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Looking below the surface of Community (2009-2015)
I love the NBC sitcom Community (2009-2015). I try not to suck out the joy by overthinking, but the copious references to Indiana Jones and an Anthropology course within the series that quickly goes off the rails are too much fun to ignore. What follows isn’t an analysis of the series, but instead a thinly…
New article in Nightmare Magazine’s August 2025 issue.
I had the great pleasure of writing an article about archaeology in horror fiction for Nightmare Magazine. (August 2025, Issue 155). You can read the article for free, buy the issue, or subscribe. Options! “Plumbing the Depths: Archaeology in Horror Fiction” was tremendous fun to write and I hope you enjoy it, too!
Gothic America
Keeping up with The Scholarly Literature is a wild academic fantasy, even for those with a neatly bounded subject area. When I was a kid I thought the expression “trying to shovel a waterfall” was hilarious. As I got older I realized it was a pretty good job description for interdisciplinary scholars. I can’t keep…
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