John Edgar Browning
Internationally recognized authority on the horror genre, vampires, Bram Stoker, and monster theory, John Edgar Browning (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) has appeared as a guest expert on, or consulted for, such documentary TV programs as National Geographic's Taboo USA (2013), Discovery Channel's William Shatner's Weird or What? (2010), AMC Visionaries: Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018), History Channel's The UnXplained (2020) hosted by William Shatner, Disney+'s The World According to Jeff Goldblum (2021), and Netflix, as well as radio programs like BBC Radio, The Howard Stern Show network, RTÉ—Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster, PRETEND, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Georgia Public Broadcasting, NPR, Decoder Ring (SLATE), Quite Franklin, and Ripley's Believe It or Notcast. A university educator for the last 19 years, he is now Professor of Liberal Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta campus).
Browning has contracted or published 20 academic and popular trade books as well as at least 100 articles, chapters, and reviews on subjects that cluster around Cultural Studies, critical media literacy, Dracula, vampires, zombies, horror, monstrosity, Bram Stoker, and the Gothic, including: The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and the forthcoming Dracula—An Anthology: Critical Reviews and Reactions, 1897–1920 (Edinburgh University Press), as well as critical editions of Montague Summers’s The Vampire: His Kith and Kin and The Vampire in Europe (Apocryphile Press, 2011, 2014); with Caroline Joan S. Picart, he co-edited as well Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and co-wrote Dracula in Visual Media (McFarland, 2010); with David R. Castillo, David Schmid, and David A. Reilly he co-wrote Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics (Palgrave Pivot, 2016); and, with Darren Elliott-Smith, co-edited New Queer Horror Film and Television (Horror Studies) (University of Wales Press, 2020). He is also co-editor of the second Norton Critical Edition of Dracula (2021) with David J. Skal.
His research and scholarship have earned him both international respect from his peers and media coverage from almost 300 news outlets in at least 50 countries, including venues like the BBC and BBC Radio, The Washington Post, El Huffington Post (Spain), TIME, Variety, Syfy Wire, VICE (Broadly), RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann)--Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster, Hack Circus, Discover Magazine’s “It's Only Science” podcast, New York Daily News, The Guardian (US Edition), The Daily Meal, Fusion, RN Drive (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), ABC News (Australia), The Daily Telegraph (Australia), Smithsonian.com, The Indian Express, Medical Daily, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), Louisiana Cultural Vistas (Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities), VT. (Viral Thread), Atlas Obscura, Live Science, Bloody Disgusting, and many others.
Additionally, he spent five years in the field in New Orleans, LA and Buffalo, NY conducting ethnographic studies of people who self-identify as vampire, a project he elaborated on in his doctoral dissertation, "Redeeming the Un-Dead in American Media and Culture Before 9/11," as well as in articles for Palgrave Communications, The Atlantic, The Conversation, and Discover Magazine. He has also since been interviewed about his research by the BBC and BBC Radio, The Washington Post, Discover Magazine’s “It's Only Science” podcast, VICE: Broadly, Hack Circus Magazine, The Buffalo News, and many others, joining only a handful of experts in the field worldwide. Today, he remains in regular contact with a number of real vampire communities all over the world.
e-mail: jbrowning@scad.edu
Supervisors: Michael H. Frisch, Bruce Jackson, Sarah Elder, Donald A. Grinde, and Jr.
Browning has contracted or published 20 academic and popular trade books as well as at least 100 articles, chapters, and reviews on subjects that cluster around Cultural Studies, critical media literacy, Dracula, vampires, zombies, horror, monstrosity, Bram Stoker, and the Gothic, including: The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and the forthcoming Dracula—An Anthology: Critical Reviews and Reactions, 1897–1920 (Edinburgh University Press), as well as critical editions of Montague Summers’s The Vampire: His Kith and Kin and The Vampire in Europe (Apocryphile Press, 2011, 2014); with Caroline Joan S. Picart, he co-edited as well Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and co-wrote Dracula in Visual Media (McFarland, 2010); with David R. Castillo, David Schmid, and David A. Reilly he co-wrote Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics (Palgrave Pivot, 2016); and, with Darren Elliott-Smith, co-edited New Queer Horror Film and Television (Horror Studies) (University of Wales Press, 2020). He is also co-editor of the second Norton Critical Edition of Dracula (2021) with David J. Skal.
His research and scholarship have earned him both international respect from his peers and media coverage from almost 300 news outlets in at least 50 countries, including venues like the BBC and BBC Radio, The Washington Post, El Huffington Post (Spain), TIME, Variety, Syfy Wire, VICE (Broadly), RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann)--Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster, Hack Circus, Discover Magazine’s “It's Only Science” podcast, New York Daily News, The Guardian (US Edition), The Daily Meal, Fusion, RN Drive (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), ABC News (Australia), The Daily Telegraph (Australia), Smithsonian.com, The Indian Express, Medical Daily, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), Louisiana Cultural Vistas (Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities), VT. (Viral Thread), Atlas Obscura, Live Science, Bloody Disgusting, and many others.
Additionally, he spent five years in the field in New Orleans, LA and Buffalo, NY conducting ethnographic studies of people who self-identify as vampire, a project he elaborated on in his doctoral dissertation, "Redeeming the Un-Dead in American Media and Culture Before 9/11," as well as in articles for Palgrave Communications, The Atlantic, The Conversation, and Discover Magazine. He has also since been interviewed about his research by the BBC and BBC Radio, The Washington Post, Discover Magazine’s “It's Only Science” podcast, VICE: Broadly, Hack Circus Magazine, The Buffalo News, and many others, joining only a handful of experts in the field worldwide. Today, he remains in regular contact with a number of real vampire communities all over the world.
e-mail: jbrowning@scad.edu
Supervisors: Michael H. Frisch, Bruce Jackson, Sarah Elder, Donald A. Grinde, and Jr.
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Who are real vampires, what they’re not, vampires today and in folklore and history.
How he became interested in this topic and what is his involvement today.
What seasoned physicians, new clinicians, and those just curious might want to know.
Music by Skilsel from Pixabay.
Producer and audio editor: Kip Clark.
https://www.thebloodproject.com/real-vampires-among-us/
For more information about Georgia Tech, please visit: http://www.gatech.edu.
Clips: Vampire over London (1952) starring Bela Lugosi, via Prelinger Moving Image Archive.
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
The first edition of the novel, published by Archibald Constable in London in 1897 and chosen by the editors in order to give readers—insofar as such a thing is possible—a more historically authentic reading experience than has been generally available. Arcane words and usages are footnoted at first appearance.
Editorial matter by John Edgar Browning and David J. Skal.
Eight background pieces, five of them new to the Second Edition, on Count Dracula specifically and vampires more generally; seven reviews and reactions to Dracula’s publication, five of them new to the Second Edition; and six selections, two of them new to and two others updated for the Second Edition, on Dracula’s many dramatic and filmic variations.
Eleven critical essays on Dracula’s central themes, six of them new to the Second Edition.
A selected bibliography.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Author Biographies
Introduction
Part 1: TRANSFORMING, RE-READING AND RE-MAKING QUEER HORROR
1: ‘My Brother’s Creeper’: Towards a Queer (Re-)Reading of Victor Salva’s Jeepers Creepers (2001) – John Edgar Browning
2: Queer Cult Performance: Recreating Rocky Horror in the Twenty-First Century – John Lynskey
3: Castrating the Queer Vampire in Let the Right One In (2009) and Let Me In (2010) – Darren Elliott-Smith
4: ‘Becoming Hannibal’: Identification and Transformation in Queer Horror Television – Ben Tyrer
Part 2: QUEER PLAYGROUNDS AND ADOLESCENT HORRORS
5: ‘What happened to my sweet girl?’: Paranoid and Reparative readings of Queer Subjectivity in Black Swan (2010) and Jack and Diane (2012) – Robyn Ollett
6: ‘A Dream Within a Dream’: Children’s ‘Horror’ Television and Lesbianism in the World of Marceline the Vampire Queen – Simon Bacon
7: Abjection, Queer Bodies and Grotesque Doppelgängers in Jack and Diane and The Nature of Nicholas – Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Mariana Zárate
8: At the Edges of (queer) Time and Space: Atemporality, Adolescence, and Abjection in Final Destination – Christopher Clark
Part 3: BADASS WITCHES AND QUEER WOLVES
9: ‘If you look in the face of evil, evil’s gonna look right back at you’: Anthologising Supernatural Sexualities on American Horror Story: Coven – Andrew J. Owens.
10: Like and Lycanthropy: The New Pack Werewolf According to Tyler, Tyler and Taylor – Tim Stafford
11: ‘Unspeakable Acts’: Coming Out as Werewolf – Lisa Metherell.
12: ‘Sisters United’: Feminist Nostalgia, Queer Spectatorship, and the Radical Witch Politics of Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem – Ben Raphael Sher
Selected Bibliography
A wicked link in a terrifying lineage, the tales contained in The King in Yellow have inspired generations of American horror writing. Look toward unspeakable Hastur and tell yourself these are only tales. Behold the Yellow Sign and convince yourself that, after all—it’s only a book.
Welcome, dear reader, to Carcosa.
Edited with notes and introduction by John Edgar Browning. Features nineteen original illustrations by Mike Jackson.
Reader, have you ever wondered who struck fear into the heart of H. P. Lovecraft? It was Robert Chambers. Now, the terror visits you.
A wicked link in a terrifying lineage, the tales contained in The King in Yellow have inspired generations of American horror writing. Look toward unspeakable Hastur and tell yourself these are only tales. Behold the Yellow Sign and convince yourself that, after all—it’s only a book.
Welcome, dear reader, to Carcosa.
Edited with notes and introduction by John Edgar Browning. Features nineteen original illustrations by Mike Jackson.
This book derives from the common misconception the Bram Stoker's famed vampire novel, Dracula (1897), suffered a mixed critical reception and only became a masterpiece with the success of dramatic and cinematic treatments of the novel in the 1920s and 30s. Dracula-An Anthology: Critical Reviews Reactions, 1897-1920 dispels this myth by presenting the single most complete and exhaustive anthology of early critical responses to Stoker's Dracula (and, supplementarily, 'Dracula's Guest'). The collection includes 259 reviews, reactions and press notices, both English and translated from other languages, the majority of which have not been in print since first appearing in the press nearly a century ago.
Introduction: Our Zombies, Our Bodies; David R. Castillo and John Edgar Browning
1. Survival Horrors, Survival Spaces: Tracing the Modern Zombie (Cine)Myth Through to the Postmillennium; John Edgar Browning
2. Zombie Masses: Monsters for the Age of Global Capitalism; David R. Castillo
3. The Coming Apocalypses of Zombies and Globalization; David A. Reilly
4. The Limits of Zombies: Monsters for a Neoliberal Age; David Schmid
Afterword: What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Zombies?; William Egginton
Through both the original works and extensive archival research presented, this vital collection sheds new light on an enigmatic writer and rejects the view that Dracula is Stoker's only legacy worth consideration. The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker underscores not only the intertexuality between Dracula and the other works, but supports the exciting prospect that Stoker's periodical writings account for a much greater force in his literary repertoire than previously accepted.
A must-read for Stoker fans and scholars, this collection offers an important window into fin-de-siècle Gothic literature.""
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: On Monstrosity and Multiculturalism - Caroline Joan ('Kay') S. Picart and John Edgar Browning
PART 1: GENERAL THEORIES OF MONSTROSITY
Monster Culture (Seven Theses) - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Dread, Taboo, and The Thing (1982): Toward a Social Theory of the Horror Film - Stephen Prince
Nightmare and the Horror Film: The Symbolic Biology of Fantastic Beings - Noël Carroll
Our Vampires, Our Neighbors - Ken Gelder
'Psychological Thriller': Dead of Night (1945), British Film Culture, and the 1940s Horror Cycle - Mark Jancovich
PART 2: TERATOLOGIES OF NATIONALITY AND RACE
Monsters in the Literary Traditions of Asia: A Critical Appraisal - Andrew Hock-Soon Ng
Slayer as Monster in Blood+ (2005-2006) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) - Margaret L. Carter
'Shapeless Deformity': Monstrosity, Visibility, and Racial Masquerade in Thomas Grattan's Cagot's Hut (1823) - Daniel Novak
PART 3: IN BETWEEN FEAR AND DESIRE
Apt Pupil (1998): The Hollywood Nazi-As-Monster Flick - Caroline Joan ('Kay') S. Picart and David Frank
Demons Driven: Religious Teratologies - Jason C. Bivins
An Age of Mechanical Destruction: Power Tools and the Monstrous in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Films - Ian Conrich
PART 4: QUEER THEORY AND BOUNDARY CROSSINGS
'Way Too Gay to Be Ignored?': The Production and Reception of Queer Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century - Harry Benshoff
Seed of Chucky: Transbiology and the Horror Flick - Judith ('Jack') Halberstam
PART 5: CRIMINOLOGY, LAW, AND TERATOLOGIES: BETWEEN THE REAL AND THE REEL
Stage Four: Virulency - Lonnie H. Athens
Profiling the Terrorist as a Mass Murderer - Caroline Joan ('Kay') S. Picart and Cecil E. Greek
What Makes Stalking Monsters So Monstrous, and How to Survive Them? - Ôrît Kāmîr
Race and Serial Killing in the Media: The Case of Wayne Williams - Caroline Joan ('Kay') S. Picart
PART 6: THE BIOLOGICAL MONSTROUS AND GENDER: THE HUMAN-ANIMAL-MACHINE DIVIDES
''Nature Abhors Normality': Theories of the Monstrous from Aristotle to The X-Files (1993-2002) - Kathleen Long
Monster Spawn of Animal Experimentation in the Early Work of H. G. Wells: On the Containment of Psychopathic Violence as Preliminary to the Onset of the Capacity for Mourning - Laurence A. Rickels
Why Is the Tension So High? The Monstrous Feminine in (Post)Modern Slasher Films - Dejan Ognjanović
Blood and Bitches: Sexual Politics and the Female Lycanthrope in Young Adult Fiction - June Pulliam
PART 7: TERATOLOGIES AND ETHICS
The Queer Ethics of Monstrosity - Patricia MacCormack
Reopening the Question of the Human and the Animal - Dominick LaCapra
Where Reality and Fantasy Meet and Bifurcate: Holocaust Themes in Pan's Labyrinth (2006), X-Men (2000), and V (1983) - Caroline Joan ('Kay') S. Picart, John Edgar Browning, and Carla María Thomas
*Nominated for The 2010 Rondo Award for Book of the Year
"Superb book . . . . a magnificent piece of scholarship!"-ELIZABETH MILLER
"Dracula in Visual Media is a monumental achievement. This exhaustive compilation of Dracula-related works in film, video games, comics, and other media will be indispensable for all Dracula scholars and devoted fans of the Count." -MARGARET L. CARTER
From Rue Morgue magazine:
"This in-depth, nicely illustrated catalogue of all known visual Draculinian works is an interesting read that will have you nostalgically digging out your Hammer box sets and Tomb of Dracula comics collection." -JAMES BURRELL
From the Foreword:
"Bram would surely be surprised at the great number of works, books, movies, television shows, comics, etc., apparently inspired by, or in some way connected to, the vampire figure he created."
-DACRE STOKER
From the Introduction:
"[This is] the most comprehensive compilation of Dracula film credits to date, and, like all such compilations, ample testimony to the vampire kings robust afterlife in the media, a feat so far unmatched by any other fictional character." -DAVID J. SKAL
Over 700 citations on domestic and international “Dracula” films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animations, and video games comprise the bulk of this catalog; additionally, we have documented nearly a thousand domestic and international comic book titles, as well as numerous stage adaptations.
While all of these titles may vary widely on matters of length, significance, quality, genre, moral character, country, and format, they do share one characteristic: they explore, with great variation, the Dracula cinema myth. Some of the titles make considerable effort to adapt Stoker’s original narrative, while others diffuse beyond this traditional strain of films, often merely adopting the markers or tropes that became associated with Dracula during the initial theatrical and cinematic portrayals. However, in nearly all the titles we catalog here, Dracula, or some semblance of him (i.e. a Dracula-type vampire), makes a literal appearance.
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Since the publication of Dracula in 1897, Bram Stoker's original creation has been a source of inspiration for artists, writers, and filmmakers. From Universal's early black-and-white films and Hammer's Technicolor representations that followed, iterations of Dracula have been cemented in mainstream cinema. This anthology investigates and explores the far larger body of work coming from sources beyond mainstream cinema reinventing Dracula.
Draculas, Vampires and Other Undead Forms assembles provocative essays that examine Dracula films and their movement across borders of nationality, sexuality, ethnicity, gender, and genre since the 1920s. The essays analyze the complexity Dracula embodies outside the conventional landscape of films with which the vampire is typically associated. Focusing on Dracula and Dracula-type characters in film, anime, and literature from predominantly non-Anglo markets, this anthology offers unique perspectives that seek to ground depictions and experiences of Dracula within a larger political, historical, and cultural framework.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword David J. Skal v
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Documenting Dracula and Global Identities in Film, Literature, and Anime John Edgar Browning Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart ix
Part I Tackling Race, Gender, and Modes of Narration in America
1 Manly P. Hall, Dracula (1931), and the Complexities of the Classic Horror Film Sequel Gary D. Rhodes 3
2 The Dracula and the Blacula (1972) Cultural Revolution Paul R. Lehman John Edgar Browning 19
3 The Compulsions of Real/Reel Serial Killers and Vampires: Toward a Gothic Criminology Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart Cecil Greek 37
4 Blood, Lust, and the Fe/Male Narrative in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and the Novel (1897) Lisa Nystrom 63
5 The Borg as Vampire in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) and Start Trek: First Contact (1996): An Uncanny Reflection Justin Everett 77
6 When Women Kill: Undead Imagery in the Cinematic Portrait of Aileen Wuornos Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart Cecil Greek 93
Part II Working through Change and Xenophobia in Europe
7 Return Ticket to Transylvania: Relations between Historical Reality and Vampire Fiction Santiago Lucendo 115
8 Racism and the Vampire: The Anti-Slavic Premise of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) Jimmie Cain 127
9 The Greateful Un-Dead: Count Dracula and the Transnational Counterculture in Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) Paul Newland 135
10 Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) as a Legacy of Romanticism Martina G. Lüet;ke 153
Part III Imperialism, Hybridity, and Cross-Cultural Fertilization in Asia
11 "Death and the Maiden": The Pontianak as Excess in Malay Popular Culture Andrew Hock-Soon Ng 167
12 Becoming-Death: The Lollywood Gothicof Khwaja Sarfraz's Zinda Laash (Dracula in Pakistan [US title], 1967) Sean Moreland Summer Pervez begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting 187
13 Modernity as Crisis: Goeng Si and Vampires in Hong Kong Cinema Dale Hudson 203
14 Enter the Dracula: The Silent Screams and Cultural Crossroads of Japanese and Hong Kong Cinema Wayne Stein 235
15 Identity Crisis: Imperialist Vampires in Japan? Nicholas Schlegel 261
16 The Western Eastern: Decoding Hybridity and CyberZen Goth(ic) in Vampire Hunter D (1985) Wayne Stein John Edgar Browning 279
Index 295
About the Editors and Contributors 311"
An Annotated Reference of Early Reviews and Reactions, 1897-1913
Compiled and Annotated, with an Introduction, by
John Edgar Browning
Bibliographical Afterword by
J. Gordon Melton
PRAISE:
“Dryden said of The Canterbury Tales that “here is God’s plenty,” and one might say the same thing about Bram Stoker’s Dracula: The Critical Feast. Browning has assembled an exhaustive collection of contemporary reviews of Dracula, reviews that put Stoker’s novel into context and demonstrate its almost instantaneous popularity. In addition, The Critical Feast includes copies of early covers and photographs of Stoker. This is a book that every student of Dracula will be proud to own…and pore over, a feast for the eyes and for the mind.”
—Dr. Carol A. Senf, Bram Stoker (Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions) and The Critical Response to Bram Stoker
“Both scholars and devoted fans will rejoice in Bram Stoker’s Dracula: The Critical Feast. This exhaustive compilation fulfills a long-standing need in the realm of Dracula studies and provides a valuable fresh perspective on the early popular and critical reception of Stoker’s masterpiece.”
—Dr. Margaret L. Carter, The Vampire in Literature: A Critical Bibliography and Different Blood: The Vampire as Alien
“This meticulously researched book puts to rest misconceptions long held by many Dracula scholars (myself included) about the reception of Stoker's novel. A superb achievement and a scholar’s delight!”
—Dr. Elizabeth Miller, Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Documentary Journey into Vampire Country and the Dracula Phenomenon and Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition
SYNOPSIS:
There is a common misconception that the early critical reception of Bram Stoker’s famed vampire novel, Dracula (1897), was “mixed.” This reference book sets out to dispel this myth en force by offering the most exhaustive collection of early critical responses to Stoker’s novel ever assembled, including some 91 reviews and reactions as well as 36 different press notices, many of which have not been seen in print since they appeared over 100 years ago. What these early critical responses reveal about Dracula’s writing is that it was predominantly seen by early reviewers and responders to parallel, even supersede the Gothic horror works of such canonical writers as Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Accompanying the critical responses are annotations and an introduction by the editor, a bibliographical afterword by J. Gordon Melton, 32 illustrations, and a bibliography."
—Leslie S. Klinger, editor, The New Annotated Dracula
“Summers’s extensive albeit curious research on vampires has long been a classic in the field, and it’s exciting to see it being rescued from oblivion, as well as framed by such a renowned yet diverse group of scholars.”
—Katherine Ramsland, The Science of Vampires
“This new edition cannot be recommended too highly to anyone with the faintest interest in Montague Summers or the origin of vampires.”
—Nigel Suckling, Book of the Vampire
In all the dark pages of the supernatural there is no more terrible tradition than that of the Vampire, a pariah even among demons. Foul are his ravages; gruesome and seemingly barbaric are the ancient and approved methods by which folk rid themselves of this hideous pest. The tradition is world-wide and of the greatest antiquity. How did it arise? How did it spread? Does it indeed contain some vestige of truth, some memory of savage practice, some trace of cannibalism or worse? These and similar problems inevitably suggested by a consideration of Vampirism in its various aspects are fully discussed in this work which may not unfairly claim to be the first serious and fully documented study of a subject that in its details is of absorbing interest, although the circumstances are of necessity macabre and ghastly in the highest degree.
Included in this critical edition are the authoritative text, rare contextual and source materials, correspondence, illustrations, as well as Greek and Latin translations.
A biographical note and chronology are also included."
FOREWORD
Katherine Ramsland
EDITOR’S PREFACE
NEW INTRODUCTION
Rosemary Ellen Guiley
PROLOGUE: MONTAGE SUMMERS AND THE VAMPIRE CASEBOOK
Gerard P. O’Sullivan
THE VAMPIRE IN EUROPE (1929):
THE UNABRIDGED TEXT IN FACSIMILE
Montague Summers
AFTERWORD
Carol A. Senf
APPENDIX A. GREEK AND LATIN TRANSLATIONS
Grace de Majewski
APPENDIX B. REVIEWS, REACTIONS, ADS, AND NOTICES
APPENDIX C. THE REAL VAMPIRE COMMUNITY: A CONCISE HISTORY
APPENDIX D. ON VAMPIRISM AND ENERGY WORK
APPENDIX E. VAMPIRES OF THE CRESCENT CITY: A CASE STUDY
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Thus, out of an over-whelming need to equip both educators and students with more practical and culturally responsive tools for engaging in Monster Theory and improving its accessibility and applicability, I embarked on a study I would later publish in 2013 as “Towards a Monster Pedagogy: Reclaiming the Classroom for the Other” (Browning). In it, I developed “Monster Pedagogy,” a theoretical mode and inclusive teaching practice I coined that has now become a driving impetus behind new outside scholarship (see, for example, Golub and Hayton's Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us [2017]), conference presentations, a TED Talk, masters and doctoral theses, and seeing as well classroom use at universities in the US and abroad, even making its way into Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s (2017) recent “Monster Classroom (Seven Theses),” a derivative of his canonical essay “Monster Culture (Seven Theses).” What follows is an extension of my work on "Monster Pedagogy," building upon a further ten years of teaching experience at two additional R1 institutions and a liberal arts college. Moreover, whereas my previous experience with "Monster Pedagogy" was generally confined to first-year composition and sophomore-level survey literature classes, it has since grown to include film and media studies courses at the graduate and undergrad level, as well as a number of literature and humanities courses. Readers, then as now, may indeed question the applicability of "Monster Pedagogy" in classes outside of the academy, but I wish to re-emphasize its feasibility and implementation in any teaching situation or environment that warrants discussions of marginalized persons, hierarchical systems of normalcy, or tales told to frighten. The creative possibilities potentiated by Gothic and horror literature, film, and other media for use by educators in virtual and on-ground classrooms have grown tremendously with the onset of the “post-millennial gothic” (Nelson 2012), particularly now and since the Trump presidency. Thus, a socially tumultuous period like the present offers a great opportunity to extend my work through a series of brief notes and strategies informed by my classroom practices and experiences as well as those of others.
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