Kristopher Woofter, PhD, teaches courses on horror, the American Gothic and the Weird tradition in literature and the moving image in the English Department of Dawson College in Montreal. He is Co-Editor of Monstrum and Associate Editor of Slayage:The Journal of Whedon Studies. Publications include the collection, Joss Whedon vs. Horror: Fangs, Fans and Genre in Buffy and Beyond (I.B. Tauris, 2018), co-edited with Lorna Jowett, and Fragments of the Monster: Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema (Lexington, 2015), co-edited with Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare and Charlie Ellbé. He served for ten years (2007-2017) as co-chair of the Horror Area of the Popular Culture Association. His essay, “Watchers in the Woods: Meta-Horror, Genre Hybridity, and Reality-TV Critique in The Cabin in the Woods,” won the Whedon Studies Association’s “Mr. Pointy” Award for outstanding short-form scholarship in Whedon studies. He was also selected as valedictorian for the November 2017 Concordia University convocation. Kristopher is also a programmer for the Montreal Underground Film Festival and co-coordinator of the Montreal Monstrum society.

Publications

• (2018) Book Co-Editor (with Lorna Jowett) and “Introduction: Whedon and the Myth of Horror.” Joss Whedon vs. Horror: Fangs, Fans and Genre in Buffy and Beyond. London: I.B. Tauris.
• (2018) Essay/Chapter. “Weird Whedon: Cosmic Dread and Radical Alterity in the Whedonverse.” Joss Whedon vs. Horror: Fangs, Fans and Genre in Buffy and Beyond. Ed. Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett. London: I.B. Tauris.
• (20 April 2018) Essay. “Radical Diversion: Attractions Politics in the Horror Pseudo-documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle.” MONSTRUM. 1 (1). April 2018.
• (20 April 2018) Editor. “‘The Death of Death’: A Memorial Retrospective on George A. Romero.” MONSTRUM 1(1). April 2018.
• (20 April 2018) Article. “Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear and The Dark Half.” In “‘The Death of Death’: A Memorial Retrospective on George A. Romero.” MONSTRUM 1(1). April 2018.
• (January 2015) Book Co-Editor and “Introduction: Fragments of the Monster—Recovering a Lost Decade.” (with Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare). Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
• (January 2015) Essay/Chapter. “A ‘Darkly Hypothetical Reality’: ‘Gothic Realism’ in Forties Hollywood Horror Cinema.” Fragments of the Monster: Recovering Forties Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade. Edited by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Charlie Ellbé and Kristopher Woofter. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
• (May 2014) Essay/Chapter. “Watchers in the Woods: Meta-Horror, Genre Hybridity, and Reality TV Critique in The Cabin in the Woods.” Reading Joss Whedon. Edited by Rhonda Wilcox, Tanya Cochran and Cynthea Masson. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
• (December 2014 – January 2015) Journal Special Issue Co-Editor (with Jasie Stokes) “’We Are Not Who We Are’: Critical Perspectives on Cabin in the Woods (2012).” Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies. 10.2/11.1 (36-37) Journal Editors, David Lavery and Rhonda Wilcox.
• (December 2014) Introduction. “Once More Into the Woods: An Introduction and Provocation.” (with Jasie Stokes). “’We Are Not Who We Are’: Critical Perspectives on Cabin in the Woods (2012).” Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies. 10.2/11.1 (36-37) Journal Editors, David Lavery and Rhonda Wilcox.
• (September-December 2012) Essay. (with Papagena Robbins) “‘Gothumentary’: The Gothic’s Unsettling of Documentary’s Rhetoric of Rationality.” Textus: English Studies in Italy. Special issue: “Gothic Frontiers.” Edited by Glennis Byron and Francesca Saggini. 25 (3)
• (2010) Essay/Chapter. “Little Red Riding … Buffy?: ‘Buffy vs. Dracula’ in Explorations of Intertextuality in Introduction to College English.” Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire Slayer. Edited by Meghan K. Winchell and Jodie A. Krieder. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland.