Assistant Professor of Film Studies, postmodern feminist theorist, horror addict, Shirley Jackson landmark stalker, seeker of the Trystero

Joined July 2018
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/co…
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Check out this incredibly interesting essay by @emilynaserhall on Cristóbal León and Joaquin Cociña’s The Wolf House (2018), a stunning & weird film about violence and postcolonialism horrorhomeroom.com/what-is-y…
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"Back in your gilded cage, Melanie Daniels." The latest @JCMSJournal has essays from @emilynaserhall 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
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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/is….
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Feminist force comes out strong on #InternationalWomensDay w/ publication of my @NRFTSJournal guest edited special issue Feminist Film/Media Now feat. 3 #OpenAccess articles & my free access farewell tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/c… @emilynaserhall @wingfai_leung @DrDent84 @filmstudiesff
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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.
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Good thing it's a #LeapYear - more time to read @NRFTSJournal "Feminist Film/Media Now" Spec. Issue out now! tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/c… Feat. 3 #OpenAccess articles! @emilynaserhall @wingfai_leung @DrDent84 @filmstudiesff @SCMSfeminisms @ConsolePassions @meccsawmsn @ICA_FSD @WFTHN
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The Haunting of Hill House secured Shirley Jackson’s place as an icon of gothic horror 
From the new @Ariz_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
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Today! @emilynaserhall 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/landl…
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On my last official day as @NRFTSJournal 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-iss… @Emerson_ORCS @SCMSfeminisms @ConsolePassions @meccsawmsn @ICA_FSD @WFTHN
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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-roa…
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Thrilled to announce that I will be joining the @WCUEnglish 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
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So excited to share that my Short Cuts piece "Cinderella on the Homestead: Labor Nostalgia in I Love Lucy" is now live on @NRFTSJournal It was such fun working on this tie-in piece to my forthcoming article on affective labor in midcentury sitcoms nrftsjournal.org/cinderella-…
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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 @naterobbud @DarrylCaterine @GeoffreyCocks horrorlex.com/blog/this-land…
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Loved getting to work with the editors at Confluence to create this commentary about a hauntingly beautiful little film confluence-aglsp.org/xxviii2…
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Entering the cutting-thousands-of-words phase of article revision or, as I call it, "slasher mode"
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