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 American Literature (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 Monsters • 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 Vampire 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 Monster 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 Tim Burton: 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 Charles BrocKden Brown. 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 Charlotte PerKins Gilman’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. “Stephen King’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 Vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl WalKs Home Alone at Night.” Forthcoming in Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Eds. Stefan L. Brandt,