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Bruce A. McClelland is a writer, translator, and vampirologist in Gordonsville, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic Studies at the University of Virginia. His work on vampires has appeared in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies. He has published four books of poetry, a book of translations of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, and his translations of Russian poetry have appeared in journals, books, and anthologies.
"McClelland's brilliant insight in Slayers and Their Vampires is
how much the living need the living-dead. From the folkloric
tradition down to the Buffy, the vampire slayer is twinned forever
with the revenants she would slay, as though they, and we, can
never escape our evil twin who lives in the shadows of death. The
story of vampires is the story of the human soul struggling with
its darkest desire, to become death in place of dying, as though
one could master death by mimicking it."
---C. Fred Alford, Professor of Government and Distinguished
Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland, College Park, and author
of What Evil Means to Us
"Shades of Van Helsing! Vampirologist extraordinaire Bruce
McClelland has managed that rarest of feats: developing a radically
new and thoroughly enlightening perspective on a topic of eternal
fascination. Ranging from the icons of popular culture to
previously overlooked details of Balkan and Slavic history and folk
practice, he has rethought the borders of life and death, good and
evil, saint and sinner, vampires and their slayers. Excellent
scholarship, and a story that never flags."
---Bruce Lincoln, Caroline E. Haskell Professor of History of
Religions, University of Chicago, and author of Theorizing Myth:
Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship, Authority: Construction and
Corrosion, and Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and
Practice
"The vampire slayer is our protector, our hero, our Buffy. But how
much do we really know about him---or her? Very little, it turns
out, and Bruce McClelland shows us why: because the vampire slayer
is an unsettling figure, almost as disturbing as the evil she is
set to destroy. Prepare to be frightened...and enlightened."
---Corey Robin, author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea
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