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AMERICAN VAMPIRES: ANNE RICE’S "INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE"

AMERICAN VAMPIRES: ANNE RICE’S "INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE"

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Beginning with a discussion of the Stonewall Riots and the beginning of the LGBTQ movement, this course will discuss Anne Rice’s reimagining of the vampire mythology through her groundbreaking novel The Interview with the Vampire (1976). We will examine the various ways she explores prejudice and intolerance in American culture from her depiction of plantation culture in the Antebellum South, the patriarchal oppression of women, and homophobia. Rice not only reimagined this mythology, dispensing with several of Bram Stoker’s innovations, but she also opened up new ways for vampire stories to comment on contemporary American life.
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About the lecturer(s)

Thomas Fahy

Thomas Fahy, a nonfiction writer, novelist, and professor of literature and creative writing, has published 19 books. His most recent, The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald, was released in November of 2025. He has also published essays on everything from Paris Hilton and 1980s vampire films to contemporary television and theater. His works have been translated into several languages, and he has been interviewed by the Associated Press, Salon, and other publications, as well as radio hosts in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and Malaysia. He was recently featured in a documentary about Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood for Arte Television and on the BBC radio program “Literary Pursuits.”


When he is not writing, Dr. Fahy performs regularly as a classical pianist with the New York Piano Society and has appeared in recent concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, and other venues in New York City. He has a degree in music from the University of California, Davis, and he served as an adjunct professor of piano at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for several years before moving to New York. He is a fascinating and dynamic teacher who is able to bring his wide interdisciplinary knowledge to whatever the subject.

Lecture Details

Sessions

2 lecture(s)
Day & Time

Friday, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Date(s)

Oct 06, 2023
Oct 13, 2023