Erica C Haugtvedt

Erica C Haugtvedt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She holds dual BA degrees in English and Psychology (2009), an MA in English (2011), and a PhD in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (2015) from The Ohio State University, where she also served as Senior Lecturer (2015-2017) before joining South Dakota Mines in 2017.

Her research bridges

• Victorian literature
• media history
• narrative theory
• cognitive psychology
• fandom studies

with a focus on transfictional characters and transmedia storytelling. Her 2022 monograph Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century argues that Victorian serial media trained audiences for modern fan practices, analyzing characters like Mr. Pickwick and Sweeney Todd across novels, plays, and periodicals.

Publications highlight her interdisciplinary approach:

• 2021 article on Victorian penny press adaptations as early fan fiction
• 2017 work on ethics in serialized true crime narratives
• 2016 studies of Sweeney Todd's transmedial proliferation
• 2013 analysis of Dickensian adaptations

She connects historical media practices to contemporary digital cultures in courses spanning

• composition
• STEM communication
• Computers in Society

and has presented at major conferences like the Modern Language Association and International Society for the Study of Narrative.