Theodora Goss
Master Lecturer, Rhetoric
Teaching Interests
Academic and creative writing; nineteenth and twentieth century literature of the fantastic; science fiction, the gothic, and fairy tales
Research Interests
Nineteenth and twentieth century fantasy and science fiction; the gothic and the monstrous; fairy tales and children’s literature; creativity and innovation in writing pedagogy
Selected Publications
Books:
The Collected Enchantments, Mythic Delirium Books, 2023.
Medusa’s Daughters: Magic and Monstrosity from Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle, Lanternfish Press, 2020.
The Athena Club series of novels (The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, and The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl), Saga Press (Simon & Schuster), 2017-2019.
Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems, Mythic Delirium Books, 2019.
Articles:
“Blodeuwedd: The Woman Made of Flowers,” Enchanted Living 67, Summer 2024.
“Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Paper: Teaching Fairy Tales in the Composition Classroom,” coauthored with Amy Bennett-Zendzian, Fairy Tales in the Classroom, McFarland & Company, 2024.
“The Fairy Fantasies of George MacDonald,” Enchanted Living 58, Spring 2022.
“The Decadent, Dangerous Mr. Wilde,” Enchanted Living 57, Winter 2021.
“Fairy Gifts: The Magic of Generosity in Fairy Tales,” Enchanted Living 56, Autumn 2021.
“Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Anthropology,” The Baker Street Journal 70.2, Summer 2020.
“J.R.R. Tolkien’s Art Nouveau Elvenlands,” Enchanted Living 47, Summer 2019.
Presentations:
“The Future of Therolinguistics: Listening to Animals in the Anthropocene,” World Science Fiction Convention, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2024.
“From Psychic Vampires to Cyborg Mermaids: Rewriting Female Monsters for the Twenty-First Century,” Once and Future Fantasies Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2022.
“Reading Acacia Seeds: Decentering Anthropomorphism in the Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts,” Orlando, Florida, March 2021.
“Broken Eggs and Bloody Keys: Bluebeard Motifs in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood,” Margaret Atwood 80: Central European Interpretations, Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem and Eötvös Loránd Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary, November 2019.
“‘Between the paws of the tender wolf’: Women Writers of the Fantastic Rewriting the Fairytale Tradition,” IV Congreso Internacional Visiones de lo Fantástico: “Las Creadoras y lo Fantástico,” Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, June 2019.
Author Website
Other Professional Activity and/or Awards
Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Budapest, Hungary, Spring 2022.
Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2020.
Mythopoeic Award, 2020, for Snow White Learns Witchcraft.
Lord Ruthven Award, 2019, for European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman.
Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, 2017