Select Academic Essays
“It’s an imperfect world, but it’s the only one we’ve got”: The Neoliberal Marvel Cinematic Universe
Masters Dissertation, Goldsmiths • August 2022
Re/Animating the Dead: Zombie Capitalism, Digital Afterlives
“Cultural Studies and Capitalism,” Goldsmiths • May 2022
Inland Empire: Pleasures and Horrors of the Poor Image
“Experimental Media,” Goldsmiths • May 2022
Computer-Generated Animation and the Digital Plasmatic
“Experimental Media,” Goldsmiths • March 2022
Subcultural Queer Cyberspace During the COVID-19 Pandemic
“Doing Cultural Studies,” Goldsmiths • January 2022
Mannequins and Meat Puppets: Reification and Gender in Blade Runner andNeuromancer
“Poor Things,” University of Edinburgh • May 2020
“What will happen to me if I fail your test?”: Policing the Borders of the Human in Science Fiction
Undergraduate Dissertation, University of Edinburgh • April 2020
“The most terrifying casualty of the century”: The Death of Affect in Thomas Pynchon’s V. and J.G. Ballard’s Crash
“Poor Things,” University of Edinburgh • March 2020
A Perfect Scream: Blow Out and the Slasher Film
“Men, Women and Chain Saws,” Freie Universität Berlin • September 2019