Academic Essays
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These peer-reviewed pieces have appeared as articles in academic journals, chapters in edited collections of essays, or as posts on peer-reviewed blogs. Click on the title of each essay for further details.
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FORTHCOMING
How Popular Culture Launders Torture
In: Guantanamo: Twenty Years After, ed. by Sara Birch, Richard Kotter, Hugh Sandeman and Andy Worthington.
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Target Confirmed: Drone Visuality, Dehumanization, and the Weeping Soldier in Eye in the Sky
In: War Faces on Screen, ed. by Mani Sharpe and Katy Parry. Bloomsbury.
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The Ticking Bomb Drone Strike: Drone Warfare and Emergency Ethics in Eye in the Sky
In: Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art, ed. by Muhammad Waqar Azeem. Palgrave.
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The Colour of Monstrosity in Godzilla 2014 and Godzilla Vs Kong
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PopMeC Peer-reviewed Blog, 17/8/2023.
url: https://popmec.hypotheses.org/5186​
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Reflections on the aesthetic role of colour in two MonsterVerse Godzilla movies, Godzilla 2014 and Godzilla Vs Kong (2021).
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
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A critique of 2014 drone movie Good Kill.
The Report and the Task of Critique: Torture, Exposure, and the Spectacle of Accountability
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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
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A critique of the anti-torture politics of 2019 thriller The Report.
Rebel Inc., Colonialism Simulator
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First Person Scholar Peer-reviewed Blog. 27/7/2022.
url: http://www.firstpersonscholar.com/rebel-inc-colonialism-simulator/
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A critique of the colonial logics of 2018 video game Rebel Inc.
Journal of Film and Video 73.3 (2021), pp.23-33.
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.3.0023
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A critique of the anti-torture politics of 2014 thriller Camp X-Ray.
Graner’s Laugh: The Conceptual Architecture of a Guantanamo Rape Joke
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44.1 (2018), pp. 107-130.
​doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/698279
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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
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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
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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
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Feminist Theory 18.2 (2017), pp. 137-158.
​doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700117700043
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An argument about the parallels between torture and seduction in Ian Fleming's Bond novels.
Guantanamo Boy and the Task of Critique
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The Lion and the Unicorn 40.3 (2016), pp. 245-261.
​doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2016.0023
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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
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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.
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A reading of the economy of masculinity in the torture scenes in The Centurions and 24.
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