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“Maybe it Needs Our Bones in the Ground Before That Time Will Come”: Necropolitics, Native Americans, and the Nation in the 1950s American Western
Delivered at GRACLS Conference, 8th and 9th November 2025, University of Texas at Austin.
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Inside Outsider/Outside Insider: Irish-American Homosociality in the Italian-American Narrative
Delivered at Italian American Studies Association Conference, 26th – 28th October 2023, University of Arkansas.
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Trauma, Repetition and Place: Revisiting the Haunted House in the Gialli of Dario Argento
Argento, more than any other director working within the genre, perfected the use of repetition to convey the aftereffects of trauma. From flashbacks of the incident to physically revisiting the scene of the crime, the films capture the repetition compulsion which often plagues a witness to the inexplicable.
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Death and Bowling (2021)
Buried treasure and dead names. A body positive dominatrix. Purple pastels and bowling shoes. Entirely indecent comparisons to bowling balls and an evisceration of the tired Hollywood tropes which both shape and limit transgender representation on screen.
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Wet Sand (2021)
Moving. Heartbreaking. Unsettling. Affirming. It’s a ferocious piece of cinema with beautiful cinematography and a soundtrack that haunts.
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Luce (2019)
The film Luce, darling of 2019’s London Film Festival is a classic work of American Gothic for a thoroughly modern age. As a guide to those not spending their second year studying the subject, American Gothic is quite different from its European counterpart. European Gothic is Dracula; castles, curses, crosses and dark hallways. There’s generally a supernatural…