Deanna P. Koretsky

About

Deanna P. Koretsky is a writer and scholar with a special interest in vampires in literature and popular culture. Her current book project examines intersections of race and neurodivergence in vampire media since the nineteenth century. She is also the author of Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism (2021) and editor of Mary Shelley’s Mathilda (2025).

Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others. In addition to her solo writing, she is a founding member of the Bigger 6 Collective and occasionally pops into the Dear Vampire Diaries podcast.