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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Public
Lecture: Saturday, March 12, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Hall of Languages, 203<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Free:
Students, Staff, Faculty, and Community invited!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"'How
Does it Feel to be a Problem?' Black Vampires in American Media" <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sarah
N. Gatson Texas A&M University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sarah
N. Gatson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University.
Her research interests include race/ethnicity, gender, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>culture,
legal studies, identity, community, citizenship, media and technology, and
qualitative methods. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Her
work has appeared in <i>Law & Social Inquiry</i>, <i>Research in Community
Sociology</i>, <i>Qualitative Research</i>, <i>Qualitative Inquiry</i>, <i>Contemporary
Sociology</i>, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Feminist
Media Studies</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>,
and <i>Advances in Physiology Education</i>; as book chapters in <i>Fighting
the Forces: What’s at Stake in </i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Faculty
of Color Teaching in Predominantly White Institutions</span></i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, and <i>Real Drugs
in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>She
is the coauthor of the book Interpersonal <i>Culture on the
Internet—Television, the Internet, and the Making of a Community</i>
(Edwin Mellen Press, 2004).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In
her talk, she connects to the insights made by W. E. B. DuBois in <i>The Souls
of Black Folk</i>, examining whether Black vampires are more often monsters <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(in
the <i>Nosferatu </i>tradition, with its heavy anti-semitism) or lovers (in the
film <i>Dracula</i> tradition).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dr.
Gatson is appearing as one of the activities scheduled for an advanced creative
writing course taught for the first time at A&M-Commerce this Spring:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Forms
and Genres" Vampire Narratives." Undergraduate and graduate
students are studying the conventions of vampire narratives in books, films,
and television shows, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and
writing their own narratives. Further media presentations and discussions
will take place after Spring Break!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For
more information about the event, contact Dr. Robin Anne Reid, Professor,
Literature and Languages at <a href="mailto:Robin_Reid@tamu-commerce.edu">Robin_Reid@tamu-commerce.edu</a>
, 903.886.5268.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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