Lauren gilmore

horror writer & scholar

RESEARCH

SCHOLARSHIP

Co-written with Ellen Boyd: “‘Someday soon, I am just gonna disappear’: Mediating (Non)Virtual Landscapes and Folkloric Belief in We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021).” Forthcoming in American Folk Horrors, edited by Dawn Keetley, University of Wales Press. (peer reviewed)

“Gloria Naylor Criticism 2000-2020: An Archival Perspective.” Forthcoming in Gloria Naylor in the Archives, edited by Mary Foltz, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, and Suzanne Edwards. University of Mississippi Press. (peer reviewed)

“When Records Seethe: Folk Horror, Archival Studies, and Madres.” Monstrum 8(1): 65-83, 2025. (peer reviewed)

“‘Thank God I’m A Feminist’: Centralized Patriarchal Capitalism and Fractured Women’s Resistance in The Purge TV Show.” The Many Lives of the Purge, edited by Kevin Wetmore and Ron Riekki, McFarland, 135-44, 2024.

Co-written with Daniel Rosler: “Virtually Identical: The digital zombie(e/i) in Isa Mazzei’s Cam (2018).” The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 12(2): 127-40, 2023. (peer reviewed)

“Introduction: Tracing Horror’s Archival Preoccupation.” Horror Homeroom Special Issue 7, 2023.

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REVIEWS

Review of Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film by Joshua Gooch in Horror Studies 16(2): 214-7, 2025.

Review of Later by Stephen King in Horror Homeroom, 2021.

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EDITORIAL, DIGITAL, AND ARCHIVAL PROJECTS

Keetley, Dawn, Elizabeth Erwin, and Lauren Gilmore (eds). Body Horror, Horror Homeroom Special Issue No 9, 2024.

Flucas, Syria, Mary Foltz, Lauren Gilmore, Abby Trainor, and Connie Ulm. 2024. Art Within Reach: Visions of Queer Community in the Lehigh Valley, archival exhibition in partnership with the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Center, Lehigh University Office of Creative Inquiry, Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College, and South Side Initiative. 

Edwards, Suzanne M., Afiwa Afandalo, Ellen Boyd, Nadia Butler, Victoria Davis, Lauren Gilmore, Samantha Sorensen, Isaiah Rivera, and Ayanna Woods, The Gloria Naylor Archive, website, finding aid, digitization, and metadata creation, 2020. Selected for the showcase at the Recovery Hub of American Women Writers (peer reviewed)

Keetley, Dawn, Elizabeth Erwin, and Lauren Gilmore (eds). Classic Horror, Horror Homeroom Special Issue No 6, 2022.

Keetley, Dawn, Ellen Boyd, and Lauren Gilmore (eds). Found Footage, Horror Homeroom Special Issue No 7, 2023.

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