Researcher
Kristopher Woofter
Department of English
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 星空传媒视频 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.