Rachel Stewart is a PhD Candidate studying Victorian popular fiction and culture, with expertise in horror and the Gothic and a special love for vampires. Her dissertation focuses on depictions of the embodied supernatural within 19th-century culture, merging studies of monstrosity, medical history and print culture, in order to carve out a history of "body horror" within the Victorian period. She also has written on how we can read trauma as a vampire in contemporary genre fiction, as well as engaging with recovery work on understudied female Victorian popular fiction authors such as Florence Marryat.