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I appear throughout this new documentary, "Tragically Viral," which looks at the dark side of internet fame.
I appear at the beginning of this episode of Al Jazeera’s The Stream, which explores our fascination with doppelgängers. I offer a brief overview and history of the double, or “second self,” as a cultural phenomenon.
I was a panelist for the Penn State Center for American Literary Studies webinar on “SERIAL, True Crime, and Podcasting’s Golden Age.”
I have talked about true crime and popular culture in interviews with The New York Times, ABC News, NBC News, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Independent, and other media outlets—read more here.
I had the opportunity to talk about true crime, popular culture, and my essay “Criminal Crossovers” on this episode of the podcast Walk Me Through.
I spoke to CSUF news about my new book project, on the cultural history of the doppelgänger.
My story “The Silver Lake Bandit” was published in the Summer issue of TIMBER.
I’ve been blogging about fatherhood…
I had a blast talking about Bigfoot on the CW “Mysteries Decoded” podcast.
I enjoyed talking to WPRB Princeton about doppelgängers. Segment starts @ 28:50.
Two pieces of creative nonfiction about my garage band days: “Burning Down the House,” Atticus Review and “True Faith,” Drunk Monkeys
ABOUT ADAM GOLUB
I am a writer and American Studies professor at Cal State Fullerton who specializes in popular culture, true crime, monsters and horror, childhood and youth culture, and creative studies. I am co-editor of Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us (McFarland, 2017), and the author of numerous essays on topics including fandom, true crime, zombies, the blues, and 1950s film and literature. My current project is a book-length study of the doppelgänger in American culture, from Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson” to Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Jordan Peele’s Us.
My creative work has appeared in Atticus Review, TIMBER, Drunk Monkeys, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, Pulp Literature, Indicia, The Bookends Review—Best of 2017, and elsewhere. In recent years, I have attended the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Yale Writers’ Conference, the Writers Studio at UCLA Extension, and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. I earned my B.A. in English from Vassar College, M.A.T. in English from Boston College, and Ph.D. in American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin.
I was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey, where I spent much of my time writing stories, running cross country, and playing keyboard and composing songs for a rock band whose gigs ranged from middle school dances to CBGB. For five years, I was a high school English teacher at boarding schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Before coming to Cal State Fullerton, I taught American Studies at UC Davis and Education Studies at Guilford College (where I trained future high school teachers). If you want to learn more about my teaching and my academic work, you can visit my faculty web page.
In 2018, I received the CSUF Faculty Legacy Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activity and Innovations in Pedagogy. In 2020, I was awarded the university’s first-ever Writing Across the Curriculum certificate.
I live in Fullerton with my wife Alexis (we met at the Yale Writers’ Conference), our daughter Autumn, and our Pomeranian rescue, Apricot.
contact: agolub70@gmail.com
Twitter: @adamgolub
