Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT

Sheila Cavanagh, Professor of English and Director of the World Shakespeare Project and The Emory Women Writers Resource Project, and Joonna Trapp, Director of the Emory Writing Program and Writing Across Emory

Emory has recently acquired the Bram Stoker archives, long in private hands. These materials reflect the preoccupations of the Irish-born Stoker as he researched and penned Dracula (1897) during his lengthy employment at London's famous Lyceum Theatre. And they also reveal the wide influence the novel has had on literary, filmic, and popular culture since his day. Professors Cavanagh and Trapp describe how they have united their scholarly interests in the world of the theater and the vampiric to teach a course utilizing these exciting materials. They will share how the collection has helped them and their students journey through the theater environment where Stoker worked closely with famous Shakespeareans actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, through the wider literary world of London, and beyond, way beyond, both to the past, to Transylvania to meet Vlad the Impaler, and to the present, to examine the many permutations of Dracula still with us today.