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Eric Gary Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at George Mason University, serving as Director of Graduate Studies and coordinating the Native American & Indigenous Studies minor. His research focuses on intersections of Native American literatures, Southern Gothic traditions, and environmental criticism. Awarded the University Teaching Excellence Award (2014), he has published widely on topics such as Indigenous ecologies, horror fiction, and transregional Southern narratives.
Anderson’s scholarly works include co-editing Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies (2020) and Undead Souths (2015), alongside essays in PMLA and Native South. He investigates themes like Indigenous hauntings, ecoGothic slasher films, and postcolonial ecologies. His current projects include The Indigenous Undead and Slasher Ecologies, exploring Gothic frameworks in Native and environmental narratives.
He has supervised PhD student Melissa Beard and co-edited special journal issues on Native Southern Literature (2019) and ecoGothic (2024). His teaching spans courses like Haunted Native America and 20th/21st-Century Southern Fictions, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to literature and culture.
