English 274: The Serial Vampire

Professor Lauren Goodlad will be teaching a second eight-week course in the spring. The course fulfills:

The group V Special Topics- theme, mode, genre requirement for English majors

A course toward the literature requirement for Creative Writing majors

 

Please read the course description below:

 

ENGLISH 274: The Serial Vampire

Spring 2013, Second 8-week session (March 11-May 1, TUTH 11-1:15)

CRN- 59517, section D (Room 259 EB)

 

This brief survey of modern vampire fiction begins with John Polidori’s “The Vampyre: A Tale” (1819) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, continues into the postwar era with Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954), extends to the late twentieth century with Poppy Z. Brite’s goth-inspired Lost Souls (1993), and concludes with two recent entries to vampire lore: John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In (2004) and Rachel Caine’s Glass Houses (2006), the first in the Morganville Vampires series.  Our main assignment for the class will be co-creation of a permanently archived digital object: an annotated version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) which we’ll assemble from our own reading, research, and discussion.