Charles Hoge

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Charles Hoge

Senior Lecturer of English

English

Office Hours

Mondays from 12:15-1:45 and 3:15-4:15, Tuesdays from 11:00-12:15, and Thursdays from 11:00-12:15

Biography

I am an enthusiastic lifelong learner and am proud to teach and have taught English (composition, rhetoric, literature, and film classes) student-centrically at MSU-Denver since fall 1999.

Research Interests

    Film Studies, Monster Studies, Folklore, Mythology, British literature (Victorian, as well as 17th and 18th centuries), early American literature (17th-19th centuries), popular culture studies, extinction, composition, rhetoric and pedagogical theory.

Teaching Interests

    Literature (specifically Victorian literature and culture, British Literature, children's literature, mythologies, and horror/monster studies), film (especially international films, vampire films, and horror films), cultural studies, and folklore. My teaching philosophy is student-centric.

Education

PhD in English (Literary Studies)

University of Denver

MA in English (Literature)

University of Colorado at Boulder

BA in English literature

University of Colorado, Boulder,

Published Works

  • Hoge, W. C. (2025).
  • Hoge, W. C. (2025). "Gothic Nightmares of Prehistory: How the Victorian Imagination Gave Birth to Dinosaurs as We Know Them" (Chapter One). (pp 238). Routledge.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2022). The Dead Travel Fast: The Explosive Evolution of the International Film Vampire.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2024).
  • Hoge, W. C. (2022). Scholarly Book.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2022). The Dead Travel Fast: The Explosive Evolution of the International Film Vampire. Kendall Hunt, https://he.kendallhunt.com/.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2021). “Monstrous Life Finds a Way: Jurassic Park and Monstrosity”.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2020). “Don’t…Don’t Believe the Hype: Vampiric Evolution and What We Do in the Shadows.”.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2020). "Don't.Don't Believe the Hype! Vampiric Evolution in What We Do in the Shadows". McFarland & Company, Inc.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2020). "Monstrous Life Finds a Way: Jurassic Park and Monstrosity". (pp 209-228). McFarland & Company, Inc.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2015). “Phantom Priapusspuss: An Exploration of the Reflection and Distortion of the Phantom Dog Tradition in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano”.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2014). Crawling Out of the Middle Ages: The Deep Literary Roots of the Vampires in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend. (pp 1-13.).
  • Hoge, W. C. (2014). The Dodo in the Long Eighteenth Century: An Exploration of the Gray Ghost Outside of the English Sentimental Eye”.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2014). “Crawling Out of the Middle Ages: The Deep Literary Roots of the Vampires in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend”.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2014). The Dodo in the Long Eighteenth Century: An Exploration of the Gray Ghost Outside of the English Sentimental Eye. University of Toronto Quarterly, 83(3), 687-704.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2013). contributing editor. Fountainhead Press.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2013). Writing Guide for ENG 1008/1009 and ENG 190G.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2011). “Whodology: Encountering "Doctor Who" Fan Fiction through the Portals of Play Studies and Ludology”.
  • Hoge, W. C. (2011). Whodology: Encountering "Doctor Who" Fan Fiction through the Portals of Play Studies and Ludology”. Transformative Works and Cultures (Textual Echoes, Cyber Echoes), 8(2). journal.transformativeworks.org.