Curt Herr earned his Ph.D. in 2008 from New York City’s Fordham University.

Curt is an Associate Professor of Literature at Kutztown University in Eastern Pennsylvania where he teaches these courses:

• Honors Gothic Fiction
• Victorian Sensation Fiction
• Contemporary British/Irish Fiction
• Gay and Lesbian Fiction
• World Drama
• Composition.
• Graduate-Level Modern Drama
• Graduate-Level Victorian Prose

Curt was recently interviewed by CNN for their online article tracing the history of vampires in literature and film.

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PUBLICATIONS

Curt has written Scholarly Editions of rediscovered Gothic novels:

• Elizabeth Bonhote’s Bungay Castle
• Mrs Carver's The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey
• James Malcolm Rymer's Varney The Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood
• Marie Corelli's  Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul
• Ellen Wood's  Danesbury House
• Marie Corelli's Vendetta

All these novels had been out of print for over a century or more, but now are available at all on-line booksellers.

          
CURRENT PROJECTS


Curt is now the Co-Editor of the JOURNAL OF DRACULA STUDIES, an Academic Journal that is indexed by the Modern Language Association and is a publication of Transylvanian Society of Dracula. 

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Curt Herr is working on the following Critical/Scholarly editions:

• The Heavenly Twins, by Sarah Grand
  
  
• The Black Monk; or, The Secret of the Grey Turret, by James Malcolm Rymer (author of Varney the Vampire and Sweeney Todd.)
  
  
• The Devil's Motor, by Marie Corelli, to be published by Zittaw Press. Co-edited with Missy Coleman, this amazing Gothic short story follows Satan as he drives his motor car across the universe picking up lost souls along the way.  This tale was published in a limited edition of 500 copies and is a rare collector's item. Featuring rich illustrations by Arthur Severn, the pages of this oversize book were infused with smoke-like scent. Unfortunately, one hundred years later, this scented paper has become extremely brittle and complete copies of the text are nearly impossible to find.  We are proud to revise this wonderfully creative tale in a full color, new critical edition for Zittaw Press!