Office: 708 Bathory Hall
Phone: x1614
Email: aopetrescu@budapest.edu

Read the preface to AOP's definitive work:
Exsanguinations: A Handbook for the Educated Vampire (Preface)

Schedule - Winter Quarter

Introduction to Proto-Vampiric Folklore
MWF 21:00-23:00, 112 Tepes Hall
Required Texts:

• Blood Rites and Patterns of Conversion in 4th century Gaul
  by Dmitri Zagidulin, University of Kiev
• The Lilith Question: Origin Myths of the Semitic Vampire
  by Moira Russell, University of Iowa
• Dark Angel: The Search for Self in the Digital Age
  by Genevieve Reyes, University of Buenos Aires
• The Stake and The Cross: Mythologies of Murder in Central and Southern Europe
  by Nerissa St. John, University of Snowdon

Survey of Women Vampires in the New World Colonies
TTh 01:00-03:30, 237 Carmilla Hall
Required Texts:

• Under the Petticoat: The Great New England Blood-Drinkers
  by Margaret and Peter Granada, University of Providence
• And They Unearthed The Childe Three Days Hence: Maternity in Colonial Vampire Lore
  by Hiyashi Aiko, University of Kyoto
• Rats, Sailors, and Grog: The Vampire's Journey to the New World
  by Giovanni Vielo, University of Venice
• Course Reader: Salem and What Happened After: The Persecution of Our People in Massachusetts Colony

Romantic Tropes in Postmodern Vampiric Psychology
S 19:00-23:00, 201 de Rais Hall
Required Texts:

• Byronism in the Contemporary Vampire: Metrosexuality, Gothic Constructions, and the New Male
  by Anna S. O-P, U of B
• Half In Love With Easeful Death: Sex and the Vampire, vol. 1
  by Wilhelm Knecht, University of Dresden
• Nosferatu, Dracula, Lestat: Constructions of Masculinity in Extra-Community Vampire Literature
  by Adrian Maru, University of the Danube
• Blood of My Blood: Oedipal Ideation in 20th Century Female-to-Male Conversions
  by Sotiris Salapatas, University of Argos
• Me and My Shadow: The Vampire as Other in Literary History
  by Genevra Verzini, University of Budapest, 1988

Freshman Composition: Melancholia, Sexuality, and Anatomy
MW 02:00-04:00, 323 Bathory Hall
TA: Catherynne M. Valente
Required Texts:

• The Norikov Anthology of Demonic Literature: 1650-1899
  compiled by Angelina Kires and Douglas Scorro, University of Los Angeles
• Death and the Other: Intersubjectivity in Vampiric Relations.
  Margarethe Von Faust, Universitat de Ingolstadt