Grace Rhyne
Grace Rhyne
she/her/hers
Second-year PhD Candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies.
President of Warwick's Gothic and Horror Society
Email: Grace.Rhyne@warwick.ac.uk
Supervisors: Dr. Ross Forman and Dr. Jen Baker
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Thesis Working Title - "Your Echo Is Louder Than Your Voice": Exploring the Literary Link Between Women and Ghosts
This project explores themes of mobility, both literally and figuratively, as they are presented within ghost stories written by women during the Victorian era. Throughout these stories, "mobility" is most often shown through discussions and depictions of religion, travel, class, gender, and sexuality within the texts, thus allowing for discussions of real-world mobility issues that these authors may not have been afforded the space for, if not for their connection to spiritualism and the otherworldly.
Research Interests
The Gothic, Victorian Literature, Medieval Literature, Victorian Medievalisms, Queer Theory
Teaching
Grace taught first-year and second-year rhetoric and composition courses at Appalachian State University from 2021-2022. She is currently leading seminars for the "Medieval and Early Modern Literature" module.
Conference Papers
"An Introduction to Intuitive/Cryptesthetic Horror." London Victorian Studies Colloquium, Royal Holloway, University of London, April 2024.
"Charlotte Riddell: Literary Banshee." International Gothic Association, Mount Saint Vincent University, July 2024.
"Charlotte Riddell and the 'Irish' Ghost Story." European Society for the Study of English, University of Lausanne, August 2024.
Qualifications
2018-2020: BA, English - Literary Studies (Appalachian State University)
2020-2022: MA, English - Literary Studies (Appalachian State University)