John Edgar Browning

Internationally recognized authority on the horror genre, vampires, and Monster Theory, John Edgar Browning (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) has appeared as an expert guest 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 on radio programs like BBC Radio, RTÉ—Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster, PRETEND, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Georgia Public Broadcasting, NPR, Decoder Ring (SLATE), Quite Franklin, and Ripley's Believe It or Notcast. A university educator for the last 17 years, he is now Professor of Liberal Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta campus).

Browning has contracted or published 20 academic and popular trade books and at least 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 (W. W. Norton, 2021).

His research and scholarship have earned him both international respect from his peers and media coverage from almost 300 news outlets in at least 50 countries, including venues like the BBC and BBC Radio, The Washington Post, El Huffington Post (Spain), TIME, Variety, Syfy Wire, VICE (Broadly), RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann)--Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster, Hack Circus, Discover Magazine’s “It's Only Science” podcast, New York Daily News, The Guardian (US Edition), 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), Louisiana Cultural Vistas (Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities), VT. (Viral Thread), Live Science, Bloody Disgusting, and many others.