Refereed Articles
Forthcoming
“Parafictional Persona and Performative Fandom: The Audience as Performer in the On Cinema at the Cinema Universe”, Comedy Studies, forthcoming (abstract accepted).
“Humour as Labour: The Political Economy of Comedy”, introduction to a dossier co-authored by members of the Australian Comedy Studies Collective (in progress).
In Press
“Self-Reflexive Stardom and the Early Television Sitcom: Parafictional Persona in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show”, New Review of Film & Television Studies 23, no. 2 (2025).
“‘Give Me the Seth Rogen Laugh’: This Is the End and Parafictional Persona”, Popular Culture Studies Journal 7, no. 2 (2019): 25–38.
Non-Refereed Articles
“The New Normal”, Senses of Cinema, no. 95 (“Cinema in the Age of COVID” dossier, July 2020), https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2020/cinema-in-the-age-of-covid/the-new-normal/.
“Everyone Has to Cooperate: Nationalism and Victimhood in Grave of the Fireflies,” Bright Wall/Dark Room, no. 45 (March 2017), https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/03/13/everyone-has-to-cooperate-nationalism-and-victimhood-in-grave-of-the-fireflies/.
Conference Papers
“Cringe Comedy and the Suspension of Empathy”, Australasian Humour Studies Network Conference, University of Queensland, 7–9 February, 2024.
“Parafiction in the 1950s Sitcom: Meta Humour and Self-Referentiality in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show”, Television Histories in Development Conference, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, 30 September–1 October, 2021.
“Friends with Benefits: Neoliberalism and Heteronormativity in the Bromance Film”, Pop Culture Association of Australia & New Zealand (PopCAANZ) Conference, RMIT University, 3-5 July, 2019.
Selected Non-Academic Works
“Stanley Kubrick: Order vs Chaos”, video essay, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQJ45NzIYs.
“Jackie Chan: Master of Silent Comedy”, video essay, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFI6pvOl3YY.