JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK
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“Author Functions: Stephen King’s Writers.” Forthcoming in Theorizing Stephen King, edited by Michael J. Blouin. Amsterdam University Press.
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“Tenderness (Spoiler Warnings.” Forthcoming in Spoiler! Literature, Media, and the Spoiler, edited by Christine Lötscher, Simon Spiegel, and Natalie Borsy. Lever Press.
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“Love Letters From the Future: The Salvage Sublime.” Extrapolation, vol. 65, no. 1, 2024, pp. 89-107.
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“Those Who Eat and Those Who Get Eaten: Cannibalism and Capitalism in Melville’s Typee and “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.” Forthcoming in Gothic Melville, edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Monika Elbert. University of Wales Press.
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“Hidden Histories: The Many Ghosts of Disney’s Haunted Mansion.” Forthcoming in Gothic Disney: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Lexington Books.
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“The Cinematic Vampire.” Forthcoming in The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion. Eds. John Edgar Browning and William Hughes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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“1408 and the Structure of Haunting.” Gothic Nostalgia: Undead Memory in the 21st Century, edited by Simon Bacon. Routledge, 2024. 15-30.
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“Particulate Matter, Miasma Theory, and Modern Horror.” Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds, edited by Simon Bacon. Bloomsbury, 2023.
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“Seven Weird Axioms.” Forthcoming in The Weird: A Companion, edited by Kristopher Woofter and Carl Sederholm. Peter Lang, 2023.
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The Dracula Megatext: Adapting Dracula.” Forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Dracula, edited by William Thomas McBride, MLA, 2023.
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“Cult Behaviors.” The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemnas, edited by J.P. Telotte. Routledge, 2023, pp. 206-219.
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“Decadent Feasts: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Twenty-First-Century Prestige Horror Television.” The Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century, edited by Simon Bacon. Lexington Books, 2023, pp. 27-42.
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“Shadow Play: From Nosferatu to Shadow of the Vampire.” Nosferatu in the 21st Century: A Critical Study, edited by Simon Bacon. Liverpool University Press, 2023, pp. 25-40.
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“Cartas de Amor Desde El Futuro: El Desguace Sublime [Love Letters From the Future: The Salvage Sublime].” Retrofantástico: Perspectivas de un Pasado Imaginado, edited by Mario-Paul Martínez Fabre, Fran Mateu, and Miguel Herrero Herrero. Cinestesia, 2022. 15-30.
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“The American Gothic: An Interview with Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.” Reden: Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, “Conversations of the Gothic in Popular Culture” special issue, vol. 3, no. 2, 2022. 3-15.
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“The Anthropocene.” Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene. Eds. Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Högland. University of Minnesota Press, 2022. pp. 7-25
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“Cities of the Dead: Urban Vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.” Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Eds. Stefan L. Brandt, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan Rabitsch, University of Mississippi Press, 2022, pp. 101-117.
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“We Are Dracula: Penny Dreadful and the Dracula Megatext.” The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead, edited by Simon Bacon. McFarland, 2021, pp. 20-34.
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“Dead is Not Better: The Many Resurrections of Stephen King’s Revival.” Horror Studies, vol.12, no. 2, 2021, pp. 189-203.
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“Walking Alone Together: Adapting Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.” Shirley Jackson: A Companion, edited by Kristopher Woofter. Peter Lang, 2021. 251-64.
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“Autobiography as Rhetoric: Reading Franklin With Douglass.” Approaches to Teaching Frederick Douglass, edited by Jericho Williams. Salem Press, 2021. 3-16.
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"What is IT? Ambient Dread and Modern Paranoia in It (2017), It Follows (2014), and It Comes at Night (2017)." Horror Studies 11.2 (October 2020), 205-220.
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“Haunted Homesteads: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Dual Gothic.” American Women's Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic. Eds. Monika Elbert and Rita Bode. Palgrave, 2021. 137-156.
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“Introduction: A Genealogy of Monster Theory.” The Monster Theory Reader. Ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 1-26.
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“’It’s a Strange World’: David Lynch.” Routledge Companion to Cult Film. Ed. Ernest Mathjis and Jamie Sexton. Routledge, 2019. 383-91.
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“Before the After: Anticipatory Anxiety and Experience Claimed in Poe’s Angelic Dialogues.” Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation. Vol. 52 (2019): 91-109.
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“The Sound of Horror: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” (1982) and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980).” Horror: A Companion. Ed. Simon Bacon. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. 67-74.
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“Vampire Suicide.” Suicide and the Gothic. Eds. Andrew Smith and Bill Hughes. Manchester University Press, 2019. 139-59.
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“Hawthorne and Science Fiction.” Hawthorne in Context. Ed. Monika Elbert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 329-39.
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"Introduction: Lovecraft Rising." Introduction to The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts special issue on Lovecraft, edited by Carl Sederholm and Jeffrey Weinstock, 2016.
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“Gothic and the New Weird: Jeff VanderMeer." The Gothic: A Reader. Ed. Simon Bacon. Palgrave, 2018. 211-16.
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"Afterward: The Age of Monsters.” “Listening to Our Monsters” special edition of Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture. Ed. Michael R. Paradiso-Michau. 2017. 199-205.
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"Monster Talk: A Virtual Roundtable with Mark Bould, Liv Bugge, Surekha Davies, Margrit Shildrick, and Jeffrey Weinstock." Somatechnics. 2018.
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“Blasphemous Knowledge.” Wissen in der Fantastik: Vom Suchen, Verstehen und Teilen. Eds. Vera Cuntz-Leng, Luzie Kollinger, and Meike Uhrig. Springer, 2017. 53-68.
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"Burton's Bowl: Constructing Space in the Films of Tim Burton." A Critical Companion to Tim Burton. Eds. Antonio Sanna and Adam Barkman. Lexington Books, 2017. 3-14.
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"Poe and Postmodernism." The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe. Eds. Scott Peeples and Gerald Kennedy. New York: Oxford University Press. 2018. 718-34.
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"Hyberobjects, Apocalypse, and the Elemental Antagonists of American Naturalism.”
Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Eds. Dawn Keetley and Matthew Sivils. Routledge, 2018. 191-205.
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“The American Ghost Story.” The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story. Eds Scott
Brewster and Luke Thurston. Routledge, 2018. 206-14.
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“The New Weird.” New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction. Ed. Ken Gelder. Palgrave, 2016. 177-99.
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“The Soul of the Matter: Frankenstein meets H.P. Lovecraft's 'Herbert West--Reanimator'.” Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture. Eds. Dennis Perry and Dennis Cutchins. 2018. 221-35.
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“Tekeli-li! Poe, Lovecraft, and the Suspicion of Sameness.” The Lovecraftian Poe. Ed. Sean Moreland. Lehigh University Press, 2017. 51-68.
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“American Vampires.” Edinburgh Companion to the American Gothic. Eds. Jason Haslam and Joel Faflak. Edinburgh University Press. 203-221.
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“The Queer Time of Lively Matter: The Polar Erotics of Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘The Moonstone Mass’.” Women’s Studies 46 (2018). 752-66.
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Review Essay: “From the Marketplace to the Classroom: A Teratological Trio.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 27.3 (2016). 494-504.
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"Bubba Ho-tep and the Seriously Silly Cult Film." Science Fiction Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text. Eds J. P. Telotte and Gerald Duchovnay. Liverpool University Press, 2015. 233-48.
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“Sans Fangs: Theda Bara, A Fool There Was, and the Cinematic Vamp.” Dracula’s Daughters. Eds. Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka. Scarecrow Press, 2014. 37-43.
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“American Monsters.” A Companion to the American Gothic. Ed. Charles L. Crow. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. 41-55.
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Review Essay: “St. Lovecraft.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 25.1 (2014): 107-22.
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“Gothic and the New American Republic, 1770-1800.” The Gothic World. Eds. Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend. U.K.: Routledge, 2013. 27-37.
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“Postmodernism with Sam Raimi (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Theory and Love Evil Dead).” Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror. Eds. Aalya Ahmad and Sean Moreland. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 19-39. Translated into Russian as Джеффри Уайнсток. Постмодернизм с Сэмом Рэйми, или Как я научился не волноваться насчет теории и полюбил "Зловещих мертвецов" // Логос. 2014. №5 (101). Стр. (Pp.) 51-78.
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“Charles Brockden Brown.” The Encyclopedia of the Gothic. Eds. David Punter, Andy Smith and Bill Hughes. Wiley-Blackwell January 2013. 83-90.
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“Magazines.” Edgar Allan Poe in Context. Editor Kevin Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 169-78.
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“Edgar Allan Poe and the Undeath of the Author.” Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture. Eds. Dennis Perry and Carl Sederholm. Palgrave, 2012. 13-30.
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“Invisible Monsters: Vision, Horror, and Contemporary Culture.” The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous. Eds. Asa Mittman and Peter Dendle. London: Ashgate 2011. 275-89.
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Review essay: “Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom: Queer Gothic.” Journal of the
Fantastic in the Arts 22.1 (2011): 75-91.
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“The American Ghost Story.” A Companion to the American Short Story. Eds. Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. 408-24.
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“Profaning the Sacred: Gothic Iconography and Subcultural Resistance.” Coverscaping: Discovering Album Aesthetics. Eds. Øyvind Vågnes & Asbjørn Grønstad. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010. 163-78.
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“Queer Specters of Rose Terry Cooke and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.” Death Becomes Her: Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth-Century America. Eds. Elizabeth Dill and Sheri Weinstein. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 109-30.
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"Heavy, Black, and Pendulous: Unsuturing Rocky Horror." Reading Rocky Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture. Ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. New York: Palgrave, 2008. 71-85.
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"What Difference Does It Make? Pym, Plagiarism, and Pop Culture." Approaches to Teaching Poe's Prose and Poetry. Eds. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Anthony Magistrale. New York: MLA, 2008. 61-68.
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"'Simpsons Did It': South Park as Differential Signifier." Taking South Park Seriously. Ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Albany: SUNY, 2008. 79-96.
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Review essay: “The Proliferating Undead.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 19.3 (2008): 399-411.
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“Female-Authored Gothic Tales in the Nineteenth-Century Popular Press.” Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace. Eds. Earl Yarington and Mary De Jong. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 74-96.
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“Maybe It Shouldn’t Be a Party: Kids, Keds, and Death in Stephen King’s Stand By Me and Pet Sematary.” Reading the Films of Stephen King. Ed. Anthony Magistrale. New York: Palgrave 2008.
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“Queer Haunting Spaces: Madeline Yale Wynne’s ‘The Little Room’ and Elia Wilkinson Peattie’s ‘The House That Was Not.’” American Literature 79.3 (Sept. 2007): 501-26.
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“Gothic Fetishism.” Goth: Undead Subculture. Eds. Michael Bibby and Lauren Goodlad. Durham: Duke UP, 2007. 375-97.
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“The Crowd Within: Poe’s Impossible Aloneness.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review VII.2 (Fall 2006): 50-64.
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“Ten Minutes for Seven Letters: Spectrality and the Ethics of Memory in Toni Morrison’s Beloved,” Arizona Quarterly 61.3 (Autumn 2005): 129-52. Reprinted in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. Ed. Harold Bloom. Infobase Publishing, 2009. 73-92.
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“‘Respond Now!’ E-mail, Telepathy, and a Pedagogy of Patience.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 4.3 (Fall 2004): 364-84.
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"Lostness (Blair Witch)." Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies. Eds. Sarah Higley and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. 229-43.
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“Doing Justice to Bartleby,” American Transcendental Quarterly. 17.1 (March 2003): 23-42.
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“‘In Possession of the Letter’: Kate Chopin’s ‘Her Letters’,” Studies in American Fiction 30:1 (Spring 2002): 45-62. Reprinted in Thomson Gale’s Short Story Criticism vol. 68 (2004).
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“Mars Attacks! Wells, Welles, and Radio Panic or: The Story of the Century.” Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events. Ed. Ray Browne. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Press, 2001. 210-21.
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“Circumcising Dracula: The Vampire as Anti-Semitic Trope,” The Journal for The Fantastic in the Arts 12.1 (2001): 90-102.
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“ZombieTV,” Post-Identity 2.2 (Fall 1999): 5-21.
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“Virus Culture,” Studies in Popular Culture 20.1 (October 1997): 83-97.
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“This is Not Foucault’s Head,” Post Identity I.1 (Fall 1997): 178-89.
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“The Disappointed Bridge” (on Joyce’s Ulysses) The Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts 8.3 (1997): 347-69. Reprinted in Ulysses: Contemporary Critical Essays. Ed. Rainer Emig. New York: Palgrave, 2004. 61-80.
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“Freaks in Space: ‘Extraterrestrialism’ and ‘Deep-Space Multiculturalism’,” Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Ed. N.Y.: New York University Press, 1996. 327-37. Translated as “Freaks en el Espacio,” Trans.Eufemio Bildarrain. Revista de Occidente No. 201 (February 1998): 69-87.
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“13 Ways of Looking at Donna Haraway.” CEAMAGazine Volume 7, No. 1 (Fall 1994): 31-44.