This collection of original essays presents pedagogical tools, methods, and approaches for incorporating the figure of the vampire into the learning environment of the college classroom, in the hopes of ushering the Undead out of the coffin and into the classroom. The essays foster collaboration and dialogue across different disciplines, and serve as a collective resource for those who would teach the vampire. Opening with a foreword by Sam George, the collection is organised around such topics as historicising the vampire, teaching the diverse vampire, and engaging the student learner. Interwoven throughout the volume are strategies for incorporating writing instruction and generating conversations about texts (""texts"" defined broadly so as to include film and other media). The vampire allows instructors to explore timeless themes such as life and death, love and passion, immortality, and monstrosity and Otherness.

Book Information
ISBN 9780786475544
Author Lisa A. Nevarez
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc