Diana Brydon, professor at University of Manitoba, Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, Canada, will be Guest Professor at the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies spring 2013.Professor Brydon will give a seminar on 7 February 2013, entitled "How Can We Build Transnational Research and Learning Cultures?".

Long before the publication of Bram Stokers Dracula, vampires have eagerly transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety, and nations. Such fervent violations of boundaries intensified during the final years of the twentieth century, and the early years of the current millennium have been known as 'the decade of the vampire'.