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Jeffrey Weinstock, Ph.D.

Associate Professor


Language & Literature

Anspach Hall 205
(989) 774-3101
weins1ja@cmich.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., George Washington University, 1999
M. Phil., George Washington University, 1996
M.A., George Washington University, 1995
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1992

 

Research Interests: 

 Nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature
 Literature of the Fantastic
 Literary and Critical Theory
 Approaches to Popular Culture

 

Honors:

2006 Winner:  Provost's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Endeavor

 

Select Publications

Books:

Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women as a Form of Social Protest, 1849-1931. Fall 2008 Fordham University Press, fall 2008.

 

The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Wallflower Press “Cultographies” series.  November 2007.

 

Approaches to Teaching Poe’s Prose and Poetry.  Co-edited with Anthony Magistrale.  Modern Language Association of America.  Forthcoming 2008. 

 

Taking South Park Seriously  Edited collection.  Forthcoming SUNY Press, 2008. 


Spectral America: Phantoms and the American Imagination. Edited collection. University of Wisconsin Press.

 

Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies. Co-Edited with Sarah Higley. Wayne State University Press, 2004.

 

The Pedagogical Wallpaper: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper." Edited Collection. Peter Lang Publishers, Inc., 2003

 

Guest Editor College Literature edition on "Cultural Violence," 26.1 (Winter 1999): 1-7.

 

Book Chapters

“Queer Specters of Rose Terry Cooke and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.”  Death Becomes Her.  Eds. Elizabeth Dill and Sheri Weinstein.  Cambridge Scholars PressForthcoming 2008.

 

Female Authored Gothic Tales in the Nineteenth-Century Popular Press.”  Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace.  Ed. Earl Yarington.  Cambridge  Scholars Press.  Forthcoming December 2007.

 

“Maybe It Shouldn’t Be a Party: Kids, Keds, and Death in Stephen King’s Stand By Me and Pet Sematary.”  Forthcoming in Anthony Magistrale’s Reading the Films of Stephen King.  Palgrave 2008.

 

Profaning the Sacred: Gothic Iconography and Subcultural Resistance.”  Forthcoming in Image--Music--Text: Discovering Album Aesthetics.  Eds. Øyvind Vågnes & Asbjørn Grønstad.  Forthcoming 2008.

 

“Goth/Fetish.”  Goth: Undead Subculture.  Eds. Michael Bibby and Lauren Goodlad.  Duke UP, 2007.  375-97.

 

“The Disappointed Bridge.” Ulysses: Contemporary Critical Essays.  Ed. Rainer Emig.  New York: Palgrave, 2004.  61-80.

 

 “Mars Attacks!  Wells, Welles, and Radio Panic or: The Story of the Century.” Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events. Ed. Ray Browne.  Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Press, 2001.   210-21.

 

“Freaks in Space: ‘Extraterrestrialism’ and ‘Deep-Space Multiculturalism’,” Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body.  Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Ed. N.Y.: New York University Press, 1996.  327-37.

 

Journal Articles:

“Queer Haunting Spaces: Madeline Yale Wynne’s ‘The Little Room’ and Elia Wilkinson Peattie’s ‘The House That Was Not.’” American Literature 79.3 (Sept. 2007): 501-26.

 

“The Crowd Within: Poe’s Impossible Aloneness.”  The Edgar Allan Poe Review VII.2 (Fall 2006): 50-64.

 

"Ten Minutes for Seven Letters: Spectrality and the Ethics of Memory in Toni Morrison’s Beloved," Arizona Quarterly 61.3 (Autumn 2005): 129-52.

 

"'Respond Now!' E-mail, Telepathy, and a Pedagogy of Patience."  Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 4.3 (Fall 2004): 364-84.

 

"Poe's Impossible Aloneness" (Abstract).  The Edgar Allan Poe Review V.2 (Fall 2004): 60.

 

"Doing Justice to Bartleby," American Transcendental Quarterly.  17.1 (March 2003):  23-42.

 

"'In Possession of the Letter': Kate Chopin's 'Her Letters'," Studies in American Fiction 30:1 (Spring 2002): 45-62.

 

"Circumcising Dracula: The Vampire as Anti-Semitic Trope," The Journal for The Fantastic in the Arts 12.1 (2001): 90-102.

 

"ZombieTV," Post-Identity 2.2 (Fall 1999): 5-21.

 "Introduction: Cultural Violences," College Literature 26.1 (Winter 1999): 1-7.

 

 "Virus Culture," Studies in Popular Culture 20.1 (October 1997): 83-97.

 

 "This is Not Foucault's Head," Post Identity I.1 (Fall 1997): 178-89.

 

 "The Disappointed Bridge" (on Joyce’s Ulysses) The Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts 8.3 (1997): 347-69.

 

 "Freaks en el Espacio," Trans. Eufemio Bildarrain. Revista de Occidente No. 201 (February 1998): 69- 87.

 

"13 Ways of Looking at Donna Haraway." CEAMAGazine Volume 7, No. 1 (Fall 1994): 31-44.

 

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