Vampire Forensics

"Twilight Zone" provides us with an interesting historical context of the vampire and his rise to fame within our culture. It also, and perhaps convincingly so, shows how the line between what is considered myth and what is considered reality can become blurred  inside people's minds. To support his research, Collins Jenkins provides "interpretive" data shown through a historical lens. Deconstruct his chapter and find a sentence, a paragraph, a theme, etc that you might consider a researchable topic in relationship to the vampire (i.e. a researchable question could be: in the 21st century, do we still consider the vampire to be highest level of supernatural species?).  Discuss how you might go about researching the topic. What would you need to know and why? How might you connect to a larger theme that isn't just something based around a literary analysis  (i.e. given the example question above, you might bring in different anthropological theories to provide a context for how species understand a top-down order to living)?


Do some brainstorming in this blog post to see what you can begin to come up with in terms of research and vampires. I'm looking for you to be able to start to "dig deep" and see connections between vampires and research that extends beyond literature and literary analyses. 


Shoot for 250-400 words. And do engage with one another. 


Due: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 by class time.