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Zachary Hyde

I received both a Bachelor's degree in literature and a Master's degree in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies from the University of Central Florida. My current research interests focus on narrative theory and genre studies.

I have conferenced on the popular-culture zombie and on comics studies, and I have published on metamodern subjectivity and on cyberpunk sf. For pedagogical purposes, I use concepts and interpretive strategies from film and literary studies.

"Literary [and film] criticism has no method other than reading [and watching]." -- Toril Moi

"As for ideas, everyone has them. What counts is the poetic singularity of the analysis." -- Jean Baudrillard

Currently Reading:
Post-Horror: Art, Genre, and Cultural Elevation -- David Church
A Guide to Post-Classical Narration -- Eleftheria Thanouli
Arrival (21st Century Film Essentials) -- David Roche
Better Living Through Criticism -- A. O. Scott
The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity -- Jon Peterson
Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons -- eds. Premeet Sidu, et al.