Vampyric Lens

All of my academic work is through the vampyric lens.

The vampyric lens is a critical framework that centres the experience, ontology, and subjectivity of the vampyre itself—viewing the world not through human fears or desires, but from within the vampyre’s own cosmology. This approach resists the historical tendency to interpret vampyres solely as projections of human anxiety, degeneration, or deviance. Instead, it asserts that vampyres are not metaphorical artefacts, but sovereign entities whose stories, emotions, and motives exist outside the bounds of human narration and control.

To look through a vampyric lens is to acknowledge the epistemological limitations of human-centred interpretation and to shift one’s gaze toward the marginalised, silenced, or misrepresented truths embedded within folklore, literature, and cultural memory. This lens reclaims the vampyre from centuries of distortion and positions it as a sentient being with agency, history, and legitimacy—one whose worldview is neither demonic nor romantic, but its own.

~Nicole Anstedt