JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK ______

Professor of English Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 (989) 774-3101 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.jeffreyandrewweinstock.com

EDUCATION______

The George Washington University Ph.D., Program in the Human Sciences (1999) Dissertation Title: Dead Letters: Ghostly Inscriptions and Theoretical Hauntings (Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Chair; Marshall Alcorn and Elissa Marder [Emory] committee)

The George Washington University M.Phil., Program in the Human Sciences (1996)

The George Washington University M.A. in (1995)

The School of Literary Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College (Summer 1995) Courses with Dominick LaCapra and Elaine Scarry

The Folger Institute (Fall 1993) Seminar: “Voice and Orality in Early Modern England” with Professor Bruce Smith

The University of Pennsylvania Degree: B.A. in English (1992)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE______

Professor of English, Central Michigan University (2009-present) Graduate Program Coordinator, Central Michigan University (2008-2013) Associate Professor of English, Central Michigan University (2007-2009) Assistant Professor of English, Central Michigan University (2001-2007) Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (2000-2001) Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Connecticut College (2000-2001) Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Trinity College, Hartford, CT (Spring 2000) Lecturer in English, University of Connecticut, Storrs (1999-2000)

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 1 Lecturer in English, Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC (Spring 1999) Lecturer in English, The George Washington University (1994-1998)

AWARDS AND HONORS______

• 2019-2020 Central Michigan University Excellence in Teaching Award nominee. • 2018-2019 Central Michigan University Excellence in Teaching Award nominee. • WINNER: 2016 Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture for The Age of Lovecraft. • 2014-15 Central Michigan University Excellence in Teaching Award nominee • WINNER: 2014 Rue Morgue magazine “Best 2014 Non-Fiction Book” for The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic • WINNER: Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters: 2014 “Golden Ghoul” award from Serbian Cult of the Ghoul Horror publication for “Best 2014 Non- Fiction Horror Book.” • WINNER: 2013 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Lord Ruthven Assembly Award for Best Nonfiction Title: The Film: Undead Cinema • 2012-2013 CMU President’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity • Certificate of Congratulations for Extraordinary Research Productivity presented by the Provost and Dean of Libraries, Spring 2011 • CMU Honors Program “Professor of the Year” recipient, 2008-2009 • Sigma Tau Delta “Chip Off the Old Block” teaching award nominee, 2008-2009 • CMU "Alternative Assignment" internal grant recipient, spring semester 2009 • CMU senior faculty nominee for NEH Summer Stipend award, 2008 • College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award winner, 2007-2008 • Provost’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Endeavor, 2006-2007 • CMU’s junior scholar nominee for the NEH Summer Stipend competition, 2006 • CMU’s junior scholar nominee for the NEH Summer Stipend competition, 2005 • Professional Development Grant for Scholarly and Creative Activity, CMU, 2004 • University Fellow in the Human Sciences, The George Washington University, 1994-98 • Ray and Pat Browne Award for Student Achievement for Best Conference Paper by a Graduate Student. Popular Culture Association of the South, 1995 • George McClandish Honorary Fellow in American Literature, The George Washington University, 1994-95

BOOKS IN PROGRESS______

And Now for Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python. Co-edited with Kate Egan of Aberystwyth University. Forthcoming: Edinburgh University Press. Pop Culture for Beginners (textbook). In development for Broadview Press. Under contract.

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 2 The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story. Co-authored monograph with Scott Brewster. Under contract. Gothic Materialism. A new materialist rereading of the Gothic tradition with an emphasis on “thing power.” Monograph in progress. Satan & Cinema. An edited collection assembled together with Regina Hansen of Boston University. In progress. Reflections on Black Mirror. Edited collection with Pawel Frelik and Gerry Canavan. Planning stages. Gothic Melville. Edited collection with Monika Elbert. In progress.

BOOKS: PUBLISHED ______

The Theory Reader. University of Minnesota Press. December 2019. The Mad Scientist’s Guide to College Composition (A Somewhat Cheeky but Exceedingly Useful Introduction to Academic Writing). Broadview Press. November 2019. Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale: From the Weather to the Void. Palgrave, 2018. Cambridge Companion to the American Gothic. Cambridge University Press, 2018. Lovecraft Now. Special issue of The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 26.3 (2015). (Published January 2017) Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Carl Sederholm. The Age of Lovecraft. Co-edited with Carl Sederholm. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. • WINNER: 2016 Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture • My chapter, “Lovecraft’s Things,” republished in Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques. Editor Michael Heyes. Lexington Books, 2018. Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture. Co-authored with Isabella van Elferen. Routledge, 2016. Return to Twin Peaks: New Approaches to Materiality, Theory & Genre on Television. New York: Palgrave 2016. The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. • WINNER: 2014 Rue Morgue magazine “Best 2014 Non-Fiction Book” • WINNER: 2014 “Golden Ghoul” award from Serbian Cult of the Ghoul Horror publication for “Best 2014 Non-Fiction Horror Book.” The Works of : Margins to Mainstream. New York: Palgrave, 2013. Paperback release 2016. The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. • WINNER: 2013 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Lord Ruthven Assembly Award for Best Nonfiction Title . Cardiff: University of Wales, 2011. Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings. New York: Palgrave, 2010. The Other Gods and More Unearthly Tales by H. P. Lovecraft. Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2010.

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 3 Approaches to Teaching Poe’s Prose and Poetry. Co-edited with Anthony Magistrale. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Weird Tales by H. P. Lovecraft. Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2009. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales by H. P. Lovecraft. Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. New York: Barnes & Noble May 2009. Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. Paperback reissue 2016. Reading Rocky: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture. New York: Palgrave 2008. Paperback release 2015. Taking South Park Seriously. New York: SUNY Press, 2008. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. London: Wallflower Press, 2007. Spectral America: Phantoms and the American Imagination. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. • Introduction reprinted in the The Spectralities Reader. Eds. Esther Peeren and Maria del Pilar Blanco. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies. Co-Edited with Sarah Higley. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. The Pedagogical Wallpaper: Teaching ’s “The Yellow Wall-paper.” Edited collection. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, Inc. 2003. Guest Editor College Literature edition on “Cultural Violence,” 26.1 (Winter 1999): 1-7. Includes my co-authored introduction, “Cultural Violences.”

BOOK CHAPTERS & JOURNAL ESSAYS______

“Autobiography as Rhetoric: Reading Franklin With Douglass.” Forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Frederick Douglass, edited by Jericho Williams. “A Colony of Draculas: Adapting Dracula for Film.” Forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Dracula, edited by William Thomas McBride, MLA. “’s Revivals.” Forthcoming in Horror Studies special issue on King, edited by Filipa Antunes. “We Are Dracula: Penny Dreadful and the Dracula Megatext.” Forthcoming in The Transmedia Vampire, edited by Simon Bacon. McFarland. “The Anthropocene.” Forthcoming in Gothic in the Anthropocene. Eds. Justin Edwards and Johan Högland. “The Cinematic Vampire.” Forthcoming in The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion. Eds. John Edgar Browning and William Hughes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. “Cities of the Dead: Urban in Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.” Forthcoming in Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction & . Eds. Stefan L. Brandt, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan Rabitsch. “Haunted Homesteads: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Dual Gothic.” Forthcoming in Regionalist Gothic Women Writers. Eds. Monika Elbert and Rita Bode. Palgrave. “’It’s a Strange World’: David Lynch.” Routledge Companion to . Ed. Ernest Mathjis

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 4 and Jamie Sexton. Routledge, 2019. 383-91. “Experience Claimed: The Trauma of Knowing in Poe’s Angelic Dialogues.” Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation. Vol. 52 (2019): 91-109. “Vampire Suicide.” Suicide and the Gothic. Eds. Andrew Smith and Bill Hughes. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.139-59. “The Sound of Horror: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” (1982) and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980).” Horror: A Companion. Ed. Simon Bacon. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. 67-74. “Hawthorne and Science Fiction.” Hawthorne in Context. Ed. Monika Elbert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 329-39. “The Soul of the Matter: Frankenstein Meets H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘Herbert West—Reanimator’.” Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture.” Eds. Dennis Perry and Dennis Cutchins. New York: Palgrave, 2018. 221-35. “Poe and Postmodernism.” The Oxford Handbook of . Eds. Scott Peeples and Gerald Kennedy. Oxford UP, 2018. 718-734. “Gothic and the New Weird: Jeff VanderMeer.” The Gothic: A Reader. Ed. Simon Bacon. Palgrave, 2018. 211-16. “Hyberobjects, Apocalypse, and the Elemental Antagonists of American Naturalism.” Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Eds. Dawn Keetley and Matthew Sivils. Routledge, 2018. 191-205. “The American Ghost Story.” A Companion to the Ghost Story. Eds Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston. London: Routledge, 2018. 206-14. “Afterward: Howl, Growl, Scream! Listening to Monsters Beyond Meaning.” “Listening to Our Monsters” special edition of Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture. Ed. Michael R. Paradiso-Michau. Fall 2017. 199-205. “The Queer Time of Lively Matter: The Polar Erotics of Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘The Moonstone Mass’.” Women’s Studies 46.8 (2018): 752-66. “Tekeli-li! Poe, Lovecraft, and the Mysteries of Whiteness.” The Lovecraftian Poe. Ed. Sean Moreland. Lehigh University Press, 2017. 51-68. “Blasphemous Knowledge.” Wissen in der Fantastik: VomSuchen, Verstehen und Teilen. Ed. Meike Uhrig, Vera Cuntz-Leng and Luzie Kollinger. Springer, 2017. 53-68. “Burton’s Bowl: Constructing Space in the Films of Tim Burton.” A Critical Companion to Tim Burton. Eds. Antonio Sanna and Adam Barkman. Lexington, 2017. 3-15. “The New Weird.” New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction. Ed. Ken Gelder. London: Palgrave, 2016. 177-99. “American Vampires.” Edinburgh Companion to the American Gothic. Eds. Jason Haslam and Joel Faflak. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 203-221. "Bubba Ho-tep and the Seriously Silly Cult Film." Science Fiction Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text. Eds J. P. Telotte and Gerald Duchovnay. Liverpool University Press, 2015. 233-48. “Sans Fangs: Theda Bara, A Fool There Was, and the Cinematic Vamp.” Dracula’s Daughters. Eds. Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka. Scarecrow Press, 2014. 37-43. “American Monsters.” A Companion to the American Gothic. Ed. Charles L. Crow. Wiley- Blackwell, 2014. 41-55. “Gothic and the New American Republic, 1770-1800.” The Gothic World. Eds. Glennis Byron

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 5 and Dale Townshend. U.K.: Routledge, 2013. 27-37. “Postmodernism with Sam Raimi (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Theory and Love Evil Dead).” Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror. Eds. Aalya Ahmad and Sean Moreland. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 19-39. Translated into Russian as Джеффри Уайнсток. Постмодернизм с Сэмом Рэйми, или Как я научился не волноваться насчет теории и полюбил "Зловещих мертвецов" // Логос. 2014. №5 (101). Стр. (Pp.) 51-78. “Charles Brockden Brown.” The Encyclopedia of the Gothic. Eds. David Punter, Andy Smith and Bill Hughes. Wiley-Blackwell January 2013. 83-90. “Magazines.” Edgar Allan Poe in Context. Editor Kevin Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 169-78. “Edgar Allan Poe and the Undeath of the Author.” Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture. Eds. Dennis Perry and Carl Sederholm. New York: Palgrave, 2012. 13-30. “Invisible Monsters: Vision, Horror, and Contemporary Culture.” The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous. Eds. Asa Mittman and Peter Dendle. London: Ashgate 2011. 275-89. “The American Ghost Story.” A Companion to the American Short Story. Eds. Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. 408-24. “Profaning the Sacred: Gothic Iconography and Subcultural Resistance.” Coverscaping: Discovering Album Aesthetics. Eds. Øyvind Vågnes & Asbjørn Grønstad. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010. 163-78. “Queer Specters of Rose Terry Cooke and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.” Death Becomes Her: Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth-Century America. Eds. Elizabeth Dill and Sheri Weinstein. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 109- 30. “Female-Authored Gothic Tales in the Nineteenth-Century Popular Press.” Popular Nineteenth- Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace. Eds. Earl Yarington and Mary De Jong. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 74-96. “Maybe It Shouldn’t Be a Party: Kids, Keds, and Death in Stephen King’s Stand By Me and Pet Sematary.” Reading the Films of Stephen King. Ed. Anthony Magistrale. New York: Palgrave 2008. “Queer Haunting Spaces: Madeline Yale Wynne’s ‘The Little Room’ and Elia Wilkinson Peattie’s ‘The House That Was Not.’” American Literature 79.3 (Sept. 2007): 501-26. “Goth/Fetish.” Goth: Undead Subculture. Eds. Michael Bibby and Lauren Goodlad. Durham: Duke UP, 2007. 375-97. “The Crowd Within: Poe’s Impossible Aloneness.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review VII.2 (Fall 2006): 50-64. “Ten Minutes for Seven Letters: Spectrality and the Ethics of Memory in ’s Beloved,” Arizona Quarterly 61.3 (Autumn 2005): 129-52. Reprinted in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. Ed. Harold Bloom. Infobase Publishing, 2009. 73-92. “‘Respond Now!’ E-mail, Telepathy, and a Pedagogy of Patience.” Pedagogy: Critical

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 6 Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 4.3 (Fall 2004): 364-84. “Doing Justice to Bartleby,” American Transcendental Quarterly. 17.1 (March 2003): 23-42. “‘In Possession of the Letter’: Kate Chopin’s ‘Her Letters’,” Studies in American Fiction 30:1 (Spring 2002): 45-62. Reprinted in Thomson Gale’s Short Story Criticism vol. 68 (2004). “Mars Attacks! Wells, Welles, and Radio Panic or: The Story of the Century.” Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events. Ed. Ray Browne. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Press, 2001. 210-21. “Circumcising Dracula: The Vampire as Anti-Semitic Trope,” The Journal for The Fantastic in the Arts 12.1 (2001): 90-102. “ZombieTV,” Post-Identity 2.2 (Fall 1999): 5-21. Reprinted in Zombie Theory: A Reader. Editor Sarah Lauro. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. “Virus Culture,” Studies in Popular Culture 20.1 (October 1997): 83-97. “This is Not Foucault’s Head,” Post Identity I.1 (Fall 1997): 178-89. “The Disappointed Bridge” (on Joyce’s Ulysses) The Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts 8.3 (1997): 347-69. Reprinted in Ulysses: Contemporary Critical Essays. Ed. Rainer Emig. New York: Palgrave, 2004. 61-80. “Freaks in Space: ‘Extraterrestrialism’ and ‘Deep-Space Multiculturalism’,” Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Ed. N.Y.: New York University Press, 1996. 327-37. Translated as “Freaks en el Espacio,” Trans. Eufemio Bildarrain. Revista de Occidente No. 201 (February 1998): 69-87. “13 Ways of Looking at Donna Haraway.” CEAMAGazine Volume 7, No. 1 (Fall 1994): 31-44.

REVIEW ESSAYS, REVIEWS & MISC.______

Rev.of American Monsters, Pt. I by Margrét Halgadóttir. Los Angeles Review of Books. 31 August 2019. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-monster-story-ever-stays-static- american-monsters-part-i-edited-by-margret-helgadottir/ “Preface: I Wanted to Be Dressed Just the Same.” Preface to People Like Us: The Cult of the Rocky Horror Picture Show by Lauren Everett. Portland: Croatoan, 2015. 6-7. Review Essay: “From the Marketplace to the Classroom: A Teratological Trio.” Forthcoming Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 27.3 (2016). Review of Leane, Elizabeth. Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 25.1 (2014): 190-93. Review Essay: “St. Lovecraft.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 25.1 (2014): 107-22. Rev. of Egan, Kate. The Evil Dead. Extrapolation 55.1 (2014): 95-99. “Introduction: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.” Published introduction to 2012 keynote presentation by Cohen at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 23.3 (2013): 393-96. Review essay: “Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom: Queer Gothic.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 22.1 (2011): 75-91.

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 7 Rev. of Smajić, Srdjan. Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists: Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 23.1 (2011): 176- 78. “Vampires, Vampires Everywhere.” Phi Kappa Phi Forum honor society newsletter. Fall (2010): 4-5. Review essay: “The Proliferating Undead.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 19.3 (2008): 399-411. Review essay: “A Specter is Haunting the Humanities: Colin Davis’s Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Return of the Dead and Christopher Peterson’s Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 19.2 (2008): 238-45. Rev. of Gothic Literature: A Gale Critical Companion. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 19.1 (2008): 143-45. Rev. of Newitz, Annalee. Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Culture. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 18.3 (2007): 431-34. Rev. of Lloyd-Smith, Allan. American : An Introduction. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 18.1 (2007): 141-44. Rev. of Edwards, Justin D. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 16.1 (2005): 165-69. Rev. of Lathem, Rob. Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption. Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts 14.3 (Fall 2005): 385-88. Rev. of E. J. Clery. The Rise of Supernatural Fiction 1762-1800. Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts 12.2 (Spring 2002): 237-38. Rev. of James Watt. Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre, and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832. Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts 12.2 (Spring 2002): 239-42. Rev. of Valdine Clemens. The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Horror From The Castle of Otronto to Alien. Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. 6.1 (Spring 2001): 160-62. Rev. of Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. American Studies International, XXXV, No. 2 (Fall 1997): 109-110. Rev. of G. R. Thompson, The Art of Authorial Presence: Hawthorne’s Provincial Narrators. American Studies International, XXXIV, No. 2 (Fall 1996): 115-16. Rev. of Geoffery M. Sill, ed., Walt Whitman of Mickle Street: A Centennial Collection. American Studies International, XXXIV, No. 2 (Fall 1996): 116-18.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS______

“Founding Father of Horror: Clive Barker’s ‘The Midnight Meat Train.’” Presentation to be delivered at International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2020. “Experience Claimed: The Trauma of Knowing in Edgar Allan Poe’s Angelic Dialogues.” Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago, IL, January 5th, 2019. “Revivals.” Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago, IL, January 5th, 2019.

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 8 “Its.” Film & History Conference. Madison, WI, October 2018. Keynote: “What is IT? Ambient Dread and Modern Paranoia in It (2017), It Follows (2014), and It Comes at Night (2017). [FILL IN] International Keynote Presentation: “Vampire Suicide” presented at the International Vampire Film & Arts festival in Sighișoara Romania, May 23rd, 2017. International Keynote Presentation: “Needful Things: The Gothic’s Fantastic Materials.” "Fantastic Material(s)" conference hosted by the Institute for English Cultures and Languages at the University of Silesia in Poland. July 6th – 8th, 2016. International Keynote Presentation: “Blasphemous Knowledge.” Sixth annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung e.V. at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. 24.-27. September 2015. “Tekeli-Li! Poe, Lovecraft, and the Suspicion of Sameness.” Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference. New York, NY. Feb. 26 – Mar. 1, 2015. “Tim Burton’s Gothic Bodies.” The American Literature Association 25th Anniversary Conference. Washington, DC. May 2014. Keynote Presentation: “Lovecraft’s Things” at Rice University’s “Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques” conference, October 2013. Invited Participant: “Why the Gothic Matters,” opening plenary session at the 2013 American Literature Association Symposium, “Fear and Form: Aspects of the Gothic in American Culture.” Savannah, GA, February 21-23, 2013. “Mainstream Outsider: Burton Adapts Burton.” Paper presented at the 2013 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. “Seeing Monsters.” Paper presented at the February 2013 American Literature Association Symposium on the Gothic, Savannah, GA “The Poe Function.” Paper presented at the 2012 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida. Invited Speaker: the George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute “What Monsters Mean” panel, October 27th, 2011. “Invisible Monsters: Vision, Horror, and Contemporary Culture.” Paper presented at the 2011 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. “From Disease to Cure: Miscegenation and the Vampire Film.” Paper presented at the 2010 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. “Imagining the Poles, Reimagining Pym: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Rewriting of Poe in ‘The Moonstone Mass’.” “The Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial” in Philadelphia. October 2009. “Hell in a Hand Basket: NYC’s Voltaire, Necrophilia, and Postmodern Goth.” Paper presented at the 2009 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. “Minds of Winter and the Polar Sublime: Spofford’s Rewriting of Poe’s Pym in ‘The Moonstone Mass’.” Paper presented at the 2008 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. “Voices From the Dead: Posthumous Fantasy and Cultural Critique.” Paper presented at the 2007 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2007. “Edgar Allan Poe Meets TurnItIn.com.” Paper presented at the 2006 American Literature

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 9 Association [ALA] Convention, May 2006. “Ghosts of Desire: Apparitional Lesbians and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2005. “Impossible Aloneness.” [On Poe]. Modern Language Association [MLA] convention, Philadelphia, December 2004. “Ghosted by Gender: Ghost Stories by Nineteenth-Century American Women.” SCMLA regional convention, New Orleans, October 2004. “Spirits of : Supernatural Fiction by American Women as Social Protest, 1830-1930.” Presented at the “Memory, Haunting, Discourse / Discourse, Haunting, Memory” conference in June 2004 at the University of Karlstad, Sweden. “Madeline Yale Wynne’s ‘The Little Room’ and Nineteenth-Century Supernatural Fiction by American Women.” Paper presented at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2004. “Haunted Pedagogy” Round-table convener, Midwest MLA annual conference, November 2003. Paper presented: “Supernatural Realism.” “The Mystery of Movement: Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd’ and Austin’s ‘The Walking Woman.” The American Literature Association [ALA] conference, May 2003. “Out of Place and Time: Spectral Females in Gilman’s ‘The Giant Wisteria’ and Hull’s ‘Clay Shuttered Doors’.” The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts conference in Ft. Lauderdale in March of 2003. “The Pedagogical Imperative of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’.” American Literature Association [ALA] convention, Long Beach, CA, May 2002. “Ghosting Color: Three Views of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March, 2002. “Short-Tempered and Short-Sighted: Online Discourse and the Death of Patience.” Modern Language Association [MLA] convention, New Orleans, LA, December 2001. “Afterwards: Narrative Ghosts and the Belatedness of Understanding,” The Popular Culture Association National conference in Philadelphia, April 11-14, 2001. “The Feminine Fantastic and the Work of the Spectral,” presented at the North East Modern Language Association conference in Hartford, March 30-April 1, 2001 and at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts conference in Fort Lauderdale, March 21-25, 2001. “Uncanny America” panel convener and chair, NEMLA, Buffalo, NY, April 7-8, 2000. “Whartonian Thermometrics or: How to Feel a Ghost,” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 2000. “Thresholds: ’s ‘Pomegranate Seed’,” Modern Language Association [MLA] convention, Chicago,1999. “The Unreason of Movement: Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd’ and the Obsessional Reader,” Edgar Allan Poe Society, Richmond, VA, October 1999. “Impossible Images: Doing Justice to the Disremembered,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Irvine, CA., May 1998. “The Pedagogy of the Possessed (Anormal Notes from a Respectable Lunatic),” International

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 10 Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL., March 1998. “Middle Passages (Beloved),” Emory University conference sponsored by the department of French and Italian; Atlanta, GA., February 1998. “The Author By Any Other Name: Kierkegaard and the Problem of the Pseudonym,” American Name Society conference, Toronto, December 1997. “Circumcising Dracula: The Vampire as Anti-Semitic Trope,” “Dracula 97: A Centennial Celebration,” Los Angeles, August 1997. Also presented at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 1997. “From Oral to Written: The Changing Conception of the Self Within Native American ‘Autobiography’,” American Literature Association, Baltimore, MD, May 1997. Also presented at Hofstra University’s “First Person Singular” conference, Hofstra University, NY, March 1994. “Foucault’s Head,” Popular Culture Association of the South, Savannah, GA., October 1996. “Virus Culture,” DePaul University’s “From Microchip to Mass Media: Culture and the Technological Age” conference, Chicago, May 1996. “From ‘Extraterrestrialism’ to ‘Deep-Space Multiculturalism’,” Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, March 1996. Also presented at Popular Culture Association of the South, Richmond, VA., October 1995. “Crossing the Body: Burial, Blasphemy, Suicide,” West Georgia College’s “International Conference on the Sacred and the Profane,” Atlanta, October 1995. “The Body in Pieces: Metonymy and the Subversion of the Subject in Beckett’s Not I,” Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society’s “Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism: Nation, Identity, Self” conference, Washington, DC, October 1995. “Exploding the Living Room: Television and the Contemporary American Horror Movie,” West Georgia College’s “International Conference on the Hideous and the Sublime,” Atlanta, GA., November 1994. “13 Ways of Looking at Donna Haraway,” College English Association Middle Atlantic Group, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD, March 1994.

MEDIA______

• Aug. 10, 2018 Interview with June Thomas for Studio 360 on The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Anticipated air date: April 2019. • Oct. 31, 2015 Participant Huffington Post “HuffPost Live” panel discussion on the 40th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. • Nov. 22, 2011 On-air interview with Callie Crossley, Boston WGBH Radio (NPR) on Rocky Horror. • Aug. 21, 2009 Interview with Frank Lovece of New York Newsday on animation television. • Oct. 26, 2008 Interview with Nora Flaherety of Public Radio WFUV in New York concerning my book Scare Tactics.

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 11 • Oct. 15, 2007 On-air interview with Ron Pritchard of News Talk 580 WTCM in Traverse City, Michigan on Rocky Horror. • Oct. 18, 2006 Interview with Patricia Reuter on horror film for nationally-syndicated program, “Viewpoints.” • Oct. 25, 2004 Invited panelist, National Public Radio syndicated program, “Odyssey.” (Panel topic: ghosts and American culture)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE______

A. Courses Taught at Central Michigan University

• Advanced (Sophomore) Composition • African-American Literature • American Ghost Story • American Gothic • American Literature: Colonial to Early Federalist Period • American Literature survey, pt. I: Colonial period to the Civil War • American Novel • American Realism (undergraduate and graduate levels) • American Romanticism (undergraduate and graduate levels) • Critical Problems—“Ghosts, in Theory” (graduate) • Critical Theory: Affects and Objects (graduate) • Dark Enchantment: Genre, Fantasy & the New Weird • Fantasy and Science Fiction (face-to-face and online) • Female Gothic • Freshman Composition (English 101): both face-to-face and online • Introduction to Literary Analysis • Introduction to Popular Culture • Introduction to Short Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Novel • Literary Dimensions of Film (face-to-face and online) • Magical Realism (graduate) • Monsters and Their Meanings • “Object Lessons: From Gothic Things to the End of the World” • Post-Structuralist Literary Theory (Graduate) • Sex & Death: Gender Studies, Queer Theory, and the Gothic • Studies in Authors: Edgar Allan Poe • Studies in Authors: H. P. Lovecraft • Studies in Texts: Moby-Dick • Vampires in Film and Literature • Western Intellectual Tradition: from Plato to Freud (two-semester honors survey)

B. Additional Courses Taught Elsewhere

• American Poetry 1925-1975 (Trinity College, Hartford) • Contexts and Methods for the Study of Literature (Graduate Course, Trinity College, Hartford)

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 12 • (Dis)Embodiment & Literature (Wesleyan) • Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism (Mt. Vernon College, Washington, DC) • Introduction to Poetry and Short Fiction (Connecticut College) • Short Story (University of Connecticut)

ACADEMIC SERVICE______

A. Editorial

• Associate Editor, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (2008-present) • Associate Book Review Editor for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (2006-present) • Editorial Boards: Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature, Lexington Press Horror Studies

• Referee o Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies o College Literature o ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture o Feminist Studies o Gothic Studies o Horror Studies o J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists o JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory o Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts o Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture o Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural o Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature

• Press Reader o Bloomsbury o Broadview o Continuum o Edinburgh University Press o Palgrave o Routledge o SUNY Press o University of Alabama Press, o University of Wales Press

B. Professional Organization

Film and Television division head, Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2009-2012

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C. External Reviews and Advising

• External reader, PhD committee for Keli Lynne Mastern, Western Michigan University. • PhD “Opponent.” Line Henriksen, Lingöping University, Sweden. May 13th, 2016. • Evaluation of Tenure and Promotion Application, University of Massachusetts, Lowell (2015) • Evaluation of Tenure and Promotion Application, University of Massachusetts, Lowell (2011) • Evaluation of Tenure Application for Wright State University, Lake Campus (Summer 2008). • Evaluation of Tenure Application for Brigham Young University (Summer 2008)

D. Departmental

• English department Honors & Scholarships committee, fall 2013 – 2017. • English department Graduate Program Coordinator—fall 2008-July 2013. This position included sitting on the department Curriculum, Assessment, PR, and Policy committees • English department Personnel committee member, 2006 – 2010, 2015, 2017-present • English department PR committee member, 2015-2019; chair 2015-18 • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (department): 2002 – 2008; Chair 2007-2008. • English department Conferences Committee, member 2003 – 2008; Chair 2006-2008. Responsible for coordinating regional speakers series. • English department Library Committee Member, CMU (2003-2007) • New Faculty Mentor for Stephenie Young (2005 – 2008), Gretchen Papazian (2007-2008), and Nate Smith (2009-present)

E. College and University Level

• University Public Broadcasting Oversight Committee, 2017-present • University Excellence in Teaching Award Committee, 2015-2018 • University Academic Grievance Committee member, 2013-2015, 2017-2018 • College Curriculum Committee member, spring 2008 – 2011 • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member (University), CMU (2003-4) • General Education Council (University program requirements) (2004-2006)

F. Other

• NEH advisor to “Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art” exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art • Advisory Review Panel member for online journal, Cine-Excess. • Conference Coordinator, “Cultural Violence,” The George Washington University (1997)

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 14 • Conference Coordinator, “Intersections,” The George Washington University (1996) • Founder and Co-Chairperson: Human Sciences Graduate Student Association (1996) • Human Sciences Conference Series Founder and Coordinator of “dis/Connections” interdisciplinary conference, The George Washington University (1995)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS______

• American Literature Association • International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts • International Gothic Association • Modern Language Association • Poe Studies Association • Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

REFERENCES______

Dr. Nina Martin Associate Professor of Film Studies Connecticut College [email protected] 860-439-2676

Dr. Ernest Mathijs Head: Centre for Cinema and Media Studies Professor of Film Studies University of British Columbia, Vancouver [email protected] 604-822-3880

Dr. Jay P. Telotte Professor of Film and Media George Tech [email protected] 404-894-1287

Additional References

Dr. Alfred Bendixen President: American Literature Association Professor of English Princeton University

JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK 15 [email protected]

Dr. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Dean of the Humanities Arizona State University [email protected]

Dr. Kate Egan Senior Lecturer in Film Studies Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies Aberystwyth University, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AJ, UK [email protected]

Dr. Monika Elbert University Distinguished Scholar Department of English Montclair State University [email protected]

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