Research

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  Microbiology and Horror Cinema

  Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
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  Walls Without Cinema: State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking

  Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
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  Anatomy of the Superhero Film

  Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
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  Embodiment and Horror Cinema

  Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

• Select Publications
  • 2023. "Danger! Do Not Touch: Viral Transmission, Tactile Object Disrecognition, and the Annabelle Series," (Studies in the Fantastic, Issue #15, Summer/Fall 2023)
  • 2016. "This Crazy World: Cinematic Space and the Casualties of Casablanca," (in Critical Insights: Casablanca, edited by James Plath, Salem Press, 2016)
  • 2013. "The AIllusion: Intelligent Machines, Jacques Derrida’s “Ethical Turn” and Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity," (in Terror and the Cinematic Sublime: Essays on Violence and the Unpresentable in Post–9/11 Films, edited by Todd A. Comer and Lloyd Isaac Vayo, McFarland, 2013)
  • 2011. "Masks of Infamy: The About-faces in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight" (FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, No. 12)
  • 2011. "The Faustian cyborg: Technology, subjectivity and the spirit of silent comedy in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining," (Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, Vol. 1, Issue 3)
  • 2010. "Evil against Evil: The Parabolic Structure and Thematics of William Friedkin's The Exorcist," (Horror Studies, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2010)
  • 2009. "Hitch-cockeyed: Ocular Dys/function in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window," (Cinephile, Vol. 5, No. 2)
  • 2008. "Monster Mishmash: Iconicity and Intertextuality in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 19, No. 1)