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Biographical note
Carolin Jesussek is a Ph.D. candidate at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She is working on her dissertation that focuses on the material and spatial dimensions of marginalisation in contemporary North American Gothic literature. She has published the article “The Tales of Bluebeard’s Wives: Carmen Maria Machado’s Intertextual Storytelling in In the Dream House and ‘The Husband Stitch’” in MDPI Literature. Her chapter “Archive of the Unspeakable: Unsilencing Violence in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House (2019)” is forthcoming in the edited collection Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality: New Directions in Gothic Studies.
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