Tue, Oct 06
|801 E St NW
Profs & Pints DC: The Vampire as “Other”
The Vampire as ‘Other,’” on a dreaded centuries-old creature as stand-in for those living in the margins, with Stanley Joseph Stepanic, who teaches a course on Dracula and vampire folklore as an assistant professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Virginia.
Time & Location
Oct 06, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
801 E St NW, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Vampire as ‘Other,’” on a dreaded centuries-old creature as stand-in for those living in the margins, with Stanley Joseph Stepanic, who teaches a course on Dracula and vampire folklore as an assistant professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Virginia.
The vampire has long been a malleable symbol of everything from repressed sexual desire to dreaded disease. From its beginnings, however, it has represented few things more than “otherness,” or the condition of having outsider status for whatever reason.
Explore the vampire as a symbol of otherness—and the many ways in which it has shape-shifted to fill this role—with Professor Stanley Stepanic, who has given several excellent Profs and Pints talks in the past.
He’ll start by digging up some of the oldest references to vampires in Slavic folklore and culture, such as the 1726 case of suspected Serbian vampire Arnold Paole and…