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Kristopher WoofterPhD, Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University
MA, English, Concordia University BA, English and Cinema, Denison University
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KRISTOPHER WOOFTER, PhD, is a faculty member in the English Department at Dawson College, in Tio'tia:ke (Montréal, Québec). He edits the peer-reviewed journal Monstrum, and is Co-founder of the Montréal Monstrum Society. He is a 2021 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction for Shirley Jackson: A Companion (2021). He co-edited the recent The Weird: A Companion with Carl Sederholm (2025) and American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper with Will Dodson (2021). He has also written on Nosferatu (2022), the documentary thought-experiment film Into Eternity (with Mikaela Bobiy, 2022), New England Folk Horror cinema for Vampires and the Making of the United States in the 21st Century (2025), and has forthcoming essays on Jack Arnold's The Incredible Shrinking Man and Marlen Haushofer's 1960 novel The Wall (with Mikaela Bobiy). His forthcoming and contracted projects as co-editor include Sleep in 21st Century Horror Media (with Lynn Kozak and Alanna Thain), The Routledge Companion to Horror (with Stacey Abbott, Adam Lowenstein, and Roger Luckhurst), and The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson (with Emily Banks). Kristopher's research focuses on horror and the Weird in literature and the moving image, horror ecologies, pessimism, and Shirley Jackson.
Kristopher is co-director of the Collective for Research on Epistemologies and Ontologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC) (https://doi.org/10.69777/290295). He is series co-editor of Foundations of Horror Studies for Manchester University Press and of B-TV: Horror Television Under the Critical Radar for Bloomsbury. He also is an editorial board member for Horror and Gothic Media Cultures (Amsterdam UP) and the journals Shirley Jackson Studies and American Gothic Studies.
Kristopher is co-director of the Collective for Research on Epistemologies and Ontologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC) (https://doi.org/10.69777/290295). He is series co-editor of Foundations of Horror Studies for Manchester University Press and of B-TV: Horror Television Under the Critical Radar for Bloomsbury. He also is an editorial board member for Horror and Gothic Media Cultures (Amsterdam UP) and the journals Shirley Jackson Studies and American Gothic Studies.
Publications & Projects
LONG FORM / MONOGRAPHS
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Coming May 2026
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VOLUME EDITOR
- (forthcoming) The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson (co-edited with Emily Banks). Oxford University Press.
- (forthcoming) The Routledge Companion to Horror (co-edited with Stacey Abbott, Adam Lowenstein, and Roger Luckhurst). Routledge.
- (forthcoming) Sleep in 21st Century Horror Media (co-edited with Lynn Kozak and Alanna Thain). Edinburgh University Press.
- The Weird: A Companion (co-edited with Carl Sederholm). Peter Lang Oxford, 2025.
- Shirley Jackson: A Companion. Peter Lang Oxford, 2021.
- American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (co-edited with Will Dodson). University of Texas Press, 2021 (pbk. 2024).
- Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond (co-edited with Lorna Jowett). I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Academic, 2019/pbk. 2020.
- Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade (co-edited with Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare and Charlie Ellbé). Lexington, 2016.
ESSAYS
Forthcoming
- "Night-Dwelling, Youth Horror, and the ‘Great Resignation’: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair." Sleep in 21st Century Horror Media. Edinburgh University Press.
- “Eco-Horror: Weirding the World.” The Routledge Companion to Horror, edited by Stacey Abbott, Adam Lowenstein, Roger Luckhurst, and Kristopher Woofter. Routledge.
- with Mikaela Bobiy. "Absolute Ecological Reality: Eco-pessimism as Eco-horror in Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall." Eco-Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health and Environmental Anxieties in Media and Culture, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Routledge.
- “Beyond the Infinite(simal): Cosmic Horror and Anti-Anthropocentrism in Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man.” ReFocus: The Films of Jack Arnold, edited by Michael Shuman. Edinburgh University Press.
Published
- "On the Possibility of Collective Resistance in Women-Centred Folk Horror Cinema." Monstrum 8, no. 1 (June 2025). https://www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v8-n1-june-2025.html.
- “Necrogeography: American Folk Horror Cinema and New England as a (Bad) State of Mind." Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-first Century. London: Routledge.
- with Carl Sederholm. “Introduction: The Weird and Others.” The Weird: A Companion. Peter Lang, 2025.
- “Actuality in the Shadows: F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, Pseudodocumentary, and Mockumentary Aesthetics.” Nosferatu in the 21st Century, edited by Simon Bacon. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press / Auteur, 2023.
- with Mikaela Bobiy. “‘To Remember Forever to Forget’: Into Eternity and the Anti-Anthropocene.” The Anthropocene and the Undead, edited by Simon Bacon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022, pp. 147-165.
- “Long Twilight (Hosszú Alkony), Shirley Jackson, and the Eerie In-Between.” Shirley Jackson: A Companion, edited by Kristopher Woofter. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021, 265-282.
- "Fuel for the Fire." Introduction to Smoldering Embers: On the Set of Tobe Hooper's Spontaneous Combustion by Stan Giesea. McLean, VA: Miniver Press, 2021.
- “Tobe Hooper’s Teenage Wasteland: Youth and Disillusionment in The Funhouse, Invaders from Mars and Mortuary.” American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, edited by Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021, pp. 29-42.
- with Anne Golden. “Unsettled Architecture and Avant-Garde Strategies in Tobe Hooper’s Down Friday Street, Toolbox Murders and Djinn.” American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, edited by Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021, pp. 68-80.
- with Erin Giannini. “‘That’s a Scooby-don’t!’: The Melancholy Nostalgia of ‘Scoobynatural’ for Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?.” In "Supernatural—The End of the Road: A Reflection," edited by Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown. Monstrum 3, no. 1 (September 2020): 51-62.
- “Caitlin Kiernan’s The Drowning Girl—Shirley Jackson.” Horror: A Companion, edited by Simon Bacon. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019, pp. 227-233.
- “Weird Whedon: Cosmic Dread and Radical Alterity in the Whedonverse.” Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond, edited by Kristopher Woofter and Lorna Jowett. London: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2019/2020, pp. 219-242.
- “Radical Diversion: Attractions Politics in the Horror Pseudo-documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle.” Monstrum. 1 (1). April 2018.
- Editor's Introduction. “‘The Death of Death’: A Memorial Retrospective on George A. Romero.” Monstrum 1, no. 1. (April 2018).
- “Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear and The Dark Half.” In “‘The Death of Death’: A Memorial Retrospective on George A. Romero.” Monstrum 1(1). April 2018.
- “A ‘Darkly Hypothetical Reality’: ‘Gothic Realism’ in 1940s Hollywood Horror Cinema.” Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade, edited by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Charlie Ellbé and Kristopher Woofter. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015, pp. 3-26.
- “Watchers in the Woods: Meta-Horror, Genre Hybridity, and Reality TV Critique in The Cabin in the Woods.” Reading Joss Whedon, edited by Rhonda Wilcox, Tanya Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014, pp. 268-279.
- “Once More Into the Woods: An Introduction and Provocation.” (with Jasie Stokes). “’We Are Not Who We Are’: Critical Perspectives on Cabin in the Woods (2012).” Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association. 10.2/11.1 (36-37) Journal Editors, David Lavery and Rhonda Wilcox.
- (with Papagena Robbins) “‘Gothumentary’: The Gothic’s Unsettling of Documentary’s Rhetoric of Rationality.” Textus: English Studies in Italy. Special issue: “Gothic Frontiers,” edited by Glennis Byron and Francesca Saggini. 25 (3) (September-December 2012): pp. 49-62.
- “Little Red Riding … Buffy?: ‘Buffy vs. Dracula’ in Explorations of Intertextuality in Introduction to College English.” Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire Slayer. Edited by Meghan K. Winchell and Jodie A. Krieder. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland, 2010.
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
- Co-Editor (with Jasie Stokes). “'We Are Not Who We Are’: Critical Perspectives on The Cabin in the Woods.” Special Double Issue of Slayage. 10.2/11.1 (36-37) (December 2014 – January 2015)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
- (February 2021) “Troubling SPACE S: In Search of Secret Knowledge." SPACE: Sciences Participating with Arts and Culture in Education. Dawson College.
- (October 2015) “Review: One Step Beyond 6-DVD Set.” Spectacular Optical.
- (March 2015) “Introduction: The American Gothic: A Trans— Discourse.” SPACE: Sciences Participating with Arts and Culture in Education. Dawson College.
- (August 2013) Interview (with Simon Laperrière) “The Snuff of Legend.” Spectacular Optical.
- (August 2013) “Dead Tech: Found Footage at Fantasia.” Spectacular Optical.
- (July 2013) Interview (with Marçal Forés) “Ghost Stories of Youth: Animals (2012).” Spectacular Optical.
- (June 2013) Interview (with Dr. Stacey Abbott, Dr. Lorna Jowett and Dr. Mike Starr). “‘Fan(g)-Scholarship’: TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires.” Fangoria Online.
PRESENTATIONS / INTERVIEWS / COMMENTARIES
- (accepted) Curator/Editor, Essay and Feature Commentary for Hosszú Alkony (Long Twilight) and Zizi. Hungarian Film Adaptations of Shirley Jackson by director Attila Janisch. Blu-ray release. Deaf Crocodile Films.
- (accepted/contracted) Video Essay script for Dark Sunday. Blu-ray release. Earl Owensby Studios Collection. Severin Films.
(2024) Interview Subject. For the Podcast Pod Meets World with Rider Strong. (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-pod-meets-world-98589488/) - Interview Subject. 2024. For the visual essay, "Jack Arnold: A Three Dimensional Filmmaker."The Swiss Conspiracy. Blu-ray. Film Masters.
- Interview Subject. 2024. For the visual essay, Web Of The Weird: Placing Spider Labyrinth In The Weird Genre. The Spider Labyrinth. Blu-ray. Severin Film
- Speaker. March 2023. "Mapping Global Horror: Academic Roundtable." Mapping Global Horror Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 17-18 March 2023.
- Amanda Barbour. Senses of Cinema (November 2023). https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2023/interviews/mapping-global-horror-academic-roundtable/.
- (2022) Feature Commentary (with Will Dodson). I’m Dangerous Tonight. Blu-ray. Kino-Lorber Films. (https://kinolorber.com/product/im-dangerous-tonight-blu-ray).
PROJECTS & OUTREACH
- 8-12 July 2024 — Workshop/Conference Co-organizer (with Lynn Kozak and Alanna Thain). "Horror Ecologies: Un/human Body Genres, New Materialisms, New Methodologies." Montréal, Québec. Funded by a SSHRC Connection Grant.
- 3-8 July 2023 — Workshop/Conference Co-Organizer (with Lynn Kozak and Alanna Thain). "I'll Sleep When I'm Undead: Sleep Horror in Contemporary Media." Montréal, Québec. Funded by a SSHRC Connection Grant.
- 11 March 2023 — Symposium Co-Organizer (with Stacey Abbott, Mark Jancovich, Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Gary D. Rhodes). "Horror Reverie 2: Celebrating 50 Years of The Exorcist." Online, published in Monstrum 6.1 (June 2023), https://www.monstrum-society.ca/horror-reverie-2---exorcist.html.
- 19 February 2022 — Symposium Co-Organizer (with Mark Jancovich, Gary D. Rhodes). "Horror Reverie 1: Celebrating 100 Years of Nosferatu." Online, published in Monstrum 5.1 (June 2023), https://www.monstrum-society.ca/horror-reverie-1---nosferatu.html.
PRESENTATIONS AND GUEST LECTURES
Presenter: (2–6 April, 2025) “Supporting Horror Research Communities: CORÉRISC & Monstrum.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Chicago, IL.
Presenter: (8–9 November, 2024) “Somnolent Horror in Syndication: Freddy’s Nightmares.” A Nightmare on Elm Street at 40. University of Nottingham. Nottingham, UK November 8–9, 2024
Presenter: (17–19 October, 2024) “Something is pushing against the surface of things”: General Orders No. 9 as Psychogeographical Gothumentary.” Popular Culture Association of the South (PCAS) Charlotte, SC
Co-Presenter: (16–20 September, 2024) “Tragic Affects and Horror Histories” (with Lynn Kozak). Ancient Drama: Between Tragedy and Horror. Michael Cacoyannis Foundation. Athens, Greece
Co-Organizer/Host/Presenter: (8–12 July 2024) "Horror Ecologies: Un/human Body Genres, New Materialisms, New Methodologies." Dawson College, CORÉRISC, Montréal Monstrum Society. Montréal, Québec.
Respondent: (2–6 April, 2024) For the Panel: “Intersectional Trauma in Women-Directed Folk Horror.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Boston, MA.
Co-Organizer/Host/Presenter: (2–7 July 2023) “I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media.” McGill University, CORÉRISC, Montreal Monstrum Society. Montreal, QC.
Invited Presenter: (17–18 March 2023) “Mapping Global Horror.” Mapping Global Horror: Australia, Japan & Beyond Conference. University of Pittsburgh, ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Swinburne University. Melbourne, Australia. [Amanda Barbour. Senses of Cinema (November 2023). https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2023/interviews/mapping-global-horror-academic-roundtable/.]
Co-Organizer/Host: (18 February 2022). “Horror Reverie 2: A Celebration of 50 Years of The Exorcist.” Online.
Guest Lecturer: (26 April 2022) “Cosmic Pessimism and Thomas Ligotti’s ‘The Small People’.” Instructor, Mikaela Bobiy. Humanities. Dawson College. Montréal, QC.
Presenter: (16 April 2022) Paper. “Friday the 13th: The Series: Towards a Pulp-Horror Humanism in Syndicated 1980s Horror Television.” Popular Culture / American Culture Associations National Conference. Virtual.
Presenter: (1 April 2022) Roundtable. “Eerie Theory: Horror Media Studies and the Weird.” Foundations of Horror Studies: Assessing the Past, Charting the Future.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Virtual.
Co-Organizer/Host: (18 February 2022). “Horror Reverie: A Celebration of 100 Years of Nosferatu.” Online.
Co-Organizer/Moderator/Host: “Discussion of Tobe Hooper, featuring Joe Bob Briggs and Special Guests,” streamed live on 15 October 2021, UTexas Press, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXc9IMzKADE.
Presenter: (July and September 2021) Roundtable. “The Global Horror Studies Archive and Research Network.” Global Horror Studies: Linking J-Horror to Asia. Kyoto, Japan. (Zoom)
Public Lecture: (October 2018) “An Empire of the Dead: A History of George A. Romero.” Romero Lives! Pittsburgh, PA (https://romerolives.net/new-events/empire)
Presenter: (April 2018) Roundtable. “‘No Pleasure in Killing’: The Films of Tobe Hooper.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Indianapolis, IN.
Public Lecture: (April 2018): “Shirley Jackson’s Weird.” Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies—NYC. Brooklyn, NY.
Presentation: (September 2017) “Slasher Theory: Reassessing an Undervalued Horror Subgenre.” Humanities and Public Life Conference. Dawson College. Montréal, QC.
Public Lecture: (November 2016) (3 lectures): “Shirley Jackson’s Weird.” Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Montréal, QC.
Presenter: (April 2015) Roundtable. “Contested Footage: Snuff, Disease, the Avant-Garde and the Archive.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. New Orleans, LA.
Presenter: (April 2014) Roundtable discussion. “Shirley Jackson’s The Sundial and the American Apocalypse.” Shirley Jackson’s America. Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Chicago, IL.
Presenter: (March 2013) “‘Gothic Realism’ in Forties Hollywood Horror Cinema.” Part of the Panel, “Fragments of the Monster: Recovering Forties Horror.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Washington, DC.
Presenter: (March 2013) “Adam Wingard, Uncanny-Realist Horror and ‘Mumblegore’” Part of the Roundtable Discussion, “New Horror Auteurs: Imports, Indies and Industries.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Washington, DC.
Presenter: (July 2012) “Watchers in the Woods: Ludic Reflexivity as Critique of Reality TV in The Cabin in the Woods.” SC5: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse(s). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Presenter: (April 2012) “What Is ‘Reality Horror’?: Notes on the Convergence of Cinematic Horror, Mockumentary, Reality TV and New Media.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Boston, MA.
Presenter: (April 2012) Roundtable discussion: “Rethinking 1940s Horror.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Boston, MA.
Presenter: (April 2012) Roundtable discussion: “Contemporary Readings of Early Horror Television.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Boston, MA.
Presenter: (April 2011) “Chronicles of Self: Reality Horror, New-Media Subjectivity and Lake Mungo.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. San Antonio, TX.
Guest Lecturer: (April 2011) “Reality Horror and the Notion of Monstrous Absence: Lake Mungo.” For the course, “Monsters.” Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare. Department of Humanities. John Abbott College. Montréal, QC.
Presenter: (June 2010) Roundtable discussion: “Slaying with Pedagogy: Teaching Buffy to the Millennials.” SC4: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse(s). Flagler College, St. Augustine, GA.
Guest Lecturer: (April 2010) “Religion and Horror Film: Belief, Skepticism and Questions of Faith in The Exorcist, Don’t Look Now, and Candyman.” Instructor, Susan Palmer. Religion. Dawson College. Montréal, QC.
Presenter: (April 2010) Roundtable discussion: “Horror Films that Freak Us Out and How We Teach Them.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Presenter: (April 2010) “Paranormal Activity: What’s All the Buzz?” Roundtable discussion. Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Presenter: (April 2010) “Roundtable Discussion of Noel Carroll’s Philosophy of Horror.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Presenter: (April 2010) “Raising Hairs with the ‘Lewtonesque’: The Implications for Horror Criticism and Film Studies around the Collaborative ‘Vision’ of 1940s Horror Producer, Val Lewton.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Presenter: (March 2010) “‘Reality Horror’: Crisis and Archival Anxiety.” Humanitites and Public Life Conference. Dawson College. Montréal, QC.
Chair, Respondent: (March 2010) “American Gothic Subjectivity: Spectral Natives, Caribbean Zombies and the Haunted Nation.” Student Panel. Humanitites and Public Life Conference. Dawson College. Montréal, QC.
Guest Lecturer: (24 November, 2009) “Crisis Cinema.” For the course “On the Concept of Excess.” Professor Carole Zucker. Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Concordia University. Montréal, QC.
Presenter: (April 2009) “Documents of the Dead: The Archival Impulse in Fake-Found-Footage Horror Films” at the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. New Orleans, LA.
Chair, Respondent, Presenter: (April 2009) “The Pedagogy of Horror: Roundtable Discussions” at the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. New Orleans, LA.
Presenter: (April 2009) “Last Men and the Living Dead.” Roundtable Discussion on I Am Legend at the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. New Orleans, LA.
Presenter: (June 2008) “Why Does Willow Have Nowhere To Go?: The Narrative Obliteration of a Lovecraftian Overreacher in Seasons 6 and 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer” at the SC3: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse(s). Henderson State University. Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Presenter: (March 2008) “‘In This World, There Is Real Evil’: Discovery Channel’s A Haunting and the Aesthetics of Denial” at the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. San Francisco, CA.
Presenter: (April 2007) “The Voice-Over Threat: Interior Monologue in Horror Cinema” at the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Boston, MA.
Presenter: (8–9 November, 2024) “Somnolent Horror in Syndication: Freddy’s Nightmares.” A Nightmare on Elm Street at 40. University of Nottingham. Nottingham, UK November 8–9, 2024
Presenter: (17–19 October, 2024) “Something is pushing against the surface of things”: General Orders No. 9 as Psychogeographical Gothumentary.” Popular Culture Association of the South (PCAS) Charlotte, SC
Co-Presenter: (16–20 September, 2024) “Tragic Affects and Horror Histories” (with Lynn Kozak). Ancient Drama: Between Tragedy and Horror. Michael Cacoyannis Foundation. Athens, Greece
Co-Organizer/Host/Presenter: (8–12 July 2024) "Horror Ecologies: Un/human Body Genres, New Materialisms, New Methodologies." Dawson College, CORÉRISC, Montréal Monstrum Society. Montréal, Québec.
Respondent: (2–6 April, 2024) For the Panel: “Intersectional Trauma in Women-Directed Folk Horror.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Boston, MA.
Co-Organizer/Host/Presenter: (2–7 July 2023) “I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media.” McGill University, CORÉRISC, Montreal Monstrum Society. Montreal, QC.
Invited Presenter: (17–18 March 2023) “Mapping Global Horror.” Mapping Global Horror: Australia, Japan & Beyond Conference. University of Pittsburgh, ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Swinburne University. Melbourne, Australia. [Amanda Barbour. Senses of Cinema (November 2023). https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2023/interviews/mapping-global-horror-academic-roundtable/.]
Co-Organizer/Host: (18 February 2022). “Horror Reverie 2: A Celebration of 50 Years of The Exorcist.” Online.
Guest Lecturer: (26 April 2022) “Cosmic Pessimism and Thomas Ligotti’s ‘The Small People’.” Instructor, Mikaela Bobiy. Humanities. Dawson College. Montréal, QC.
Presenter: (16 April 2022) Paper. “Friday the 13th: The Series: Towards a Pulp-Horror Humanism in Syndicated 1980s Horror Television.” Popular Culture / American Culture Associations National Conference. Virtual.
Presenter: (1 April 2022) Roundtable. “Eerie Theory: Horror Media Studies and the Weird.” Foundations of Horror Studies: Assessing the Past, Charting the Future.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Virtual.
Co-Organizer/Host: (18 February 2022). “Horror Reverie: A Celebration of 100 Years of Nosferatu.” Online.
Co-Organizer/Moderator/Host: “Discussion of Tobe Hooper, featuring Joe Bob Briggs and Special Guests,” streamed live on 15 October 2021, UTexas Press, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXc9IMzKADE.
Presenter: (July and September 2021) Roundtable. “The Global Horror Studies Archive and Research Network.” Global Horror Studies: Linking J-Horror to Asia. Kyoto, Japan. (Zoom)
Public Lecture: (October 2018) “An Empire of the Dead: A History of George A. Romero.” Romero Lives! Pittsburgh, PA (https://romerolives.net/new-events/empire)
Presenter: (April 2018) Roundtable. “‘No Pleasure in Killing’: The Films of Tobe Hooper.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Indianapolis, IN.
Public Lecture: (April 2018): “Shirley Jackson’s Weird.” Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies—NYC. Brooklyn, NY.
Presentation: (September 2017) “Slasher Theory: Reassessing an Undervalued Horror Subgenre.” Humanities and Public Life Conference. Dawson College. Montréal, QC.
Public Lecture: (November 2016) (3 lectures): “Shirley Jackson’s Weird.” Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Montréal, QC.
Presenter: (April 2015) Roundtable. “Contested Footage: Snuff, Disease, the Avant-Garde and the Archive.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. New Orleans, LA.
Presenter: (April 2014) Roundtable discussion. “Shirley Jackson’s The Sundial and the American Apocalypse.” Shirley Jackson’s America. Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Chicago, IL.
Presenter: (March 2013) “‘Gothic Realism’ in Forties Hollywood Horror Cinema.” Part of the Panel, “Fragments of the Monster: Recovering Forties Horror.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Washington, DC.
Presenter: (March 2013) “Adam Wingard, Uncanny-Realist Horror and ‘Mumblegore’” Part of the Roundtable Discussion, “New Horror Auteurs: Imports, Indies and Industries.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Washington, DC.
Presenter: (July 2012) “Watchers in the Woods: Ludic Reflexivity as Critique of Reality TV in The Cabin in the Woods.” SC5: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse(s). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Presenter: (April 2012) “What Is ‘Reality Horror’?: Notes on the Convergence of Cinematic Horror, Mockumentary, Reality TV and New Media.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Boston, MA.
Presenter: (April 2012) Roundtable discussion: “Rethinking 1940s Horror.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Boston, MA.
Presenter: (April 2012) Roundtable discussion: “Contemporary Readings of Early Horror Television.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Boston, MA.
Presenter: (April 2011) “Chronicles of Self: Reality Horror, New-Media Subjectivity and Lake Mungo.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. San Antonio, TX.
Guest Lecturer: (April 2011) “Reality Horror and the Notion of Monstrous Absence: Lake Mungo.” For the course, “Monsters.” Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare. Department of Humanities. John Abbott College. Montréal, QC.
Presenter: (June 2010) Roundtable discussion: “Slaying with Pedagogy: Teaching Buffy to the Millennials.” SC4: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse(s). Flagler College, St. Augustine, GA.
Guest Lecturer: (April 2010) “Religion and Horror Film: Belief, Skepticism and Questions of Faith in The Exorcist, Don’t Look Now, and Candyman.” Instructor, Susan Palmer. Religion. Dawson College. Montréal, QC.
Presenter: (April 2010) Roundtable discussion: “Horror Films that Freak Us Out and How We Teach Them.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Presenter: (April 2010) “Paranormal Activity: What’s All the Buzz?” Roundtable discussion. Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Presenter: (April 2010) “Roundtable Discussion of Noel Carroll’s Philosophy of Horror.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Presenter: (April 2010) “Raising Hairs with the ‘Lewtonesque’: The Implications for Horror Criticism and Film Studies around the Collaborative ‘Vision’ of 1940s Horror Producer, Val Lewton.” Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Presenter: (March 2010) “‘Reality Horror’: Crisis and Archival Anxiety.” Humanitites and Public Life Conference. Dawson College. Montréal, QC.
Chair, Respondent: (March 2010) “American Gothic Subjectivity: Spectral Natives, Caribbean Zombies and the Haunted Nation.” Student Panel. Humanitites and Public Life Conference. Dawson College. Montréal, QC.
Guest Lecturer: (24 November, 2009) “Crisis Cinema.” For the course “On the Concept of Excess.” Professor Carole Zucker. Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Concordia University. Montréal, QC.
Presenter: (April 2009) “Documents of the Dead: The Archival Impulse in Fake-Found-Footage Horror Films” at the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. New Orleans, LA.
Chair, Respondent, Presenter: (April 2009) “The Pedagogy of Horror: Roundtable Discussions” at the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. New Orleans, LA.
Presenter: (April 2009) “Last Men and the Living Dead.” Roundtable Discussion on I Am Legend at the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. New Orleans, LA.
Presenter: (June 2008) “Why Does Willow Have Nowhere To Go?: The Narrative Obliteration of a Lovecraftian Overreacher in Seasons 6 and 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer” at the SC3: Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse(s). Henderson State University. Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Presenter: (March 2008) “‘In This World, There Is Real Evil’: Discovery Channel’s A Haunting and the Aesthetics of Denial” at the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. San Francisco, CA.
Presenter: (April 2007) “The Voice-Over Threat: Interior Monologue in Horror Cinema” at the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference. Boston, MA.
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