Here you will find links to critical essays I have written.

Essays on Poetry

T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams: So Much Depends Upon the Image ( Poets’ Quarterly)

Revisiting Emerson: Why His Ideas and the Everyday Image Matter Now (Schuylkill Valley Journal)

Lessons on the Environment: Revisiting Robert Bly (Schuylkill Valley Journal)

Going Into the Cave: Where the Personal and Political Intersect in Contemporary American Poetry (Poets’ Quarterly)

Is a Ph.D. Worth It After an M.F.A.? (The Write Life)

Essays/Interviews on Horror Films

“Lucky McKee’s May and the Retelling of Frankenstein for the Indie Rom-Com Era” (Bright Lights Film Journal)

The Progressive Politics of Early Horror Cinema: Gender, Female Empowerment, and Sexuality (Schuylkill Valley Journal)

The Zombie Comes to the ‘Burbs: The Abject and Monstrous-Feminine in Netflix’s “Santa Clarita Diet” (Schuykill Valley Journal)

Possession (1981) A Perfect Marriage of the Personal & Political (1428 Elm)

Day of the Dead, a Woman’s Nightmare, and Post-Capitalist Possibilities (Bright Lights Film Journal)

Queens of the Dead Director Tina Romero and Cast on Drag, Glam Zombies, and Keeping the Romero Legacy Alive (1428 Elm)

Interview: Full Moon Features founder Charlie Band on making movies he wants to make (1428Elm.com)

Interview: Hell House Series Creator Stephen Cognetti Dishes on New Film 825 Forest Road (HorrorBuzz)

Interview: Camille Sullivan on Playing Mia in NEON’s Shelby Oaks (1428 Elm)

Interview: Tiger Stripes director Amanda Nell Eu on Body Horror, Censorship, and Influences (1428 Elm)

Found footage, haunted houses, and influencer horror: An interview with Deadstream co-director/star Joseph Winter (1428 Elm)

Body Horror, Critical Monsters, & Conquering Self-Doubt: An Interview with Appendage Writer/Director Anna Zlokovic

Witchboard Director Chuck Russell & Cast on Reinventing an 80s Cult Favorite (Horror Buzz)

We’re Not in Miami Anymore: An Interview with Dexter: New Blood Composter Pat Irwin (Horror Buzz)

Director Perry Blackshear on When I Consume You (Horror Buzz)

Interview: Strange Harvest Director & Cast on True Crime (Horror Buzz)

Recontextualizing Frankenstein: An Interview with A Nightmare Wakes Writer/Director Nora Unkel (Signal Horizon)

An Interview with Scare Package Creator Aaron B. Koontz (Signal Horizon Magazine)

The Resonance of the Second Golden Age of Horror (Signal Horizon)

No Clowning Around: The Monster of Entrapment in After Midnight (Signal Horizon)

Mulholland Drive Explained: A Hollywood Love Story Gone Terribly, Terribly Wrong (Signal Horizon)

We Need to Talk about Kevin Explained: A Haunting Portrayl of American Violence (Signal Horizon)

Revenge Director Coralie Fargeat Talks Influences and Challenging Genre Tropes (Signal Horizon)

Funeral Nightmares, Demonic Dwarves, and the Tall Man: Phantasm at 40 (Signal Horizon)

The Amityville Horror and the Terrors of Home Ownership (Signal Horizon)

An Interview with Irish Director Aislinn Clarke (HorrOrigins)

From Mega Tours to Directing: Spider One Talks Debut Film Allegoria (Signal Horizon)

Travel Experiences from Hell: An Interview with Superhost Writer/Director Brandon Christensen (Signal Horizon)

The Pierce Brothers, Writers/Directors of The Wretched, Talk Indie Filmmaking, Drive-in Success, and Witch Folklore (HorrOrigins)

Talking Witches, Grief, and Magical Realism: An Interview with Baghead Director Alberto Corredor (HorrOrigins)

Talking Black Horror Cinema: An Interview with Horror Noire Director Xavier Burgin (HorrOrigins)

A Tale of Two Post-911 Remakes: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and The Hills Have Eyes (2006) (Horror Homeroom)

No Clowning Around: The Comedic and Gothic Elements of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (Horror Homeroom)

Night of the Living Dead in the Time of Confinement and the Coronavirus (Horror Homeroom)

Revenge and the Power of the Gaze (Horror Homeroom)

Hereditary: Grief and Motherhood (Horror Homeroom)