Black and White: Bodies, Brains, and Spirits: How Get Out (2017) Foregrounds the Body-Changing Racism of The Skeleton Key (2005)
Children’s Entertainment, Arthouse Films, and Pornography: The Visual Biopolitics of Pocahontas Saving John Smith
Food as Hunger, Food as Healing: Cannibalism and Identity in the Works of Toni Morrison, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015)
Newspaper Obituaries Mark the Afterlives of French Senegalese Colonialism: Sembene Ousmane’s Black Girl (1966) and Alice Diop’s Saint Omer (2023)
The Blue Sky, The Grey Earth, and The White Mountain: The Mongolian Ecologies of the Shaman-Author Galsan Tschinag
Realizing Too Late They Don’t Think You’re a God: Political Satire in Dos Santos’s How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman? (1971)
Shifting Messages of Violence, Segregation, or Truce: The Wendigo’s Many Images and Roles in Popular Culture and Indigenous Films
Wendigo Religious Spirits Battle Wolverine, the Hulk, and Video Game Teens?: Indigenous Artists Reclaim Wendigo Icons in Graphic Novels and Video Games
Identity Politics and Spiritual Realism: The Films of Tibetan Auteur Pema Tseden (1969-2023)
Love Medicine (1984, 1993, 2003) as an Evolving Canon: How Erdrich Literalizes Oral Narratives and Algonquin Mino-bimaadiziwin
Alexis Wright’s Grounded Waanyi Spirituality: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Ecopolitics in Carpentaria (2006), The Swan Song (2013), and Praiseworthy (2024) (In Progress)
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