Crystal Herrera

entered graduate program: fall '13

degree(s) & major: B.A. in English from UC-Berkeley (2012

areas of interest: The Long Nineteenth Century, Victorian Sensations, Gothic (Horror, supernatural, paranormal, monster), Utopian/Dystopian Literature, early Science Fiction, Later Eighteenth Century, The Pre-Raphaelites

favorite authors: Daphne Du Maurier, John Milton, The Bronte Sisters, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, H.G. Wells, Sir Walter Scott, Ayn Rand, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Mann

miscellany: I now understand, and can talk, sports. I’ve always loved fashion.