John Edgar Browning Explained

John Edgar Browning
Birth Date:14 October 1980[1]
Birth Place:Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Occupation:Writer, Scholar, Professor
Language:English
Education:A.A., B.A., M.A, Ph.D.
Alma Mater:Florida State University

University of Central Oklahoma

  • Louisiana State University

  • University at Buffalo
    • Genre:Horror non-fiction
    Awards:Lord Ruthven Award (International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts)
    Years Active:2005 - present

    John Edgar Browning (born October 14, 1980) is an American author, editor, and scholar known for his nonfiction works about the horror genre, Dracula, and vampires in film, literature, and culture.[2] Previously a visiting lecturer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, he is now a professor of liberal arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia.

    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. Browning has appeared as an expert scholar on multiple documentary television series and consulted a number of other productions behind the scenes, including: National Geographic Channel's Taboo USA,[4] Discovery Channel's William Shatner's Weird or What?,[5] the seven-part AMC documentary series Eli Roth's History of Horror, and History Channel's The UnXplained.

    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".[6] For the book, Browning won the Lord Ruthven Award, an award for deserving work in vampire fiction or scholarship.[7] The book was also nominated for the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award (often called the Rondo Award) for Book of the Year in 2011,[8] as was his book The Vampire; or, Detective Brand's Greatest Case in 2023 for Best Classic Horror Fiction, co-edited with Gary D. Rhodes.[9]

    Career

    Education and teaching

    Browning earned his B.A. from Florida State University and then his M.A. at the University of Central Oklahoma. He completed all his English doctoral coursework at Louisiana State University before transferring to American Studies at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY-Buffalo), where he studied under Michael H. Frisch, Bruce Jackson, Sarah Elder, and Donald A. Grinde, Jr.[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 served as an adjunct instructor 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] While teaching at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Browning lectured on vampires, zombies, and monsters,[14] as well as on Slasher cinema in a course entitled, "The Slasher Film: Gender, Disability, and Transgression."[15]

    Doctoral dissertation

    For part of his doctoral dissertation, Browning conducted, over a period of two years, an ethnographic study of people who self-identify as vampire in New Orleans.[16] Browning's fieldnotes 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."[17] Browning extended his ethnographic fieldwork to include real vampires living in Buffalo, NY.

    For an op-ed in Deep South Magazine entitled Conversations with Real Vampires, Browning's notes further recount the experience: "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."[18] Browning has more recently elaborated on his experiences in Palgrave Communications,[19] The Conversation UK,[20] twice in Discover (magazine)[21] and The Atlantic.[22]

    Professional affiliations

    Browning sits on a number of editorial and advisory boards, including the Board of Advisors[23] for The Blood Project (TBP) based out of Harvard Medical School, its members representing "leaders in their fields, including hematology, medical education, history of medicine, comparative and evolutionary medicine, art and medicine, literature in medicine, health literacy, and medical training in under-represented minorities".[24] He also sits on the Editorial Advisory Panel[25] for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (a Springer Nature journal), previously called Palgrave Communications; the Advisory Board[26] for Ethics International Press, founded in 1993 in Cambridge, UK to publish "academic books on Ethics and all related and associated topics" for "leading universities worldwide, the British Government, the European Commission, and to wholesalers, bookshops, libraries, agents, and individuals around the world";[27] the Editorial Board[28] for the Journal of Positive Sexuality, a multidisciplinary publication "designed to be accessible and beneficial to a large and diverse readership, including academics, policymakers, clinicians, educators, and students"; the Advisory Board[29] for the Series on Law, Culture and the Humanities, edited by Caroline Joan S. Picart and published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; as well as the Executive Advisory Committee[30] for The Journal of Gods and Monsters, published through the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University.

    Bibliography

    Books (authored)

    Books (edited)

    Essays (published in journals, anthologies, and professional magazines and blogs)

    Filmography

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Author: John Edgar Browning . . March 29, 2014 . September 10, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170910034842/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?147752 . live.
    2. Diamond, Laura, "Sinking his teeth into Dracula." Georgia Tech News Center. Retrieve at: https://www.news.gatech.edu/news/2014/10/21/sinking-his-teeth-dracula
    3. Web site: John Edgar Browning: Vampire Expert . . March 29, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140329220905/http://artvoice.com/issues/v10n43/five_questions . March 29, 2014 . dead.
    4. Web site: National Geographic - Taboo USA . April 2, 2014 . March 26, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140326154113/http://natgeotv.com/za/taboo-usa . live.
    5. Web site: Taboo USA . MOADb . March 29, 2014 . March 29, 2014 . https://archive.today/20140329161154/http://www.moadb.com/movies/656854-taboo-usa . live.
    6. 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.
    7. Web site: John Edgar Browning . . March 29, 2014 . March 29, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140329223104/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-edgar-browning/ . live.
    8. Web site: . April 2, 2014 . June 7, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140607062953/http://rondoaward.com/rondo/RONDOIXRESULTS.html . live.
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    10. Book: Picart, Caroline Joan S.. Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology. 2012. Palgrave Macmillan. 9781137101495. 305.
    11. Web site: John Edgar Browning. Chronicle Vitae. 29 March 2014. 30 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140330004439/https://chroniclevitae.com/people/2393-john-edgar-browning/profile. live.
    12. Web site: Boyd. Luke W.. CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE WALKING DEAD. Zombie Research Society. 29 March 2014. 2013-09-03. 2014-03-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20140329214704/http://zombieresearchsociety.com/archives/18674. live.
    13. Web site: Discovery Seminar Program – Fall 2014. University at Buffalo. 2 September 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140330022154/http://academies.buffalo.edu/discoveryseminars/seminars.php?seminar=14193. 30 March 2014.
    14. Diamond, Laura, "Sinking His Teeth into Dracula: Georgia Tech's Resident Horror Film Scholar," Georgia Tech News Center. Retrieve at: http://www.news.gatech.edu/features/sinking-his-teeth-dracula .
    15. "LMC Course Descriptions," Georgia Tech School of Literature, Media and Communication. Retrieve at: http://www.lmc.gatech.edu/coursedescriptions?coursetype=&term=1&year=10&coursearea=&submit=search .
    16. Web site: John Edgar Browning. Smart Pop Books. 29 March 2014. 30 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140330004445/http://www.smartpopbooks.com/authors/john-edgar-browning. live.
    17. Web site: Browning. John Edgar. Conversations with Real Vampires. Deep South Magazine. 3 April 2014. 2010-10-29. 2014-04-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20140407103903/http://deepsouthmag.com/2010/10/conversations-with-real-vampires/. live.
    18. Web site: Merticus. Conversations With Real Vampires - John Edgar Browning - Deep South Mag. Atlanta Vampire Alliance. 29 March 2014. 29 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140329221645/http://www.atlantavampirealliance.com/forum/index.php?topic=2141.0;wap2. live.
    19. Browning . John Edgar . The real vampires of New Orleans and Buffalo: a research note towards comparative ethnography . Palgrave Communications . 24 March 2015 . 1 . 1 . 10.1057/palcomms.2015.6 . 144976532 . free .
    20. 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
    21. Browning, John Edgar (2015). "Real-Life Vampires Exist, and Researchers Are Studying Them." Discover, March 26, 2015. Retrieve at: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/03/26/real-life-vampires-exist/#.V7TpNY66z8U
    22. Browning, John Edgar (2015). "Life Among the Vampires." The Atlantic, October 31, 2015. Retrieve at: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/life-among-the-vampires/413446/
    23. "TBP Leadership." The Blood Project. Retrieve at: https://www.thebloodproject.com/leadership/
    24. "Bringing Blood to Life: New Progressive Learning Website from Harvard Medical School for Med Students & Physicians." University College Dublin (UCD) School of Medicine, October 7, 2021. Retrieve at: https://www.ucd.ie/medicine/news/2021/newsstories/bringingbloodtolife/
    25. "Editors." Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. Retrieve at: https://www.nature.com/palcomms/editorialboard
    26. "Advisory Board." Ethics International Press. Retrieve at: https://ethicspress.com/pages/advisory-board
    27. "About Us." Ethics International Press. Retrieve at: https://ethicspress.com/pages/about-us
    28. "Editorial Board." Journal of Positive Sexuality. Retrieve at: https://journalofpositivesexuality.org/
    29. "Advisory Board." Law, Culture and Humanities. Retrieve at: https://www.fdupress.org/law-culture-literature-series/
    30. "Editorial Team." The Journal of Gods and Monsters. Retrieve at: https://godsandmonsters-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/godsandmonsters/about/editorialTeam
    31. Book: Browning, John Edgar. Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010. 2010. McFarland. 978-0786433650.
    32. Castillo, David R., David Schmid, David A. Reilly, and John Edgar Browning (2015). Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics (Palgrave Pivot). Palgrave Macmillan. .
    33. Book: Browning, John Edgar. Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Critical Feast, An Annotated Reference of Early Reviews & Reactions, 1897-1913. 2012. Apocryphile Press. 978-1937002213.
    34. Stoker, Bram (2021). Dracula (Norton Critical Editions), 2nd ed., ed. John Edgar Browning and David J. Skal. W. W. Norton & Company. .
    35. Book: Browning, John Edgar. Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race, and Culture. 2009. Scarecrow Press. 978-0810866966.
    36. 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. .
    37. Book: Stoker, Bram. The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker. 2012. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-1137277220.
    38. Book: Browning, John Edgar. Graphic Horror: Movie Monster Memories. 2012. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 978-0764340826.
    39. Chambers, Robert W. (2018). The King in Yellow, ed. John Edgar Browning. Lanternfish Press..
    40. Chambers, Robert W. (2019). The King in Yellow (Clockworks Edition), 2nd ed., ed. John Edgar Browning. Lanternfish Press..
    41. Elliott-Smith, Darren, and John Edgar Browning, eds. (2020).New Queer Horror Film and Television (Horror Studies). University of Wales Press. .
    42. Stoker, Bram (2017). Old Hoggen and Other Adventures, ed. John Edgar Browning and Brian J. Showers. Swan River Press. .
    43. Stibbs, John H. (2013). A Quarter Century of Student Life at Tulane: A Dean's Narrative History, 1949-1975. Margaret Media, Inc. .
    44. Book: Browning, John Edgar. Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology. 2012. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-0230114500.
    45. Book: Summers, Montague. The Vampire, His Kith and Kin: A Critical Edition. 2011. Apocryphile Press. 978-1937002176.
    46. Summers, Montague (2014). The Vampire in Europe: A Critical Edition, ed. John Edgar Browning. Apocryphile Press. .
    47. Rhodes, Gary D., and John Edgar Browning, eds. (2022). The Vampire; or, Detective Brand's Greatest Case, illus. Jeremy Ray. Strangers from Nowhere Press. .
    48. Browning, John Edgar. "Oil and the (Geo)Politics of Blood: Towards an Eco-Gothic Critique of Nightwing." In Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism. Ed. Katarina Gregersdotter, Johan Höglund, and Nicklas Hållén. Palgrave Macmillan. .
    49. Book: Hock Soon Ng, Andrew. Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime. 2008. McFarland. 978-0786433353.
    50. Browning, John Edgar (2015). "Life Among the Vampires." The Atlantic, October 31, 2015. Retrieve at: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/life-among-the-vampires/413446/
    51. Browning, John Edgar (2018). "Mummies, Vampires, and Doppelgangers: Hammer's B-Movies and Classic Gothic Fiction." In B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives. Ed. Justin D. Edwards and Johan Höglund. Edinburgh University Press. .
    52. Book: Benshoff, Harry M.. Harry Benshoff. A Companion to the Horror Film. 2014. Wiley-Blackwell. 978-0470672600.
    53. Browning, John Edgar. "What They Do in the Shadows: My Encounters with the Real Vampires of New Orleans." The Conversation, 25 March 2015 4.57am EDT, Politics + Society, https://theconversation.com/what-they-do-in-the-shadows-my-encounters-with-the-real-vampires-of-new-orleans-39208 .
    54. Williams, DJ, and John Edgar Browning. "Looking Inside the Coffin: An Overview of Contemporary Human Vampirism and Its Relevance for Forensics Professionals." In The Criminal Humanities: An Introduction (Criminal Humanities & Forensic Semiotics). Ed. Michael Arntfield and Marcel Danesi. Peter Lang. .
    55. 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
    56. Browning, John Edgar (2017). "Dracula's Oracular History." In Dracula: An International Perspective (Palgrave Gothic). Ed. Marius-Mircea Crisan. Palgrave Macmillan. .
    57. 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
    58. Book: Joshi, S. T.. Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture. 2012. Greenwood. 978-0313378331.
    59. 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. Ed. June Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonesca. Greenwood Press. .
    60. Browning, John Edgar (2023). "Further Notes Towards a Monster Pedagogy." In The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century (Lexington Books Horror Studies). Ed. Simon Bacon. Lexington Books. .
    61. Book: Moreland, Sean. Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror. 2013. McFarland. 978-0786468201.
    62. Browning, John Edgar (2021). "Law, Crime and Epistemological Convergences: Framing Law and Crime: An Interdisciplinary Anthology.” Film International 19.2 (Fall): 205-206. .
    63. Browning, John Edgar (2016). "The Entity" and "Rosemary Ellen Guiley." In Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend. Ed. June Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonesca. Greenwood Press. .
    64. Browning, John Edgar (2017). "Horror Criticism" (essay), "Vampire Fiction from Dracula to Lestat and Beyond" (essay), "Bram Stoker," and "Montague Summers." In Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest Fears. Ed. Matt Cardin. Greenwood Press. .
    65. 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
    66. Browning, John Edgar (2020). "The Mask: Slasher Cinema (1978-1998)–Teaching the Monster." In Monsters: A Companion (Genre Fiction and Film Companions). Ed. Simon Bacon. Peter Lang. .
    67. Williams, DJ and John Edgar Browning (2020). "Vampire Fictions and the Conflation of Violent Criminality with Real Vampirism: A Practical Overview." In Monsters, Law, Crime: Explorations in Gothic Criminology. Ed. Caroline Joan S. Picart. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. .
    68. Browning, John Edgar (2015). "Disability and Slasher Cinema's Unsung 'Children'." In Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors. Ed. Markus P. J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland. McFarland. . Retrieve at: https://www.academia.edu/7115463/_Remarks_Towards_Disability_and_Slasher_Cinema_s_Unsung_Children_abstract_
    69. Book: Cast, P. C.. Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore and Religion in the PC and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series. 2011. Smart Pop. 978-1935618553. registration.
    70. Browning, John Edgar (2016). "Vampires and Zombies." In Routledge Companion to Death and Dying (Routledge Religion Companions). Ed. Christopher Moreman. Routledge. .
    71. Book: Joshi, S. T.. Studies in the Fantastic (No. 2). 2009. University of Tampa Press. 978-1597320580.
    72. Book: Foresman, Galen A.. Supernatural and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Monsters... for Idjits. 2013. Wiley-Blackwell. 978-1118615959.
    73. Browning, John Edgar (2021). Foreword to The Tale of the Living Vampyre: New Directions in Vampire Studies. By Kevin Dodd. Universitas Press. .
    74. Browning, John Edgar (2021). Foreword to The Transmedia Vampire: Technological Convergence and the Undead World of the Vampire. Ed. Simon Bacon. McFarland. .
    75. Book: Miller, Cynthia J.. Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming. 2013. Scarecrow Press. 978-0810892644.
    76. Book: Silver, Alain. The Zombie Film: From White Zombie to World War Z. 2014. Applause Theatre & Cinema. 978-0879108878.

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