Education
PhD | Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
MA | Radio/TV/Film, University of Texas-Austin |
BS | Radio/TV/Film, University of Texas-Austin |
BA | English, University of Texas-Austin |
Recent Publications
“The Golden Age of Badness,” Continuum, Volume 33, No. 6 (2020)
“Epilogue: Chipnapped,” Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art, Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Sorbonne, 2020).
“The Biopic is an Affront to the Cinema,” Unwatchable, ed. by Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen (Columbia University Press, 2018).
“The Ghostularity,” Communication + 1, Volume 4 (Spring 2015)
“Des médias hantés (entretien).” Hippocampe 11 (Summer 2014)
“Altered Sex: Satan, Acid, and the Erotic Threshold.” Sex Scenes: Media and the Sexual Revolution. Edited by Eric Schaefer. Duke University Press, 2014.
“Explosive Boredom.” ‘B’ for Bad: Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value. Edited by Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis. SUNY Press, 2014.
Ultraghosts. Blurb (2014), “Media Mediums” exhibition, Galerie YGREC (Paris, France).
“La théorie du cinéma : que veut-elle de nous?” Théorème 15 (2012)
“When Worlds Collide,” Exploded Fortress of Solitude. New York: Gagosian Gallery/Rizzoli International, 2011.
Jeffrey Sconce. Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics. Duke University Press, 2007.
“Movies: A Century of Failure,” in Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics. Duke University Press, 2007.
“A Vacancy at the Paris Hilton.” Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. Ed. by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss and C. Lee Harrington. NYU Press, 2007.
“I’ve Got This Strange Feeling: A Discussion Between Mike Kelley and Jeffrey Sconce” in Mike Kelley: Interviews, Conversations, and Chit-Chat (1986-2004). Ed. by John C. Welchman. Dijon: Les Presses du reel, 2006.
Recent Awards and Honors
2004-2005 – Ameritech Chair in Communications
2003-2004, 2004-2005 – AGS Faculty Honor Roll
Courses
RTVF 230 | Media Contexts |
RTVF 402 | Media and Irony |
RTVF 322 | The Horror Film |
RTVF 410 | Textual Analysis |
RTVF 326 | Exploitation Cinema |
RTVF 326 | Irrational Media |
RTVF 422 | Narration and Culture |