John Edgar Browning
Born (1980-10-14) October 14, 1980 (age 43)[1]
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
OccupationWriter, Scholar, Professor
LanguageEnglish
EducationA.A., B.A., M.A, Ph.D.
Alma materFlorida State University;
University of Central Oklahoma;
Louisiana State University;
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
GenreHorror non-fiction
Years active2005–present
Notable awardsLord Ruthven Award (International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts)
Website
johnedgarbrowning.academia.edu

John Edgar Browning (born October 14, 1980) is an American author, editor, and scholar known for his nonfiction works about the horror genre and vampires in film, literature, and culture.[2] Previously a visiting lecturer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, he is now a professor of liberal arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia.

Browning is considered an "expert on vampires specializing in the Dracula figure in film, literature, television, and popular culture."[3] His works expound upon Dracula, horror, vampires, the supernatural, the un-dead, Bram Stoker, and gothic and cultural theory. Browning has appeared as an expert vampire and horror scholar on, or served as a consultant for, multiple documentary television series, including: National Geographic Channel's Taboo USA,[4] Discovery Channel's William Shatner's Weird or What?,[5] the seven-part AMC documentary series Eli Roth's History of Horror, and History Channel's The UnXplained.

For his book Dracula in Visual Media, Browning documented over 700 "domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animations, and video games . . . [as well as] nearly 1000 domestic and international comic book titles and stage adaptations."[6] For the book, Browning won the Lord Ruthven Award, an award for deserving work in vampire fiction or scholarship.[7] The book was also nominated for a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award (a.k.a. a "Rondo Award") for Book of the Year in 2011,[8] as was his book The Vampire; or, Detective Brand's Greatest Case in 2023 for Best Classic Horror Fiction, co-edited with Gary D. Rhodes.[9]

Career

Education and teaching

Browning earned his B.A. from Florida State University and then his M.A. at the University of Central Oklahoma. He completed all his English doctoral coursework at Louisiana State University before transferring to American Studies at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY-Buffalo), where he studied under Michael H. Frisch, Bruce Jackson, Sarah Elder, and Donald A. Grinde, Jr.[10]

At SUNY-Buffalo, Browning received an Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship in the Department of Transnational Studies. While there, Browning continued his doctoral studies and served as an adjunct instructor in English.[11] One of the courses Browning taught at SUNY-Buffalo was "A Cultural History of the Walking Dead," a fifteen-week course.[12] The course drew on Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend as well as the films of George Romero.[13] While teaching at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Browning lectured on vampires, zombies, and monsters,[14] as well as on Slasher cinema in a course entitled, "The Slasher Film: Gender, Disability, and Transgression."[15]

Doctoral dissertation

For part of his doctoral dissertation, Browning conducted, over a period of two years, an ethnographic study of people who self-identify as vampire in New Orleans.[16] Browning's fieldnotes recount the experience: "On the eve of the second Tuesday of every month, I have become, to the watchful bystander, a familiar presence in the French Quarter. Flying through the dusky sky over Bourbon Street, as I strolled along casually, were fast, sweeping brown bats: An homage, maybe, to the business of interviewing vampires? To my side hung the trusty brown leather satchel that housed my pen and paper, and digital voice recorder. I left politely at home, of course, the crucifix I didn't actually own, and the short wooden stake carved for me by an older brother when I was younger. For indeed the vampires with whom I was meeting tonight were not prisoners of lore and legend: theirs was a new lore, and they were becoming very quickly their own legend."[17] Browning extended his ethnographic fieldwork to include real vampires living in Buffalo, NY.

For an op-ed in Deep South Magazine entitled Conversations with Real Vampires, Browning's notes further recount the experience: "We are meeting an hour later than usual for the third month in a row, because the sun, during the summer months, sets closer to 9 instead of 8. Tonight, I will ask for the first time if I can watch them feed."[18] Browning has more recently elaborated on his experiences in Palgrave Communications,[19] The Conversation UK,[20] twice in Discover (magazine)[21] and The Atlantic.[22]

Professional affiliations

Browning sits on a number of editorial and advisory boards, including the Board of Advisors[23] for The Blood Project (TBP) based out of Harvard Medical School, its members representing "leaders in their fields, including hematology, medical education, history of medicine, comparative and evolutionary medicine, art and medicine, literature in medicine, health literacy, and medical training in under-represented minorities".[24] He also sits on the Editorial Advisory Panel[25] for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (a Springer Nature journal), previously called Palgrave Communications; the Advisory Board[26] for Ethics International Press, founded in 1993 in Cambridge, UK to publish "academic books on Ethics and all related and associated topics" for "leading universities worldwide, the British Government, the European Commission, and to wholesalers, bookshops, libraries, agents, and individuals around the world";[27] the Editorial Board[28] for the Journal of Positive Sexuality, a multidisciplinary publication "designed to be accessible and beneficial to a large and diverse readership, including academics, policymakers, clinicians, educators, and students"; the Advisory Board[29] for the Series on Law, Culture and the Humanities, edited by Caroline Joan S. Picart and published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; as well as the Executive Advisory Committee[30] for The Journal of Gods and Monsters, published through the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University.

Bibliography

Books (authored)

Books (edited)

Essays (published in journals, anthologies, and professional magazines and blogs)

Filmography

References

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  2. ^ Diamond, Laura, "Sinking his teeth into Dracula." Georgia Tech News Center. Retrieve at: https://www.news.gatech.edu/news/2014/10/21/sinking-his-teeth-dracula Archived 2021-08-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "John Edgar Browning: Vampire Expert". Art Voice. Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  4. ^ "National Geographic - Taboo USA". Archived from the original on 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2014-04-02.
  5. ^ "Taboo USA". MOADb. Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  6. ^ Browning, John Edgar, and Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart. Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010 (McFarland, 2011), 4.
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  10. ^ Picart, Caroline Joan S. (2012). Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 305. ISBN 9781137101495.
  11. ^ "John Edgar Browning". Chronicle Vitae. Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  12. ^ Boyd, Luke W. (2013-09-03). "CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE WALKING DEAD". Zombie Research Society. Archived from the original on 2014-03-29. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
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  14. ^ Diamond, Laura, "Sinking His Teeth into Dracula: Georgia Tech's Resident Horror Film Scholar," Georgia Tech News Center. Retrieve at: http://www.news.gatech.edu/features/sinking-his-teeth-dracula Archived 2016-09-22 at the Wayback Machine.
  15. ^ "LMC Course Descriptions," Georgia Tech School of Literature, Media and Communication. Retrieve at: http://www.lmc.gatech.edu/coursedescriptions?coursetype=&term=1&year=10&coursearea=&submit=search Archived 2016-09-22 at the Wayback Machine.
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  17. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2010-10-29). "Conversations with Real Vampires". Deep South Magazine. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  18. ^ Merticus. "Conversations With Real Vampires - John Edgar Browning - Deep South Mag". Atlanta Vampire Alliance. Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  19. ^ Browning, John Edgar (24 March 2015). "The real vampires of New Orleans and Buffalo: a research note towards comparative ethnography". Palgrave Communications. 1 (1). doi:10.1057/palcomms.2015.6. S2CID 144976532.
  20. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2015). "What they do in the shadows: my encounters with the real vampires of New Orleans." The Conversation UK, March 25, 2015. Retrieve at: https://theconversation.com/what-they-do-in-the-shadows-my-encounters-with-the-real-vampires-of-new-orleans-39208 Archived 2015-03-28 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2015). "Real-Life Vampires Exist, and Researchers Are Studying Them." Discover, March 26, 2015. Retrieve at: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/03/26/real-life-vampires-exist/#.V7TpNY66z8U Archived 2016-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2015). "Life Among the Vampires." The Atlantic, October 31, 2015. Retrieve at: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/life-among-the-vampires/413446/ Archived 2017-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ "TBP Leadership." The Blood Project. Retrieve at: https://www.thebloodproject.com/leadership/
  24. ^ "Bringing Blood to Life: New Progressive Learning Website from Harvard Medical School for Med Students & Physicians." University College Dublin (UCD) School of Medicine, October 7, 2021. Retrieve at: https://www.ucd.ie/medicine/news/2021/newsstories/bringingbloodtolife/
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  26. ^ "Advisory Board." Ethics International Press. Retrieve at: https://ethicspress.com/pages/advisory-board
  27. ^ "About Us." Ethics International Press. Retrieve at: https://ethicspress.com/pages/about-us
  28. ^ "Editorial Board." Journal of Positive Sexuality. Retrieve at: https://journalofpositivesexuality.org/
  29. ^ "Advisory Board." Law, Culture and Humanities. Retrieve at: https://www.fdupress.org/law-culture-literature-series/
  30. ^ "Editorial Team." The Journal of Gods and Monsters. Retrieve at: https://godsandmonsters-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/godsandmonsters/about/editorialTeam
  31. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2010). Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786433650.
  32. ^ Castillo, David R., David Schmid, David A. Reilly, and John Edgar Browning (2015). Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics (Palgrave Pivot). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1137575241.
  33. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2012). Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Critical Feast, An Annotated Reference of Early Reviews & Reactions, 1897-1913. Apocryphile Press. ISBN 978-1937002213.
  34. ^ Stoker, Bram (2021). Dracula (Norton Critical Editions), 2nd ed., ed. John Edgar Browning and David J. Skal. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393679205.
  35. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2009). Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race, and Culture. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810866966.
  36. ^ Kerman, Judith B., and John Edgar Browning, eds. (2015). The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film: Critical Perspectives (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy). McFarland. ISBN 978-0786458745.
  37. ^ Stoker, Bram (2012). The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1137277220.
  38. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2012). Graphic Horror: Movie Monster Memories. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-0764340826.
  39. ^ Chambers, Robert W. (2018). The King in Yellow, ed. John Edgar Browning. Lanternfish Press.ISBN 978-1941360132.
  40. ^ Chambers, Robert W. (2019). The King in Yellow (Clockworks Edition), 2nd ed., ed. John Edgar Browning. Lanternfish Press.ISBN 978-1-941360422.
  41. ^ Elliott-Smith, Darren, and John Edgar Browning, eds. (2020).New Queer Horror Film and Television (Horror Studies). University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-1786836267.
  42. ^ Stoker, Bram (2017). Old Hoggen and Other Adventures, ed. John Edgar Browning and Brian J. Showers. Swan River Press. ISBN 978-1783800186.
  43. ^ Stibbs, John H. (2013). A Quarter Century of Student Life at Tulane: A Dean's Narrative History, 1949-1975. Margaret Media, Inc. ISBN 978-0985568627.
  44. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2012). Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230114500.
  45. ^ Summers, Montague (2011). The Vampire, His Kith and Kin: A Critical Edition. Apocryphile Press. ISBN 978-1937002176.
  46. ^ Summers, Montague (2014). The Vampire in Europe: A Critical Edition, ed. John Edgar Browning. Apocryphile Press. ISBN 978-1940671451.
  47. ^ Rhodes, Gary D., and John Edgar Browning, eds. (2022). The Vampire; or, Detective Brand's Greatest Case, illus. Jeremy Ray. Strangers from Nowhere Press. ISBN 978-1736386644.
  48. ^ Browning, John Edgar. "Oil and the (Geo)Politics of Blood: Towards an Eco-Gothic Critique of Nightwing." In Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism. Ed. Katarina Gregersdotter, Johan Höglund, and Nicklas Hållén. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137496386.
  49. ^ Hock Soon Ng, Andrew (2008). Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786433353.
  50. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2015). "Life Among the Vampires." The Atlantic, October 31, 2015. Retrieve at: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/life-among-the-vampires/413446/ Archived 2017-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
  51. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2018). "Mummies, Vampires, and Doppelgangers: Hammer's B-Movies and Classic Gothic Fiction." In B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives. Ed. Justin D. Edwards and Johan Höglund. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1474423441.
  52. ^ Benshoff, Harry M. (2014). A Companion to the Horror Film. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0470672600.
  53. ^ Browning, John Edgar. "What They Do in the Shadows: My Encounters with the Real Vampires of New Orleans." The Conversation, 25 March 2015 4.57am EDT, Politics + Society, https://theconversation.com/what-they-do-in-the-shadows-my-encounters-with-the-real-vampires-of-new-orleans-39208 Archived 2015-03-28 at the Wayback Machine.
  54. ^ Williams, DJ, and John Edgar Browning. "Looking Inside the Coffin: An Overview of Contemporary Human Vampirism and Its Relevance for Forensics Professionals." In The Criminal Humanities: An Introduction (Criminal Humanities & Forensic Semiotics). Ed. Michael Arntfield and Marcel Danesi. Peter Lang. ISBN 9781433131943.
  55. ^ Browning, John Edgar. Dead Reckonings: Review of Horror Literature 5 (Spring 2009)-9 (Spring 2011), 11 (Spring 2012)-15 (Spring 2014). Ed. S.T. Joshi, Jack Madison Haringa, June M. Pulliam, and Tony Fonseca. http://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/dead-reckonings Archived 2014-03-26 at the Wayback Machine
  56. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2017). "Dracula's Oracular History." In Dracula: An International Perspective (Palgrave Gothic). Ed. Marius-Mircea Crisan. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3319633664.
  57. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2015). "Vampire and Vampirism." In Encyclopedia of American Studies. Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieve at: http://eas-ref.press.jhu.edu/view?aid=869 Archived 2017-05-03 at the Wayback Machine
  58. ^ Joshi, S. T. (2012). Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0313378331.
  59. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2014). "I Am Legend, Richard Matheson," "I Am Legend, The Omega Man, and The Last Man on Earth," and "Voodoo." In Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth. Ed. June Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonesca. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-1440803888.
  60. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2023). "Further Notes Towards a Monster Pedagogy." In The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century (Lexington Books Horror Studies). Ed. Simon Bacon. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1793643391.
  61. ^ Moreland, Sean (2013). Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786468201.
  62. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2021). "Law, Crime and Epistemological Convergences: Framing Law and Crime: An Interdisciplinary Anthology.” Film International 19.2 (Fall): 205-206. ISSN 1651-6826.
  63. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2016). "The Entity" and "Rosemary Ellen Guiley." In Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend. Ed. June Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonesca. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-1440834905.
  64. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2017). "Horror Criticism" (essay), "Vampire Fiction from Dracula to Lestat and Beyond" (essay), "Bram Stoker," and "Montague Summers." In Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest Fears. Ed. Matt Cardin. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-1440842016.
  65. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2013). "Henry Irving and Dreams of 'Dracula': Bram Stoker's Lost Writings." Hufffington Post (HuffPost Books), January 14, 2013. Retrieve at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-edgar-browning/henry-irving-and-dreams-o_b_2471874.html Archived 2014-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
  66. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2020). "The Mask: Slasher Cinema (1978-1998)–Teaching the Monster." In Monsters: A Companion (Genre Fiction and Film Companions). Ed. Simon Bacon. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-1788746649.
  67. ^ Williams, DJ and John Edgar Browning (2020). "Vampire Fictions and the Conflation of Violent Criminality with Real Vampirism: A Practical Overview." In Monsters, Law, Crime: Explorations in Gothic Criminology. Ed. Caroline Joan S. Picart. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-1683930792.
  68. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2015). "Disability and Slasher Cinema's Unsung 'Children'." In Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors. Ed. Markus P. J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786494798. Retrieve at: https://www.academia.edu/7115463/_Remarks_Towards_Disability_and_Slasher_Cinema_s_Unsung_Children_abstract_ Archived 2021-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
  69. ^ Cast, P. C. (2011). Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore and Religion in the PC and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series. Smart Pop. ISBN 978-1935618553.
  70. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2016). "Vampires and Zombies." In Routledge Companion to Death and Dying (Routledge Religion Companions). Ed. Christopher Moreman. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138852075.
  71. ^ Joshi, S. T. (2009). Studies in the Fantastic (No. 2). University of Tampa Press. ISBN 978-1597320580.
  72. ^ Foresman, Galen A. (2013). Supernatural and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Monsters... for Idjits. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1118615959.
  73. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2021). Foreword to The Tale of the Living Vampyre: New Directions in Vampire Studies. By Kevin Dodd. Universitas Press. ISBN 9781988963327.
  74. ^ Browning, John Edgar (2021). Foreword to The Transmedia Vampire: Technological Convergence and the Undead World of the Vampire. Ed. Simon Bacon. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476675749.
  75. ^ Miller, Cynthia J. (2013). Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810892644.
  76. ^ Silver, Alain (2014). The Zombie Film: From White Zombie to World War Z. Applause Theatre & Cinema. ISBN 978-0879108878.
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