Bridget Marshall

Bridget M. Marshall’s book, The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790 – 1860, was published by Ashgate in January 2011. Her courses focus on the Gothic, nineteenth-century American literature, witchcraft trials, disability in literature, and law and literature. Dr. Marshall has published articles on gambling addictions in Gothic novels, Hawthorne’s use of the Gothic, and phrenology and physiognomy in the Gothic novel. Her article on witch tourism in Salem appeared in the collection Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination. She is an Assistant Editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. She is co-editor (with Monika Elbert of Montclair State University) of the collection Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century, forthcoming from Ashgate.