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).
About the IAAS W. A. Emmerson Lecture:
Beginning in 2014, the IAAS Lecture is an annual event, hosted at a third level institution on the island of Ireland, and presented by an invited member of the IAAS on a topic of their choosing. In 2015, the lecture was renamed the W. A. Emmerson Lecture, in honour of our much-loved late Treasurer. Broad in its remit, the IAAS Lecture appeals to both academic and non-academic communities, and promotes the long-standing interest in and connection to American culture in Ireland.
