John Edgar Browning

John Edgar Browning
Born October 14, 1980[1]
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Occupation Writer, Scholar, Teacher
Language English
Nationality American
Citizenship United States
Education B.A., M.A, Ph.D.
Alma mater Florida State University;
University of Central Oklahoma;
Louisiana State University;
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Genre Horror non-fiction
Website
gatech.academia.edu/JohnEdgarBrowning

John Edgar Browning is an American author and editor recognized internationally[2] for his nonfiction works about the horror genre and vampires in both movies and literature. He is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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. As a vampire scholar, Browning has appeared in two documentary television series: The National Geographic Channel's Taboo USA,[4] formerly Taboo (TV series), and Discovery Channel's William Shatner's Weird or What?[5][6]

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."[7] For the book, Browning won the Lord Ruthven Award, an award for deserving work in vampire fiction or scholarship.[8] 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.[9]

Education

Browning earned his B.A. from Florida State University and then his M.A. at the University of Central Oklahoma. He completed his doctoral coursework in English at Louisiana State University before transferring to American Studies at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY-Buffalo).[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 was an adjunct professor 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]

Doctoral dissertation

For part of his doctoral dissertation, Browning conducted, over a period of two years, ethnographic studies of people who identify as real-life vampires in New Orleans.[14] Browning's field notes 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."[15]

Of the experience, for an op-ed in Deep South Magazine entitled Conversations with Real Vampires, Browning's notes were quoted further: "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.”[16] Browning more recently elaborated on his experiences in Palgrave Communications[17] and The Conversation UK.[18]

TV appearances

Works

As author

As editor

As contributing author

References

  1. ↑ "Author: John Edgar Browning". isfdb Science Fiction. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Diamond, Laura, "Sinking his teeth into Dracula." Georgia Tech News Center. Retrieve at: http://www.news.gatech.edu/features/john-edgar-browning
  3. ↑ "John Edgar Browning: Vampire Expert". Art Voice. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  4. ↑ http://natgeotv.com/za/taboo-usa
  5. ↑ "John Edgar Browning". IMDB. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  6. ↑ "Taboo USA". MOADb. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "John Edgar Browning". Huffington Post. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  9. ↑ http://www.rondoaward.com/rondo/RONDOIXRESULTS.html
  10. ↑ Picart, Caroline Joan S. (2012). Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 305. ISBN 9781137101495.
  11. ↑ "John Edgar Browning". Chronicle Vitae. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  12. ↑ Boyd, Luke W. "CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE WALKING DEAD". Zombie Research Society. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  13. ↑ "Discovery Seminar Program – Fall 2014". University at Buffalo. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  14. ↑ "John Edgar Browning". Smart Pop Books. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  15. ↑ Browning, John Edgar. "Conversations with Real Vampires". Deep South Magazine. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  16. ↑ Merticus. "Conversations With Real Vampires - John Edgar Browning - Deep South Mag". Atlanta Vampire Alliance. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Browning, John Edgar (2015). "The real vampires of New Orleans and Buffalo: a research note towards comparative ethnography." Palgrave Communications 1:15006 doi: 10.1057/palcomms.2015.6. Retrieve at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms20156
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 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
  19. ↑ Browning, John Edgar (2010). Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786433650.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ Browning, John Edgar (2009). Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race, and Culture. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810866966.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ Stoker, Bram (2012). The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1137277220.
  24. ↑ Browning, John Edgar (2012). Graphic Horror: Movie Monster Memories. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-0764340826.
  25. ↑ 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.
  26. ↑ Browning, John Edgar (2012). Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230114500.
  27. ↑ Summers, Montague (2011). The Vampire, His Kith and Kin: A Critical Edition. Apocryphile Press. ISBN 978-1937002176.
  28. ↑ Summers, Montague (2014). The Vampire in Europe: A Critical Edition, ed. John Edgar Browning. Apocryphile Press. ISBN 978-1940671451.
  29. ↑ Hock Soon Ng, Andrew (2008). Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786433353.
  30. ↑ Benshoff, Harry M. (2014). A Companion to the Horror Film. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0470672600.
  31. ↑ 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
  32. ↑ 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
  33. ↑ Joshi, S. T. (2012). Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0313378331.
  34. ↑ 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. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-1440803888.
  35. ↑ McAlduff, Paul S., and John Edgar Browning (2014). "Bram Stoker’s 'Lost' Sketch: 'To the Rescue'." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 57(3): 299-308. ISSN 0013-8339. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/english_literature_in_transition/v057/57.3.mcalduff.pdf
  36. ↑ Moreland, Sean (2013). Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786468201.
  37. ↑ Browning, John Edgar (2013). "Survival horrors, survival spaces: Tracing the modern zombie (cine)myth." Horror Studies 2(1): 41-59. ISSN 2040-3275. Retrieve at: https://www.academia.edu/6697551/_Survival_Horrors_Survival_Spaces_Tracing_the_Modern_Zombie_Cine_Myth_
  38. ↑ 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
  39. ↑ Browning, John Edgar (2014). "Review of Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader." Information, Communication & Society DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.987153. Retrieve at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2014.987153?journalCode=rics20#.VNZZP8aVg3g
  40. ↑ Browning, John Edgar (2015). "Disability and Slasher Cinema’s Unsung 'Children'." In Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema’s Holy Terrors. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786494798. Retrieve at: https://www.academia.edu/7115463/_Remarks_Towards_Disability_and_Slasher_Cinema_s_Unsung_Children_abstract_
  41. ↑ 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.
  42. ↑ Browning, John Edgar (2012). "Review of Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural." Religion & Literature 44(3): 277-279. ISSN: 2328-6911. Retrieve at: https://www.academia.edu/8336395/Review_of_Gothicka_Vampire_Heroes_Human_Gods_and_the_New_Supernatural_Harvard_University_Press_2012_by_Victoria_Nelson
  43. ↑ Joshi, S. T. (2009). Studies in the Fantastic (No. 2). University of Tampa Press. ISBN 978-1597320580.
  44. ↑ Foresman, Galen A. (2013). Supernatural and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Monsters... for Idjits. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1118615959.
  45. ↑ Miller, Cynthia J. (2013). Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810892644.
  46. ↑ Browning, John Edgar (2013). "Dracula's Bram Stoker: 'The Wrongs of Grosvenor Square,' 'Bengal Roses,' and Other Lost Periodical Writings." Victorian Literature and Culture 41(2): 391-407. ISSN: 1060-1503. Retrieve at: https://www.academia.edu/7232645/_Draculas_Bram_Stoker_The_Wrongs_of_Grosvenor_Square_Bengal_Roses_and_Other_Lost_Periodical_Writings_
  47. ↑ Silver, Alain (2014). The Zombie Film: From White Zombie to World War Z. Applause Theatre & Cinema. pp. 978–0879108878.