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:

• 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. Wallflower Press's "Short Cuts" series. Forthcoming 2011.

Charles Brockden Brown's Four Gothics: A Polemical Introduction to America's First Gothic Author.
Forthcoming: University of Wales Press.

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

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

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

Reading Rocky: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture. Edited collection. Palgrave 2008.

Taking South Park Seriously. Edited collection. SUNY Press, 2008.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Wallflower Press "Cultographies" series. London: 2007.

Spectral America: Phantoms and the American Imagination. Edited collection. 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 Night Ocean and Other Revisions by H. P. Lovecraft. Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.
Forthcoming Barnes & Noble, summer 2011.

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

"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.