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Crystal O'Leary-Davidson - PhD
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| Office Hours: | Fall 2025 Office Hours - Jackson Hall 205 and Online Monday and Wednesday 9:00 am noon Tuesday and Thursday 11:00 am noon and on mutually agreed upon appointments |
| Biography: | Crystal O'Leary-Davidson is a professor of English. Her interests are Gothic and Horror fiction and film, comics, and Weird fiction. She is a founding member of the Atlanta Chapter of the Horror Writers Association and a board member of Broadleaf Writers Association. She co-edited the book Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable (2018), and her fiction has been produced on podcasts, such as Pseudopod Podcast, and appeared in journals and magazines like Vastarien, and various anthologies, such as Dark Inks collection Generation X-ed, and Southern Nightmares Volume 1: Georgia Gothic. |
| Courses: | Fall 2025 Schedule Session 1 Class ENGL 5991 Graduate Internship Full Session Classes ENGL 2131 AMerican literature 1 MW 12:30 - 1:45 ENGL 2131 Honors American Literature I TW 9:30-10:45 * Meets in Russell Hall 310 ENGL 1101 English Composition I ONLINE ENGL 1102 English Composition II ONLINE |
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| Education: | Ph.D. in English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Spring 2000 Dissertation: A Grave for this Book: Textual Fetishism in American Gothic from Brockden Brown to John Carpenter Director: Joseph D. Andriano The Gothic premise of the found manuscript becomes a powerful fetish or charm in these selected works of American Gothic. Unlike the British Gothic where the found manuscript serves as a narrative premise, the American book-fetish exerts a terrible power over the characters while its contents may remain a mystery to the reader or viewer. This dissertation examines a variety of American Gothic texts exploring authorial anxiety and American culture in the fiction of Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen King and Jeffrey Eugenides, and films directed by David Lynch, Wes Craven, and John Carpenter. M.A. in English, Winthrop University, Summer 1994 Thesis: Transcending Monstrous Flesh: A Revision of the Heros Quest M.A. in Speech Communication, University of Alabama, Spring 1991 Master of Arts Project: Voices from the Margin: Womens Own Words (A Readers Theater Based on Interviews on Self-identified Turning Points in Personal Narratives) B.F.A. in Theater Arts, Performance Degree, University of Mississippi, Summer 1989 |
| Professional Affiliations: | The Horror Writers Association (HWA) - International Horror Writers Association Atlanta Chapter (Founding Member) Broadleaf Writers Association (Board Member) Member of The South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Popular Culture / American Culture Association in the South (PCAS/ACAS) |
| Organizations: | South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Broadleaf Writers Association Horror Writers Association (HWA - ATL Chapter) Popular Culture/American Culture of the South Association (PCAS/ACAS) Reacting to the Past, Faculty |
| Awards and Honors: | Cemetery Gates Media July 2021 Short Fiction Winner for the story, |
| Publications: | Selected Recent Academic Writing Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable, edited volume, 2018 Cambridge Press Selected Recent Fiction |
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