Rate My Professor Eric Anderson

Anderson's scholarly work centers on American Indian literature, particularly contexts and dispositions in the Southwest, as well as Southern literature, gothic elements, ecology, and violence. His key publications include the monograph American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions (University of Texas Press, 1999), which examines cultural encounters through texts ranging from Roswell myths to works by Leslie Marmon Silko and Willa Cather. He co-edited Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture (Louisiana State University Press, 2015), exploring hauntings, horror, and undeadness in Southern contexts from Edgar Allan Poe to contemporary media like True Blood and The Walking Dead. Selected articles feature 'The Presence of Early Native Studies: A Response to Stephanie Fitzgerald and Hilary E. Wyss' in American Literary History (2010), 'Black Atlanta: An Ecosocial Approach to Narratives of the Atlanta Child Murders' in PMLA (2007), and 'South to a Red Place: Contemporary American Indian Literature and the Problem of Native/Southern Studies' in Mississippi Quarterly (2006-07). At George Mason, he teaches courses such as Native American Literature, Popular Horror (ENGL 419), and Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond (ENGH 400, Spring 2026), blending literature with supernatural themes. Anderson received the 2014 George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award with special recognition in General Education, along with earlier honors including the Newberry Library/South Central Modern Language Association Fellowship (2002) and multiple Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Research Grants (1996, 1998).