East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Works 5-2015 Southerner as Other: Exploring Regional Identity through the Southern Vampire Lauren N. Fowler East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Fowler, Lauren N., "Southerner as Other: Exploring Regional Identity through the Southern Vampire" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2495. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2495 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Southerner as Other: Exploring Regional Identity through the Southern Vampire ___________________ A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Literature and Language East Tennessee State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in English ___________________ by Lauren Fowler May 2015 ___________________ Dr. Michael Cody, Chair Dr. Ana Grinberg Dr. Stanton McManus Keywords: Southern, vampires, sexuality, religion, race ABSTRACT Southerner as Other: Exploring Regional Identity through the Southern Vampire by Lauren Fowler Since its conception in folklore and superstition, the vampire has had an innate ability to reflect the environment of the culture that creates it. Each manifestation of this being is entirely unique to the culture in which it is born. The vampire of the American South is no exception to this idea.