Kyle Brett

Adjunct Professor of English
Pardee Hall

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Lehigh University
  • M.A., Lehigh University

Teaching Interests:  Horror and gothic fiction and film; 18th and 19th century transatlantic romanticism; sentimental writers in 19th century America

Research Interests:  Horror film and literature; 19th century American authorship and publishing; American sentimentalism; archival studies and practice

Selected Publications:

Critical Conversations in Youth Horror. Edited Collection; Forthcoming from Lehigh University Press.

Review of Morin, Christina. The Gothic Novel in Ireland C. 1760 – 1829 (2018) in Fantastika Review I. May 2023.

“The Horror of the Photographic Eye,” Critical Approaches to Jordan  Peele’s Get Out (2017). Ed. Dawn Keetley, Ohio State University Press, Columbus 2020.

Selected Digital Publications:

“Never Seen Before Now: Grave Encounters and the Allure of Paranormal TV.”  Horror Homeroom. November 8, 2021.

“The Only Good Indians: The Bloody Marrow of Tradition.” Horror Homeroom. August 16, 2020.

“Sea Fever and the Working Class Weird” Horror Homeroom. May 20, 2020.