HORROR STUDIES SIG

Geneveive Newman is a filmmaker and scholar whose work is primarily concerned with sexual and gendered violence. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications can be found in Studies in the Fantastic and Spectator among others and cover video games, horror and genre theory, disability, and ecocriticism from a feminist perspective. Her films have been exhibited at the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (Collective [2023]) and the Pittsburgh Doctober Collegiate Film Festival (Leakage [2023] which was awarded Best Cinema). She currently serves as the Co-Chair for the SCMS Horror Scholarly Interest Group and is founder and Co-Chair for the SCMS Disability Caucus.  She also serves as Online Editor for the New Review of Film and Television Studies.

Cain Miller is a co-chair for the Horror Studies SIG. He is a PhD candidate in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington. His research interests include gender and sexuality studies, queer temporalities, horror studies, exploitation cinema, and cult cinema. He is the co-author of Not of the Living Dead: The Non-Zombie Films of George A. Romero (McFarland, 2023).

Kate J. Russell is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto where she is writing her dissertation on John Waters and humour in cult cinema. Her writing appears in Monstrum, Velvet Light Trap, Discourse and ReFocus: The Films of William Castle (University of Edinburgh Press, 2018). She is also a co-managing editor for Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.

Alex Remington is a doctoral candidate in the Radio-Television-Film department of the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on value assumptions in American media and entertainment businesses, and he is currently developing a book-length project about the programming of the horror genre on network era broadcast television. His work has been published in Media Industries, Monstrum, and Velvet Light Trap, as well as digital outlets like Flow. He is the Graduate Representative for the SCMS Horror Scholarly Interest Group and an affiliate for UT Austin’s Center for Entertainment and Media Industries. He received his BA in Art History from the University of Southern California and his MA in Art, Technology, and Emerging Communication from The University of Texas at Dallas.