Publications

 

Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror Film and Television

Co-editor, Chapter in Collection: “Damaged Monsters, Doomed Domesticity, and Defined by Misogyny: What Happens When “Final Girls” Become Grey Women.”

Co-edited.“The Mystery of the Woods: Twin Peaks and the Folkloric Forest.” Cinema Journal: InFocus. 55: 3 (Spring 2016): 121-125. Chapters in Edited Collections:

“Priests, Secrets, and Holy Water: All I Ever Learned About Catholicism I Learned from Horror Films.” Eds. Brandon Grafius and John W. Morehead. Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination. Rowan and Littlefield, 2021. 57-76.

“The Devil and The Culture Wars: Demonizing Controversy in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ” in The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium, Manchester University Press, 2020. Ed. Wickham Clayton.  193-213.

“I Framed Freddy: Functional Aesthetics in the Nightmare on Elm Street series.” Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film. Ed. Wickham Clayton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Fall 2015. 51-66.

Co-authored with Kara Andersen, “European Horror Games: Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ and the European Game Industry,” Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies. Eds. Dana Och, Kirsten Strayer. New York: Routledge, 2013. 86-106.

Articles:

• “Gender and Building Pedagogies of Care.” Published in both Women in Higher Education Vol. 31, No. 1 (January 2022)and The National Teaching and Learning Forum. Vol. 31, No. 2 (February 2022).
• “Pandemic Pedagogy Priorities: I do not really NEED to teach anything but my students.” The Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching Vol. 6 No. 2 (2021). 
• “Don’t Just Print the Legend, Write It: The Odd Construction of Elfego Baca as Folk Hero.” Western Folklore 75:1 (Winter 2015): 5-34.
• “The Bogeyman of Your Nightmares: Freddy Krueger’s Folkloric Roots.” Studies in Popular Culture 36:2 (Spring 2014): 45-66.
• “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Board Game as Liminal Space.” Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media 7 (Summer 2014): Special Issue. Web.