Colin Dickey
{{short description|American writer}}
Colin Dickey (born September 3, 1977) is an American author, curator, and critic whose work deals with ghosts, death, and haunting, and explores how these symbols function as metaphors.{{cite news|url=https://www.citylab.com/life/2016/10/ghostland-colin-dickey-americas-haunted-places/505328/|title=A Spellbinding Tour of America's Haunted Places|newspaper=Bloomberg |date=27 October 2016 |publisher=}} He was the Managing Director of the Morbid Anatomy Museum{{cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-arts-culture/morbid-anatomy-museum-closes-its-doors-180961509/|title=Morbid Anatomy Museum Closes Its Doors|first=Jackie|last=Mansky|publisher=}} and is a member of The Order of the Good Death. He currently teaches at National University{{cite web|url=https://www.nu.edu/OurPrograms/CollegeOfLettersAndSciences/ArtsAndHumanities/Faculty/ColinDickey.html|title=Colin Dickey - National University|website=www.nu.edu|access-date=2018-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811031834/https://www.nu.edu/OurPrograms/CollegeOfLettersAndSciences/ArtsAndHumanities/Faculty/ColinDickey.html|archive-date=2018-08-11|url-status=dead}}
Books
- The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession With the Unexplained{{Cite news|last=Blum|first=Deborah|date=2020-07-21|title=Remembering the Time Meat Fell From the Sky|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/books/review/the-unidentified-colin-dickey.html|access-date=2021-03-08|issn=0362-4331}}
- Ghostland (2016),{{cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/531470/ghostland-by-colin-dickey/9781101980200/|title=Ghostland by Colin Dickey - PenguinRandomHouse.com|publisher=}} an exploration of America's haunted mansions.{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-ghostland-20161006-snap-story.html|title=Colin Dickey explores American's haunted mansions in 'Ghostland'|first=Tom|last=Zoellner|website=Los Angeles Times|date=14 October 2016 }}
- Tiya Miles, writing in The New York Times, calls Ghostland "a capacious geographical synthesis that is both intellectually intriguing and politically instructive."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/books/review/ghostland-colin-dickey.html|title=Haunted Houses Are About More Than Just Ghosts|work=The New York Times |date=27 October 2016 |publisher= |last1=Miles |first1=Tiya }}
- NPR named Ghostland one of the best books of 2016{{cite web|url=http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2016/|title=NPR's Book Concierge|publisher=}}
- Dickey appeared on All Things Considered, where he spoke about the Winchester Mystery House{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/10/12/496756968/skeletons-in-the-closet-what-ghost-stories-reveal-about-america-s-past|title=Skeletons In The Closet: What Ghost Stories Reveal About America's Past|website=NPR |publisher=}}
- The Morbid Anatomy Anthology (co-edited with Joanna Ebenstein), a collection of works by "scholars, artists and writers working along the intersections of the history of anatomy and medicine, death and the macabre, religion and spectacle."
- Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith
- Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius, stories of notable grave robberies, including Haydn and Beethoven{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/115326-cranioklepty-grave-robbing-and-the-search-for-genius-by-colin-dickey-2496116608.html|title=Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey|date=11 November 2009|publisher=}}
- Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices (edited with Nicole Antebi and Robby Herbst)
References in popular culture
- A quote from Ghostland appears in Robert Greene's upcoming film Bisbee '17.{{cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/06/29/real-it-so-fake-bisbee-17-and-the-shape-shifting-cinema-of-robert-greene/|title=Real It So Fake: "Bisbee '17" and the Shape-Shifting Cinema of Robert Greene|date=29 June 2018 |publisher=}}
- Musician Dave Heumann cites Dickey as one of his literary influences.{{cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2015/10/23/how-dave-heumann-made-existential-despair-sound-dreamy-on-his-new-solo-album/|title=How Dave Heumann Made Existential Despair Sound Dreamy on His New Solo Album|date=23 October 2015 |publisher=}}
Education
Dickey has an MFA in Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California.
External links
- {{cite web |title=Interview with Colin Dickey - How the ghost stories we tell reveal a lot about society |format=Audio with transcript |website=Science History Institute 'Distillations' Podcast Episode 278 |date=13 Jul 2021 |url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast/bonus-episode-interview-with-colin-dickey}}
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