Stella Castelli

Dr. Stella Castelli is a senior lecturer at the English Department of the University of Zurich. She holds a degree in English and American Literature as well as Theory and History of Photography from the University of Zurich. In 2020, she successfully completed her doctoral dissertation titled Death is Served: American Recipes for Murder - A Serial Compulsion exploring repressions of death and their symptomatic reappearance in contemporary American culture. Her current research engages with mediations of the humorous in literature and media. Further research interests include critical theory, visual culture, the gothic and the aestheticism of camp.