Queer Gothic

Dr. Ardel Haefele-Thomas is the Chair of LGBT Studies at City College of San Francisco. They have published numerous essays on queer and trans Gothic themes including "Gothic, AIDS, and Sexuality, 1981- present" for Cambridge History of the Gothic edited by Catherine Spooner and Dale Townshend (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and "That Dreadful Thing That Looked Like a Beautiful Girl: Trans Anxiety/Trans Possibility in Three Late Victorian Werewolf Tales" for Transgothic in Literature and Culture edited by Jolene Zigarovich (Routledge Press, 2018). Dr. Haefele-Thomas is also the author of Introduction to Transgender Studies (Columbia University Press, 2019) and Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity (University of Wales Press, 2012). They are currently working on a monograph on AIDS Gothic for the University of Wales Press as well as a four volume set of archival, rare, and hard to find nineteenth century British LGBTQI+ materials for Routledge Press. Both projects are forthcoming in 2024.