Dawn Keetley

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Professor of English
(610) 758-3307
321A Drown Hall

Dawn Keetley is a Professor of English, teaching horror /gothic literature, film, and television at Lehigh University in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. She has recently published on AMC’s The Walking Dead in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and the Journal of Popular Television, is the editor of We’re All Infected’: Essays on AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ and the Fate of the Human (McFarland, 2014), and the co-editor of a second collection, Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead, also forthcoming from McFarland. She has recently published on the classic horror film, Thirteen Women (1932) in the Journal of Film and Video and on FX’s American Horror Story in Gothic Studies. She is the co-editor (with Angela Tenga) of Plant Horror: The Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Fiction (forthcoming from Palgrave), and (with Matthew Sivils) of The Ecogothic in Nineteenth-century American Literature (forthcoming from Routledge). She also has a monograph on nineteenth-century Boston murderer, Jesse Pomeroy, Making a Monster, forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press. She writes regularly for a horror blog she co-created at www.HorrorHomeroom.com.