Valerie Guyant
Valerie Guyant, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English & Literature
valerie.guyant@msun.edu | 406.265.4173 | View CV here
Education:
• PhD in Literature from Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois
         Concentrations: Speculative Fiction, Renaissance Literature, Literature by Women
• M.S. in the Teaching of English from University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
• Graduate Certificate in Native American Studies from Montana State University Bozeman
• Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois
• B.S. in Theater and B.S. in English from University of Wisconsin – River Falls, River Falls, Wisconsin
 

Bio:

Dr. Valerie Guyant is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Montana State University – Northern.  She earned her Masters in the Teaching of English, with an emphasis in Renaissance female authors, from University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and her PhD from Northern Illinois University, where her dissertation was an examination of female sexuality in vampire literature.  She has also earned graduate certificates in Women’s Studies from Northern Illinois University and in Native American Studies from Montana State University in Bozeman.  Her research is focused on areas of speculative fiction, adaptation, and popular media, such as film adaptations, fairy tales, and serial killers in popular culture.  Valerie has published research in The Many Lives of the Twilight Zone: Essays on the TV and Film Franchise, The Many Lives of the Purge: Essays on the Horror Franchise, The Many Lives of the Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise, Adaptation Before Cinema, The Explicator, The WISCON Chronicles, The Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction, FEMSPEC: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Journal, and London’s East End. Valerie is also an associate editor for The Wachtung Review, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, and Essence and Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies. 

 

Courses Currently Taught:

  • FILM 160: World Cinema
  • LIT 110: Introduction to Literature
  • LIT 210: American Literature I
  • LIT 223: British Literature I
  • LIT 230: World Literature
  • LIT 270: Film and Literature
  • LIT 285: World Mythologies
  • LIT 300: Literary Criticism
  • LIT 309: Popular Genres (Topics have included Fairy Tales and Their Modern Adaptations; Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies; The World of Harry Potter; Murder, Mayhem, & Mass Media; and Graphic Novels)
  • LIT 312: Explorations in Speculative Fiction
  • LIT 327: Shakespeare
  • LIT 380: Literary Approaches to Drama
  • LIT 382: Literature for Children & Adolescents
  • LSH 201: Introduction to the Humanities
  • LSH 494: Senior Capstone in Humanities
  • NASX 340: Native American Literature
  • WRIT 101: College Writing
  • WRIT 101L: College Writing Lab
  • WRIT 328: Media Literacy
  • Independent study topics: Multicultural Science Fiction, Dramaturgy, Research Methods, Gender Fluidity in Speculative Fiction, Introduction to Film,

 

Courses Previously Taught:

  • FRSH 100: Freshman Seminar
  • LING 340: English Language
  • THTR 101: Introduction to Theater
  • WRIT 095: Developmental Writing
  • WRIT 350: Technical Editing

 

Select Publications:

  • “Deadites vs. Adaptation.” The Many Lives of the Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise. McFarland Publishing. February 2019.
  • “Middle Ground: The Twilight Zone as Social Criticism.” The Many Lives of the Twilight Zone: Essays on the TV and Film Franchise. McFarland Publishing. August 2022.
  • “Preventing a Revolution: The Purge and The Hunger Games.” The Many Lives of The Purge: Essays on the Horror Franchise. McFarland Publishing, 2022.
  • Review of Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans.The Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies.  October 2017.
  • Review of Tales of the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era.  The Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies.  October 2016.
  • “Shakespeare’s Adaptation of the Fae and a ‘Shrewd and Knavish Sprite’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Adaptation Before Cinema. Ed. Lissette Szwydky and Glenn Jellenik. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
  • “Transgressive Women Warriors in Speculative Fiction.” The WisCon Chronicles (Vol 4): Voices of WisCon. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010. 14-20. Co-authored with former student Kate Freund.
  • “Who/What is ‘Matska’ in LeFanu’s Carmilla?”  Explicator 72.3 (July - September 2014): 185-188.
  • Select entries in Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Ed. Kevin Morrison. McFarland Publishing.  October 2018.
  • Select entries in London’s East End: A Short Encyclopedia. Ed. Kevin Morrison. McFarland Publishing, 2022.
  • Select reviews in FEMSPEC: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Journal, January-June 2021.