Erick DuPree, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist and author whose research examines identity, power, and desire as they are expressed through material culture, literary production, lived practice.
Specializing in nineteenth-century literature and culture, their work highlights how questions of intimacy, masculinity, and embodiment shaped both intellectual life and popular imagination during the Romantic and Victorian periods, and how those dynamics continue to shape culture today.
Their areas of expertise include the Byronic hero, Gothic literature, and the intersections of gender, sexuality, and power in nineteenth-century Britain.
DuPree earned their doctorate from Queen’s University, where their dissertation examined religious pluralism and eleventh-century Japanese court literature, culminating in a modern translation and analysis of Murasaki Shikibu’s Court Diary and its enduring influence on marriage politics.
Alongside academic research, DuPree has been published in HuffPost, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, New York Magazine, The Wild Hunt, Bitch, and Patheos. DuPree has lectured on mythopoetics at the University of Pennsylvania, taught courses in material culture at the University of the Arts, and served as literary reviews editor for Cleaver Literary Review.
DuPree lives on the East Coast with their husband and beloved dogs.