Courses:

• “Advanced 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”
• “American Romanticism”
• “Female Gothic”
• “Graduate Independent Study in Post-Structuralist Literary Theory”
• “Graduate Seminar in American Realism”
• “Graduate Seminar in American Romanticism”
• “Graduate Seminar in American Magical Realism”
• “Graduate Seminar in ‘Critical Problems’—“Ghosts, in Theory”
• “Introduction to Literary Analysis”
• “Introduction to Popular Culture”
• “Introduction to Short Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Novel”
• “Vampires in Film and Literature”

Areas of Expertise:

• American Literature: colonial, nineteenth-century Romanticism and Realism, twentieth-century Modernism and Post-Modernism, nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, Women’s literature, Native American literature, African American literature
• Literary and Critical Theory
• Cultural Studies and Approaches to Popular Culture
• Literature of the Fantastic and Speculative fiction: ghost stories, science fiction, “Magical Realism,” the Gothic, horror and fantasy fiction

Degrees and Universities:

• The George Washington University - Ph.D., Program in the Human Sciences (1999)
• The George Washington University - M.Phil., Program in the Human Sciences (1996)
• The George Washington University - M.A. in American Literature (1995)
• The University of Pennsylvania - Degree: B.A. in English (1992)

Honors and Recognitions:

• Winner: 2012-2013 CMU President’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity
• CMU Honors Program “Professor of the Year” recipient, 2008-2009
• College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award winner, 2007-2008
• 2009 - CMU Alternative Assignment receipient
• 2008 - CMU senior faculty nominee for NEH Summer Stipend award
• 2007-2008 - Winner College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences 2007-2008 Excellence in Teaching Award
• 2006 - Winner: Provost’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Endeavor.
• 2006 - CMU’s junior scholar nominee for the NEH Summer Stipend competition.
• 2005 - CMU’s junior scholar nominee for the NEH Summer Stipend competition.
• 2004 - Professional Development Grant for Scholarly and Creative Activity, CMU

Professional Organizations:

• American Literature Association
• American Studies Association
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society
• Edith Wharton Society
• International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
• International Gothic Association
• Midwest Modern Language Association
• Modern Language Association
• Poe Studies Association

Selected Publications

Books--Scholarly

Vampires: Undead Cinema.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

Charles Brockden Brown.  Cardiff: University of Wales, 2011.

Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings. New York: Palgrave, 2010.

Approaches to Teaching Poe’s Prose and Poetry.  Co-edited with Anthony Magistrale.  New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009.

Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women.  New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

Reading Rocky: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture.  New York: Palgrave 2008.

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. 

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. 

Books-Fiction

The Other Gods and More Unearthly Tales by H. P. Lovecraft. Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.
Barnes & Noble, 2010.

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Weird Tales by H. P. Lovecraft. Edited by Jeffrey Andrew
Weinstock. Barnes & Noble 2009.

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales by H. P. Lovecraft. Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.
Barnes & Noble May 2009.

Selected Journal Articles

"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.

"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 Toni Morrison'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 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).

"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.

"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.

"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.

Selected Book Chapters

“Charles Brockden Brown.”  The Encyclopedia of the Gothic.  Eds. David Punter, Andy Smith
and Bill Hughes. Wiley-Blackwell January 2013.

“Poe and the Magazine Prison House.”  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. 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 Nagle. Blackwell, 2010.

"Profaning the Sacred: Gothic Iconography and Subcultural Resistance." Coverscaping:
Discovering Album Aesthetics. Eds. Øyvind Vågnes & Asbjørn Grønstad. 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 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 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. Palgrave 2008.

"Goth/Fetish." Goth: Undead Subculture. Eds. Michael Bibby and Lauren Goodlad. Duke UP, 2007.
375-97.

"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.

"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.