Book Chapters

  1. "@Night @Home: YouTubifying Late-Night Television During the Early Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic" (with Martin Butler). In Covid-19 in Film and Television: Watching the Pandemic. Ed. Verena Bernardi, Amanda D. Giammanco, and Heike Mißler. New York: Routledge, 2025. 60-74.
  2. "Film, Memory, and Intermediality: Exploring the Andes in La cordillera de los sueños (2019)" (with Anna Marta Marini). In Global Mountain Cinema. Ed. Christian Quendler, Caroline Schaumann, and Kamaal Haque. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 243-260.
  3. "Introduction" (with Anna Marta Marini). In The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture. Ed. Anna Marta Marini and Michael Fuchs. Leiden: Brill, 2024, 1-11.
  4. "Nuclear Pasts and Environmental Futures: Radioactivity and Gothic Materiality in the Television Series Chernobyl" (with Martin Butler). The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture. Ed. Anna Marta Marini and Michael Fuchs. Leiden: Brill, 2024, 156-171.
  5. "The Vertical Dimension of the American West: Mining and the Media Archaeology of Navajo Land" (with Christian Quendler). In Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives. Ed. Nicole Haring, Roberta Maierhofer, and Eva Bauer. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2024. 117-137.
  6. "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.
  7. "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.
  8. "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.
  9. "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.
  10. "'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.
  11. "Pornography." In The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek. Ed. Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, and Stefan Rabitsch. New York: Routledge, 2022, 282-285.
  12. "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.
  13. "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.
  14. "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.
  15. "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.
  16. "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.
  17. "'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.
  18. "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.
  19. "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.
  20. "Dad Rising? Playing the Father in Post-Apocalyptic Survival Horror Games" (with Klaus Rieser). Gender in Contemporary Horror: Comics, Games and Transmedia. Ed. Steven Gerrard, Samantha Hollands, and Robert Shail. Bingley: Emerald, 2019, 69-80.
  21. "'Don't Call Me Ash!' Success, the Bruce Campbell Way" (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.
  22. "The End is Nigh—Bring Forth the Shepard! Mass Effect, the Apocalypse, and the Puritan Imagination" (with Michael Phillips and Stefan Rabitsch). Playing the Field: Video Games and American Studies. Ed. Sascha Pöhlmann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, 35-48.
  23. "''I can't believe this is happening!' Bear Horror, the Species Divide, and the Canadian Fight for Survival in a Time of Climate Change." Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes. Ed. Amy J. Ransom and Dominick Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 257-273.
  24. "Intermedia Games—Games Inter Media: An Introduction" (with Jeff Thoss). Intermedia Games—Games Inter Media: Video Games and Intermediality. Ed. Michael Fuchs & Jeff Thoss. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 1-11.
  25. "Austro-Trash, Class and the Urban Environment: The Politics of Das Ding aus der Mur and Its Prequel." B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives. Ed. Justin D. Edwards & Johan Höglund. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018, 108-121.
  26. "Becoming-Shark? Jaws Unleashed, the Animal Avatar and Popular Culture's Eco-Politics." Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture. Ed. John Hackett & Seán Harrington. East Barnet: John Libbey, 2018, 173-184.
  27. "Bioshock Infinite and Against the Day as Intermedia Twins: Exploring the American National Project." Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock. Ed. Felan Parker & Jessica Aldred. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018, 294-319.
  28. "It's a Monster Mash! Pastiche, Time, and the Return of the Victorian Age in Penny Dreadful." Horror Television in the Age of Consumption: Binging on Fear. Ed. Kimberly Jackson & Linda Belau. New York: Routledge, 2018, 148-160.
  29. "Monstrous Writing—Writing Monsters: Authoring Manuscripts, Ontological Horror and Human Agency." Terrifying Texts: Essays on Books of Good and Evil in Horror Cinema. Ed. Cynthia J. Miller & Bowdoin Van Riper. Jefferson: McFarland, 2018, 11-22.
  30. "Of Roaches, Rats, and Man: Pest Species and Naturecultures in New York Horror Movies." Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City. Ed. Stefan L. Brandt & Michael Fuchs. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2018, 179-200.
  31. "Space Oddities and American Cities" (with Stefan L. Brandt). Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City. Ed. Stefan L. Brandt & Michael Fuchs. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2018, 9-25.
  32. "'Two Distinct Worlds'? Maintaining and Transgressing the Boundaries of the HumAnimal in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon." Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Ed. Dawn Keetley & Matthew Wynn Sivils. New York: Routledge, 2018, 206-220. Accepted Manuscript.
  33. "'What if nature were trying to get back at us?' Animals as Agents of Nature's Revenge in Horror Cinema." American Revenge Narratives: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Kyle Wiggins. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 177-206.
  34. "Eat, Kill, ... Love? Courtship, Cannibalism, and Consumption in Hannibal" (with Michael Phillips). What's Eating You? Food and Horror on Screen. Ed. Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, 205-219.
  35. "Entirely Outside the Cultural? Das Monster als Brücke zwischen Natur und Kultur im US-amerikanischen Tierhorror." Kult-Horrorfilme. Ed. Jörg Helbig, Angela Fabris, and Arno Rußegger. Marburg: Schüren, 2017, 141-157.
  36. "'Is it beautiful? Or is it ugly?' The Noir Tradition, Urban Affect, and the Monstrosity of Los Angeles in The Wizard of Gore." Urban Noir: New York and Los Angeles in Shadow and Light. Ed. Cynthia J. Miller & James Ward. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, 143-154.
  37. "Playing Good Cop ... or Bad Cop? Exploring Hyperreal Urban Spaces in L.A. Noire." A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture. Ed. Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice & Agata Zarzycka. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017, 37-49.
  38. "A Different Kind of Monster: Uncanny Media and Alan Wake's Textual Monstrosity." Contemporary Research on Intertextuality in Video Games. Ed. Christophe Duret & Christian-Marie Pons. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016, 39-53.
  39. "'I know everything that's going to happen': Supernatural's Self-Reflexive Compulsion to Repeat (with a Difference)." The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural: Essays on the Television Series. Ed. Melissa Edmundson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016, 63-74.
  40. "Part of Our Cultural History: Fan-Creator Relationships, Restoration, and Appropriation" (with Michael Phillips). A Galaxy Here and Now: Historical and Cultural Readings of Star Wars. Ed. Peter W. Lee. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016, 208-237.
  41. "'They are a fact of life out here': The Ecocritical Subtexts of Three Early-Twenty-First-Century Aussie Animal Horror Movies." Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism. Ed. Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hållén, and Johan Höglund. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 37-57.
  42. "Woody Allen and the Absurdity of Human Existence: Origin, Legacy, and Human Agency in God and Mighty Aphrodite." Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen. Ed. Klara Stephanie Szlezák & Dianah E. Wynter. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 100-117.
  43. "'Three hundred channels and nothing's on': Metaleptic Genre-Mixing in Supernatural." Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity: New Connections, New Perspectives. Ed. Bianca Mitu, Silvia Branea, and Valentina Marinescu. Hanover: ibidem-Verlag, 2014, 35-48.
  44. "The Black Hole at the Heart of America? Family, Spatiality, and the Black Hallway in House of Leaves." Placing America: American Culture and Its Spaces. Ed. Michael Fuchs & Maria-Theresia Holub. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2013, 103-125.
  45. "LeBron James and the Web of Discourse: Iconic Sports Figures and Semantic Struggles" (with Michael Phillips). ConFiguring America: Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity. Ed. Klaus Rieser, Michael Fuchs, and Michael Phillips. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2013, 65-92.
  46. "'My name is Alan Wake. I'm a writer.': Crafting Narrative Complexity in the Age of Transmedia Storytelling." Game On, Hollywood! Essays on the Intersection of Video Games and Cinema. Ed. Gretchen Papazian & Joseph Michael Sommers. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013, 144-155.
  47. "Evolution, Chaos und/oder Turn(s) im Horrorfilm: Natur- und formalwissenschaftliche Modelle im kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs." Kategorien zwischen Denkform, Analysewerkzeug und historischem Diskurs. Ed. Elisabeth Fritz, Nils Kasper, Stefan Köchel, and Rita Rieger. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012, 177-193.
  48. "Of Blitzkriege and Hardcore BDSM: Revisiting Nazi Sexploitation Camps." 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, 279-294.
  49. "Play it Again, Sam ... and Dean: Temporality and Meta-Textuality in Supernatural." Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming. Ed. Melissa Ames. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012, 82-94.
  50. "Starring Porn: Metareference in Straight Pornographic Feature Films." The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media: Forms, Functions, Attempts at Explanation. Ed. Werner Wolf, Katharina Bantleon, and Jeff Thoss. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011, 379-413.
  51. "Trapped in TV Land: Encountering the Hyperreal in Supernatural." Simulation in Media and Culture: Believing the Hype. Ed. Robin DeRosa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011, 47-55.
  52. "A Horrific Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Simulacra, Simulations, and Postmodern Horror." Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory. Ed. Petra Eckhard, Michael Fuchs, and Walter W. Hölbling. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2010, 71-90.
  53. "Allegories of Playing: Spatial Practice in Computer Games." Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory. Ed. Petra Eckhard, Michael Fuchs, and Walter W. Hölbling. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2010, 99-111.
  54. "The Structurality of Poststructure" (with Walter W. Hölbling). Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory. Ed. Petra Eckhard, Michael Fuchs, and Walter W. Hölbling. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2010, 23-27.