Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (born January 24, 1970) is an American literature, film, and media scholar who has been teaching in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University since 2001. He has authored or edited more than thirty books and a range of articles focusing on the American Gothic tradition, monsters, cult film and television, popular culture, weird fiction, pedagogy, and goth music. Weinstock is the associate editor in charge of horror for the Los Angeles Review of Books, the founder and president of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, the founder and general editor of the peer-reviewed journal American Gothic Studies, and the co-founder and past chair of the Modern Language Association’s Gothic Studies Forum. He was the 2019 recipient of the Poe Studies Association's James W. Gargano Award for the best scholarly article on Poe and the 2024 recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service to the field of speculative literature and media studies. Also in 2024, his monograph, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety, was short-listed for the International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for the scholarly monograph considered to have advanced the field of Gothic studies significantly.