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. âTechnological Pasts and Queer Futures in Welcome to Night Vale and The Magnus Archives.â Aural Chills and Sounds of Terror: Podcasting Horror. Edited by Laura Ălvarez 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., ââItâs like being stuck indoors with the flu watching daytime television, forever and everâ: Chronic Illness and Crip Time in Catherine Jinksâ The Reformed Vampire Support Group.â 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. âOut of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte BrontĂ«âs Jane Eyre and Wilkie Collinsâs The Woman in White.â Humanities, vol. 12, no. 4, July 2023, p. 64. Crossref,
Crape, Drumlin N. M. ââThis Girl Changed the Story of the Worldâ: Queer Complications of Authority in KindaTVâs Carmilla.â Humanities, vol. 12, no. 3, May 2023, p. 42. Crossref, .
Crape, Drumlin N.M. ââBut Virgil Was Not Thereâ: The Lasting Impact of Danteâs Homosocial Hell.â University of Saskatchewanâs Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 2020,
Selected Presentations
ââMy Coven is Claudiaâ: Agency, Monstrosity, and Sapphic Horror in AMCâs Interview with the Vampire (2022-).â Female Vampires, Conference Presentation, Romancing the Gothic, August 23 2026, delivered via Zoom.
ââIt really does look black in the moonlightââ: Blood in NBCâs Hannibal.â Itâs In Their Blood: Television Series and the Representation of Violence in 21st Century, Conference Presentation, March 6 2026, delivered via Microsoft Teams.
ââMore Microphone Than Manâ: Cecil as Queer Cyborg in Welcome to Night Vale.â Haunting and Recovering Media: Analog Pasts, Digital Presents, and Multimedia Futures, Conference Presentation, Modern Language Association, January 11 2026, Toronto, ON.
âReclaiming the Queer Monster.â Monsters and the Monstrous, Conference Presentation, Northeast Popular Culture Association, October 9 2025, delivered via Zoom.
âCrip Time in Jane Eyre.â Gender and Otherness in the Humanities 2024. Invited Conference Talk, November 14 2024, delivered via Microsoft Teams.
ââYou Always Chose to Seeâ: Omniscience, Visibility, and Queer Ways of Seeing in Welcome to Night Vale and The Magnus Archives.â Monsters and the Monstrous, Conference Presentation, Northeast Popular Culture Association, October 4 2024, delivered via Zoom.
ââThis Girl Changed the Story of the Worldâ: Queer Complications of Authority in KindaTVâs Carmilla.â Rewriting the Victorian Vampire. Recovering the Vampire, Conference Presentation, November 5 2022, Delivered via Microsoft Teams.
âFluid Bonding: Blood as Subversive Signifier in Hannibal.â Beyond Queer Fears: Rethinking Queerness as Monstrosity in Literature and Film. Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Conference Presentation, March 12, 2022, Delivered via Zoom.
âQueering Neverland: Readership, Adaptation, and 2SLGBTQ+ Imaginings of Peter Pan.â Public Lecture, 16 April 2021, held via Webex.
âAllâs Fair in Love and Murder: Interpretive Communities and Hannibal.â Trash Talkinâ 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-Masterâs (CGS-M), awarded in 2020
Graduate Supervision
S. Brooke Cameron