Miranda Steege

  • Visiting Lecturer

Miranda works in queer theory, fan studies, and nineteenth-century British literature and is committed to interdisciplinary teaching and writing. She has a hybrid creative/critical writing practice, the most recent example of which is her dissertation, “Reading for a Queer Sexual Ethics: Victorian and Contemporary Modes of Intimacy.” This project intertwines a mystery novel about a dysfunctional Pittsburgh English department with scholarly writing on contemporary sexual politics via erotic fanfiction and Victorian texts about bodies. The mystery novel, Or Else, can be found in serialized form at her website, along with commentary and blog posts. Miranda has presented at conferences in c19 studies and popular culture studies.

 

Courses Taught

Detective Fiction Introduction to Literature Imagining Social Justice

Education & Training

  • PhD in English, UC Riverside

Representative Publications

“‘Time, Curious Time’: Time, Memory, and Agency in Taylor Swift,” The Literary Taylor Swift, Bloomsbury, Sep. 2024

“How We Know What We Know: Crime Fiction in Creative Composition Writing,” Teaching Forum, Clues: A Journal of Detection 41.2

Research Interests

queer theory, nineteenth-century British literature and culture (esp. Victorian Spiritualism), fan studies