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English
Director of Graduate Studies
Room 10407, English Department, 5057 Woodward Ave (personal office)
Room 9407, English Department, 5057 Woodward Ave (DGS office)
Book
Not Your Average Zombie: Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks (University of Texas Press, September 2017).
Journal Articles, Essays, and Chapters
“The Horror of the 1980s: Mirror Worlds and the Past in the Present Moment,” The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image, eds. Kim Nelson, Mia Treacey, and Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Routledge, 2023): 114-128.
“The Ghosts in the Machine: Screened Reality and the Desktop Film,” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, “Emerging Trends in Twenty-First-Century Horror” special issue, eds. Karen J. Renner and Dawn Keetley 33.2 (2022): 131-151.
“Beware the Zuvembies: Comics, Censorship, and the Ubiquity of Not-Quite Zombies,” Theorizing The Contemporary Zombie: Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures, eds. Scott Hamilton and Conor Heffernan (University of Wales Press, 2022): 179-196.
“No Grave Can Hold Them: Night of the Living Dead and the Rise and Rebirth of Zombies in Comics,” Beyond the Living Dead: Essays on the Romero Legacy, eds. Bruce Peabody and Gloria Pastorino, Contributions to Zombie Studies series (McFarland, 2021): 32-53.
“If You Leave, You’ll Have to Work for a Living: Economic Fantasies of the Dissident Undead,” Interdisciplinary Approaches to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse (2017): https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/iasza/index.
“Poe Dameron Hurts So Prettily: How Fandom Negotiates with Transmedia Characterization,” NANO: New American Notes Online 12 (Dec. 2017): https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue12/Poe-Dameron-Hurts-So-Prettily-How- Fandom-Negotiates-with-Transmedia-Characterization.
"Good Girls Don't Date Dead Boys: Toying with Miscegenation in Zombie Films," The Journal of Popular Film and Television 42.4 (Dec. 2014): 176-185.
"Negotiated Seeing: Ghosts, Frauds, and the Empowered Spiritualist Spectator," The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in America and Around the World, vol. 3, ed. Christopher M. Moreman (ABC-CLIO, 2013): 207-224.
"They are Not Men...They are Dead Bodies!': From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again," Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human, eds. Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro (Fordham UP, 2011): 9-23.