Penny BloodsGothic Tales of Dangerous Women

Dr Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD is a Lecturer of Victorian Gothic Studies at Delaware Valley University, Proofreader and editorial board member at the Studies in Gothic Fiction, and advisory board member of Ecocritical Theory and Practice for Rowman & Littlefield’s imprint, Lexington Books. Her works include ‘Malignancy of Goneril: Nature’s Powerful Warrior’, published in the collection, Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique (2020); the monograph, Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871 (2022); the edited UWP collection Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic; or, Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror (January 2023); British Library collection Penny Bloods: Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women (May 2023); and the contribution ‘Victorianism and Ecofeminist Literature’ for The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature (2022) edited by Douglas Vakoch. She received her PhD in Gothic Studies from Manchester Metropolitan University where she researched penny publications, medical humanities, and ecocriticism in the nineteenth-century.