KATHRYN COLVIN

While I’m mainly writing novels now, I’m also an independent researcher. Most of my academic writing involves Romanticism, romance, or intersections of the two: Byronic heroes, villain-heroes and demon-lovers; the Gothic, the paranormal and the passionate.

My ORCID ID is 0000-0002-0940-2546.

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Published articles in peer-reviewed academic journals:

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NEW! In press: an article in a forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed journal Supernatural Studies.

I'll announce the title and specific topic soon, but for now, suffice to say it involves a comparison between two well-known Gothic/strange/spooky characters--one of whom, I argue, is a major influence on the other.

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“Sepulchral Sensuality and Heretical Heavens in Wuthering Heights and Romeo and Juliet”
A comparison of the many parallels between the two works, especially their similarly sensualized portrayals of graves and alternative concepts of Heaven.
Published in Brontë Studies (2021), the peer-reviewed journal of the Brontë Society.

Cited in:
* Romero-Pérez, María Isabel. “The Master Model in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: An Ecofeminist Reading.” Álabe, no. 25, January 2022.

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“‘Her Enchanted Hair’: Rossetti, ‘Lady Lilith,’ and the Victorian Fascination with Hair as Influences on Tolkien”
The influence of Victorian-era hair culture, especially the “hair-mad” poet/painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his sonnet and painting “Lady Lilith,” on J.R.R. Tolkien’s portrayals of women’s magical and dangerous hair.
Published in the peer-reviewed journal Mythlore (2020) and presented a couple of times, including at the annual conference of the Mythopoeic Society (Mythcon 51). Also available on JSTOR.

Cited in:

* Barnett, Engrid. “The True Story of the Seven Sutherland Sisters and Their 37 Feet of Hair.” Grunge, updated 3 February 2023.
* Moore, Clare. “Saints and Witches: Morwen, Morwenna, and Morgan le Fay.” Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society, no. 63, 2022, pp. 23-31.
* Moore, Clare. “A Song of Greater Power: Tolkien’s Construction of Lúthien Tinúviel.” Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society, no. 62, 2021, pp. 6-16.

* Retakh, Alexander. “The Inconsistencies of Galadriel: The Influence of Earlier Legendarium in The Lord of the Rings.” Mythlore, vol. 43, no. 1, 2024, pp. 185-209.

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Prize-winning published articles:

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“A ‘Furnace-Burning Heart’: Shakespeare’s Richard III as Heroic Villain”
A re-evaluation of Shakespeare’s portrayal of Richard III in the plays Henry VI Part 3 and Richard III, challenging the popular interpretation of Shakespeare’s Richard as a mere villain by highlighting his heroic and Romantic aspects.
Published in Long Beach City College’s Honors Research Journal (2020). First-place winner in a college-wide essay competition (Jacaranda Essay Contest, Literature category, 2020).

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“Hamlet and His Solution: ‘How All Occasions’ as Objective Correlative on Page and Screen”
Contesting T.S. Eliot’s famous essay “Hamlet and His Problems,” this article posits Hamlet’s “How all occasions” soliloquy as the missing “objective correlative” explaining Hamlet’s mysterious moods, then explores how two screen productions of the play use the speech to that very effect—much to the annoyance of academic critics.
Published in the University of Missouri’s online academic repository (2022). First-place winner in a college-wide research competition (University Libraries Undergraduate Research Contest, 2022).

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I’ve had a great time writing about the writing I love, and I imagine I’ll do so again in the future. But now it’s time to tell my own stories.