Education
In English from Yale (1991) and a Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Toronto (1998).
In English from Yale (1991) and a Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Toronto (1998).
Dendle has written books and articles on a number of topics, including cryptozoology, philology, the demonic in literature, zombie movies, and Medieval plants and medicine. His work on zombies reached perhaps its largest popular audience through his commentary on National Public Radio. His education includes a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy (1990) and an Master of Arts in Philosophy (1993), both from the University of Kentucky, as well as an Master of Arts In 2007, National Geographic featured some of the research results from Dendle"s monograph Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England. Other recent works include peer-reviewed articles on cryptozoology, medieval charms, demon possession, gender in Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon literature, and a translation and analysis of The Old English Life of Malchus and Two Vernacular Tales from the Vitas Patrum in Mississippi Cotton Otho C.i: which appeared in English Studies, 2010.
He is the co-editor of three collections of academic essays on various aspects of the preternatural: Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden (Boydell, 2008), The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous (Ashgate, 2012), and The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012) with Richard Raiswell (University of Prince Edward Island).
Dendle"s The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia (McFarland, 2001) was the first exhaustive overview of the subject, evaluating over 200 movies from 16 countries over a 65-year period starting from the early 1930s. The follow-up volume, The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000–2010 (McFarland), was published in 2012.
