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The Vampire in Literature and Cinema

Dracula and Angel and Edward Cullen! Oh My! Are you obsessed with any or all of these characters? Do you feel the need to study their background even more than you already have? Tomislav Longinovic, professor of Slavic and comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin, can help you out. His undgergraduate class explores the infamous bloodsuckers in literature and film. Originally from Belgrade, he knows a thing or two about vampire lore.

Sorry. You will not be watching any of the Twilight movies or Buffy the Vampire Slayer reruns, but you will watch three films: Nosferatu a 1922 film by F. W. Marnau, Dracula directed by Tod Browning, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stocker’s Dracula. In addition, the class will read short stories by Tolstoy, Byron, Goethe, Sheridan Le Fanu and many others.

The incredible popularity of vampires in popular media will make many students pretty jealous they can’t take this class.

School:

University of Wisconsin