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Kit Bauserman

M.A./Ph.D.

Email: [[babauserman]]
Research Interests: Horror and Gothic Fiction; Hauntology; Audio Dramas; Digital Literature and Fiction; New Media Studies; Narratology; American Folklore and Folk Legends; Folklore and Literature of the British Isles.

Biography

Kit Bauserman (they/them) is a second-year M.A./Ph.D. Student in American Studies at the College of William & Mary. They specialize in horror and gothic fiction. Their research explores how horror and the gothic’s intersections with folklore and digital media highlight non-traditional forms of haunting and spectrality, such as haunted landscapes. Additionally, Kit is interested in questions of nation’s influence on hauntological frameworks. Their current work focuses on the ethics of narrating ghost encounters.

Education
B.A., Philosophy, Christopher Newport University 2021