As noted in our previous news item,1 advisory board members of the Journal of Vampire Studies have been added to a mailing list. In the journal’s third volume, I stated:
I’ve beefed up our Advisory Board, boosting membership from eight to thirty-three. My initial focus was vampire educators (as a potential journal demographic), but I expanded the search to scholars with significant works in the field.
Moving forward, board members will now serve a two-year term which they can renew should they wish to. They may also drop out at any time. This policy will help ensure greater commitment and engagement with the journal, not to mention greater interaction on my part. The main way this engagement will be achieved is through adding them to an online mailing list, then soliciting feedback via newsletter-like posts (if not an actual Advisory Board newsletter).2
Today, I sent current board members (now numbering thirty-six) an email about their tenure as all save one have now passed the two-year tenure limit. They have the option of continuing (as others have the option of joining). As to how many will, that will be revealed in the next volume of the journal, slated for release in December.
The emails were sent via a mailing list platform. That means they might land in junk mail folders rather than inboxes. If you’re an advisory board member reading this, please check your junk mail just in case.
To be on the safe side, I will also follow up with individual emails after the deadline for response: February 28th.
- Anthony Hogg, “Registry of Members Revision,” News, Vampire Studies Association, January 6, 2026, https://vampirestudies.org/2026/01/01/registry-of-members-revision/. ↩︎
- Anthony Hogg, “Message from the President/Editor,” Journal of Vampire Studies 3 (2023): 3–4, https://archive.org/details/journal_of_vampire_studies_3_2023. ↩︎
