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because every fandom needs one of these. happy pride month to sapphic dorm and their incompetent caretakers

altun, ali erdem. “turning the queer into monster: vampiric queerness in sheridan le fanu’s carmilla.” hacettepe university journal of faculty of letters, vol. 42, no. 1, 2025, pp. 88-96. https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128399/ 

auerbach, nina. our vampires, ourselves. chicago, university of chicago press, 1995. 

aydan, tuba. “the vampire in the void: a logotherapeutic reading of le fanu’s carmilla.” monster image: gothic creatures in british literature: contemporary reinterpretations and cultural resonances, edited by abdul serdar öztürk and i̇smail tekşen, ozgur publishing, 2025. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401674517_The_Vampire_in_the_Void_A_Logotherapeutic_Reading_of_Le_Fanu%27s_Carmilla 

bacon, simon. “breaking and entering: psychic violation, metempsychosis and the uninvited female vampire.” hospitality, rape and consent in vampire popular culture, edited by david baker, stephanie green, and agńieszka stasiewicz-bieńkowska, 2017. pp. 69-88.

bell, judith. “‘deliberate voluptuousness’: the monstrous women of dracula and carmilla.” arkansas u, ma thesis. scholarworks@uark, https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1570 

čizmar, stefan. “‘atrocious lusts’: the vampire and transgressive sexuality in polidori, le fanu, and rice.” bells, vol. 15, no. 1, 2023. https://belgrade-bells.fil.bg.ac.rs/index.php/belgrade-bells/article/view/331/271 

crape, drumlin n. m. “‘this girl changed the story of the world’: queer complications of authority in kindatv’s carmilla.” humanities, vol. 12, no. 3, may 2023, p. 42. https://doi.org/10.3390/h12030042. 

duvezin-caubet, caroline. “revamping carmilla: the neo-victorian transmedia vlog adaptation.” polysèmes, vol. 23, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4000/polysemes.6926. 

garancher, déborah. “the female vampire as a figure of female empowerment in joseph sheridan le fanu’s carmilla.” angers u, ma thesis. dune, https://dune.univ-angers.fr/documents/dune12135 

green, stephanie. “time and the vampire: the idea of the past in carmilla and dracula.” hospitality, rape and consent in vampire popular culture, edited by david baker, stephanie green, and agńieszka stasiewicz-bieńkowska, 2017, pp. 89-106.

haefele-thomas, ardel. queer others in victorian gothic: transgressing monstrosity. university of wales press, 2012.

ibach, shirley. “beauties and beasts of carmilla, strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, and dracula.” journal of dracula studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2014. https://research.library.kutztown.edu/dracula-studies/vol16/iss1/2 

inglis, jane. “‘the vampire is prone to be fascinated with an engrossing vehemence, resembling the passion of love’: carmilla, queer abjection, and secular and religious modes of partiarchy.” northumbria student academic journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 2026, pp. 40-47. https://doi.org/10.19164/nusaj.v2i1.1865 

john, esther s. and swarali joshi. “carmilla: the female vampire and the homoerotic threat.” international journal of versatile research and naalysis, vol. 4, no. 1, january 2026. https://ijpub.org/ijvra/papers/IJVRA2601002.pdf 

jowett, lorna e. “‘most of you are wondering who the heck i am’: carmilla (2014-2016, onine) as digital reimagining of lefanu’s ‘carmilla’.” gothic afterlives: reincarnations of horror in film and popular media, edited by lorna piatti-farnell, lexington books, 2019. https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/files/15159540/Jowett_Lorna_LB_2019_Most_of_you_are_wondering_who_the_heck_I_am_Carmilla_2014_2016_online_as_Digital_Reimagining_of_LeFanus_Carmilla.pdf 

kumar, sneha. “lesbian feelings and fandoms: carmilla and affect in contemporary lesbian fandom.” carleton u, ma thesis. scholaris, https://carleton.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/3968d992-062d-4489-b7fd-130b7df64a58/content 

kumar, sneha. “carmilla fandom as a lesbian community of feeling.” the journal of transformative works and cultures, vol. 36, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.2007 

leal, amy. “unnameable desires in le fanu’s carmilla.” names, vol. 55, no. 1, march 2007, pp. 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1179/nam.2007.55.1.37. 

maia, marília milhomem moscoso. “vampirism and lesbianism in carmilla by joseph sheridan le fanu.” european journal of literature, language, and linguistics studies, vol. 3, no. 4, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3627753 

nee, clare. “the haunt of injustice: exploring homophobia in vampire literature.” digital literature review, vol. 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.33043/DLR.7.0.77-86 

oki, sayaka. “le fanu’s carmilla and freud’s a case of hysteria (dora): establishing identity in hysteria discourse.” journal of humanities, arts, and social science, vol. 6, no. 1, 2022, pp. 16-27. https://doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2022.01.002 

power, andrew j. and shahd murshed. “the subversive subtext of shakespearean allusion in sheridan lefanu’s ‘carmilla.’” humanities and social sciences communications, vol. 11, no. 1, september 2024. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03683-1 

quiroz, camila. “forbidden aspect of erotic desire embodied in the figure of the vampire in ‘carmilla’ and ‘olalla’.” english studies in latin america, no. 4, december 2012. https://doi.org/10.7764/ESLA.61771 

schneider, magdalena. “queer representation in the web series ‘carmilla’ and ‘the carmilla movie.’” graz u, ma thesis. unipub, https://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/download/pdf/11698131 

skinner, stephanie. “queer subjectivity, transmedia, and embodiment in the carmilla fandom.” georgia state u, ba thesis. scispace, https://scispace.com/pdf/queer-subjectivity-transmedia-and-embodiment-in-the-carmilla-1md8304ekq.pdf 

trindade, filipe chernicharo. “‘for blood is the life’: vampirism and alterity in le fanu’s carmilla.” abei journal, vol. 26, no. 1, 2024, pp. 61-79. https://revistas.usp.br/abei/article/download/224547/206188/709423 

wait, rebecca. “media erotics & adaptation: a comparative textual analysis of carmilla.” bowling green state u, honors projects. scholarworks@bgsu, https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/honorsprojects/239 

walls, rachel. “hysteria, sexuality, and their influence on male authority in ‘carmilla’ and ‘good lady ducayne.’” eastern illinois u, ba thesis. the keep, https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1076&context=honors_theses 

welter, nancy. “women alone: le fanu’s ‘carmilla’ and rossetti’s ‘goblin market.’” victorian sensations: essay on a scandalous genre. ed. kimberly harrison and richard fantina. columbus: the ohio state university press, 2006. 138-148.

shout out to:

boisvert, théo. “‘what if there were puppets?: l’esthétique queer de la franchise transmédiatique carmilla (2014-2017).” canadian journal of film studies, vol. 33, no. 1, april 2024. https://doi.org/10.31338/cjfs-2022-0045. which is written primarily in canadian french and thus mostly incomprehensible to me sans such transcendent terms as productions, television, and femmes lesbiennes

hutchings, sarah d. “styria.” cincinnati u, dma dissertation. ohiolink, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1527607350442061. which is a fucking 100 page opera adaptation i desperately need performed now

ng, eve and julie levin russo. 2017. “envisioning queer female fandom” [editorial]. in “queer female fandom,” edited by julie levin russo and eve ng, special issue, transformative works and cultures, no. 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.1168 which only mentions carmilla once but is nonetheless a very enjoyable read featuring lesbian star trek and the 100 fanart

the book hospitality, rape and consent in vampire popular culture for having a title that goes hard and a pdf that was even harder to find. like sci hub played in my face for an hour straight and then downloaded enough copies to crash my computer