Diane Long Hoeveler

Diane Long Hoeveler was born in Chicago, IL and educated at the University of Illinois-Urbana. She is a Professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, where she has taught since 1987. She publishes on gothic, romantic, and women's literatures. Her most recent book, "The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880," examines the representations of nuns, monks, the Inquisition, and ruined abbeys in dozens of British gothic texts. Her other books are "Gothic Riffs" (2010), "Gothic Feminism" (1998), and "Romantic Androgyny" (1990). She has coauthored "Charlotte Bronte," and edited/coedited another 15 books.