Professor and Department Chair
Film and Screen Studies, Department of English
College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University
"“Fifteen Comics to Prepare for James Gunn’s Superman.” Film Obsessive, 21 May 2025.
"Wolf Man's Mournful Cry: Universal Remakes One of Its Saddest Monster Movies." Film Obsessive, 23 January 2025.
"When the Movies Strike Back: 2024 in Review." Film Obsessive, 10 January 2025.
“Ed Wood Shows There’s Hope for Us All: A Hollywood Gothic, Thirty Years Later.” Film Obsessive, 2 September 2024.
"Inventing Abigail: Universal Pictures Reimagines an Old Property in a Balletic Bloodbath." Film Obsessive, 20 May 2024.
“Beyond Barbenheimer: 2023 in Review.” Film Obsessive, 10 January 2024.
"Where to Start with Universal Pictures Horror, Parts I and II." Film Obsessive, 11 October 2023 and 16 October 2023.
“Atmosphere Keeps The Last Voyage of the Demeter Afloat: Dracula Terrorizes the Ill-Fated Ship in Universal’s Latest Classic-Monster Revival.” Film Obsessive, 14 August 2023.
“Seeing Days of Future Passed in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm: The Greatest Batman Movie Ever Made Approaches 30.” Film Obsessive, 10, July 2023.
“Growing Up with Bugs and the Bomb in Matinee: Joe Dante’s Cold War Comedy, 30 Years Later.” Film Obsessive, 19 June 2023.
“The Creature Comforts of the Gill-Man: In Memory of Ricou Browning (1930 – 2023), the Last Universal Monster.” Film Obsessive, 12 June 2023.
"The Middling Appeals of a High-Concept Renfield: Universal Takes Another Stab at Dracula Mythos." Film Obsessive, 29 May 2023.​
"Wanda Maximoff and the Multiverse of Melodrama: Why the Scarlet Witch is the MVP of the MCU." Film Obsessive, 26 Sep. 2022.
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“Remember The Rocketeer?: Dave Stevens’s Comic-Book Hero Turns 40.” Film Obsessive, 20 Aug. 2022.
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“Spectres of Bond.” Film Obsessive, 8 Aug. 2022.
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“A Fallen Star Over Mulholland Drive: Representation of the Actress.” Film Criticism, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018.
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