Weinstock, Jeffrey
Professor of English
FACULTY
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Publications & Presentations
Books--Scholarly
- Monstrous Things: Selected Essays on Ghosts, Vampires, & Things That Go Bump in the Night. McFarland, 2022.
- Critical Approaches to Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Palgrave New Canon series, 2022.
- Pop Culture for Beginners. Broadview Press, 2021.
- Giving the Devil His Due: Satan & Cinema. co-edited with Regin Hansen of Boston University. Fordham University Press, 2021.
- And Now for Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python. Co-edited with Kate Egan of Aberystwyth University. Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
- 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.
- The Age of Lovecraft. Co-edited with Carl Sederholm. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
- 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. Co-edited with Catherine Spooner. New York: Palgrave 2016.
- The Works of Tim Burton: Margins to Mainstream. New York: Palgrave, 2013
- The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary Monsters. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013.
- 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.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- “Shadow Play: From Nosferatu to Shadow of the Vampire.” Nosferatu in the
Twenty-First Century: A Critical Study, edited by Simon Bacon. Liverpool University
Press, 2023. - “The Anthropocene.” Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene. Eds. Justin
Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Högland. University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 7-
25. - “Cartas de Amor Desde El Futuro: El Desguace Sublime [Love Letters From the Future: The
Salvage Sublime].” Retrofantástico: Perspectivas de un Pasado Imaginado, edited by
Mario-Paul Martínez Fabre, Fran Mateu, and Miguel Herrero Herrero. Cinestesia, 2022.
15-30. - “The American Gothic: An Interview with Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.” Reden: Revista
Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, “Conversations of the Gothic in Popular
Culture” special issue, vol. 3, no. 2, 2022. 3-15.
https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/reden/article/view/1811 - “Cities of the Dead: Urban Vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at
Night.” Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Eds.
Stefan L. Brandt, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan Rabitsch. University of Mississippi Press,
2022, pp. 101-117. - “Walking Alone Together: Adapting Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.” Shirley Jackson: A Companion, edited by Kristopher Woofter. Peter Lang, 2021. 251-64.
- “Dead is Not Better: The Many Resurrections of Stephen King’s Revival.” Horror Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 2021, pp. 189-203.
- “We Are Dracula: Penny Dreadful and the Dracula Megatext.” In The Transmedia Vampire, edited by Simon Bacon. McFarland, 2021, pp. 20-34.
- “Haunted Homesteads: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Dual Gothic.” American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic. Eds. Monika Elbert and Rita Bode. Palgrave, 2021, pp. 137-156.
- “Autobiography as Rhetoric: Reading Franklin With Douglass.” Critical Insights: Frederick Douglass, edited by Jericho Williams. Salem Press. 3-16
- "What is IT? Ambient Dread and Modern Paranoia in It (2017), It Follows (2014), and It Comes at Night (2017)." Horror Studies, 11.2 (October 2020): 205-220.
- “Introduction: A Genealogy of Monster Theory.” The Monster Theory Reader. Ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 1-26.
- “’It’s a Strange World’: David Lynch.” Routledge Companion to Cult Film. Ed. Ernest Mathjis 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 Edgar Allan Poe. 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 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 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).
- “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.
Credentials, Certifications & Awards
- 2022 Central Michigan University 2022 Lorrie Ryan Memorial Excellence in Teaching award Winner
- 2021 Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award finalist for Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema.
- 2021 World Fantasy Award Finalist for The Monster Theory Reader in the “Special Award: Professional” category.
- 2019 Poe Studies Association James W. Gargano Award for an outstanding scholarly article on Poe for “Before the After: Anticipatory Anxiety and Experience Claimed in Poe’s Angelic Dialogues.”
- 2016 Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Ray & Pat Browne Award Winner for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture for The Age of Lovecraft.
- 2014 Rue Morgue magazine "Best 2014 Non-Fiction Book" for The 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" for Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters:
- 2013 International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Lord Ruthven Assembly award winner for Best Nonfiction Title: The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema
- 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
- Provost’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Endeavor, 2006-2007
Education
- 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)
Research Interests
- American Literature
- Literary and Critical Theory
- Cultural Studies and Approaches to Popular Culture
- The Gothic
Membership in Professional Organizations
- American Literature Association
- American Studies Association
- International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
- International Gothic Association
- Modern Language Association
- Poe Studies Association
- Popular Culture Association
Courses Taught
- 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
- Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Female Gothic
- Freshman Composition
- 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
- Graduate Seminar on Critical Theory: Affects and Objects
- Introduction to Literary Analysis
- Introduction to Popular Culture
- Introduction to Short Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Novel
- Literary Dimensions of Film
- Monsters and Their Meanings
- 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