2008: Psy.D (Psychoanalysis), Hattie D. Rosenthal College of Psychoanalysis of Heed University (anticipated)
1995: D.Phil, English Language & Literature, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University, England.        
1991: M.A. (Oxon), English Language and Literature, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University.
1989: B.A. (hons.) (1^st Class) English Language & Literature, St, Hilda’s College, Oxford University.

PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING
Spring 2007-current: Psy.D. (in progress), Hattie D. Rosenthal College of Psychoanalysis of Heed University (online)
Fall 2005-Fall 2006: Fellow, Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, Laurel, Maryland.
Fall 2003- Spring 2005: Analytic Candidate, Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy and Mental Health, New York City.

EMPLOYMENT
Fall 2001-current: Professor, Department of Language & Literature, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD.
Fall 2000-Spring 2001: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shippensburg University (SU), Pennsylvania.
Fall 1998-Spring 2000: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University (IU), Bloomington.
Fall 1995-Spring 1998: Lecturer, Communication and Education Studies, University of East London (UEL).
Fall 1993-Spring 1995: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), N. Cyprus.

COURSES TAUGHT

Intellectual History
Modern Folklore (MICA: Spring 2001, 2005) (Grad)
Early Folklore (MICA: Fall 2006)
Myth, Magic and Ritual (MICA: Fall 2004; 2005; Spring 2008)
Thanatology (MICA: Fall 2004, Spring 2006)
Methods of Inquiry (UEL: Spring 1996, 1997, 1998)

Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
Critical Inquiry (MICA: Fall 2002-2008; Spring 2001-2008)
Apocalypse Culture (IU: Fall 1998, 1999; Summer 1999; MICA: Fall 2001, 2002, 2003).
Dream Workshop (MICA: Fall 2003; Spring 2005; Fall 2007)
Understanding Suicide (MICA: Fall 2001)
Making Sense of Our Experience (UEL: Fall 1995, 1996, 1997)
Understanding Working Class Culture (UEL: Spring 1996, 1997, 1998)
Youth Culture (UEL: Spring 1996; 1997, 1998)
Television Fictions (UEL: Fall 1995, 1996, 1997)
Introduction to Popular Culture (IU: Spring 1999, 2000)
Semiotics (EMU: Spring 1993, 1994) (Grad)
Celebrity (MICA: Fall 2002)
Theories of Madness (MICA: Fall 2005)

Literature
Reading Nabokov (MICA: Spring 2008)
Reading Poe (MICA: Spring 2007)
The Contemporary Memoir (MICA: Fall 2006)
Banned Books: The Literature of Controversy (MICA: Spring 2002)
Tales of Murder and Madness (MICA: Spring 2002)
Fictions of Addiction (IU: Summer 2000)
Narrative Illustration (MICA: Spring 2003)
American Literature II (EMU: Fall 1993, 1994)
Shakespeare (EMU: Fall 1993; MICA: Fall 2004)
Twentieth Century British Drama (EMU: Fall 1993)
Eighteenth Century British Drama (EMU: Spring 1994, 1995)
Twentieth Century British Poetry (EMU: Fall 1994)
Literature of the Middle Ages (EMU: Spring 1994, 1995; IU Fall 2000; SU Spring 2001)
Literature and Psychology (EMU: Fall 1994)
Major Characters in Western Literature: The Lover; The Imposter (IU: Fall 1998, 1999)
Major Themes in Western Literature: Folly; The Naked City (IU: Spring 1999, 2000)
Grammar and Composition (EMU: Fall 1993; IU: Fall 2000; SU Spring 2001)
Literature and the Other Arts, 1870-1950 (IU: Spring 1999, 2000)
The Short Story (IU: Fall 2000; SU Spring 2001)

Film
Cinema and Society (UEL: Fall 1995, 1996, 1997)
Film Discourses (UEL: Spring 1996, 1997, 1998)
Film Interpretations of Literature (IU: Fall 1998, 1999)
Film as Art: Hitchcock (MICA: Spring 2003)
Contemporary Film Theory (MICA: Fall 2005) (Grad)
Horror Movies (MICA: Fall 2007)

COMMITTEE WORK
MICA: Interim Department Chair (Fall 2005); Various Hiring Committees; Supervisor of Theory Requirement.
IU: Supervisor of Graduate Teaching; Student-Teacher Committee.
UEL: Undergraduate Advisor; Student Affairs Committee; Research and Publications Committee.
EMU: Assistant Chair of Department; Co-Director, Graduate Program in the Humanities.

SUPERVISION & ADVISING
Undergraduate Level
Minor Advisor, MICA. Critical Theory, Creative Writing. 
Masters Level       
Guest Critic, Rinehart Graduate Program in Sculpture, MICA: Fall 2007.
Advisor for final critiques, MA in Digital Arts, MICA: Spring 2004, 2005.
Supervisor: Visakh Menon, Spring 2006: Hired Mourners and Funeral Rituals
Supervisor: Ruth Goldberg, Empire State College, MA Thesis: "The Disembodied Hand",
Defended, May 2001.
Doctoral Level:
Ruth Goldberg, Anthropology of the Horror Film, Union Graduate Institute (in progress)
Karmit Elazir, Massacusetts Institute of Professional Psychology.
Dissertation: “Love: A Matter of Life and Death”. Defended successfully May 2004.

EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Book reviewer Popmatters, Summer 2006-current
Columnist, "Sub Rosa," Popmatters, January 2007-current
Creative Nonfiction Editor, Trillium Literary Journal, current.
Blogger, The Huffington Post, November 2007-current

PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Solitary Vice: Against Reading, New York, Soft Skull/Counterpoint, March 2008.
High Theory / Low Culture, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Offensive Films, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. Reissue. Fall 2005.
(Originally published Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997).
Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor, Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press (2004).
(Nominated by the Analytic Press for the NAAP's 2005 Gradiva Award).
Car Crash Culture (editor), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Jack Nicholson: Movie Top Ten (editor), London: Creation Books, 2001.
Hollywood Hex: Death and Destiny in the Dream Factory, London: Creation Books, 2000.
Meat is Murder! An Illustrated Guide to Cannibal Culture, London: Creation Books, 1998.

Journal Articles (selected)
"Thanatos in Cyberspace: Mythology and the Internet," Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, submitted for review 4/08.
"Paradigms of Perversity: Poe and the Pleasure Principle," American Literature, submitted for review 4/08.
"Some Thoughts about Dream Aesthetics," Image and Narrative, submitted for review 12/07 (under revision).
"The Persistence of the Uncanny," Jump Cut, submitted for review 12/07.
"A Company Man: A Case of White Collar Crime," American Journal of Psychoanalysis, submitted for review 10/07.
"Nightmares in Cyberspace: Moral Panics, Urban Legends, and the Dark Side of the Net," Vooys 12.7, 65-78
(Netherlands, translated by Koen Leurs, illustrated by Ray Jones).
"Debauchery Next Door: A Freudian Reading of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, Quarterly Review of Film and Video,
   Summer 2007.
"Is the Internet a Portal to Hell? Inner Space, Superstition & Cybersex", Bad  Subjects 74, Intermedia, Jan 2006.
 Irréversible (with David Sterritt), Film Quarterly, Winter  2003-2004, 27.2, 37-42.
"Apocalypse in Suburbia," Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies (invited contribution), 3 (2003), 8-20.
 "Risus Sardonicus:Apocalyptic and Pathological Laughter," Humor: The International Journal of
   Humor Research 15. 4 (2002), 410-417.
"The End of the Road: J.G. Ballard/ David Cronenberg’s Crash and the Fading of the Self" (with Christopher Sharrett),
    Literature/Film Quarterly, 30. 2,( 002), 126-132.
“Everybody Loves Somebody: The A&E “Rat Pack” Biographies,” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 23.1 (2000), 160-176.
“Return of the Freakshow: Carnival (De)Formations and Popular Culture,” (Written with David Brottman),
    Studies in Popular Culture 18.2, 1996, 89-107 (Winner of the George Whatley Award, Best Critical Essay, 1996).
“Classical Trivia: The Rhetoric of Page Three,” PostScript 2.1 (1997), 3-15.
“The Last Stop of Desire: Covent Garden as Spatial Text,” Consumption, Markets and Culture 1.1 (1997), 45-79.
“Carnivalising the Taboo: The Mondo Film,” CineAction, 4.4 (1995), 32-44.
“Fecal Phantoms: The Terror of The Tingler,” Film Quarterly 50.4 (1994), 2-11.
“Bakhtin and Popular Culture,” New Literary History 23.3 (1992), 765-783.
 
Book Chapters (selected)
"Nightmares in Cyberspace: Moral Panics, Urban Legends, and the Dark Side of the Net," in C'Lick Me: A Netporn Reader,
ed. Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen, & Matteo Pasquinelli, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2005.
(Creative commons: download at http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/24.pdf)
"DSM 300.30," Illness in the Academy, ed. Kimberly Myers, PurdueUniversity Press, 2007 (in press).
"The Last Stop of Desire: Roland Barthes Goes Shopping,"  The Aesthetics of Human Environments, ed. Allen Carlson &
    Arnold Berleant, Westview Press, Spring 2007.
"Carnivalizing the Taboo: The Mondo Film," in Stephen Prince, ed., The Horror Film (Rutgers Depth of Field Series),
    Rutgers University Press, 2004.
"The Fascination of the Abomination: The Censored Images of 9/11, Film and Television after 9/11, ed. Wheeler Winston Dixon,
    Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
"Ritual, Tension and Relief: The Terror of The Tingler," Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film, ed. Barry Keith Grant and
    Christopher Sharrett, Scarecrow Press, 2004.
"Lost in La Mancha: The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of Terry Gilliam", (with David Sterritt), in Terry Gilliam: Interviews
     (Conversations with Filmmakers Series), ed. David Sterritt and Lucille Rhodes, University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
"Bakhtin & Popular Culture," Bakhtin (Masters of Sociological Thought), ed. Michael Gardiner, New York: Sage, 2003.
"The Wicker Man" & "L'Humanité" (with David Sterritt), The Hidden God, ed. Mary Lea Bandy & Antonio Monda, NY: MOMA, 2003.
"Kinda Funny Lookin': Steve Buscemi's Disorderly Body," The Coen Brothers' Fargo, Cambridge Film Handbooks,
     ed. William Luhr, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
"The Imbecile Chic of Jerry Lewis," Enfant Terrible: Jerry Lewis in American Film, ed. Murray Pomerance, New York: NYU Press, 2002.
"Why I Hate Gwyneth Paltrow: A Look Back at Anger," Inappropriate Behaviour: Prada Sucks and Other Demented Descants,
    ed. Jessica Berens & Kerri Sharp,  London: Serpent's Tail, 2002.
"Gershon Legman: Lord of the Lewd," Sex and Humor: Selections from the Kinsey Institute, ed. Catherine Johnson, Betsy Stirratt
     & John Bancroft, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
"Star Cults / Cult Stars: Cinema, Psychosis, Celebrity, Death," Unruly Pleasures: The Cult Film and its Critics, ed. Xavier Mendik &
   Graham Harper, London: FAB Press, 2000.
"Fecal Phantoms: The Terror of The Tingler," Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and its Audience, ed. Heidi Kaye, Deborah Cartmell,
    Imelda Whelehan & I.Q. Hunter,  London: Pluto Press, 1997.
 "Blueprints and Bodies: Paradigms of Desire in Pornography," Ethics and the Subject (Critical Studies 8), ed. Karl Simms, Editions
    Rodopi, 1997.

Journalism, Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, Interviews (selected)
Entry on "Cult Movies," Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, ed. Barry Keith Grant, NY: Schirmer, 2006.
 "Nutty Professors," The Chronicle of Higher Education,  September 15 , 2005.
    (Reprinted in LA Times, Washington Times, Tallahassee Democrat, and elsewhere).
Entries on "Gershon Legman," " Jay & Fran Landesman," Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons and Impact, ed. William Lawlor,
    New York: ABC-Clio, 2005.
 "Touching the Void in Our Lives" (with David Sterritt). Chronicle of Higher Education August 1, 2004.
"The Two Freuds: The Cultural and the Clinical," Chronicle of Higher Education July 9, 2004.
"Teachers' Pets: Animals in the classroom," Chronicle of Higher Education Jan 9, 2004.
"Why Courses Should Not Always Be 'Fun'", Chronicle of Higher Education, August 1, 2003
The Quick (To Make a Buck) and the Dead," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 21, 2003.>
"Allegory and Enigma: Fantasy's Enduring Appeal," (with David Sterritt), Chronicle, Dec 13, 2003.
Entries on "Candia McWilliam," "Bernice Rubens," "Julie Burchill," " Jilly Cooper," Encyclopedia of British Women Writers,
    2nd edition, ed. Paul and June Schleuter, New York: Taylor & Francis, 2002.   
Entries on "Cultural Studies," "Postcolonialism," Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women:
    Global Women's Issues and Knowledge, ed. Cheris Kramerae & Dale Spender, NY: Routledge, 2000.

Conference Presentations (selected)
The Pulse of Death Now, Columbia University Seminar on Death, March 2008.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, March 2008.
Keynote address, "The Politics of Netporn", Institute of Network Cultures,  De Badecuyp, Amsterdam, September 2006
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, London, March 2005 (Panel Chair)
Columbia University Seminar on Science and Religion (with David Sterritt), November 2003.
Keynote address, "Born to be Bad: Trash Cinema", Cinema Studies, Berkeley, May 4-7, 2003.
Society for Cinema Studies, Minnesota, May 2003 (with David Sterritt).
25^th Conference on Film and Literature, Tallahassee, Florida, January 2003.
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, November 2002 (invited speaker).
Sideshow Residency, Maryland Institute College of Art, October 2002 (panel chair).
Modern Language Association (with David Sterritt), New York, December 2002.
Society for Cinema Studies, Denver, May 2002 (panel co-chair).
24^th Conference on Film and Literature, Tallahassee, Florida, January 2002 (panel chair).
Modern Language Association (with David Sterritt), New Orleans, December 2001.
Art and Soul (with David Sterritt), Baylor University, Texas, June 2001.
Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interpretation, New York, December 2001 (invited speaker).

Scholarships, Grants Honors (selected)
Permament Immigrant Visa Status granted as Extraordinary Professor or Researcher, March 2006
Fellowship, Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, Fall 2005-summer 2006
Lucas Research Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2001, 2002.
Faculty Research Award, Comparative Literature, Indiana University, 1998, 1999.
George Whatley Award, Studies in Popular Culture Best Essay, 1996.
Higher Education Funding Council of England Teaching Award, University of East London, December 1997;
Higher Education Funding Council of England Research Award, March 1996.
Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, University of East London, Jan. 1996.
Dorothy Wordsworth Literature Prize, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, February 1998
Jennifer Hines Essay Prize: Religion and Ethics, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, May 1987.
Nielsen Scholarship, Oxford University, September 1986, 1987, 1988.
Referee, McArthur Foundation Grant. John D and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation, 2003.

Professional Affiliations
Academy for the Psychoanalytic Arts
Columbia University Seminar for Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation
American Psychoanalytic Association
Modern Language Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis

Professional References Available upon Request.