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), a forthcoming essay collection on race in the Vampire Diaries universe, and over a dozen scholarly essays on topics ranging from eighteenth-century literature to contemporary television and film.

Deanna’s research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, UNCF/Mellon, 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 and coordinates the College’s partnership with the Georgia Film Academy.