Kaley Kramer

Biography

Kaley Kramer received her BA (Honours) in English Literature from Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) and her MA in English Literature and Language from the University of Windsor (Canada). She completed her PhD at the University of Leeds and taught there and at Leeds Beckett University until taking up her position as Lecture in English Literature at York St John University in 2011. Kaley contributes to level four modules and teaches modules on Eighteenth-Century Literature, Romantic-period Writing, and Gothic literature. She also teaches on the MA in Contemporary Literature and is currently the MA-level co-ordinator. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, having completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education in 2012.

Research Interest

Kaley’s research focuses on women’s writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, particularly questions of property, authorship, legal discourse, and historiography. Her current work is exploring the development of the ‘Female Gothic’ in British literature. She is also interested in Canadian literature, especially late eighteenth-century representations of ‘Canada’ in Britain, and contemporary adaptations of eighteenth-century Gothic literature. She has published work on Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Elizabeth Griffiths, and Joss Whedon.