Taylor Hagood
Professor Hagood’s scholarship and teaching includes focus on science fiction and fantasy, with particular emphasis on the latter. Along with Eric Gary Anderson and Daniel Cross Turner, he edited Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture, to which he also contributed a chapter on zombies and vampires in True Blood and the Goon comics series. His chapter on Jeremy Love’s Bayou was published in Redrawing the Historical “Past”: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels, edited Martha J. Cutter and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, and his chapter on the history and affect of Frankenstein masks is forthcoming in a collection scheduled to be published by Bloomsbury to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein with Mary Shelley’s name listed as the author for the first time. Additionally, he is currently writing a biography of Theodore Pratt, whose writings include fantasy and science fiction novels and stories. Professor Hagood has presented papers at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. He includes fantasy in his courses, with texts such as Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Princess of Mars, and the comic book, Preacher.
Graduate Courses with Science Fiction and Fantasy Related Content
- The Thing in American Modernism
- Undead Souths
- Race, Gender, and Disability in American Literature
- Animals in American Literature
Science Fiction and Fantasy Related Books
Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Eric Gary Anderson and Daniel Cross Turner. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015 (issued in paperback edition 2022)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Related Articles
“Frankenstein Masks: Perpetuating the Monster Assemblage,” Afterlives of Frankenstein: Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings, edited by Robert Lublin and Elizabeth Fay. London: Bloomsbury (forthcoming)
“Nostalgic Realism: Jeremy Love’s Bayou,” Redrawing the Historical “Past”: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels. Ed. Martha J. Cutter and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials. Athens: University of Georgia Press (2018): 41-60
Science Fiction and Fantasy Related Conference Papers
“On the Affect of Frankenstein Masks,” The 39th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts , Orlando, FL, March 2018
“‘They Came Now as Friends and Allies’: Reconciliation Romance and The Princess of Mars,” The 37th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 2016
“Comic Strips—Hybridity— Pylon,” Faulkner and Print Culture: The 42nd Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference , University of Mississippi, July 2015
“Swampmonsters, Terror(ism), and Cartoon Capability in Bayou and Archer,” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference , University of Georgia, April 2015
“Graphic (Un)Being: Swamping the Deleuzian Body Without Organs in Contemporary Comics (Swamp Thing, Swamp Preacher, and Bayou),” Modern Language Association Convention, Vancouver, Canada, January 2015
“Striking Back Black: Discourses of Headlessness in Charles W. Chesnutt’s ‘The Marked Tree,’” South Central Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, October 2013
“The Return of the Interred Oppressed: Zombie Roots and the Plantation Past in Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing,” Southern American Studies Association Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, January 2013
“The Undead, Popular Culture, and Southern Figuration,” Modern Language Association Convention , Seattle, Washington, January 2012
