Dissertation

Professional Publications

"Rebooting Masculinity After 9/11: Male Heroism from Bush to Trump"

Chair: Susan Bordo

• Origin Stories: Rebooting Masculinity in Superhero Films After 9/11.

The Human, Issue 6 (2016): 72-85. The Human. June 2016.

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• Temporal Prosthetics and Beautiful Pain: Loss, Memory, and Nostalgia in Somewhere in Time, The Butterfly Effect, and Safety Not Guaranteed.

Time Travel in Popular Media: Essays on Film, Television, Literature and Video Games. Ed. Matthew Jones and Joan Ormrod. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 194-205.

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• Fantasy Elsewheres, Sutured Realities, and the End of Camp: Comics in Contemporary Film and Television.

Critical Insights: The American Comic Book. Ed. Joseph M. Sommers. Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2014. 170-186.

Conference Presentations

• “Origin Stories: Rebooting Masculinity in Superhero Films After 9/11,” at the American Men’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2017.

 

• “’We Have To Go Back!’: The Time-Loop Narrative as PTSD Experience in Source Code and The Edge of Tomorrow,” at the Dartmouth Futures of American Studies Institute, Hanover, NH, June 2016.

 

• “’Knowing is Half the Battle’: Knowledge, Certainty, and Trauma in American Sniper and Good Kill,” at the South Central Modern Language Association’s Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, November 2015.

 

• “Temporal Prosthetics” at the National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association’s Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2015.