Gothic Matters: Introduction

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. She is the author of The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Ashgate, 2010) and the editor of several collections of essays, including The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture (with Justin Edwards, Routledge, 2012), and Neoliberal Gothic: The Gothic in a Neoliberal Age (with Linnie Blake, MUP, forthcoming 2017). She is also the co-editor of a special issue of Gothic Studies (with Marie Liénard-Yeterian, published by MUP), on “The Gothic in an Age of Terror(ism).” Her essays and reviews have appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, European Journal of American Studies, Comparative American Studies, and Novel. Currently Agnieszka Soltysik is writing a book on the use of genre, including horror, in representations of combat death in American war literature and film.