Nina Auerbach (May 24, 1943 in New York City – February 4, 2017)[1] was the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania.
She published, lectured, and reviewed widely in the fields of Victorian literature, theater, cultural history, and horror fiction and film.
Her books include Our Vampires, Ourselves; Private Theatricals: The Lives of the Victorians; Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time; Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts; Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth; and Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction (Harvard University Press).
Her most recent book, Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress (2000, ISBN 0812235304), inaugurated the University of Pennsylvania Press series, Personal Takes.
Before her death, she was working on a project tentatively titled Lost Lives, a study of ghosts and their purposes.