Religion and Identity in the Post-9/11 Vampire

Christina Wilkins holds a PhD in English and Film from the University of Southampton, UK. She has taught on a variety of modules at the university, encompassing film and literature across the centuries and continents. She currently teaches at the University of Winchester, UK, and is a quarterly contributor for Nomos Journal, an online journal dedicated to religion in popular culture.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Comparing Influence: Religion and Authority across the Transatlantic.- 3. ‘Muslim Buffy with a Dick’: Post-9/11 Interpretations of Fundamentalism in True Blood.- 4. Fear, Infection and the Aftermath: Del Toro’s The Strain and Its Violent Vampires.

“Regardless of the legitimacy of the vampire as atheist reading, Wilkins has produced an interesting study that should be of interest to vampire scholars and others studying the shifting ways in which the vampire is understood and how this monstrous figure reflects our fears, sense of identity, and changing relationship to institutionalized religion.” (John W. Morehead, Journal of Vampire Studies, Vol. 4, 2024)