Lectures

• Introduction to Cultural Studies - North America
• Fan, Fantastic, Fantasy: The Fantastic in Contemporary Popular Culture
• Westward We Go! The Literatures of the American and Canadian Wests (with Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner)

Introduction to Media Studies

• Fantastic Metropolis: Urban Narratives in Contemporary North American Television
• Geek Feminism and American Television

Undergraduate Seminars

• Sing, Goddess: Feminist Reimaginings of Classical Narrative Tradition
• Dracula in America, America in Dracula: The Transatlantic (Un)Life of a Legend
• Writing California: John Steinbeck’s California Fictions
• “A Native Vampire! That Is So Cool!”: Contemporary Indigenous Genre Fiction in North America

Cultural Studies

• “If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?”: (Self-)Representation of Native Peoples in North America
• “For the Dead Travel Fast”: Vampires in Contemporary American Literature 

Book Chapters

(accepted, in revision) “Shards of the Glass Ceiling: Female Leadership and Corporate Machine Narrative in Contemporary SF Television.” Power, Profits, and Paranoia: Corporate Conspiracies in Contemporary Television. Ed. Eve Bennett and Erin Griffin.

“What Do You Write?”: Science Fiction, Genre Expectations, and Indigenous Writing in Drew Hayden Taylor’s alterNatives.” Morris, Paul (ed.). Métissage au Canada / Transcultural Canada. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2019. 127-145.

“‘Making Our Move’: Kanadische Indigene Pop Musik als Protestmedium.” Länderbericht Kanada. Ed. Ursula Lehmkuhl. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bilding, 2018. 188-189.

(in preparation) “Transborder Storyscapes: Literary Textures of the Pacific Northwest.” Bordertextures. A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies, edited by Christian Wille, Astrid M. Fellner, and Eva Nossem. Bielefeld: transcript.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

(in publication) “Thinking in Connections: A. A. Carr’s Eye Killers and F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu.” The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead. Ed. Simon Bacon. Jefferson: McFarland, 2021.

“Conflict and Complexity: Humanist and Spiritualist Discourses in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Armand.” All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts. Ed. Verena Bernardi and Frank Jacob. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2019. 45-70.

“Radical Relating: Vampirism as a Utopian State in Black Atlantic Women’s Vampire Fiction.” US American Expressions of Utopian and Dystopian Visions. Ed. Saskia Fürst, Yvonne Kaisinger, Ralph Poole. Vienna: Lit, 2017. 101-119.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

“‘There’ll Be Another Song for Me’: The Significance of the Orpheus Myth in Angel’s ‘Orpheus.’” Let’s Go to Work: The Legacy of Angel, special issue of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 17.2 (50), Summer/Fall 2019. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown, pp. 48-76.

Encyclopedia Entries

“Aaron A. Carr.” The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 July 2019.

(in preparation) “Eye Killers.” The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd.

Editorial Work

IndigiPop: Contemporary Indigenous Popular Culture. W.T. (Co-edited volume with Dr. Kati Dlaske, under contract with Wilfrid Laurier University Press; in preparation)

Indigenous Literary Arts of Truth and Redress. A Special Issue of Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne (SCL/ÉLC)journal, guest co-editor with Michelle Coupal and Allison Hargreaves (in peer review).  

“Imagining Otherwise”: Indigenous Popular Culture and Genre Narratives in North America. NELK Research Colloquium Guest Lecture, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany. June 25, 2020.

Indigenous Vampire Fiction. Workshop, Indigenous Comic Con 3, Isleta Resort and Casino, November 2-4, Albuquerque, New Mexico. November 2, 2018.   

Visual Sovereignty: Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls. ANG 1005 – Reading Popular Culture. Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Novermber 8, 2016.

Nov. 2017 – Oct. 2019 Early Career Scholar Representative, Executive Board, Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA).

Sept. 2019 – Dec. 2019 Institute de la Communication et des Médias, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, Paris, France.

• First Nations and Native American Literatures and Media
• Indigenous Popular Culture
• 20^th- and 21^st-Century U.S. American and Canadian Literatures and Cultures
• Popular Culture Studies
• TV Studies

"'Personal Totems': The Poetics of the Popular in Contemporary Indigenous Popular Culture in North America"

"In and Out of Place: Women Writing (in) the Pacific Northwest, 1860-1940" (working title)

Edited Volume "Indigenous Popular Culture Across the Globe"
edited by Svetlana Seibel and Kati Dlaske.

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