Canada. 2022.
Presented Virtually.

3. From the 鈥淗apless Woman鈥 to the 鈥淕reat Reserve鈥: Women鈥檚 Educational Reform in Social Fiction.
Victorian Pasts, Presents, and Futures, Waukesha, United States of America. 2021. Presented Virtually.

4. The Ethics of Constructing the Historical Narrative: White鈥檚 Historian in the Digital RPG Dragon Age: 2.
University of Regina: Trash Talkin' (Cancelled due to COVID-19), Regina, Canada. 2019.

5. The Use of the Gothic in Indigenous Comics. 
One Book University of Winnipeg Final Symposium, Winnipeg, Canada. 2019.

Chapters

1. "Class, Queerness, and Manga: Mediating Identity Through the Neo-Victorian Vampire in JoJo鈥檚 Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood." ed. Simon Bacon. The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire. Palgrave Macmillan.

2. 鈥淭he Indigenous Gothic in Comics: Unsettling the Colonial Spectre.鈥 ed. Naomi Borwein. Global Indigenous Horror. University Press of Mississippi. . April 2025.

Journal Articles

1. "Thomas Hardy鈥檚 Tess of the d鈥橴rbervilles: Tragedy, Sacrifice and the Fallen Woman." Edited by Dr. Peter J. Miller. Crossings Vol. 4.

Online Resources

1. Co-Author. S. Brooke Cameron and Sabrina Zacharias. Introduction to the Gothic via the neo-Victorian video game, Assassin鈥檚 Creed: Syndicate. (2022).

2. Co-Author. S. Brooke Cameron and Sabrina Zacharias. The Big Three schools of the 19thC Gothic. (2022).

3. Co-Author. S. Brooke Cameron and Sabrina Zacharias. The Class and Gender Politics of Terror vs Horror. (2022).

4. Co-Author. S. Brooke Cameron and Sabrina Zacharias. The Term, 鈥淕othic鈥. (2022).

5. Sabrina Zacharias 鈥淪ixkiller, Comics, and Indigenous Resistance.鈥 (2022).

6. Sabrina Zacharias. "Peggy": Engaging with Indigenous Identity and Culture through Colour. (2019).

Graduate Supervision
Areas of Study
Critical Race Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Indigenous and Decolonial Studies
Performance Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Genres and Forms
Graphic Literature
Popular and Genre Fiction

Department of English, 成人大片 University

Watson Hall
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Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

Telephone (613) 533-2153

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成人大片 is situated on traditional Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory.