Current areas of research

My primary area of research and publication is in spectatorship. Additionally I publish on the following: Continental Philosophy, especially Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Blanchot, Irigaray and Lyotard. Sexuality and Queer Theory. Feminism. Ethics. Post-Human Theory. European horror film, especially German Expressionism and Italian horror of the 1960s-1980s.

Publications


Forthcoming Books

'Post-Human Ethics'. Proposal planned for submission to Continuum.


Published Books

Cinesexuality. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2008.

The Schizoanalysis of Cinema edited with Ian Buchanan and including the chapter 'The Ecosophy of Film'. New York: Continuum. 2008.


Refereed Articles

'Inhuman Ecstasy'. Angelaki Journal of Theoretical Humanities. Volume 15: Number 1. April 2010.

'Becoming-Vulva.' New Formations: Special Issue on Deleuze and Politics. 68: Winter 2010.

'Inhuman Evanescence' borderlands. Vol 8 Number 2, November 2009.

'Feminist Becomings: Hybrid Feminism and Haecceitic (Re)production.' Australian Feminist Studies. 24: 59 March 2009

'The Great Ephemeral Tattooed Skin.' Body and Society 12:2, 57-82. May 2006.

'Necrosexuality.' Rhizomes: Special Issue on Deleuze and Queer Theory. 11: 12 Spring 2006.

'A Cinema of Desire: Cinesexuality and Guattari's Asignifying Cinema.' Women: Special Issue on Guattari and Feminism 16 (3), Winter 2005/6.

'Parabolic Philosophies: Analogue and Affect'. Theory, Culture and Society 21(5) October: 179-187. 2004

'Facial Futures and Probe Heads: From Australia Post to Pluto' Journal of Australian Studies, 81: 135-143. 2004.

'Perversion: Transgressive Sexuality and Becoming-monster' Thirdspace Vol 3 Issue 2. 2004.

'Becoming Hu-Man: Deleuze and Guattari, Gender and 3rd Rock from the Sun' Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media. 1, Autumn 2001.


Book Chapters

'Kristeva and Cinema' In Felicity Coleman, ed. Film Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers London: Acumen 2009.
'Cinemasochism: Time, Space and Submission.' In D.N. Rodowick, ed. The Afterimage of Gilles Deleuze's Film Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2009.

'Vitalistic FeminEthics' In Colebrook, Claire and Braidotti, Rosi, eds. Deleuze and Law. London: Polity. 2009.

'Unnatural Alliances' In Chrysanthi Niggiani, ed. Deleuze and Queer Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. 2009

'Necrosexuality' In Noreen Giffney, ed. Queering the Non/Human. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2008.

'Zombies without Organs: Gender, Flesh and Fissure', in Sean McIntosh and Marc Leverette, eds. Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead. Plymouth: Scarecrow. 2008.

'Castle of Terror', 'Grapes of Death' and 'Beyond the Darkness', in Steven Jay Schneider, ed. 100 European Horror Films. London: BFI, 2007.

'Necrosexuality, Perversion and Jouissance: The Experimental Desires of Buttgereit's NekRomantik Films.' In Steffen Hantke, ed. Caligari's Heirs: Modern German Horror Cinema, Plymouth: Scarecrow 2007.

'Masochistic Cinesexuality'. In Mathijs, E. and Mendik, X. Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945, London: Wallflower and New York: Columbia UP. 2004

'Gendered Authors, Gendered Learning.' In Williams, Mary Rose and Backlund, Phil. Readings in Gendered Context. Belmont, Ca: Thomson Wadsworth. 2003: 247-256

'Ancient Classical World.' In Eleanor B. Amico, ed. The Reader's Guide To Women's Studies. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 1998: 23-24.

Selected conference papers and guest lectures

Series of lectures on animality and aesthetics, University of California Santa Barbara and University of California Los Angeles, April 2011.

Human-Animal, The University of San Francisco, April 2011. Plenary speaker.

'Vitalistic Viscerality and the End of Necrophilosophy,' Bodies in Movement, Edinburgh University, May 2011.

'Mucosal Monsters', Carnal Aesthetics, University of Utrecht, March 2011.

Occult Cinesexuality, series of 4 public lectures sponsored and held by Treadwell's London. January-February 2010. (All lectures sold out).

'2nd International Deleuze Conference'. Cologne, September 2009. Plenary speaker.

'Uncanny Matrixiality' Symposium on Bracha Ettinger University College Dublin, April 2009. Invited speaker.

'Reinventing the Renaissance' Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, November 2009.

'Visual Culture Reconsidered' University of Limerick, October 2009. Keynote speaker.

Cinematic Evocations: Occultism in Cinema' Treadwell's Lecture Series. Treadwell's, London. October 2009.

'Ecosophical Ethics' Close Encounters of the Animal Kind Tate Britain London November 2008. Keynote Speaker.

'Deleuze's Demonology' 1st Annual Deleuze Conference Cardiff University, August 2008.

'Barely Human: Transpositional Teratology' Annual IAPL conference, Melbourne Australia July 2008; 'The Ethical Imperative of Spectator'. Invited Speaker

'Incommensurability' Rancière Symposium A day conference with Professor Jacques Rancière. Roehampton University 21 May 2009.

'The Woe of Poe' Cine-Excess Annual Cult Film Conference, May 1-3 2008 ICA. Invited Speaker.

'Post-Human Feminist Manifesto' NOISE conference on feminist manifestation. University of Bologna: Bologna. August 2007. Keynote Speaker.

'Cinemasochism'. Conference panel with Laura Mulvey and Mary Ann Doane. I piaceri del testo. Identità di genere, storia e teoria del cinema - Convegno internazionale di studi. Università degli Studi di Torino ? DAMS. University of Turin. December 2006. Invited speaker.

'Australian Corporeal Feminism'. Feminist Generations. UEL. August 2006. Invited speaker.

'Necrophilosophy and Feminethics of the Post-Human'. Forensic Futures. Birkbeck, Invited speaker. March 2006.

'Deleuze and the Daemonic Fold: Lovecraft's Baroque Becomings', Deleuze and Literature. University of Warwick. March 2006.

'Horrorality'. Guest Speaker at Seminar Series. Women's Studies Department. University College Dublin. This one day conference was dedicated to and includes papers and panels based on my published work. March 2006.

'Flesh, Fold, Infinity', Queer Lines: Deleuzian Queer Theory. UEL. October 2005.

'Peeping Tom and the Ecstatic Gaze'. Michael Powell Centenary Conference. University of Bangor, Wales. September, 2005.

'Cinesexuality.' Flesh made Text. Thessaloniki University, Thessaloniki Greece. May 2003.

'Corporeal Gothic: Film, Flesh, Fulci' The Persistence of Gothic. Greenwich University, Greenwich England. October 2002.

'The Many Deaths of Giovanni Lombardo Radice.' Exploiting Fear: The Art and Appeal of Horror. Hull University, Hull England. October 2002.

'Cinesexuality: Home Cinema and Becoming-Masochist' Technotopias. Strathclyde University, Glasgow Scotland. July 2002.

Other academic writings

'Great Directors: Antonio Margheriti' Senses of Cinema Great Directors. September 2004.

'Looking Away to See: Frazer Lee's Duty of Care Films'. Senses of Cinema Issue 32, July 2004.

'Great Directors: Lucio Fulci' Senses of Cinema Great Directors. May 2004.

Editor, Senses of Cinema Special Issue: Perversion Issue 30, Jan-Mar 2004.

Patricia Pisters The Matrix of Visual Culture Book Review Senses of Cinema Issue 29. December 2003

'Phantasmatic Fissures: Spider' Senses of Cinema Issue 27. Aug 2003

'Italian perversions: Antonio Margheriti and Paul Morrissey's Il mostro é in Tavola, Barone Frankenstein (Flesh for Frankenstein, 1974) and Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete! (Blood for Dracula, 1974)'. Kinoeye Vol. 3 Issue 8. July 2003.

'Christopher Lee: His Italian Journeys into Perversion' Senses of Cinema. Issue 24. January 2003.

'Barbara Steele's Ephemeral Skin: Feminism, Fetishism and Film.' Senses of Cinema. Issue 22. October 2002.

Fiction

'Sighs' Read By Dawn III London: Beautiful Books. 2008

'The Bloom of Decay' Read By Dawn I London: Beautiful Books. 2006