Teaching with Vampires

U. Melissa Anyiwo is an Associate Professor of History and Director of Black Studies at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Co-Chair of the Vampire Studies Area of the National Popular Culture Association. Her published work on vampires includes the edited collections Buffy Conquers the Academy (2013), Race in the Vampire Narrative (2015), Gender in the Vampire Narrative (2016), Gender Warriors: Reading Contemporary Urban Fantasy (2018) and Queering the Vampire Narrative (2022). Finally, she starred in the documentary “Lestat, Louis, and the Vampire Phenomenon” for the Interview with the Vampire 20th Anniversary Edition DVD (2014).

• 1. Introduction: What is Vampire Studies? – U. Melissa Anyiwo.- 2. Horror in the Classroom: Using the Vampire to Understand Intersectionality - Lisa Nevarez.- 3. Dracula’s Dissolving Boundaries: Nurturing an Interdisciplinary Appetite within an Art and Design Curriculum - Cath Davies.- 4. Profiling Dracula, Interrogating Culture - John Edgar Browning.- 5. Teaching Waititi's What We Do in the Shadows as Wellington Gothic - Hannah Hansen and Jennifer Lawn.- 6. Who Owns the Undead? Dracula, Nosferatu, and Copyright Education - Billy Tringali.- 7. Teaching Social Justice and Civic Engagement with the Vampire - Ana Gal.- 8. Teaching with The Walking (un)Dead - Rob Smid and U. Melissa Anyiwo.- 9. Teaching Vampires in an Interdisciplinary Course to Engage with Literacy Development and Social Constructs - David Hansen.- 10. Sink Your Teeth Into It! Black Vampires in the Classroom - Kendra Parker.- 11. Monstrous Gender and Sexuality: Unpacking the Female Vampire - Amanda Jo Hobson.- 12. The Ubiquitous Vampire: Contemporary Uses for a (Very) Old Monster - Maureen LaPierre.- 13. Becoming ‘Vampire’: Developing Creativity and Employability Skills in a Literature Module - Sarah Gamble.- 14. What to Read/Watch Next - U. Melissa Anyiwo.- 15. Afterword: Open Graves, and the Future of the Vampire in the Classroom - Samantha George.