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Kristopher Woofter, PhD,聽teaches courses on horror, the American Gothic and the Weird tradition in literature and the moving image in the English Department of 蘑菇视频 in Montreal. He is Co-Editor of and Associate Editor of . Publications include the聽collection,聽Joss Whedon vs. Horror: Fangs, Fans and Genre in Buffy and Beyond (I.B. Tauris, 2018), co-edited with Lorna Jowett, and聽Fragments of the Monster: Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema聽(Lexington, 2015), co-edited with Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare and Charlie Ellb茅.聽He served for ten years (2007-2017) as co-chair of the Horror Area of the Popular Culture Association. His essay, “Watchers in the Woods: Meta-Horror, Genre Hybridity, and Reality-TV Critique in The Cabin in the Woods,” won the Whedon Studies Association’s “Mr. Pointy” Award for outstanding short-form scholarship in Whedon studies. He was also selected as valedictorian for the November 2017 Concordia University convocation. Kristopher is also a programmer for the Montreal Underground Film Festival and co-coordinator of the Montreal Monstrum society.

Publications

• (2018) Book Co-Editor (with Lorna Jowett) and 鈥淚ntroduction: Whedon and the Myth of Horror.鈥� Joss Whedon vs. Horror: Fangs, Fans and Genre in Buffy and Beyond. London: I.B. Tauris.
• (2018) Essay/Chapter. 鈥淲eird Whedon: Cosmic Dread and Radical Alterity in the Whedonverse.鈥� Joss Whedon vs. Horror: Fangs, Fans and Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Ed. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. London: I.B. Tauris.
• (20 April 2018) Essay. 鈥淩adical Diversion: Attractions Politics in the Horror Pseudo-documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle.鈥� MONSTRUM. 1 (1). April 2018.
• (20 April 2018) Editor. 鈥溾�楾he Death of Death鈥�: A Memorial Retrospective on George A. Romero.鈥� MONSTRUM 1(1). April 2018.
• (20 April 2018) Article. 鈥�Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear and The Dark Half.鈥� In 鈥溾�楾he Death of Death鈥�: A Memorial Retrospective on George A. Romero.鈥� MONSTRUM 1(1). April 2018.
• (January 2015) Book Co-Editor and 鈥淚ntroduction: Fragments of the Monster鈥擱ecovering a Lost Decade.鈥� (with Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare). Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
• (January 2015) Essay/Chapter. 鈥淎 鈥楧arkly Hypothetical Reality鈥�: 鈥楪othic Realism鈥� in Forties Hollywood Horror Cinema.鈥� Fragments of the Monster: Recovering Forties Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade. Edited by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Charlie Ellb茅 and Kristopher Woofter. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
• (May 2014) Essay/Chapter. 鈥淲atchers in the Woods: Meta-Horror, Genre Hybridity, and Reality TV Critique in The Cabin in the Woods.鈥� Reading Joss Whedon. Edited by Rhonda Wilcox, Tanya Cochran and Cynthea Masson. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
• (December 2014 鈥� January 2015) Journal Special Issue Co-Editor (with Jasie Stokes) 鈥溾�橶e Are Not Who We Are鈥�: Critical Perspectives on Cabin in the Woods (2012).鈥� Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies. 10.2/11.1 (36-37) Journal Editors, David Lavery and Rhonda Wilcox.
• (December 2014) Introduction. 鈥淥nce More Into the Woods: An Introduction and Provocation.鈥� (with Jasie Stokes). 鈥溾�橶e Are Not Who We Are鈥�: Critical Perspectives on Cabin in the Woods (2012).鈥� Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies. 10.2/11.1 (36-37) Journal Editors, David Lavery and Rhonda Wilcox.
• (September-December 2012) Essay. (with Papagena Robbins) 鈥溾�楪othumentary鈥�: The Gothic鈥檚 Unsettling of Documentary鈥檚 Rhetoric of Rationality.鈥� Textus: English Studies in Italy. Special issue: 鈥淕othic Frontiers.鈥� Edited by Glennis Byron and Francesca Saggini. 25 (3)
• (2010) Essay/Chapter. 鈥淟ittle Red Riding 鈥� Buffy?: 鈥楤uffy vs. Dracula鈥� in Explorations of Intertextuality in Introduction to College English.鈥� Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire Slayer. Edited by Meghan K. Winchell and Jodie A. Krieder. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland.