University of Budapest
+36-30-454-1614
708 Bathory Hall
aopetrescu@budapest.edu

Current Appointment

1992-present, Geisslerin Professor, Faculty of Sanguinary History, University of Budapest, Night Campus.

Previous Appointments

1986-1991, Assistant Professor of Vampiric Proto-History, University of Constantinople, Night Campus.

1980-1985, Lecturer, Sanguinary Literature, University of the Danube, Night Campus.

Education

1973-1976 D. Phil, St. Hilda's College, Oxford University. Supervised and Converted by Dr. Ambrose K. Mosshammer, Faculty of Classical Literature.
Dissertation: Three Faced Hecate: Gender and Magic in the Greek Theological Construct.

1970-1973 M. Phil Classical Literature, St. Hilda's College, Oxford University.
Thesis: Donkeys, Owls, and Geese: Witchcraft and Metamorphosis in Post-Augustan Prose.

1966-1969 B.A. Classics, Edinburgh University.

1962-1966 Cheltenham's Ladies College
A Levels: Latin (A) Greek (A) English Literature (A) History (A)

Professional Memberships

International Society for the Advancement of Slavic Demons
European Association of Sanguinary Historians
The Order of the Ivory Tooth (Literary Archivists) -- Hungary Branch

Publications

Exsanguinations: A Handbook for the Educated Vampire.
Budapest, University of Csejthe Press, forthcoming: October 2005, 160 pp.

Byronism in the Contemporary Vampire: Metrosexuality, Gothic Constructions, and the New Male.
London, Rolando Press, 1995. 231 pp.

She Drained Me Of My Very Marrow: The Female Vampire in History and Literature.
Constantinople, University of Darvulia Press, 1987. 576 pp.

The Short Life of Elizabeth Bathory: Innovation in the Vampiric Arts.
Journal of Hungarian Fiends, Fall Issue, 1999. pp. 17-42.

This is My Blood: Notes on the Non-Western Vampire, Pt. 3: The Near East and Pacific Island Varieties.
The International Journal of Extra-Slavic Vampirism, Spring, 1997. pp. 97-152.

This is My Blood: Notes on the Non-Western Vampire, Pt. 2: The Asiatic Varieties.
The International Journal of Extra-Slavic Vampirism, Winter 1995. pp. 47-110.

This is My Blood: Notes on the Non-Western Vampire, Pt. 1: The South American Varieties.
The International Journal of Extra-Slavic Vampirism, Winter 1994. pp. 23-94.

Self and Shadow: Modern Psychiatry and the Vampiric Mind.
The American Journal of Dark Arts, Summer 1993. pp. 65-91.

On the Outside Looking In: Problematizing the Postmodern Vampire Novel.
Blood Ink Quarterly, Fall 1992. pp. 86-123.

A Literature of Our Own: Critical Issues in Vampire Authorship.
Journal of Folklore and Fact, Spring 1989. pp. 3-65.

Chickens and Eggs: The Gothic Subculture and the Idealization of the Vampire.
International Journal of American Demons, Winter 1988.

Conference Presentations

Vlad Tepes as Ur-Childe Harold: Byronism in Early Vampires.
Accepted for Presentation at the Conference for the International Organization of Vampire Historians, Lodz, Poland, Summer 2005.

Do We Not Bleed?: The Monster in the Digital World.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Order of the Ivory Tooth, Winter, Bucharest, 2003.

Killing the Buddha: Towards an End to the Centrality of the Draculan Mode.
Presented at the Dublin Conference, 2000.

Lady of Snow and Death: Blood-Demons in Japanese Anime.
Presented at the Tokyo Conference, 1998.

Beyond Hollywood: Being and Nothingness In the Wasteland of Popular Depictions.
Presented at the Berlin Conference, 1995.

Id and Superego: Anti-Intellectualism and the Stuggle for the Vampiric Soul.
Presented at the First Conference at Madrid, 1993.