John Edgar Browning

CONTACT: johnbro@bgsu.edu

BIOGRAPHY:
Internationally recognized authority on the horror genre, vampires, Bram Stoker, and monster theory, John Edgar Browning (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) has appeared as a guest expert on, or consulted for, such documentary TV programs as National Geographic's Taboo USA (2013), Discovery Channel's William Shatner's Weird or What? (2010), AMC Visionaries: Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018), History Channel's The UnXplained (2020) hosted by William Shatner, Disney+'s The World According to Jeff Goldblum (2021), and Netflix, as well as radio programs and professional podcasts like BBC Radio, CBS Radio, The Howard Stern Show network, RTÉ—Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster, PRETEND, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Georgia Public Broadcasting, NPR, Decoder Ring (SLATE), Quite Franklin, Discover Magazine's "It's Only Science" podcast, and Ripley's Believe It or Notcast. A university educator for the last 20 years, he now teaches in the School of Critical and Cultural Studies and English Department at Bowling Green State University.

Browning has contracted or published 20 academic and popular trade books as well as over 100 articles, chapters, and reviews on subjects that cluster around Cultural Studies, critical media literacy, Dracula, vampires, zombies, horror, monstrosity, Bram Stoker, and the Gothic, including: The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and the forthcoming Dracula—An Anthology: Critical Reviews and Reactions, 1897–1920 (Edinburgh University Press), as well as critical editions of Montague Summers’s The Vampire: His Kith and Kin and The Vampire in Europe (Apocryphile Press, 2011, 2014); with Caroline Joan S. Picart, he co-edited as well Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and co-wrote Dracula in Visual Media (McFarland, 2010); with David R. Castillo, David Schmid, and David A. Reilly he co-wrote Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics (Palgrave Pivot, 2016); and, with Darren Elliott-Smith, co-edited New Queer Horror Film and Television (Horror Studies) (University of Wales Press, 2020). He is also co-editor of the second Norton Critical Edition of Dracula (2021) with David J. Skal.

His research and scholarship have earned him both international respect from his peers and media coverage from over 300 news outlets in at least 55 countries, including venues like the BBC and BBC Radio, The Washington Post, CNN, El Huffington Post (Spain), TIME, Variety, Syfy Wire, VICE (Broadly), RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann)--Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster, Hack Circus, New York Daily News, The Guardian (US Edition), Smithsonian Magazine, The Daily Meal, Fusion, RN Drive (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), ABC News (Australia), The Daily Telegraph (Australia), Smithsonian.com, The Indian Express, Medical Daily, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), National Geographic, Louisiana Cultural Vistas (Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities), VT. (Viral Thread), Atlas Obscura, Live Science, Bloody Disgusting, and many others.

Additionally, he spent five years in the field in New Orleans, LA and Buffalo, NY conducting ethnographic studies of people who self-identify as vampire, a project he elaborated on in his doctoral dissertation, "Redeeming the Un-Dead in American Media and Culture Before 9/11," as well as in articles for Palgrave Communications, The Atlantic, The Conversation, and Discover Magazine. He has also since been interviewed about his research by the BBC and BBC Radio, CBS Radio, CNN, The Washington Post, Discover Magazine’s “It's Only Science” podcast, VICE: Broadly, Hack Circus Magazine, The Hindustan Times, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), The Buffalo News, Daily Star, and many others, joining only a handful of experts in the field worldwide. Today, he remains in regular contact with a number of real vampire communities all over the world.