In my research, I acknowledge that culturally maligned objects (such as horror and pornography) express serious, complicated philosophical ideas. I have written various articles and chapters on contemporary issues in moral philosophy, selfhood studies and feminism, each of which proposes that (a) popular horror films and pornographic texts articulate the same concepts that concern philosophers (albeit in intuitive ways), and (b) these popular objects complicate and contribute to the on-going conceptual debates that define contemporary philosophical and political thought.
I joined Northumbria University in April 2010, and I am currently an Ass…
In my research, I acknowledge that culturally maligned objects (such as horror and pornography) express serious, complicated philosophical ideas. I have written various articles and chapters on contemporary issues in moral philosophy, selfhood studies and feminism, each of which proposes that (a) popular horror films and pornographic texts articulate the same concepts that concern philosophers (albeit in intuitive ways), and (b) these popular objects complicate and contribute to the on-going conceptual debates that define contemporary philosophical and political thought.
I joined Northumbria University in April 2010, and I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts. I previously taught in the School of Film, Media and Music, University of Sussex (2006-2010).
I have previously supervised PhDs on the concept of violence (broadly conceived), and I have examined PhDs on captivity in contemporary American Horror cinema and intermediality in contemporary American independent film.
I welcome PhD applications in the areas of horror film, pornography, gendered and sexual violence, and film-philosophy (particularly morality or the philosophy of mind),
I am a member of the Society For Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Scholarly Interest Groups in Film-Philosophy, Horror Studies, and Adult Cinema History; British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Special Interest Groups in Film and Philosophy and Screening Sex; Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA); the Onscenity research group; and the Screening Sex Network. I have acted as a peer reviewer for journals such as Cultural Politics, Feminist Media Studies, Gender & Society, Participations, Porn Studies, The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Journal of Popular Television, New Review of Film and Television Studies, European Journal of American Culture, and Sexualities. I have also peer reviewed monograph proposals and chapters for numerous publishers, including Bloomsbury, Edinburgh University Press, IB Tauris, Palgrave-Macmillan, Routledge, SAGE, and Taylor & Francis.