Senf was educated at
Miami University (B.S. English/Education; M.A. English) and the
State University of New York at Buffalo (PhD, 1979). Her PhD thesis, written under the direction of John Dings, was entitled Daughters of Lilith: An Analysis of the Vampire in Nineteenth-Century English Literature.
Bram Stoker’s The Mystery of the Sea: An Annotated Edition,
Valancourt Books, 2007.
Bram Stoker’s Lady Athlyne: An Annotated Edition, Desert Island Books Ltd., 2007.
“Teaching the Gothic and the Scientific Context”, in: Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions, eds. Diane Long Hoeveler and Tamar Heller. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003, 83–89.
Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker’s Fiction. Greenwood, 2002.
Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism. Twayne, 1998.
Bram Stoker. A Reader's Companion. Twayne, 1998.
A Critical Response to Bram Stoker, edited by Senf. Greenwood, 1993.
The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Bowling Green, OH: The Popular Press (1988).
“Dracula: Stoker’s Response to the New Woman”. Victorian Studies, 26 (1982): 33–49.
“Dracula: The Unseen Face in the Mirror”. Journal of Narrative Technique, 9 (1979): 160–70.
"Why We Need the Gothic in a Technological World", in Humanistic Perspectives in a Technological World, ed. Richard Utz, Valerie B. Johnson, and Travis Denton (Atlanta: School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014), pp. 31–3.
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^Reviewers of A Critical Review to Bram Stoker, for example, have called the volume “an exceptionally important contribution” to the “scholarly study of Stoker’s work” (Alan Johnson, Arizona State University, in English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 1995, p. 103), a “thorough survey of contextual issues” that assists student readers in appreciating “the links between texts and the historical periods that produce them” (Rosemary Jann, George Mason University, English Literature in Transition, 1999, p. 325), and “required” reading “for libraries and zealots” (Ray Brown, Bowling Green State University, Journal of Popular Culture, 1996, p. 224).