ABOUT
A native of South Florida, Jaquelin Elliott is currently a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Florida. With the core of her focus rooted in the long 19th century, Jaquelin’s academic interests include horror, the Gothic, cultural studies, fan studies, queer studies, and spending far too much time talking about monsters. Her dissertation examines queer-coded monsters in horror and fantasy fiction and the reclamation of these monstrous figures on the part of the queer community (particularly in queer fandom circles and the drag community). Looking to a number of 19th century monster ur-texts and contemporary horror/fantasy for young adults (fiction, film, and television), her dissertation hopes to track the history of this queer-coding with special attention paid to contemporary re-articulations of queer monstrosity with the figure of the monster currently acting as a channel for both sympathetic queer media representation and for expressions of queer rage.
Since beginning her graduate studies, Jaquelin has presented conference papers at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Central Modern Language Association, Children’s Literature Association, International Gothic Association, and International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Her first article, "Becoming the Monster: Queer Monstrosity and the Reclamation of the Werewolf in Slash Fandom" was published Fall of 2016 in Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural and, most recently, she published an article in the University of Toronto Quarterly (Winter 2018): “‘This is My Becoming’: Transformation, Hybridity, and Embracing the Monstrous in NBC’s Hannibal.” She has also published book reviews on horror and the Gothic in ImageTexT, Revenant, and Studies in Gothic Fiction. At UF, Jaquelin is currently a member of the Science Fiction Working Group and ImageTexT editorial collective, as well as secretary of the Graduate Comics Organization where she helps organize the Annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels. Jaquelin also teaches courses at the University of Florida, including seminars on composition/technical writing, 19th century literature (British and American), horror fiction, and children’s literature. In 2015, she was awarded for Excellence in Teaching First Year Composition and, in 2018, was awarded an English Department Graduate Student Teaching Award. |
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