Sam George- The Folkloric Vampire

Sam George is Associate Professor in Research and the Convenor of the popular Open Graves, Open MindsProject at the University of Hertfordshire. She publishes on botany alongside the gothic, unearthing depictions of the vampire and the undead in literature, art, and other media, embracing werewolves (and representations of wolves and wild children), dark fairies, and other supernatural beings and their worlds. Her new research is specifically focussed on the intersection between folklore and the gothic, it ranges from British werewolves  to Japanese mermaids. She is currently completing a monograph on the folklore of Shadows and a book on Gothic Fairies: A History for Bloomsbury.

Following OGOM’s international conference on vampires in 2010, Sam developed the first postgraduate module on vampire studies in the UK, exciting the interest of the national and international press. She is now a leading spokesperson for the literary vampire. Her interviews have appeared in newspapers from…