Dan Vena

I am a queer-trans white settler of Italian descent, who experiences his body as less than able (especially in relation to capitalist calls of productivity). I am also radically invested in spirituality and death positivity as part of my pedagogical practice and am committed to decolonial, anti-racist, queer-trans, disabled, anti-capitalist & neurodivergent collaborative world-making. 

Academic Training:

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Carleton 카지노게임사이트 (SSHRC funded)

Ph.D, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 (Vanier CGS and OGS Funded)

Additional Training:

Death Doula (Alua Arthur, Going with Grace)

Academic Interests and Hobbies:

Visual and popular cultures; genre cinemas; horror films & monster movies; feminist-queer-trans histories of Classical Hollywood; fan-based reading ; superhero comic books (DC only); histories of Eugenic medicine and criminality in the West; curricular design and pedagogical strategies.

Selection of Past and Current Courses:

FILM 110: Film Media and Screen Cultures

FILM 206: Research, Writing and Presentation Methods

FILM 210: The Horror Film

FILM 218: Post-1960 Film & Media History and Theory

FILM 225: The Comedy Film

FILM 331: Women and Film

FILM 332: Queer Cinemas

FILM 435: Culture and Representation: The Figure of the Witch in Popular Culture

Current Projects:

No More Chain Saws: Feminist Criticism and the New Wave of Women카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Horror Cinema. Contracted by Rutgers 카지노게임사이트 Press. Forthcoming.

de Szegheo Lang, Tamara, Emily Pelstring, and Dan Vena, eds.  카지노 게임 컬렉션�The Witch Institute,카지노 게임 컬렉션� PUBLIC Journal. Issue #69. Forthcoming.

Past Projects:

The Witch Institute: A Virtual Gathering (Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트). Co-organized with Emily Pelstring and Dr. Tamara de Szegheo Lang. August 16-22, 2021. (SSHRC - Funded)

Selection of Published Work:

With Nael Bhanji, eds. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�.카지노 게임 컬렉션� Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61, no. 7, 2022. Online, open access.

With Courchesne, Jade. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�.카지노 게임 컬렉션� In Media Res. 2 Mar 2023. Online, open access.

With Sarah Woodstock. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�.카지노 게임 컬렉션� Over*Flow, Flow. 27 Jan 2023. Online, open access.

 카지노 게임 컬렉션�.카지노 게임 컬렉션� Monstrum 카지노 게임 컬렉션� Special Issue: Short-Form Horror: History, Pedagogy, Practice, vol. 5, no. 2, 2023, pp.180-184. 2023. Online, open access.

With Sarah Woodstock. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Born Queer, Made Evil? Examining 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Discovery카지노 게임 컬렉션� and 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Construction카지노 게임 컬렉션� as Competing Methodologies of True Crime.카지노 게임 컬렉션� Crime Fiction Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2022, pp.42-58.

With Islay Burgess. "The New Border War? An Intergenerational Exchange on Bad Trans Horror Objects." In-Focus Section edited by Laura Horak and Cael Keegan. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol.61, no.2, 2022, pp.188-193.

With Iris Robinson and Sarah Woodstock. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�His Canon, Herself: Teaching Horror as Feminist Cinema.카지노 게임 컬렉션� Bloody Women! Women Horror Directors. Edited by Victoria McCollum and Aislinn Clarke. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022, pp.213-230.

With Angie Fazekas. "What were we.. idiots? Re-evaluating Female Spectatorship in Horror Cinema with Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight (2008). Final Girls, Feminism, and Popular Culture. Edited by Stacy Rusnak and Katarzyna Paskiewicz. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp.229-246.

With Robin McDonald. ".카지노 게임 컬렉션� Graduate Journal for Social Studies, vol.14, no.2, 2018. Online, open access.

".카지노 게임 컬렉션� Transformative Works and Cultures, vol.25, 2017. Online, open access.

카지노게임사이트 and Community Involvement: Guest panelist for Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s School of Medicine on queer-trans health care practices; frequent collaborator with Dr. Caroline Pukall (Department of Psychology); invited guest speaker at St. Lawrence College by Rachel Dutcher; volunteer Film instructor at Seniors Kingston and Royale Retirement Residence; death positivity advocate and educator.