Deanna P. Koretsky

About

Deanna P. Koretsky is a scholar of literature and popular culture. Her current book project examines intersections of race and neurodivergence in cinematic and literary horror since the nineteenth century. She is also co-editing, with Alex Milsom, a volume on adaptations of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, with a heavy focus on AMC’s Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat. Earlier publications include Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism (2021), Mary Shelley’s Mathilda (2025), and over a dozen scholarly essays on topics ranging from eighteenth-century literature to contemporary genre television and film.

Deanna’s research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, UNCF/Mellon, 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. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature, Media, and Writing at Spelman College.