I have a PhD in Religious Studies from McGill University, and this course reflects my research published in two two peer-reviewed academic books (see sources for further details)

Goodin, David K.  2022.  Psychopomp and Circumstance: “The Disappearer” of Breaking Bad as Charon the Ferryman.  Theology and Breaking Bad.  Fortress/Lexington Academic Press.

Goodin, David K. (forthcoming).  What We [Actually] Do in there Shadows: Vampires in Orthodox Christianity through the lens of Kostova’s The Historian. Theology and Vampires.  Fortress/Lexington Academic Press.

Artimon, Teodora.  2015. “The Proto-Myth of Stephen the Great of Moldavia.”  PhD Dissertation, Central European University, Budapest.

Bohn, Thomas M.  2019.  The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth.  New York: Berghahn Books.

du Boulay, Juliet.  1982. “The Greek Vampire: A Study of Cyclic Symbolism in Marriage and Death.”  Man 17/ 2: 219-238.  

John of Damaskos.  “Concerning Strygges [Περὶ Στρυγγῶν].”  Patrologia Graeca 94.  J.-P. Minge (ed.).  Paris, 1857-1866. 

Lawson, John C. 1910. Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lee, D. Demetracopoulou.  1942. “Greek Accounts of the Vrykolakas.”  The Journal of American Folklore 55/ 217 (July - September): 126-132.

Matt, Daniel C.   2004.  The Zohar: Volume One.  Stanford: Stanford University Press. 

Stern, David.  2004. “The Alphabet of Ben Sira and the Early History of Parody in Jewish Literature,” in Hindy Najman and Judith Newman, eds., The Idea of Biblical Interpretation Leiden: Brill: 423-448.

Treptow, Kurt W.  2000.  Vlad III Dracula: The Life and Times of the Historical Dracula.  Iași: Center for Romanian Studies.  
Wichmann, Anna.  2021. “Vampires in Greece: From Ancient Greek Creatures to the Vrykolakas.” Greek Reporter (October 31).  Available at: https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/31/vampires-in-greece-from-ancient-greek-creatures-to-the-vrykolakas/

Edmonds III, Radcliffe G. 2000. Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and
the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets. Cambridge University Press. 

Hughes, John and John Arbuthnot. 1719. Charon; or, the ferry-boat: A vision. London: W. Lewis, J. Brotherton and W. Meadows at the Black-Bull in Cornhill, J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, and A. Dodd at the Peacock without Temple-Bar.

Lucian of Samosata. 1700. Lucian's Charon: or, A survey of the follies of mankind. London: Loudon Farrow

Virgil. 2010. Aeneid. New York: Penguin Classics