Dracula Panel Update

I am pleased to report that our session “Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Contexts and Afterlives” has been accepted for inclusion at “Beyond the Pale: Alienation, Sites of Resistance, and Modern Ireland”: The 2014 Meeting of the New England Region of the American Conference for Irish Studies to be held at Wheaton College in Norton, MA from 21-22 November 2014.

Papers include the following:

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Contexts and Afterlives
Sponsored by The Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
Organizer/Presider: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar

“Using Dracula to Explore 19th-Century Reactions to Medical Theories from the Preceding Century”
Nicole Salomone, Independent Scholar

“My Revenge is Just Begun—The Evolution of Superstition and Science from Stoker’s Dracula to NBC’s Primetime Series Dracula”
Marijana Stojkovic, East Tennessee State University

“Re-fashioning Dracula: Psychic Vampires in Postwar American Culture”
Kristin Bidoshi, Union College

“A Transylvanian Count in Camelot? Investigating the Draculas of the Modern Matter of Britain”
Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar