Professor and Department Chair
Film and Screen Studies, Department of English
College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University
"Five Comics to Prepare for The Fantastic Four: First Steps." Film Obsessive, 1 July 2025.
"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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