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John Browning

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., American studies, University at Buffalo
  • M.A., English, University of Central Oklahoma
  • B.A., literature, Florida State University

Credentials

Selected teaching history

  • Professor, 2019-present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
  • Visiting lecturer, Fall 2014-Fall 2019, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
  • Adjunct instructor, Fall 2016-Fall 2019, National University, San Diego, CA
  • Adjunct instructor, Spring 2012-Spring 2014, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • Instructor, Summer 2012-Spring 2013, Buffalo Prep Program, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • Teaching assistant, Fall 2008-Spring 2011, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Selected television and professional media consulting

  • “Human Vampires,” episode of Ripley’s Believe It or Notcast (The Official Podcast of Ripley’s Believe It or Not), 2019
  • Guest expert, “Vampires” episodes, AMC Visionaries: Eli Roth’s History of Horror, 2018
  • Guest scholar/consultant, “This Mortal Coil,” The After Hours Club: Death After Dark, 2017
  • Guest scholar, “Secret Passions,” National Geographic’s Taboo USA, 2013
  • Guest scholar, “More Medical Mysteries,” History Channel’s William Shatner’s Weird or What?, 2012

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Writing and Communication Program Award for Excellence in Pedagogy, 2019
  • Excellence in Teaching Certificate, Thank a Teacher Program, Center for Teaching and Learning, Georgia Tech, Fall and Summer 2018
  • Award for Best Work of Nonfiction, International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, Lord Ruthven Assembly, 2011
  • International media coverage from more than 100 news outlets in over 30 countries, including the BBC and BBC Radio, The Washington Post, El Huffington Post (Spain), TIME, VICE (Broadly), Hack Circus, Discover Magazine’s “It's Only Science” podcast, New York Daily News, The Guardian (U.S. Edition), Fusion, ABC News (Australia), The Daily Telegraph (Australia), Smithsonian.com, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), Louisiana Cultural Vistas (Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities), VT (Viral Thread), Live Science, and many others.

Publications and presentations

Selected publications

  • Editor, Routledge Interdisciplinary Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Horror, 2019.
  • Dracula: A Norton Critical Edition (2nd ed.), eds. David J. Skal and John Edgar Browning, W.W. Norton, 2019.
  •  “Vampires in Cinema and Media.” Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies, edited by Krin Gabbard. Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • “Horror and the Gothic’s Utility as a Cultural Resource and Critical Tool.” Palgrave Communications 4, no. 38 (2018).
  • “Mummies, Vampires, and Doppelgängers: Hammer’s B-Movies and Classic Gothic Fiction.” In B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives (Traditions in World Cinema). Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
  • “What I Learned Studying Real Vampires.” Discover Magazine (Blogs: The Crux), May 17, 2018.
  • “Life Among the Vampires.” The Atlantic, Oct. 31, 2015.
  • “What They Do in the Shadows: My Encounters with the Real Vampires of New Orleans.” The Conversation UK, March 25, 2015.
    Reprinted in: Discover Magazine (Blogs: The Crux), Business Insider, The Raw Story, The Huffington Post, Deep South Magazine, and others.
  • With David R. Castillo, David Schmid, and David Reilly. Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics (Palgrave Pivot), Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  • “I Am Legend, Richard Matheson.” In The Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth. Edited by June Pulliam and Tony Fonseca. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2014.
  • The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
    Reviewed in The Observer, The Washington Post, Publishers’ Weekly, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, Reader’s Digest, Kirkus Reviews, Fangoria Magazine, and more.
  • “Where Reality and Fantasy Meet and Bifurcate: Holocaust Themes in Pan’s Labyrinth, the X-Men, and V.” With Caroline Picart and Carla Thomas in Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology. Edited by Caroline Picart and John Edgar Browning. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • With Caroline Picart. Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010. McFarland, 2010.

Selected presentations

  • Co-organizer of Humanistic Perspective at Technological Universities, A Symposium, Georgia Tech, April 2019.
  • “Blood of My Blood: Real Vampires Among Us. “ Invited talk; “Behind the Monsters: Writing Non-Fiction.” Invited panelist; “Dracula in Iceland: Freeing the Frozen World.” Invited panelist with Dacre Stoker at Monsterama! Celebrating the Fantastic in Film, Literature, and Art, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2016.
  • “The Price of Fame: Vincent the Art Collector and Gourmet.” Moderator for Victoria Price at Monsterama! Celebrating the Fantastic in Film, Literature, and Art, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2015.
  • “Disability and Slasher Cinema’s Unsung Children.” Panelist at Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2015.
  • “Telling Slasher’s Origins Through Web-style Magazine Writing and Design.” Presented at Celebrating Teaching Day 2016, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, March 2015.
  • “The Mysteries Surrounding the Writing of Dracula and How the Character Has Changed in 115 Years.” Guest panelist with Dacre Stoker and James V. Hart at New York Comic-Con, New York, NY, Oct. 2012.
  • “This Text Which Is Not One: A Unity of Fragments in the Works of Shelley Jackson.” Commentator at workshop for the Feminist Research Alliance, Humanities Institute, UB, Fall 2011.
  • “Imag(in)ing Vampire Blood-Transfer: Media Politics and Victim (De-) Segregation in the Dracula Cinemyth.” Presented at Oklahoma Research Day Conference, Edmond, OK, Nov. 2005.