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Susan Lepselter

Social Sciences · Indiana University

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Gothic Literature and Media AnalysisGender, Feminism, and MediaFolklore, Mythology, and Literature StudiesGeographies of human-animal interactionsRhetoric and Communication Studies

Publications

24

Citations

243

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

29

Publishing since 1997

Research summary
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Susan Lepselter is a social scientist and cultural anthropologist who studies how people make meaning through stories, myths, and shared cultural narratives. Her work examines topics such as conspiracy theories, accounts of aliens and monsters, and the emotional resonance of uncanny experiences in American culture. She draws on folklore, media, and humanistic approaches to interpret how anxieties and beliefs circulate in everyday life.

Cultural anthropology of narrative and mythConspiracy theories and the uncannyFolklore and American monster/alien storiesGender, media, and cultureAffect and emotional resonance in storytelling

Publication activity has been modest and uneven over the last decade, with a small cluster of outputs around 2019 and again in 2023-2024, averaging just over one publication per year recently.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.2/year recently
17182019: 4 publications4192020: 1 publication202021: 1 publication21222023: 3 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • University of Michigan Press eBooks×2
  • Journal of Historical Sociology×1
  • Anthropology Now×1
  • History and Anthropology×1
  • Punctum Books×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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