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Atlanta, GA | Posted: April 1, 2015
Summary Sentence:
First-year Brittain Fellow writes on communities of people who call themselves vampires.
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John BrowningBrowning, a first-year Brittan Fellow, is garnering serious media attention for his essay on real vampires in New Orleans and Buffalo.
Browning, who recently received his PhD in American Studies from SUNY Buffalo, works in a variety of fields: American Studies, Film and Media Studies, Popular Culture, Digital Humanities, Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Victorian and Fin de siècle Literature, Gothic and Horror Studies, and Deviance.
Among the media outlets that have covered Browning's article on 'real' vampires are Smithsonian.com and the Daily Telegraph.
To read the commentary in Smithsonian.com go to http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-communities-people-who-call-themselves-vampires-180954817/?no-ist
To read the story in the Daily Telegraph, go to http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/special-features/us-sociologist-exposes-a-world-of-real-vampires/story-fnknbqfy-1227293877737
