Vampire ‘Vagrants’ in Native American Narratives

IAAS WA Emmerson Lecture 2025: Vampire ‘Vagrants’ in Native American Narratives

A consideration of what happens when a monster expands beyond its ‘home territory,’ this talk will focus on that most malleable of gothic/horror icons, the vampire, and explore some of the interesting ways that it has been adapted to Native American narratives.

About the Speaker: Jack Fennell is a writer and researcher who teaches at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the editor of three fiction anthologies, A Brilliant Void (2018), It Rose Up (2021), and Your Own Dark Shadow (2024) collecting lesser-known Irish science fiction, fantasy and horror stories respectively. He is the author of the academic studies Irish Science Fiction (2014) and Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800-2000 (2019), and was a contributing translator to The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (2013).