Journal Articles
2021
"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. Open Access.
"PandemIcons? The Medical Scientist as Iconic Figure in Times of Crisis" (with Martin Butler and Sina Farzin). Configurations 29, no. 4: 435-451.
2020
"Crushing Life in the Anthropocene? Destroying Simulated 'Nature' in The Cabin in the Woods." CineJ: Cinema Journal 8, no. 2: 62-93. Available 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: 197-215.
2019
"''Is this really all they had to worry about?' Past, Present, and Future Hauntings in The Last of Us." Arbeiten aus Anglistik & Amerikanistik 44, no. 1: 67-82. Open Access.
"Playing America: An Introduction to American Culture Through Video Games" (co-authored with Stefan Rabitsch). Gamevironments 11: 86-102. Open Access. *not peer-reviewed*
"Vanishing Glaciers, the Becoming-Unextinct of Microorganisms, and Fathering a More-Than-Human World: Climate Change Horror in the Alps." Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 6, no. 2: 11-24. Open Access.
2018
"All Teeth and Claws: Constructing Bears as Man-Eating Monsters in Television Documentaries." European Journal of American Studies 13, no. 1. Open Access.
"Animals on American Television: Introduction to the Special Issue" (co-authored with Stefan L. Brandt). European Journal of American Studies 13, no. 1. Open Access. *not peer-reviewed*
"'It's only cannibalism if we're equals': Carnivorous Consumption and Liminality in Hannibal" (co-authored with Michael Phillips). Quarterly Review of Film and Video 35, no. 6: 614-629. Open Access.
Reprinted in: Hannibal Lecter's Forms, Formulations, and Transformations: Cannibalising Form and Style. Ed. Jessica Balanzategui & Naja Later. London: Routledge, 2021.
"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 3, no. 2: 1-15. Open Access.
"Playing Serial Imperialists: The Failed Promises of BioWare's Video Game Adventures" (co-authored with Vanessa Erat and Stefan Rabitsch). The Journal of Popular Culture 51, no. 6: 1476-1499. Open Access.
"Transgression - Identification - Interaction: Blu-Ray Bonus Features and Supernatural's Cult Status." The Journal of Popular Television 6, no. 3: 303-322.
2017
"Mark of the Auteur: Mark of the Devil's Blu-Ray Release and the Cult of Authorship." Cine-Excess 3: 131-148. Open Access.
2016
"When Dinosaurs Ruled 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 2. Open Access.
2015
"Cooking with Hannibal: Food, Liminality and Monstrosity in Hannibal." European Journal of American Culture 34, no. 2: 97-112. Accepted Manuscript available on my Website.
2014
"The Great Arsenal of Democracy: Uncle Sam and American Exceptionalism at the End of the American Century." Arbeiten aus Anglistik & Amerikanistik 39, no. 1: 43-69. Open Access.
"'It's like Groundhog Day': Remediation, Trauma, and Quantum Physics in Time Loop Narratives on Recent American Television." GRAAT: An On-Line Journal of Anglophone Studies 15: 93-113. Open Access.
2013
"'A horror story that came true': Metalepsis and the Horrors of Ontological Uncertainty in Alan Wake." Monsters & the Monstrous 3, no. 1: 95-107.
2012
"Hauntings: Uncanny Doubling in Alan Wake and Supernatural." Textus: English Studies in Italy 25, no. 3: 63-74.