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Teaching Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Academic and creative writing; nineteenth and twentieth century literature of the fantastic; science fiction, the gothic, and fairy tales<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Nineteenth and twentieth century fantasy and science fiction; the gothic and the monstrous; fairy tales and children\u2019s literature; creativity and innovation in writing pedagogy<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Books:<\/h4>\n
Letters from an Imaginary Country<\/i>, 2025<\/div>\n

The Collected Enchantments<\/em>, Mythic Delirium Books, 2023.<\/p>\n

Medusa\u2019s Daughters: Magic and Monstrosity from Women Writers of the Fin-de-Si<\/em>\u00e8<\/em>cle<\/em>, Lanternfish Press, 2020.<\/p>\n

The Athena Club series of novels (The Strange Case of the Alchemist\u2019s Daughter<\/em>, European Travel for<\/em> the Monstrous Gentlewoman<\/em>, and The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl<\/em>), Saga Press (Simon & Schuster), 2017-2019.<\/p>\n

Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems<\/em>, Mythic Delirium Books, 2019.<\/p>\n

Articles:<\/h4>\n

\u201cBlodeuwedd: The Woman Made of Flowers,\u201d Enchanted Living<\/em> 67, Summer 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cLittle Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Paper: Teaching Fairy Tales in the Composition Classroom,\u201d coauthored with Amy Bennett-Zendzian, Fairy Tales in the Classroom<\/em>, McFarland & Company, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fairy Fantasies of George MacDonald,\u201d Enchanted Living<\/em> 58, Spring 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Decadent, Dangerous Mr. Wilde,\u201d Enchanted Living<\/em> 57, Winter 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cFairy Gifts: The Magic of Generosity in Fairy Tales,\u201d Enchanted Living<\/em> 56, Autumn 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cSherlock Holmes and Victorian Anthropology,\u201d The Baker Street Journal<\/em> 70.2, Summer 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cJ.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Art Nouveau Elvenlands,\u201d Enchanted Living<\/em> 47, Summer 2019.<\/p>\n

Presentations:<\/h4>\n

\u201cThe Future of Therolinguistics: Listening to Animals in the Anthropocene,\u201d World Science Fiction Convention, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Psychic Vampires to Cyborg Mermaids: Rewriting Female Monsters for the Twenty-First Century,\u201d Once and Future Fantasies Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cReading Acacia Seeds: Decentering Anthropomorphism in the Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin,\u201d International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts,\u201d Orlando, Florida, March 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cBroken Eggs and Bloody Keys: Bluebeard Motifs in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood,\u201d Margaret Atwood 80: Central European Interpretations, K\u00e1roli G\u00e1sp\u00e1r Reform\u00e1tus Egyetem and E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary, November 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Between the paws of the tender wolf\u2019: Women Writers of the Fantastic Rewriting the Fairytale Tradition,\u201d IV Congreso Internacional Visiones de lo Fant\u00e1stico: \u201cLas Creadoras y lo Fant\u00e1stico,\u201d Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, June 2019.<\/p>\n

Author Website<\/h4>\n

theodoragoss.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Other Professional Activity and\/or Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Budapest, Hungary, Spring 2022.<\/p>\n

Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2020.<\/p>\n

Mythopoeic Award, 2020, for Snow White Learns Witchcraft<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lord Ruthven Award, 2019, for European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16662,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/46139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16662"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/46139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49680,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/46139\/revisions\/49680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}