American Indian literatures, Southern studies, Horror studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century,
In 2014, Eric Gary Anderson won a University Teaching Excellence Award with special acknowledgment of his contributions to Mason Core. He has published more than thirty essays in edited volumes and journals, including "Big Indigeneity" (in PMLA), "Native American Horror, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction" (in The Cambridge History of Native American Literature), and "'Letting the Other Story Go: The Native South in and beyond the Anthropocene," which he co-wrote with Melanie Benson Taylor for their co-edited 2019 special issue of Native South on Native Southern Literature. With Kirstin Squint, Anthony Wilson, and Taylor Hagood, he is a co-editor of Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies (Louisiana State University Press, 2020). And with Hagood and Daniel Cross Turner, he co-edited Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture (Louisiana State University Press, 2015). From 2012-14, he served as President of The Society for the Study of Southern Literature. At Mason, he serves as Director of Graduate Studies and coordinates the interdisciplinary minor in Native American & Indigenous Studies.
He is currently working on two book projects: "The Indigenous Undead" investigates haunted people, trees, houses, and other places and things in 20th- and 21st-century Native and Indigenous literatures, and "Slasher Ecologies" takes a new green look at slasher fiction and film. Forthcoming work includes essays on ecologies of the undead in George Saunders's novel Lincoln in the Bardo, for a special issue of Studies in American Fiction on the EcoGothic, as well as essays on Jordan Peele's Nope, Tommy Pico's Nature Poem, "makerspace Gothic," and American Horror Story: Coven.
Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies. Co-edited by Kirstin L. Squint, Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, and Anthony Wilson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020.
"Letting the Other Story Go: The Native South in and beyond the Anthropocene." With Melanie Benson Taylor. Co-authored essay for special issue of Native South on "Native Southern Literature," issue co-edited by Anderson and Taylor. Native South 12 (2019): 74-98.
Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture. Co-edited by Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, and Daniel Cross Turner. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015.
"Native Southern Transformations, or, Light in August and Werewolves." In Faulkner and the Native South: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2016. Edited by Jay Watson, Annette Trefzer and James G. Thomas, Jr. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. 148-166.
"The Truth Is South There: The X-Files's Transregional Souths." In Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television, edited by Lisa Hinrichsen, Gina Caison, and Stephanie Rountree. Louisiana State University Press, 2017. 221-240.
"The Landscape of Disaster: Hemingway, Porter, and the Soundings of Indigenous Silence." With Melanie Benson Taylor. Co-authored essay for "Modernism and Native America," a special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 59: 3 (Fall 2017). 319-352.
"Literary and Textual Histories of the Native South." The Oxford Handbook to the Literature of the U.S. South. Ed. Fred Hobson and Barbara Ladd. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 17-32.
"On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession." Southern Spaces (Aug. 2007). (Available online)
ENGL 202: Ghosts and Monsters OR Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the 1920s
ENGL 352: Haunted Native America
ENGL 355: Recent American Fiction
ENGH 442: 20th- and 21st-Century Southern Fictions
ENGL 500: Research in English Studies
ENGL 610: Proseminar in the Teaching of Literature
Melissa Beard, Reclaiming My Family’s Story: Cultural Trauma and Indigenous Ways of Knowing (2020)