Miranda Steege

Miranda Steege is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, affiliated with the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences. Her work bridges queer theory, Victorian literature, and fan studies, with a focus on interdisciplinary creative and critical practices. She holds a PhD in English from UC Riverside.

Her research explores intersections of queer sexual ethics, Victorian Spiritualism, and contemporary pop culture. Notable projects include her dissertation, Reading for a Queer Sexual Ethics, which combines a mystery novel (Or Else) with scholarly analysis of fanfiction and Victorian texts. She teaches courses like Detective Fiction and Imagining Social Justice.

Publications include analyses of Taylor Swift’s cultural impact and crime fiction in writing pedagogy. Her work is available on her website and through academic journals like Clues: A Journal of Detection.