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We want to thank everyone for their continued interest in Dr. Rebecca Housel, The Pop Culture ProfessorTM, and her books. See the Doc's latest on the BLOG; search the blog archives for other juicy pop culture-related tidbits and philosophical philandering, including the new Pop Culture Cooking segments. Look up new links to Doc Housel on our updated LINKS page. Check out the Doc's new REPAIR THE WORLD page to see where The Pop Culture Professor (TM) donated 100% of her proceeds in 2013. And please see the new CONTACT page to use the easy form for sending requests to RebeccaHousel.com for appearances, interviews, signings, and lectures. We appreciate your support!
WHAT'S NEW:
Check out the APPEARANCES page for dates and FULL DETAILS on The Pop Culture ProfessorTM's 2014-2015 Comic Con TOUR with WIZARD WORLD! www.wizardworld.com/RebeccaHousel.html
#PopCultureProfessor LIVE at Wizard World Atlanta Comic Con May 30th at 4pm for #PopCultureProfessor Presents: THE WHEDONVERSE! Saturday, May 31st at 11am, learn thousands of years of supernatural history in #PopCultureProfessor Presents: VAMPIRE MYTH & SUPERNATURAL SUPERHERO LEGEND! AND, #PopCultureProfessor goes LIVE with Special Guest, James Bell of NWGAPRS.com for HAUNTED GEORGIA at 7pm on Saturday, May 31st! More Special Guests are yet to be announced for May 31st, so stay tuned....
Listen to Anarchy Radio on HouseofSound.org to hear the #PopCultureProfessor LIVE! Search the January 2014 archives for a guest appearance with Ghost Hunter's GRANT WILSON! April 3rd show with Paranormal Expert James Bell of NWGAPRS.com, who will also perform at ATLANTA COMIC CON, & Cliff of Animal Planet's Big Foot reality show! May 1st show with the director of ALIEN ABDUCTION & James Bell!
#PopCultureProfessor QUOTED in Blouin ArtInfo: http://blogs.artinfo.com/spotlight/2014/03/28/the-renaissance-of-tv-horror/
#PopCultureProfessor QUOTED in STL Riverfront Times! http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2014-04-03/news/wizard-world-inc-comic-con-expansion/
#PopCultureProfessor LIVE in Minneapolis May 2-4 with special guests Dean Cain, Manu Bennett, Ralph Macchio, James Marsters, and Jason David Frank! And don't miss the PREMIERE of THE #PopCultureProfessor and THE WHEDONVERSE LIVE on Friday, May 2nd, 5pm! Vampire Myth & Supernatural Superhero Legend with Dr. Rebecca Housel at 11am on May 3rd! Don't miss it!
#PopCultureProfessor LIVE in NEW ORLEANS February 7-9 & LOUISVILLE March 28-30 with Pam Grier, J. August Richards, Dean Cain, Manu Bennett, Robert Hayes, James Marsters, Jason David Frank, Stan Lee, and more!!!
#PopCultureProfessor in AUSTIN with James Marsters, Jason David Frank, Amy Bruni, & James Hong 11/22-24!
See The #PopCultureProfessor in NASHVILLE with James Marsters, Henry Winkler, and Jason David Frank 10/18-20!
San Antonio journalist, Rene Guzman, talks #zombies this month with The #PopCultureProfessor:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/article/Zombies-live-on-4888303.php
Salon.com quotes The #PopCultureProfessor: http://www.salon.com/2013/08/25/tv_characters_are_invading_our_lives/
The #PopCultureProfessor will be LIVE in Chicago at WIZARD CON Thursday, 8/8-8/11 with James, Marsters, John Barrowman, Brandon Routh, Jason David Frank, and Jason Priestly!!!
The #PopCultureProfessor will be with True Blood star, Denis O'Hare, on 6/29 at Basketball City/Pier 36 at 5pm!!! Don't miss it!!!
What does The Pop Culture ProfessorTM, Tom Cruise and the LA Times have in common--well, besides LA??? Check out the quotes from Dr. Rebecca Housel on the new release OBLIVION in this great piece by LA Times columnist, Rene Lynch:
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/dailydish/la-dd-oblivion-futuristic-food-20130423,0,4872662.story
The #PopCultureProfessor talks #zombies and Brad Pitt's #WorldWarZ in PHILOSOPHY NOW:
http://philosophynow.org/issues/96/Eating_Your_Brain_21st-Century_Zombies
The #PopCultureProfessor featured on THE EVENT HORIZON with Gene & Susan of KRYPTON RADIO, initial air date June 8th:
http://kryptonradio.com/2013/06/08/the-event-horizon-dr-rebecca-housel-the-pop-culture-professor/
The #PopCultureProfessor LIVE with Anarchy Radio 5/23 in Portland, Oregon: www.houseofsound.org
http://www.houseofsound.org/programs/112-anarchy-radio
Listen to The #PopCultureProfessor talk #zombies, #vampires, #superheroes, and more with the Cultdom Collective:
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-54821/TS-749773.mp3
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-cultdom-collective/id324932943?mt=2
The Pop Culture ProfessorTM is featured in an upcoming UK radio documentary on all-things fanged and furry with London-journalist, Rachel Wood! Stay tuned for details!
Look for an upcoming article in PHILOSOPHY NOW by The Pop Culture ProfessorTM on Zombies, including the films WARM BODIES & WORLD WAR Z!
http://philosophynow.org/
The Pop Culture ProfessorTM is quoted again in USA TODAY, this time, on Fifty Shades of Grey!
http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/campuslife/fifty-shades-away-from-a-conventional-course
See the #PopCultureProfessorTM LIVE @WizardWorld's New Orleans Comic Con on Saturday, 12/1 with Eliza Dushku & Sunday 12/2 with Michael Madsen! http://www.wizardworld.com/rebeccahousel.html
Catch the #PopCultureProfessorTM on the UK's CULTDOM COLLECTIVE in an interview recorded LIVE with DaveAC and The 6th Doctor, where we talk all things supernatural and sci-fi including Twilight, True Blood, Being Human, Fifty Shades of Grey, Mockingbird Lane, Star Trek, Dr, Who, Buffy, Angel...and SO MUCH MORE!
-https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-cultdom-collective/id324932943?mt=2
-http://forums.syfy.com/index.php?showtopic=2361836
-http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=54821&cmd=tc
-http://cultdom.com/2012/11/20/cultdom-interview-dr-rebecca-housel/
Twilight & Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians & the Pursuit of Immortality to be published in its NINTH language, CHINESE, in 2013!
True Blood & Philosophy: We Wanna THINK Bad Things With You, the 1st and 2nd editions, published in Spanish for 2013! Los buenos tiempos!!!
The Pop Culture ProfessorTM talks Twilight, True Blood & X-Men at the Toronto Comic Con AND the Boston Comic Con with future appearances scheduled for the Austin Comic Con and the New Orleans Comic Con! Stay tuned for more details...in the meantime, check out the links below:
http://www.wizardworldcomiccon.com/home-toronto.html
http://www.bostoncomiccon.com/events.html
AND, check out this live interview with Ramblin' Russ on the floor of Artists' Alley at the Wizard World Toronto Comic Con:
http://ec.libsyn.com/p/1/7/8/1789c6b1dcb0844e/ramble_297.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d01cb823fd5ce5e6cff&c_id=4455377
The Pop Culture Professor talks Young Adult phenom, Amanda Hocking, with USA TODAY's Deirdre Donahue in January 2012!
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/story/2012-01-03/amanda-hocking-self-published-author/52345642/1
The Pop Culture Professor Performs 20th Anniversary Comedy Show at Nick's Comedy Stop! Check it out on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb56C9jXiV8
NEW at iTunes, Amazon and Barnes and Noble! True Blood & Philosophy: We Wanna THINK Bad Things With You e-book 2nd edition with BONUS chapters on your favorite characters from Season 4 and 2012's Season 5! Buy your copy with the latest Sookie Stackhouse novel from Charlaine Harris!!!
@DocHousel on Twitter in January as featured author of the Urban Fantasy Chat on vampires in popular culture, including fangers from True Blood, the sparkly variety of Twilight and the sexy day-walkers in Vampire Diaries--no problem! Simply search #UFchat on Twitter to catch up.... And a great big thank you to hosts @inkGypsy and @shadowflame1974 for featuring the Pop Culture ProfessorTM for not just one week...but TWO! Follow the conversation with #popcultureprofessor!!!
Congratulations to the winners of Twitter's Urban Fantasy Chat Giveaway: Jami Gold, winner of an autographed copy of X-Men & Philosophy; Mari Miniatt, winner of an autographed copy of Twilight & Philosophy; and Sarah Hendrix, winner of an autographed copy of True Blood & Philosophy!
True Blood & Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things with You NOW available in English, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish!
Twilight & Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians and the Pursuit of Immortality NOW available in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian!
X-Men & Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse NOW available in English, Portugese and Polish!
The audio book, Twilight & Philosophy, read by Rebecca Housel, is NOW available for purchase on Amazon and...iTunes!
We want to thank everyone for their continued interest in Dr. Rebecca Housel, The Pop Culture ProfessorTM, and her books. See the Doc's latest on the BLOG; search the blog archives for other juicy pop culture-related tidbits and philosophical philandering, including the new Pop Culture Cooking segments. Look up new links to Doc Housel on our updated LINKS page. Check out the Doc's new REPAIR THE WORLD page to see where The Pop Culture Professor (TM) donated 100% of her proceeds in 2013. And please see the new CONTACT page to use the easy form for sending requests to RebeccaHousel.com for appearances, interviews, signings, and lectures. We appreciate your support!
WHAT'S NEW:
Check out the APPEARANCES page for dates and FULL DETAILS on The Pop Culture ProfessorTM's 2014-2015 Comic Con TOUR with WIZARD WORLD! www.wizardworld.com/RebeccaHousel.html
#PopCultureProfessor LIVE at Wizard World Atlanta Comic Con May 30th at 4pm for #PopCultureProfessor Presents: THE WHEDONVERSE! Saturday, May 31st at 11am, learn thousands of years of supernatural history in #PopCultureProfessor Presents: VAMPIRE MYTH & SUPERNATURAL SUPERHERO LEGEND! AND, #PopCultureProfessor goes LIVE with Special Guest, James Bell of NWGAPRS.com for HAUNTED GEORGIA at 7pm on Saturday, May 31st! More Special Guests are yet to be announced for May 31st, so stay tuned....
Listen to Anarchy Radio on HouseofSound.org to hear the #PopCultureProfessor LIVE! Search the January 2014 archives for a guest appearance with Ghost Hunter's GRANT WILSON! April 3rd show with Paranormal Expert James Bell of NWGAPRS.com, who will also perform at ATLANTA COMIC CON, & Cliff of Animal Planet's Big Foot reality show! May 1st show with the director of ALIEN ABDUCTION & James Bell!
#PopCultureProfessor QUOTED in Blouin ArtInfo: http://blogs.artinfo.com/spotlight/2014/03/28/the-renaissance-of-tv-horror/
#PopCultureProfessor QUOTED in STL Riverfront Times! http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2014-04-03/news/wizard-world-inc-comic-con-expansion/
#PopCultureProfessor LIVE in Minneapolis May 2-4 with special guests Dean Cain, Manu Bennett, Ralph Macchio, James Marsters, and Jason David Frank! And don't miss the PREMIERE of THE #PopCultureProfessor and THE WHEDONVERSE LIVE on Friday, May 2nd, 5pm! Vampire Myth & Supernatural Superhero Legend with Dr. Rebecca Housel at 11am on May 3rd! Don't miss it!
#PopCultureProfessor LIVE in NEW ORLEANS February 7-9 & LOUISVILLE March 28-30 with Pam Grier, J. August Richards, Dean Cain, Manu Bennett, Robert Hayes, James Marsters, Jason David Frank, Stan Lee, and more!!!
#PopCultureProfessor in AUSTIN with James Marsters, Jason David Frank, Amy Bruni, & James Hong 11/22-24!
See The #PopCultureProfessor in NASHVILLE with James Marsters, Henry Winkler, and Jason David Frank 10/18-20!
San Antonio journalist, Rene Guzman, talks #zombies this month with The #PopCultureProfessor:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/article/Zombies-live-on-4888303.php
Salon.com quotes The #PopCultureProfessor: http://www.salon.com/2013/08/25/tv_characters_are_invading_our_lives/
The #PopCultureProfessor will be LIVE in Chicago at WIZARD CON Thursday, 8/8-8/11 with James, Marsters, John Barrowman, Brandon Routh, Jason David Frank, and Jason Priestly!!!
The #PopCultureProfessor will be with True Blood star, Denis O'Hare, on 6/29 at Basketball City/Pier 36 at 5pm!!! Don't miss it!!!
What does The Pop Culture ProfessorTM, Tom Cruise and the LA Times have in common--well, besides LA??? Check out the quotes from Dr. Rebecca Housel on the new release OBLIVION in this great piece by LA Times columnist, Rene Lynch:
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/dailydish/la-dd-oblivion-futuristic-food-20130423,0,4872662.story
The #PopCultureProfessor talks #zombies and Brad Pitt's #WorldWarZ in PHILOSOPHY NOW:
http://philosophynow.org/issues/96/Eating_Your_Brain_21st-Century_Zombies
The #PopCultureProfessor featured on THE EVENT HORIZON with Gene & Susan of KRYPTON RADIO, initial air date June 8th:
http://kryptonradio.com/2013/06/08/the-event-horizon-dr-rebecca-housel-the-pop-culture-professor/
The #PopCultureProfessor LIVE with Anarchy Radio 5/23 in Portland, Oregon: www.houseofsound.org
http://www.houseofsound.org/programs/112-anarchy-radio
Listen to The #PopCultureProfessor talk #zombies, #vampires, #superheroes, and more with the Cultdom Collective:
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-54821/TS-749773.mp3
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-cultdom-collective/id324932943?mt=2
The Pop Culture ProfessorTM is featured in an upcoming UK radio documentary on all-things fanged and furry with London-journalist, Rachel Wood! Stay tuned for details!
Look for an upcoming article in PHILOSOPHY NOW by The Pop Culture ProfessorTM on Zombies, including the films WARM BODIES & WORLD WAR Z!
http://philosophynow.org/
The Pop Culture ProfessorTM is quoted again in USA TODAY, this time, on Fifty Shades of Grey!
http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/campuslife/fifty-shades-away-from-a-conventional-course
See the #PopCultureProfessorTM LIVE @WizardWorld's New Orleans Comic Con on Saturday, 12/1 with Eliza Dushku & Sunday 12/2 with Michael Madsen! http://www.wizardworld.com/rebeccahousel.html
Catch the #PopCultureProfessorTM on the UK's CULTDOM COLLECTIVE in an interview recorded LIVE with DaveAC and The 6th Doctor, where we talk all things supernatural and sci-fi including Twilight, True Blood, Being Human, Fifty Shades of Grey, Mockingbird Lane, Star Trek, Dr, Who, Buffy, Angel...and SO MUCH MORE!
-https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-cultdom-collective/id324932943?mt=2
-http://forums.syfy.com/index.php?showtopic=2361836
-http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=54821&cmd=tc
-http://cultdom.com/2012/11/20/cultdom-interview-dr-rebecca-housel/
Twilight & Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians & the Pursuit of Immortality to be published in its NINTH language, CHINESE, in 2013!
True Blood & Philosophy: We Wanna THINK Bad Things With You, the 1st and 2nd editions, published in Spanish for 2013! Los buenos tiempos!!!
The Pop Culture ProfessorTM talks Twilight, True Blood & X-Men at the Toronto Comic Con AND the Boston Comic Con with future appearances scheduled for the Austin Comic Con and the New Orleans Comic Con! Stay tuned for more details...in the meantime, check out the links below:
http://www.wizardworldcomiccon.com/home-toronto.html
http://www.bostoncomiccon.com/events.html
AND, check out this live interview with Ramblin' Russ on the floor of Artists' Alley at the Wizard World Toronto Comic Con:
http://ec.libsyn.com/p/1/7/8/1789c6b1dcb0844e/ramble_297.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d01cb823fd5ce5e6cff&c_id=4455377
The Pop Culture Professor talks Young Adult phenom, Amanda Hocking, with USA TODAY's Deirdre Donahue in January 2012!
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/story/2012-01-03/amanda-hocking-self-published-author/52345642/1
The Pop Culture Professor Performs 20th Anniversary Comedy Show at Nick's Comedy Stop! Check it out on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb56C9jXiV8
NEW at iTunes, Amazon and Barnes and Noble! True Blood & Philosophy: We Wanna THINK Bad Things With You e-book 2nd edition with BONUS chapters on your favorite characters from Season 4 and 2012's Season 5! Buy your copy with the latest Sookie Stackhouse novel from Charlaine Harris!!!
@DocHousel on Twitter in January as featured author of the Urban Fantasy Chat on vampires in popular culture, including fangers from True Blood, the sparkly variety of Twilight and the sexy day-walkers in Vampire Diaries--no problem! Simply search #UFchat on Twitter to catch up.... And a great big thank you to hosts @inkGypsy and @shadowflame1974 for featuring the Pop Culture ProfessorTM for not just one week...but TWO! Follow the conversation with #popcultureprofessor!!!
Congratulations to the winners of Twitter's Urban Fantasy Chat Giveaway: Jami Gold, winner of an autographed copy of X-Men & Philosophy; Mari Miniatt, winner of an autographed copy of Twilight & Philosophy; and Sarah Hendrix, winner of an autographed copy of True Blood & Philosophy!
True Blood & Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things with You NOW available in English, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish!
Twilight & Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians and the Pursuit of Immortality NOW available in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian!
X-Men & Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse NOW available in English, Portugese and Polish!
The audio book, Twilight & Philosophy, read by Rebecca Housel, is NOW available for purchase on Amazon and...iTunes!
