Afterword: John E. Browning

John Edgar Browning

John Edgar Browning (* 1980) is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He took undergraduate and graduate degrees in English from Florida State University (2003) and the University of Central Oklahoma (2006), respectively, and completed the coursework for a Ph.D. in English at Louisiana State University (2011) before transferring to American Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), where he held a distinguished Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship. 

In addition contracting or publishing more than 40 articles, book chapters, and reviews on subjects that cluster around Cultural Theory, horror, the un-dead, Bram Stoker, and the Gothic, Browning has contracted or co-/written twelve books about Dracula, vampires, Bram Stoker, or horror, most recently with Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology, with Caroline J. S. Picart (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and two forthcoming volumes, The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Bram Stoker and a book on Dracula for Cornell University Press. 

He has also guest appeared on National Geographic’s Taboo USA (2013-) and The Discovery Channel’s William Shatner’s Weird or What? (2010-) to discuss vampires.

In Summer 2014, John became closely involved in the Dracula Travel Guide project initiated by Hans and Dacre. Because of his unique expertise in the publication and reception history of Dracula, he was invited to contribute an afterword to the planned Makt Myrkranna book.