Carol Senf


Carol A. Senf is professor and associate chair in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. With four books, two critical editions, one edited essay collection, and various critical essays, she is a recognized expert on the biography and works of Irish author Bram Stoker. She received the Lord Ruthven Award in 1999.

Education

Senf was educated at Miami University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her PhD thesis, written under the direction of John Dings, was entitled Daughters of Lilith: An Analysis of the Vampire in Nineteenth-Century English Literature.

Career

After one year as assistant professor of English at Furman University, Senf joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981, where her teaching and scholarship has focused on Victorian literature and culture, the Gothic, gender studies, feminist studies, and Holocaust studies. In 1999 she received the Lord Ruthven Award for best nonfiction for Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism. In 2012 she delivered the keynote address, "Bram Stoker: Ireland and Beyond", at the : Bram Stoker: Life and Writing, held at Trinity College, Dublin.

Selected works