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name: Carol Margaret Davison
about: Carol Margaret Davison is Full Professor in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor, Canada. She has authored dozens of articles on women's writing, Gothic, Victorian, postcolonial and African-American literature. A former Canada-U.S. Fulbright scholar and the Series Editor for Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature, she is the editor of The Gothic &amp; Death (2017) for Manchester University Press, winner of the 2019 Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for best edited collection devoted to Gothic Criticism (for which three of her recent publications made the shortlist of four books). She continues in her role as the Director of the sickly taper website, the world's largest and most comprehensive website devoted to Gothic bibliography (www.the Carol Margaret Davison is Full Professor in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor, Canada. She has authored dozens of articles on women's writing, Gothic, Victorian, postcolonial and African-American literature. A former Canada-U.S. Fulbright scholar and the Series Editor for Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature, she is the editor of The Gothic &amp; Death (2017) for Manchester University Press, winner of the 2019 Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for best edited collection devoted to Gothic Criticism (for which three of her recent publications made the shortlist of four books). She continues in her role as the Director of the sickly taper website, the world's largest and most comprehensive website devoted to Gothic bibliography (www.thesicklytaper.ca), and has published Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan 2004), which was shortlisted for the J.I. Segal Award, and History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature, 1764-1824 (University of Wales Press, 2009), which was shortlisted for the International Gothic Association’s Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, she the co-editor, with Monica Germanà of Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh UP, 2017) and of Global Frankenstein, with Dr. Marie Mulvey-Roberts (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017). The editor of a special issue of Gothic Studies on the Gothic and Addiction (2009), she is also the co-editor of a special issue on Marie Corelli for Women’s Writing (UK, 2006), and the editor of Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897–1997 (Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1997), which won the Lord Ruthven Assembly Award (chosen by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts) for the best non-fiction book on Dracula and vampires for 1997. ...more