Biography
A recognized international authority on the horror genre, vampires, and Monster Theory, John Edgar Browning (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) has appeared as an expert guest on documentary TV programs like 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), and History Channel's The UnXplained (2020) hosted by William Shatner, as well as on radio programs like BBC Radio, RTÉ--Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Georgia Public Broadcasting, NPR, REN TV (Russia), and Ripley's Believe It or Notcast. A university educator for the last 16 years, he is now Professor of Liberal Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta campus).
Browning has contracted or published seventeen academic and popular trade books and over 80 articles, chapters, and reviews on subjects that cluster around Cultural Studies, critical media literacy, Dracula, vampires, zombies, horror, monstrosity, Bram Stoker, and the Gothic. His research and scholarship have earned him international respect from his peers, as well as media coverage from over 180 news outlets in over 45 countries, including venues like the BBC and BBC Radio, The Washington Post, El Huffington Post (Spain), TIME, Variety, 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.
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, Conversation (UK), and Discover Magazine. He has also since been interviewed about his research by the BBC and BBC Radio, The Washington Post, Discover Magazine's "It's Only Science" podcast, VICE: Broadly, Hack Circus Magazine, The Buffalo News, 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.
