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My full CV can be found on my academia.edu page by clicking HERE.
 

• Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety. Fordham UP, 2023.

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• Monstrous Things: Selected Essays on Vampires, Ghosts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night. McFarland, 2023.

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• Critical Approachs to Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. Palgrave, 2022.

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• Giving the Devil His Due: Satan & Cinema. Co-edited with Regina Hansen. Fordham University Press, 2022.

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           Finalist for a 2021 Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writers Association in the "Special 

           Achievement in Long Nonfiction" category.

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• Pop Culture for Beginners. Broadview Press, 2022.

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• The Monster Theory Reader. University of Minnesota Press, 2021.

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          Short-listed for a 2021 World Fantasy Award in the "Special Award--Professional" category.

          Read the Introduction HERE

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• The Mad Scientist's Guide to College Composition. Broadview, 2022.

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• And Now for Something Complete Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python. Co-edited with Kate Egan. Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

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• Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale: Podcasting Between Weather and the Void. Palgrave 2018.

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             Read the Introduction HERE

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• The Cambridge Companion to the American Gothic. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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             Read the Introduction HERE

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• The Age of Lovecraft. Collection co-edited with Carl Sederholm. University of Minnesota Press, spring 2016.

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            CO-WINNER of the 2016 Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular 

            Culture and American Culture from the Popular Culture Association / American Culture   

            Association!

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          Read the Introduction HERE

 

• Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture. Co-authored with Isabella van Elferen. Routledge, 2016.

 

         Read a chapter on "Goth Chronotopes" HERE

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• Return to Twin Peaks: New Approaches to Materiality, Theory & Genre on Television. Collection co-edited with Catherine Spooner. Palgrave, 2016.

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         Read my chapter contribution, "Wondrous and Strange: The Matter of Twin Peaks," HERE

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• The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary Monsters.  Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.

 

           WINNER: 2014 Rue Morgue magazine “Best 2014 Non-Fiction Book”

           WINNER: 2014 “Golden Ghoul” award from Serbian Cult of the Ghoul Horror

            publication for “Best 2014 Non-Fiction Horror Book.”

 

 Read the Introduction HERE.

 

• The Works of Tim Burton: Margins to Mainstream.  New York: Palgrave, 2013.

 

• The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

 

           WINNER: 2013 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Lord Ruthven

           Assembly Award for Best Nonfiction Title

 

Read the Introduction HERE.

 

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

 

Read the Introduction HERE.

 

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

 

Read the Introduction HERE.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

• Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women.  New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. Paperback reissue spring 2016.

 

Read the Introduction HERE.

 

• Reading Rocky: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture.  New York: Palgrave 2008. Paperback reissue 2015.

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       Read my chapter, "Heavy, Black, and Pendulous: Unsuturing Rocky Horror" HERE

 

• Taking South Park Seriously.  New York: SUNY Press, 2008.

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       Read my chapter, "'Simpsons Did It': South Park as Differential Signifier" HERE

 

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  London: Wallflower Press, 2007.

 

• Spectral America: Phantoms and the American Imagination.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.  (Introduction reprinted in the The Spectralities Reader. Eds. Esther Peeren and Maria del Pilar Blanco.  New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.)

 

Read the introduction HERE.

 

• 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.