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John Edgar Browning is an American author and editor recognized internationally〔Diamond, Laura, "Sinking his teeth into Dracula." Georgia Tech News Center. Retrieve at: http://www.news.gatech.edu/features/john-edgar-browning〕 for his nonfiction works about the horror genre and vampires in both movies and literature. He is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Browning is considered an "expert on vampires specializing in the Dracula figure in film, literature, television, and popular culture."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://artvoice.com/issues/v10n43/five_questions )〕 His works expound upon Dracula, horror, vampires, the supernatural, the un-dead, Bram Stoker, and gothic and cultural theory. As a vampire scholar, Browning has appeared in two documentary television series: The National Geographic Channel's ''Taboo USA,''〔http://natgeotv.com/za/taboo-usa〕 formerly Taboo (TV series), and Discovery Channel's William Shatner's Weird or What?〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2133220/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.moadb.com/movies/656854-taboo-usa )〕 For his book ''Dracula in Visual Media'', Browning documented over 700 "domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animations, and video games . . . (well as ) nearly 1000 domestic and international comic book titles and stage adaptations."〔Browning, John Edgar, and Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart. ''Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010'' (McFarland, 2011), 4.〕 For the book, Browning won the Lord Ruthven Award, an award for deserving work in vampire fiction or scholarship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-edgar-browning/ )〕 The book was also nominated for a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award (a.k.a. a "Rondo Award") for Book of the Year in 2011.〔http://www.rondoaward.com/rondo/RONDOIXRESULTS.html〕 ==Education== Browning earned his B.A. from Florida State University and then his M.A. at the University of Central Oklahoma. He completed his doctoral coursework in English at Louisiana State University before transferring to American Studies at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY-Buffalo). At SUNY-Buffalo, Browning received an Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship in the Department of Transnational Studies. While there, Browning continued his doctoral studies and was an adjunct professor in English.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://chroniclevitae.com/people/2393-john-edgar-browning/profile )〕 One of the courses Browning taught at SUNY-Buffalo was A Cultural History of the Walking Dead, a fifteen week course. The course drew on Richard Matheson's novel ''I Am Legend'' as well as the films of George Romero.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://academies.buffalo.edu/discoveryseminars/seminars.php?seminar=14193 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Edgar Browning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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