JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK
Announcements
Attention Rocky Horror fans--I had the privilege to participate as a scholarly commentator in the documentary, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror. Look for it at at theater near you!
The second issue of American Gothic Studies, the official peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG), is available to members of the organization. If you have an interest in the American Gothic, I hope you will consider joining!
My Horror Theory Reader anthology is scheduled to be published by the University of Minnesota Press in January of 2026.
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!
50 Years of The Shining
Edited with Anthony Magistrale, this collection of scholarly essays celebrating the 50th anniversary of King's novel will be published by the University of Mississippi Press in 2027.
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.