Erica Haugtvedt
Associate Professor
Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesEducation
Ohio State University, English, BA 2009
Ohio State University, Psychology, BA 2009
Ohio State University, English, MA 2011
Ohio State University, English, PhD 2015
Brief Bio
Dr. Erica Haugtvedt is an associate professor of English in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Department at South Dakota Mines. Haugtvedt double majored in English and Psychology with a minor in History, earning two bachelor's degrees simultaneously. After earning her Ph.D. in nineteenth-century British Literature from Ohio State University in 2015, Dr. Haugtvedt taught for two years as a Senior Lecturer in English at Ohio State University before joining the highly interdisciplinary department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at South Dakota Mines in 2017.
Research Expertise
Dr. Haugtvedt specializes in nineteenth-century British literature, media and advertising history, and popular culture. She works on seriality, fictionality, and Victorian periodicals. Haugtvedt’s research specifically engages with the serial Victorian novel and simultaneous adaptations across media, focusing on characters who appear in multiple works by different creators (known as transfictional characters). Drawing upon narrative theory, cognitive psychology, and media history, Dr. Haugtvedt treats the proliferation of transfictional characters in the nineteenth century as anticipating aspects of fandom and transmedia storytelling in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her first book, _Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century_, came out with Palgrave in 2022. She has published on penny fiction, suspense, the TV show Better Call Saul, George Eliot and more.
Teaching
Dr. Haugtvedt teaches a range of courses from composition and STEM communication, to historical surveys of literature and humanities, to Computers in Society. Throughout all her classes, she enjoys integrating themes of technology and society, focusing on the history of media (including print) up to today's online cultures.