Academic Essays
These peer-reviewed pieces have appeared as articles in academic journals or chapters in edited collections of essays. Click on the title of each essay for further details.
FORTHCOMING: How Popular Culture Launders Torture
In: Guantanamo: Twenty Years After, ed. by Sara Birch, Richard Kotter, Hugh Sandeman and Andy Worthington
Blame the War, Not the Troops: Good Kill
Journal of War and Culture Studies 15.4 (2022): Special Issue on the Aesthetics of Drone Warfare, pp. 408-424.
url: https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2022.2116187
A critique of 2014 drone movie Good Kill.
The Report and the Task of Critique: Torture, Exposure, and the Spectacle of Accountability
Quarterly Review of Film and Video 39.7 (2022), pp. 1619-1633.
First online publication: 19/8/2021.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2021.1963164
A critique of the anti-torture politics of 2019 thriller The Report.
Journal of Film and Video 73.3 (2021), pp.23-33.
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.3.0023
A critique of the anti-torture politics of 2014 thriller Camp X-Ray.
Graner’s Laugh: The Conceptual Architecture of a Guantanamo Rape Joke
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44.1 (2018), pp. 107-130.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/698279
A close reading of a prison rape joke in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay.
Knowing the Double Agent: Islam, Uncertainty, and the Fragility of the Surveillant Gaze in Homeland
In: Surveillance, Race, Culture.
Edited by Antonia Mackay and Susan Flynn
(London: Palgrave, 2018), pp. 125-143.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77938-6_7
A critique of the Islamophobia and racism of Homeland, with an emphasis on the show's representation of surveillance.
‘The Sweet Tang of Rape’: Torture, Survival, and Masculinity in Ian Fleming’s Bond Novels
Feminist Theory 18.2 (2017), pp. 137-158.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700117700043
An argument about the parallels between torture and seduction in Ian Fleming's Bond novels.
Guantanamo Boy and the Task of Critique
The Lion and the Unicorn 40.3 (2016), pp. 245-261.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2016.0023
A critical reading of the anti-torture position of Young Adult novel Guantanamo Boy.
Terrorism as Sexual Envy: Adversarial Masculinities in Two Fictions of Ticking Bomb Torture
In: Terrorist Transgressions: Gender and the Visual Culture of the Terrorist.
Edited by Sue Malvern and Gabriel Koureas
(London: IB Tauris, 2014), pp. 181-201.
A reading of the economy of masculinity in the torture scenes in The Centurions and 24.