Other Publications

Edited Collections
(with Stefan Rabitsch and Stefan L. Brandt) Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
(with Jeff Thoss) Intermedia Games–Games Inter Media: Video Games and Intermediality. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
(with Stefan L. Brandt) Animals on American Television. Special Issue of the European Journal of American Studies vol. 13, no. 1 (2018).
(with Stefan L. Brandt) Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2018.
(with Michael Phillips and Klaus Rieser) ConFiguring America: Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2013.
(with Maria-Theresia Holub) Placing America: American Culture and Its Spaces. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2013.
(with Petra Eckhard and Walter W. Hölbling) Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory. Vienna: LIT Verlag.

Journal Articles
“‘A Serious Man Versus Nature Moment’: Aquatic Monsters, Deep Time, and Climate Change.” Popular Culture Review 33, no. 1 (2022): 103–136. Open Access.
“The Disease Becomes the Host: Cattle Decapitation’s Pandemic Discourse from Song to Music Video” (with Anna Marta Marini). Popular Culture Review 33, no. 2 (2022): 77–112. Open Access.
“Livin’ Da Dream? Playing Black, Illusions of Meritocracy, and Narrative Constraints in Sports Video Game Story Modes.” European Journal of American Studies 16, no. 3 (2021). Open Access.
“PandemIcons? The Medical Scientist as Iconic Figure in Times of Crisis” (with Martin Butler and Sina Farzin). Configurations 29, no. 4 (2021): 435-451.
“Crushing Life in the Anthropocene? Destroying Simulated ‘Nature’ in The Cabin in the Woods.” CineJ: Cinema Journal 8, no. 2 (2020): 62-93. Open Access.
“Going Where No White Man Has Gone Before: Monstrous Animals and the Disruption of Imperialist Fantasies.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik & Amerikanistik 45, no. 2 (2020): 197-215. Open Access.
“‘Is this really all they had to worry about?’ Past, Present, and Future Hauntings in The Last of Us.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik & Amerikanistik vol. 44, no. 1 (2019): 67-82. Open Access.
“Transgression – Identification – Interaction: Blu-Ray Bonus Features and Supernatural‘s Cult Status.” The Journal of Popular Television vol. 6, no. 3 (2018): 303-322.
(with Vanessa Erat and Stefan Rabitsch) “Playing Serial Imperialists: The Failed Promises of BioWare’s Video Game Adventures.” The Journal of Popular Culture vol. 51, no. 6 (2018): 1476-1499.
“Looking through the Beast’s Eyes? The Dialectics of Seeing the Monster and Being Seen by the Monster in Shark Horror Movies.” Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration vol. 3, no. 2 (2018): 3-15.
(with Michael Phillips) “‘It’s only cannibalism if we’re equals’: Carnivorous Consumption and Liminality in Hannibal.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video vol. 35, no. 6 (2018): 614-629.
(with Stefan L. Brandt) “Animals on American Television: Introduction to the Special Issue.” European Journal of American Studies vol. 13, no. 1 (2018).
“All Teeth and Claws: Constructing Bears as Man-Eating Monsters in Television Documentaries.” European Journal of American Studies vol. 13, no. 1 (2018).
“Mark of the Auteur: Mark of the Devil‘s Blu-Ray Release and the Cult of Authorship.” Cine-Excess no. 3 (2017): 131-148.
“When Dinosaurs Rules the Earth? Digital Animals, Simulation, and the Return of ‘Real Nature’ in the Jurassic Park Movies.” On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture no. 2 (2016).
“Cooking with Hannibal: Food, Liminality, and Monstrosity in Hannibal.” European Journal of American Culture vol. 34, no. 2 (2015): 97-112.
“The Great Arsenal of Democracy: Uncle Sam and American Exceptionalism at the End of the American Century.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik vol. 39, no. 1 (2014): 43-69.
“‘It’s like Groundhog Day‘: Remediation, Trauma, and Quantum Physics in Time Loop Narratives on Recent American Television.” GRAAT On-Line: A Journal of Anglophone Studies no. 15 (2014): 93-113.
“‘A Horror Story That Came True’: Metalepsis and the Horrors of Ontological Uncertainty in Alan Wake.” Monsters & the Monstrous vol. 3, no. 1 (2013): 95-107.
“Hauntings: Uncanny Doubling in Alan Wake and Supernatural.” Textus: English Studies in Italy vol. 25, no. 3 (2012): 63-74.

Book Chapters
“Innocent Until Proven Guilty? Two Cinematic Portrayals of Johann ‘Jack’ Unterweger.” In Serial Killing on Screen: Adaptation, True Crime and Popular Culture. Ed. Sarah E. Fanning and Claire O’Callaghan. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 189-213.
“De-Extinction: A Gothic Masternarrative for the Anthropocene.” In Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene. Ed. Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022, 26-44.
“Imagining Digital Cities: Freedom and (Non-)Human Agency in Representations of Virtual Realities” (with Sarah Lahm). In Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Ed. Stefan Rabitsch, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan L. Brandt. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, 194-210.
“Introduction” (with Stefan Rabitsch). In Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Ed. Stefan Rabitsch, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan L. Brandt. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, 3-31.
“‘Out there hunting monsters’: Manifest Destiny, the Monstrosity of the American West, and the Gothic Character of American History” (with Stefan Rabitsch). In Drawing the Past, Volume 1: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the United States. Ed. Dorian L. Alexander, Michael Goodrum, and Philip Smith. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, 228-251.
“Pornography.” In The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek. Ed. Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, and Stefan Rabitsch. New York: Routledge, 2022, 282-285.
“An Art Form That Honors Aesthetic and Taste: The Art of Murder and the Art of Television in Hannibal.” Hannibal for Dinner: Essays on America’s Favorite Cannibal on Television. Ed. Kyle A. Moody and Nicholas A. Yanes. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2021, 278-298.
“Playing (with) the Nonhuman: The Animal Avatar in Bear Simulator.” Outside the Anthropological Machine: Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies. Ed. Chiara Mengozzi. New York: Routledge, 2021, 261-274.
“Imagining the Becoming-Unextinct of Megalodon: Spectral Animals, Digital Resurrection, and the Vanishing of the Human.” Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out. Ed. Ruth Heholt and Melissa Edmundson. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 107-123.
“Redefining the Heimat: Austrian Horror Cinema and the ‘Home’ in a Global Age.” Dark Forces at Work: Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors. Ed. Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020, 33-51.
“Telling Stories about Dying (Out): Thomas Pynchon’s Global Novels and the Anthropocene Extinction.” Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss. Ed. Jonathan Elmore. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020, 13-29.
“‘Things Are Not as They Seem’: Colonialism, Capitalism and Neo-Victorian London in The Order: 1886.” The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene. Ed. Holly-Gale Millette & Ruth Heholt. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 41-56.
“When the Forest Is Not Quite What It Seems to Be: The Simulacral Spaces of ‘Nature’ in The Cabin in the Woods.” Madness in the Woods: Representations of the Ecological Uncanny. Ed. Tina-Karen Pusse, Heike Schwarz, and Rebecca Downes. New York: Peter Lang, 2020, 199-217.
“The Birth of the SF Franchise” (co-authored with Stefan Rabitsch). The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Eric Carl Link. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 481-501.
“Dad Rising? Playing the Father in Post-Apocalyptic Survival Horror Games” (co-authored with Klaus Rieser). Gender in Contemporary Horror: Comics, Games and Transmedia. Ed. Steven Gerrard, Samantha Hollands, and Robert Shail. Bingley: Emerald, 2019, 69-80.
“‘Don’t Call Me Ash!’ Success, the Bruce Campbell Way” (co-authored with Michael Phillips). The Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise. Ed. Ron Riekki & Jeffrey A. Sartain. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019, 94-109.
“The End is Nigh—Bring Forth the Shepard! Mass Effect, the Apocalypse, and the Puritan Imagination” (co-authored with Michael Phillips and Stefan Rabitsch). Playing the Field: Video Games and American Studies. Ed. Sascha Pöhlmann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, 35-48.
“‘I can’t believe this is happening!’ Bear Horror, the Species Divide, and the Canadian Fight for Survival in a Time of Climate Change.” In Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes, ed. Amy J. Ransom and Dominick Grave (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 257-273.
(with Michael Phillips) “‘Don’t Call Me Ash!’ Success, the Bruce Campbell Way.” In The Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise, ed. Ron Riekki and Jeffrey A. Sartain (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019), pp. 94-109.
(with Jeff Thoss) “Intermedia Games–Games Inter Media: An Introduction.” In Intermedia Games–Games Inter Media: Video Games and Intermediality, ed. Michael Fuchs and Jeff Thoss (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019), pp. 1-11.
(with Stefan Rabitsch) “The Birth of the SF Franchise.” In The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, ed. Gerry Canavan and Eric Carl Link (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 481-501.
“‘What if nature were trying to get back at us?’ Animals as Agents of Nature’s Revenge in Horror Cinema.” In American Revenge Narratives: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Kyle Wiggins (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 177-206.
“‘Two distinct worlds’? Maintaining and Transgressing the Boundaries of the HumAnimal in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon.” In Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, ed. Dawn Keetley and Matthew Wynn Sivils (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 206-220.
(with Stefan L. Brandt) “Space Oddities and American Cities.” In Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City, ed. Stefan L. Brandt and Michael Fuchs (Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2018), pp. 9-25.
“Of Roaches, Rats, and Man: Pest Species and Naturecultures in New York Horror Movies.” In Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City, ed. Stefan L. Brandt and Michael Fuchs (Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2018), pp. 179-200.
“Monstrous Writing–Writing Monsters: Authoring Manuscripts, Ontological Horror, and Human Agency.” In Terrifying Texts: Essays on Books of Good and Evil in Horror Cinema, ed. Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018), pp. 11-22.
“It’s a Monster Mash! Pastiche, Time, and the Return of the Victorian Age in Penny Dreadful.” In Horror Television in the Age of Consumption: Binging on Fear, ed. Kimberly Jackson and Linda Belau (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 148-160.
“BioShock Infinite and Against the Day as Intermedia Twins: Exploring the American National Project.” In Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock, ed. Felan Parker and Jessica Aldred (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018), pp. 294-319.
“Becoming-Shark? Jaws Unleashed, the Animal Avatar and Popular Culture’s Eco-Politics.” In Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture, ed. John Hackett and Seán Harrington (East Barnet: John Libbey, 2018), pp. 173-184.
“Playing Good Cop … or Bad Cop? Exploring Hyperreal Urban Spaces in L.A. Noire.” In A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture, ed. Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice and Agata Zarzycka (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017), pp. 37-49.
“‘Is it beautiful? Or is it ugly?’ The Noir Tradition, Urban Affect, and the Monstrosity of Los Angeles in The Wizard of Gore.” In Urban Noir: New York and Los Angeles in Shadow and Light, ed. Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), pp. 143-154.
“Entirely Outside the Cultural? Das Monster als Brücke zwischen Natur und Kultur im US-amerikanischen Tierhorror.” In Kult-Horrorfilme, ed. Jörg Helbig, Angela Fabris, and Arno Rußegger (Marburg: Schüren, 2017), pp. 141-157.
“A Different Kind of Monster: Uncanny Media and Alan Wake‘s Textual Monstrosity.” In Contemporary Research on Intertextuality in Video Games, ed. Christophe Duret & Christian-Marie Pons (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016), pp. 39-53.
“‘I know everything that’s going to happen’: Supernatural‘s Self-Reflexive Compulsion to Repeat (with a Difference).” In The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural: Essays on the Television Series, ed. Melissa Edmundson (Jefferson, NC: McFarland) 2016), pp. 63-74.
(with Michael Phillips) “Part of Our Cultural History: Fan-Creator Relationships, Restoration, and Appropriation.” In A Galaxy Here and Now: Historical and Cultural Readings of Star Wars, ed. Peter W. Lee (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016), pp. 208-237.
“Woody Allen and the Absurdity of Human Existence: Origin, Legacy, and Human Agency in God and Mighty Aphrodite.” In Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen, ed. Klara Stephanie Szlezák & Dianah E. Wynter (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 100-117.
“‘They are a fact of life out here’: The Ecocritical Subtexts of Three Early-Twenty-First-Century Aussie Animal Horror Movies.” In Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism, ed. Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hållén, and Johan Höglund (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 37-57.
“‘Three hundred channels and nothing’s on’: Metaleptic Genre-Mixing in Supernatural.” In Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity: New Connections, New Perspectives, ed. Bianca Mitu, Silvia Branea, and Valentina Marinescu (Hanover: ibidem-Verlag, 2014), pp. 35-48.
(with Michael Phillips) “LeBron James and the Web of Discourse: Iconic Sports Figures and Semantic Struggles.” In ConFiguring America: Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity, ed. Michael Fuchs, Michael Phillips, and Klaus Rieser (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2013), pp. 65-92.
“‘My name is Alan Wake. I’m a writer.’: Crafting Narrative Complexity in the Age of Transmedia Storytelling.” In Game On, Hollywood! Essays on the Intersection of Video Games and Cinema, ed. Gretchen Papazian & Joseph Michael Sommers (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013), pp. 144-155.
“The Black Hole at the Heart of America? Family, Spatiality, and the Black Hallway in House of Leaves.” In Placing America: American Culture and Its Spaces, ed. Michael Fuchs & Maria-Theresia Holub (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2013), pp. 103-125.
“Evolution, Chaos und/oder Turn(s) im Horrorfilm: Natur- und formalwissenschaftliche Modelle im kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs.” In Kategorien zwischen Denkform, Analysewerkzeug und historischem Diskurs, ed. Elisabeth Fritz, Nils Kasper, Stefan Köchel, and Rita Rieger (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012), pp. 177-193.
“Of Blitzkriege and Hardcore BDSM: Revisiting Nazi Sexploitation Camps.” In Nazisploitation: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Film and Culture, ed. Elizabeth Bridges, Kristin T. Vander Lugt, and Daniel H. Magilow (New York: Continuum, 2012), pp. 279-294.
“Play it Again, Sam … and Dean: Temporality and Meta-Textuality in Supernatural.” In Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming, ed. Melissa Ames (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012), pp. 82-94.
“Starring Porn: Metareference in Straight Pornographic Feature Films.” In The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media: Forms, Functions, Attempts at Explanation, ed. Katharina Bantleon, Jeff Thoss, and Werner Wolf (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), pp. 379-413.
“Trapped in TV Land: Encountering the Hyperreal in Supernatural.” In Simulation in Media and Culture: Believing the Hype, ed. Robin DeRosa (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011), pp. 47-55.
(with Walter W. Hölbling) “The Structurality of Poststructure.” In Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory, ed. Petra Eckhard, Michael Fuchs, and Walter W. Hölbling (Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2010), pp. 23-27.
“A Horrific Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Simulacra, Simulations, and Postmodern Horror.” In Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory, ed. Petra Eckhard, Michael Fuchs, and Walter W. Hölbling (Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2010), pp. 71-90.
“Allegories of Playing: Spatial Practice in Computer Games.” In Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory, ed. Petra Eckhard, Michael Fuchs, and Walter W. Hölbling (Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2010), pp. 99-111.