Drumlin N. M. Crape
Graduate Student: PhD
Biography
Drumlin Noah Magnus Crape is a PhD candidate (ABD) working under the supervision of Dr. S. Brooke Cameron. Their research examines the ways queer creators, adaptors, and fans reckon with and reclaim the historical connection between monstrosity and gender and sexual diversity in new media forms.
Research Interests
The Gothic and Neogothic; Horror; Popular Fiction; Adaptation; New Media; Gender and Sexuality Studies
Selected Publications
Forthcoming
Crape, Drumlin N.M. 鈥淭echnological Pasts and Queer Futures in Welcome to Night Vale and The Magnus Archives.鈥 Aural Chills and Sounds of Terror: Podcasting Horror. Edited by Laura 脕lvarez Trigo and Anna Marta Marini. Forthcoming.
Publications
Crape, Drumlin N.M., and Brooke Cameron, editors. Disability, Illness, and the Vampire in Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2025.
Crape, Drumlin N.M., 鈥溾橧t鈥檚 like being stuck indoors with the flu watching daytime television, forever and ever鈥: Chronic Illness and Crip Time in Catherine Jinks鈥 The Reformed Vampire Support Group.鈥 Disability, Illness, and the Vampire in Literature and Culture, edited by Drumlin N.M. Crape and Brooke Cameron. Routledge, 2025.
Crape, Drumlin N. M. "Transforming Monster-Human Relationships in BBC's Dracula and NBC's Hannibal." Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 1, Winter 2024.
Crape, Drumlin N. M. 鈥淥ut of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Bront毛鈥檚 Jane Eyre and Wilkie Collins鈥檚 The Woman in White.鈥 Humanities, vol. 12, no. 4, July 2023, p. 64. Crossref,
Crape, Drumlin N. M. 鈥溾楾his Girl Changed the Story of the World鈥: Queer Complications of Authority in KindaTV鈥檚 Carmilla.鈥 Humanities, vol. 12, no. 3, May 2023, p. 42. Crossref, .
Crape, Drumlin N.M. 鈥溾橞ut Virgil Was Not There鈥: The Lasting Impact of Dante鈥檚 Homosocial Hell.鈥 University of Saskatchewan鈥檚 Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 2020,
Selected Presentations
鈥溾楳y Coven is Claudia鈥: Agency, Monstrosity, and Sapphic Horror in AMC鈥檚 Interview with the Vampire (2022-).鈥 Female Vampires, Conference Presentation, Romancing the Gothic, August 23 2026, delivered via Zoom.
鈥溾業t really does look black in the moonlight鈥欌: Blood in NBC鈥檚 Hannibal.鈥 It鈥檚 In Their Blood: Television Series and the Representation of Violence in 21st Century, Conference Presentation, March 6 2026, delivered via Microsoft Teams.
鈥溾橫ore Microphone Than Man鈥: Cecil as Queer Cyborg in Welcome to Night Vale.鈥 Haunting and Recovering Media: Analog Pasts, Digital Presents, and Multimedia Futures, Conference Presentation, Modern Language Association, January 11 2026, Toronto, ON.
鈥淩eclaiming the Queer Monster.鈥 Monsters and the Monstrous, Conference Presentation, Northeast Popular Culture Association, October 9 2025, delivered via Zoom.
鈥淐rip Time in Jane Eyre.鈥 Gender and Otherness in the Humanities 2024. Invited Conference Talk, November 14 2024, delivered via Microsoft Teams.
鈥溾橸ou Always Chose to See鈥: Omniscience, Visibility, and Queer Ways of Seeing in Welcome to Night Vale and The Magnus Archives.鈥 Monsters and the Monstrous, Conference Presentation, Northeast Popular Culture Association, October 4 2024, delivered via Zoom.
鈥溾楾his Girl Changed the Story of the World鈥: Queer Complications of Authority in KindaTV鈥檚 Carmilla.鈥 Rewriting the Victorian Vampire. Recovering the Vampire, Conference Presentation, November 5 2022, Delivered via Microsoft Teams.
鈥淔luid Bonding: Blood as Subversive Signifier in Hannibal.鈥 Beyond Queer Fears: Rethinking Queerness as Monstrosity in Literature and Film. Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Conference Presentation, March 12, 2022, Delivered via Zoom.
鈥淨ueering Neverland: Readership, Adaptation, and 2SLGBTQ+ Imaginings of Peter Pan.鈥 Public Lecture, 16 April 2021, held via Webex.
鈥淎ll鈥檚 Fair in Love and Murder: Interpretive Communities and Hannibal.鈥 Trash Talkin鈥 Conference, 14 March 2021, Delivered via Zoom
Awards and Recognition
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS-D), awarded in 2022
- Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master鈥檚 (CGS-M), awarded in 2020
Graduate Supervision
S. Brooke Cameron