Dan Vena
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
| Degrees: | PhD (Queen's University) |
Dan Vena is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton University and holds a doctorate in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University, where he teaches in Film & Media. He locates his academic interests within the spheres of visual and popular cultures, merging together trans, queer, and feminist approaches to an array of topics including: monsters and horror cinema; Classical Hollywood Cinema; comic book superheroes; and histories of medicine.
Examining the newest wave of women’s horror cinema in America, dating from Twilight (2008) onwards, his upcoming monograph revisits classical feminist studies in horror to consider the ways in which women directors are reimagining the genre’s histories, tropes, and audiences. No More Chainsaws: Feminist Criticism and the New Wave of Women’s Horror is contracted with Rutgers University Press.
Dan’s published material can be found in various journals including, Transformative Works and Culture, Studies in the Fantastic, and Graduate Journal for Social Studies, and several anthologies on gender and sexuality in horror cinema, and comic book studies.
Complimentary to his academic work, Dan also serves as a consultant and panelist for research in the Department of Psychology and the School of Medicine at Queen’s University. He has been invited to speak at a number of practioner-based, activist- and community-oriented panels and conferences about trans identities and practices of medical care.