Poetry:
"Transcontinental" in The Blotter #5, May 2008. http://blotterrag.com/back-issues/2008-05.pdf
"Death on the Highway", "Pronouns for My Sister", and "Love in the Mode of van Gogh" in Neon #17, 2008. http://www.neonmagazine.co.uk/pdfissues/neon17.pdf
"Why I'm A Bad Feminist" in Gertrude #13, Winter 2009.
"10 (Atlantic)" in Gloom Cupboard #129 (Poetry), December 2010. http://gloomcupboard.com/2010/12/12/poetry-129/
"Jack the Ripper", "Abandon", and "Desespera" in Danse Macabre, 28 November 2011.
http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/DanseMacabreDuJour.aspxFun fact: These are actually poems I wrote in 2006-2007, and each one of them is about a specific character, two historial and one fictional.
Fiction:
"The Painter, She Smiles Like Sunbeams" in Conte 7.1, September 2011.
Synopsis: A stuttering, socially inept college student meets his idol, a cynical, middle-aged artist who might or might not bear a resemblance to Vivien Leigh. They begin an affair that is mutually destructive...but not necessarily dysfunctional. Caveat: Contains brief scenes of sexuality.
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"Mercy" in Printer's Devil Review 1.2, Fall 2011.
Synopsis: A Southern Gothic tale about poverty, neglect, and mental illness as related through the experience of an Appalachian teenager.
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"Nazareth" in The Subtopian 5, June 2012.
Synopsis: A few years after an unspecified apocalyptic event, two wanderers share a chance encounter. With faulty memories and no foreseeable purpose in life, they reflect on the nature of faith and loss at the end of the world.
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"Nazareth" has now been collected into The Subtopian: Selected Stories, the journal's print anthology, which I highly recommend for the thought-provoking stories that I am honored to accompany.
"A Necessary Fantasy"
Synopsis: When she was eighteen years old, Rebecca Castille moved to California. A year later, she became Honey Halliwell, an adult film actress. Now, after a short but productive career in the porn industry, Honey wants to go legit. But her Hollywood dream soon becomes her own personal hell, and she learns that her present may be darker than her past. Contains mature subject matter.
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Conference Papers and Research Seminars:
"Female Suffering and Subjectivity in Batman: Death and the Maidens" at Transitions 4, London, October 2013
"Girls Like This Stuff, Right? DC's New 52 and the Problem of the Female Comic Book Fan" (conference paper) at Going Underground? Gender and Subcultures, September 2012.
"The Wicked Anti-Mother: Bellatrix Lestrange and Female Villainy" (conference papers) at Mythic, Magical and Monstrous Women in Contemporary Women's Writing, July 2012.
"Batman’s Dragon Lady: Feminine Power, the Mythical East, and Talia al Ghul" (conference paper) at Catwoman to Katniss: Villainesses and Heroines of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 2012.
Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Essays, etc:
"Kiss with a Fist: The Gendered Power Struggle of the Joker and Harley Quinn" in The Joker: Critical Essays on the Clown Prince of Crime, In Press.
"The Dragon Lady of Gotham: Feminine Power, the Mythical East, and Talia al Ghul" in Engaging the Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture, In Press.
"Who's Afraid of the Rubber Man? Perversions and Subversions of Sex and Class in American Horror Story" in Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MECCSA-PGN 5.2 (special issue on American telefantasy), 2012.
