JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK
Announcements
The first issue of American Gothic Studies, the official peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG), will be available in early July of 2025 to members of the organization. If you have an interest in the American Gothic, I hope you will consider joining!
Speaking of SSAG, the organization will be hosting its second symposium, "American Nightmares II: Return to Salem," March 19th-21st in Salem, MA. The event will feature keynote presentations from author Victor LaValle and scholar Siân Silyn Roberts.
My Horror Theory Reader anthology is scheduled to be published by the University of Minnesota Press in late 2025.
Current Projects
The Cambridge Introduction to Speculative Literature: Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror
I will be authoring this textbook for Cambridge University Press. This is most assuredly not the cover for it!
The Horror Theory Reader
Prepared for the University of Minnesota Press, this anthology will gather together writings that explore the oxymoronic appeal of horror.
Capitalism & the Gothic
An edited collection for the Manchester University Press's series on the Gothic
Mesmerism, Slavery, Romanticism
This scholarly monograph will argue that the preoccupation with mesmerism and "animal magnetism" in nineteenth-century Romanticism is inextricably linked to the debate over slavery.