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Theses

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  • Splitting Space: Destabilizing the Suburban House in Postwar Art and Contemporary Horror Film →

    • ​​Master's Thesis, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia​

    • Advisory Committee: Dr. Ignacio Adriasola, Dr. Erin Silver

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  • Marble and Metal: Translations and Replications of the Classical Form in Jeff Koons' Gazing Ball (2013)

    • Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia​

    • Advisory Committee: Dr. Joseph Monteyne

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Articles (peer-reviewed)

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  • Desire's Break Point: On Guadagnino's Challengers →

    • Mid Theory Collective

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  • The Affective Contours and Configurations of Dread: Yorgos Lanthimos' The Killing of a Sacred Deer →

    • ​MONSTRUM 6.1

    • Winner of SCMS Horror SIG Graduate Essay Prize 

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  • Spaces Unknown: Articulations of Suburban Normativity and Alterity in James Wan's Insidious (2010) →

    • ​Wreck Graduate Journal 5.1 

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  • Spanish Iconomachy and the Hybridization of Contemporary Musical Identity: Rosalía's Pienso En Tu Mirá →

    • ​Cinephile 16.1

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  • The Sub(urban)altern: Spatial and Temporal Refractions of Normativity in Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018) →

    • ​CineAction 101

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  • Affective Disruptions: Embodiment and the Leon Ladner Clock Tower →

    • ​Belkin Art Gallery 

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  • Shining Light on Theft: The Duality of Gold in Joy Lynn Davis' Remembering The Lost  →

    • ​Undergraduate Journal of Art History 8

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Edited Collections

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  • The Problem of the Sleeping Child

    • ​​​​​21st Century Horror, Edinburgh University Press (upcoming)

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  • Horror and Fine Art

    • ​​The Routledge Companion to Horror (upcoming)​​​​​​

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Reviews and Criticism

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  • Anora (2024) →

    • ​​Mid Theory Collective

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  • Fireweed Fields: Resilience and Resurgence After Crisis →

    • ​​SAD Magazine 33

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  • Image Bank: Reframing the Picture →

    • ​​Belkin Art Gallery

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  • Fata Morgana: Closing Reflections →

    • ​​Belkin Art Gallery

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  • Stations: Instagram Takeover with Marcus Prasad →

    • ​​Belkin Art Gallery

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  • The Lighthouse (2019) →

    • ​​Cinephile 14.1

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  • Les Ballets Trockadéro de Monte Carlo Gracefully Engages a New Experience of Ballet →

    • ​​SAD Magazine 

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  • Monster in the House: The Uncanny Acuity of Ari Aster's Hereditary →​​

    • ​SAD Magazine 27​

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Culture

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  • Letter to Codes →

    • C Magazine 156

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  • Exorcising The Exorcist →

    • MONSTRUM 6.1 

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  • Free Fall: Reflecting on Brendan Fernandes' Inaction and Queer Healing →

    • SAD Magazine 31

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  • Queerness and Temporality: "Coming Out" as a Process →

    • SAD Magazine 29

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Interviews

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  • Ars Scientia Student Reflections →

    • ​Belkin Art Gallery

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  • Subversive Subjectivities: Intersecting Reference and Experience →

    • ​Undergraduate Journal of Art History 8

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  • #BoysDanceToo: Les Ballets Trockadéro de Monte Carlo →

    • ​SAD Magazine 

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  • My Moms, My Dads and Me: A Chronicle of Queer Parenting →

    • ​SAD Magazine 

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  • Experience Essential Cinema: The Cinematheque's 24-Hour Movie Marathon →

    • ​SAD Magazine 

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Lectures and Presentations

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  • Luca Guadagnino's Queer

    • Screening and Seminar, Arise Art Space​

    • April 2025, Busan, South Korea

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  • Sex and The Screen: Polymorphous Perversity

    • GSFS 401 Seminar, McGill University

    • January 2025, Montréal, Québec

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  • Sex and Subjectivity: The Formal Limits of the Body

    • Presentation, Emory University Department of Comparative Literature

    • November 2024​, Atlanta, Georgia

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  • Wikipedia and the Politics of Knowledge

    • COMS 340 Lecture, McGill University

    • March 2024​, Montréal, Québec

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  • Circuitries of Subjectivity: Fragmented Bodies and (In)finite Selves in Infinity Pool (2023) →​​

    • ​Lecture, Groupe Intervention Video,

    • April 2023​, Montréal, Québec

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  • Graduation Address ➝

    • Valedictory Speech, University of British Columbia

    • November 2020, Vancouver, British Columbia

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Conferences and Symposia​

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  • Ancient Drama: Between Tragedy and Horror
    • Michael Cacoyannis Foundation
    • Paper: "Dread, Tragedy, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer"
    • September 2024, Athens, Greece

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  • Film-Philosophy Annual Conference
    • Museu Municipal de Espinho
    • “Lines of Desire: Sex as Tautology for the Visual and the Violence of Form in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers”
    • July 2024, Espinho, Portugal

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  • Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Symposium: Reorienting the Sublime
    • McGill University
    • Symposium Co-Chair
    • April 2024, Montréal, Québec

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  • Cinema Studies Institute Graduate Symposium: Fragmentation

    • University of Toronto

    • Paper: "Configuring Cinema's Desire: Contemporary Horror and its Rubble in Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things"

    • February 2024, Toronto, Ontario

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  • International Night Studies Network: Nocturnal Spatialities
    • McGill University and Université de Québec à Montréal

    • Panel Chair

    • May 2023, Montréal, Québec​​

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  • Art History Graduate Student Symposium: Beyond Compare 

    • Carleton University

    • Paper "Fracture/Refraction: Deleuze, Queer Time, and the Gothic"

    • March 2020, Ottawa, Ontario 

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  • OCAD University Graduate Conference: Economies of Dispossession 

    • Ontario College of Art and Design

    • Paper: "Unhomely Houses: Queering Space in Contemporary Gothic Film"

    • March 2020, Toronto, Ontario 

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  • Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies Graduate Conference: Disruptive Materialities 

    • University of British Columbia, Vancouver

    • Paper: "The Sub(urban)altern: Spatial and Temporal Refractions of Normativity in Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018)"

    • February 2020, Vancouver, British Columbia

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  • Art History and Visual Studies Graduate Conference: Visual Impetus​
    • University of Victoria
    • Paper: "Spaces Unknown: Queer Articulations in James Wan's Insidious (2010)"
    • January 2020​, Victoria, British Columbia

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  • Art History, Visual Art and Theory Graduate Symposium: Violentia: Representing Bodies and Violence​
    • University of British Columbia
    • Symposium Co-Chair
    • March 2019, Vancouver, British Columbia

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  • ​Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Symposium: Potentials of Ecocriticism 

    • McGill University

    • Paper: "Naturalized Commodification: Biophilia, Open Space, and Consumption in Outdoor Mall Architectures"

    • ​February 2019, Montréal, Québec

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  • Art History and Visual Studies Graduate Conference: Visual Impetus​

    • University of Victoria​

    • Paper: "Voice Activated Home Automation and the Shifting Landscape of the Domestic Sphere"

    • ​​January 2019, Victoria, British Columbia

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  • Undergraduate Film Symposium 

    • University of British Columbia

    • Paper: "Lurking Existential Fear: Space and the Human Condition in David Robert Mitchell's It Follows (2014)"

    • ​March 2017, Vancouver, British Columbia

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