Brandi Burns is a doctoral candidate with a focus on Victorian literature. She obtained her M.A. in History and B.A.s in English Literature and Classical Civilizations from FSU. Recent presentations include “‘All Foolish Modesty and Coy Grimaces’: The Contaminating Influence of Mary Wollstonecraft” at the Victorian Recollections, Revolutions, and Realities conference and "Familiarity Breeds Contempt: Mousleyer as a Familiar in William Baldwin’s 'Beware the Cat'" at Romancing the Gothic's conference The Supernatural and Witchcraft in Belief, Practice and Depiction. Her article “’The Only Thing Left to Us is Death’: The Doctor as a Criminal Hypnotist in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Short Stories” was published in The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities in 2022. She recently won first place in a creative writing competition for her poem, “Down, Down, Down,” which will be published in The Windward Review Fall of 2023. Her research interests include the Gothic, ghost stories, death culture, health humanities, and representations of medical practitioners in literature.
Brandi Burns