I am an Associate Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri, where I teach a wide range of composition and literature courses, including Literature and Food and a single-author seminar on Stephen King. 

I am an engaged and active scholar in horror, the Gothic, and popular culture. My books include IT, Chapters 1 and 2 (Devils Advocates Series; Edinburgh University Press, 2023), The Quest for the Dark Tower: Genre and Interconnection in the Stephen King Series (McFarland, 2021), and Teaching Stephen King: Horror, the Supernatural, and New Approaches to Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). 

I also write Teen Horror Time Machine, a biweekly column on Tor.com, analyzing and providing commentary on 1990s teen horror literature, including Christopher Pike, R.L. Stine, Caroline Cooney, and others.

Email: aburger@culver.edu