# Phillip Bernhardt-House [academia.edu](https://independent.academia.edu/PhillipBernhardtHouse) ## Description American scholar working across Celtic studies, monster studies, and the academic study of magic and Paganism, with a particular focus on werewolves and shapeshifting in Celtic literature and folklore. ## Key Tags #celtic #monster-studies #magic #academic #theorist ## Essential Works - *Werewolves, Magical Hounds, and Dog-Headed Men in Celtic Literature: A Typological Study of Shape-Shifting*. Mellen Press, 2010 - his central book, adapted from his 2006 PhD dissertation; awarded the D. Simon Evans Prize in Medieval Studies - "The Werewolf as Queer, the Queer as Werewolf, and Queer Werewolves." In *Queering the Non/Human*, edited by Myra J. Hird and Noreen Giffney, Routledge, 2008, pp. 159–83 - theorizes werewolf transformation through queerness as disruption of normativity ## Details Holds a PhD in Celtic Civilizations from the National University of Ireland/University College Cork (2006), an MA in Religious Studies from Gonzaga University, and a BA in Medieval Studies and Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College (with a junior year abroad at Wadham College, Oxford). Has taught at Skagit Valley College, Columbia College's NAS Whidbey Island and Marysville campuses, and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Research spans Celtic and classical mythology, medieval studies, religion and gender/sexuality, monster studies, and the academic study of magic and contemporary Paganism. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Monster Studies]] - contributes scholarship on werewolves and shapeshifting within the broader academic field of monster studies - [[Magic and Magick Studies]] - writes within the academic study of magic and contemporary Paganism ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements %% none yet %% ## References ### Cited/Appears In - [[0020 - Children of the Night]] - "The Werewolf as Queer, the Queer as Werewolf, and Queer Werewolves" is quoted in the video essay's "Epicene Style" section ### Primary Sources Bibliography Bernhardt-House, Phillip A. "The Werewolf as Queer, the Queer as Werewolf, and Queer Werewolves." In *Queering the Non/Human*, edited by Myra J. Hird and Noreen Giffney, Routledge, 2008, pp. 159–83. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none identified — no established secondary literature about his own work located %%