Entering the cutting-thousands-of-words phase of article revision or, as I call it, "slasher mode"

Loved getting to work with the editors at Confluence to create this commentary about a hauntingly beautiful little film confluence-aglsp.org/xxviii2-cm6

Just in time for Thanksgiving, our blog presents “This Land is Your Land: Indigenous Horror,” feat. voices of scholars around the globe on the colonizers, colonized, & survivors of horror history. @SimmonsKali Nate 'Wizard' O'Shark McSnake Darryl Caterine Geoffrey Cocks horrorlex.com/blog/this-land…

So excited to share that my Short Cuts piece "Cinderella on the Homestead: Labor Nostalgia in I Love Lucy" is now live on New Review of Film and Television Studies It was such fun working on this tie-in piece to my forthcoming article on affective labor in midcentury sitcoms nrftsjournal.org/cinderella-on-…

Thrilled to announce that I will be joining the WCU English faculty as an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in August! I am forever grateful to the many people who made all of this possible, especially the most incredible cohort I could have ever hoped for

#WomensHistoryMonth blog reads! Emily Naser-Hall (University of Kentucky) on I LOVE LUCY nrftsjournal.org/cinderella-on-… + @femaleaudience (UCLA Library) & @aliciakoz (Indiana University Cinema) on new Univ Press of MS Stephanie Rothman book! nrftsjournal.org/cinema-of-step… News at IU @scmswomen Console-ing Passions MECCSA Women's Network

The Haunting of Hill House secured Shirley Jackson’s place as an icon of gothic horror From the new Arizona Quarterly, Emily Naser-Hall studies Jackson’s use of gothic conventions to illuminate the quotidian horrors of women in the American midcentury ow.ly/EPfq50Q2bVB

From the incisive works of bell hooks to the narratives of Wendell Berry and Hunter S. Thompson, Kentucky is steeped in literary history. Check out some amazing lit mags in Kentucky below! Read more: mastersreview.com/litmag-roadmap…

On my last official day as New Review of Film and Television Studies Ed-in-Chief, I'm thrilled to announce my forthcoming guest ed. spec. issue Feminist Film/Media Now coming Spring '24-here's what's in store! nrftsjournal.org/special-issue-… Emerson College Research & Creative Scholarship SCMS Gender and Feminisms Console-ing Passions MECCSA Women's Network FSD ICA WFTHN

Today! Emily Naser-Hall digs into our relationship with the past as represented in 'Landlocked.' "This lean debut speaks to a kind of technological singularity, a phenomenon never to be replicated: the fascination with preserving life ... on celluloid." certifiedforgotten.com/landlocked/

I am so excited to share Volume 1, Issue 2 of Shirley Jackson Studies: Visualizing Jackson! This issue features articles by Kelly Suprenant, Emily Naser-Hall, Kevin Wetmore, and Tyler M. Dick, as well as a review by Lisa Kröger. Check it out here: shirleyjacksonstudies.org/?p=194

Good thing it's a #LeapYear - more time to read New Review of Film and Television Studies "Feminist Film/Media Now" Spec. Issue out now! tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/cur… Feat. 3 #OpenAccess articles! Emily Naser-Hall Leung Wing-Fai Jerome P. Dent, PhD. | Assistant Professor Catherine Grant SCMS Gender and Feminisms Console-ing Passions MECCSA Women's Network FSD ICA WFTHN

It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of David Bordwell. Professor Bordwell’s contributions to film theory and history have been instrumental in shaping our understanding of cinema as an art form and storytelling practice.

Feminist force comes out strong on #InternationalWomensDay w/ publication of my New Review of Film and Television Studies guest edited special issue Feminist Film/Media Now feat. 3 #OpenAccess articles & my free access farewell tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/cur… Emily Naser-Hall Leung Wing-Fai Jerome P. Dent, PhD. | Assistant Professor Catherine Grant

Spring is here! 💐☀️ As flowers bloom and days get brighter, JCMS brings a brand new issue with a fresh batch of articles! JCMS 63.3 delivers a wide variety of research articles and open-access content. Read them here quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/issues/.

"Back in your gilded cage, Melanie Daniels." The latest JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies has essays from Emily Naser-Hall on womens' bodily autonomy in law, THE BIRDS, and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD + Jerome Dent on GET OUT, psychoanalysis, and critical race theory. @ProjectMuse muse.jhu.edu/issue/52546

Always love working with Dawn Keetley and Horror Homeroom, and this opportunity to explore maybe the most disturbing film ever was no different horrorhomeroom.com/what-is-your-h…

Check out this incredibly interesting essay by Emily Naser-Hall on Cristóbal León and Joaquin Cociña’s The Wolf House (2018), a stunning & weird film about violence and postcolonialism horrorhomeroom.com/what-is-your-h…

You know it's there, but you can't play it! For MTC, Emily Naser-Hall revisits the VHS tape and its haunting resurgence in the present. A perfect, perfectly haunted piece of cultural criticism to start off your spooky season 📼 mid-theory.com/2025/09/04/con…