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VERONICA FITZPATRICK [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D., English, Ph.D. Certificate in Film Studies, degree anticipated 2018 University of Pittsburgh Dissertation: The Rehearsal For Terror: Sexual Trauma and Modern Horror Committee: Marcia Landy, Adam Lowenstein, Mark Lynn Anderson, Daniel Morgan Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture: “Film and Media in the Tracks of Deleuze” Northwestern University, July 2013 School of Criticism and Theory: “Queer Technics: Queer Theory and Time” Cornell University, July-August 2012 M.F.A., Creative Writing, May 2008 University of Notre Dame B.A., English, May 2006 Specialization in Women’s Studies and Social Justice: Gender, History, & Narrative Michigan State University, Honors College PUBLICATIONS / print “Home’s Invasion: Repulsion and the Horror of Apartments,” The Apartment Complex: Apartment Plots in Global Context, ed. Pamela Wojcik (Duke University Press, forthcoming Fall 2018). “It’s Not Art, I’m a Doctor,” Thresholds 44, Workspace (MIT Press, April 2016), 121-134. PDF: http://thresholdsjournal.com/44-Workspace “Blackening the Virgin Snow: Reading, Newness, Django Unchained,” Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 16.3 (Taylor & Francis, 2015), 318-322. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / web “Can I Fuck This?: Alex Garland’s Ex Machina,” cléo: a journal of film and feminism, vol. 5 issue 1: Soft (April 2017). Link: http://cleojournal.com/2017/04/21/can-i-fuck-this-alex-garlands-ex-machina/ Featured monthly contributor, Ploughshares Blog (January-December 2016). Link: http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/author/veronicafitzpatrick/ “Unbearable Lightness: Breathe,” cléo: a journal of film and feminism vol. 4 issue 2: LOL! (August 2016). Link: http://cleojournal.com/2016/08/18/unbearable-lightness-melanie-laurents-breathe/ “The Also at Work in Every Intended Something: Belief, Belonging, Sound of My Voice, The East,” World Picture 10: abandon (July 2015). Fitzpatrick CV 2 Link: http://www.worldpicturejournal.com/WP_10/Fitzpatrick_10.html “Mad Men: Meditations on an Emergency” The Brink (April-May, 2015). Link: http://www.the-brink.org/madmen/ “Catch and Release: on Fifty Shades of Grey,” The Brink (February 2015). Link: http://www.the-brink.org/blog/2015/2/23/catch-and-release “My Heart Only Loves Once: Only Lovers and the Long(est) Term Relationship,” In Media Res: On Love (April 2015). Link: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2015/04/02/my-heart- only-loves-once-only-lovers-and-longest-term-relationship “Not Shock, But Confirmation: Rape as Ordinary Horror,” In Media Res: Extreme Cinema (May 2014). Link: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2014/05/07/not-shock- confirmation-rape-ordinary-horror FILMMAKING Young and Innocent (dir. Jesse Robinson, USA, 2016) Feature film storywriter and co-producer HONORS AND AWARDS Visiting Instructorship, University of Pittsburgh, 2016-2017 Carol Kay Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2015-2016 Nominee for Elizabeth Baranger Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 2015 Film Studies Graduate Writing Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2011 G.K. Chesterton Graduate Rhetoric Award, University of Notre Dame, 2008 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, Michigan State University, 2006 College of Arts & Letters Commencement Speaker, Michigan State University, 2006 University Distinguished Freshman Scholarship, Michigan State University, 2002-2006 Honors College National Scholarship, Michigan State University, 2002-2006 COURSES TAUGHT Carnegie Mellon University 2017 Fall Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Violence and Visual Representation University of Pittsburgh 2017 Spring Visiting Instructor, Introduction to Visual Culture Visiting Instructor, Introduction to Film 2016 Fall Visiting Instructor, Seminar in Composition: Film 2015 Spring Instructor, Seminar in Composition: Film 2014 Fall Instructor, Introduction to Film Fitzpatrick CV 3 2014 Spring Instructor, Seminar in Composition: Film 2013 Fall Instructor, Seminar in Composition: Film 2013 Summer Instructor, Film Analysis 2013 Spring Teaching Assistant, World Film History 2012 Fall Instructor, Introduction to Film 2012 Summer Instructor, The Horror Film 2012 Spring Instructor, Seminar in Composition: Film 2011 Fall Instructor, Seminar in Composition: Film 2011 Spring Instructor, Seminar in Composition 2010 Fall Instructor, Seminar in Composition Pittsburgh Filmmakers 2013 Fall Instructor, Violence in American Cinema University of Notre Dame 2009 Spring Visiting Lecturer, Basics of Film & Television 2008 Fall Visiting Lecturer, Basics of Film & Television 2008 Spring Teaching Assistant, Basics of Film & Television 2007 Fall Teaching Assistant, Basics of Film & Television OTHER TEACHING ! Creative Writing Instructor, Putney Student Travel, 2014- Dublin, Ireland Prague, Czech Republic Writing Center Consultant, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2014 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Resident Instructor, The University of Virginia Young Writers Workshop, 2007-2009 Charlottesville, Virginia SCHOLARLY TALKS See Something, Say Nothing: Horror, Vision, Get Out World Picture Annual Conference: Toronto, Ontario (accepted for November 2017) Can I Fuck This? “Pleasure & Suspicion,” Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2016 Real Recognize Real, or: Can I Fuck This? World Picture Annual Conference: Toronto, Ontario, 2015 The Also at Work in Every Intended Something Fitzpatrick CV 4 Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference: Montreal, Quebec, 2015 The Also at Work in Every Intended Something: Belief, Belonging, Sound of My Voice, The East World Picture Annual Conference: Berlin, Germany, 2014 The Walls Have Hands “Screen Textures: Haptics, Tactility, and the Moving Image,” University of Pittsburgh, 2014 Rape Aesthetics: Camera Movement and the Ethics of Consent Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference: Seattle, Washington, 2014 Rape Aesthetics: Movement’s Ethics of Consent World Picture Annual Conference: Toronto, Ontario, 2013 Ghostly and Enticing: Time, Relationality, and the ‘Living Still’ Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference: Chicago, Illinois, 2013 Ghostly and Enticing: Time and the GIF “Aesthetics Reloaded,” Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 2012 Throwing Herself Out of Herself: Dans Ma Peau, Bataillan Surrealism, and the New French Extreme Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference: Boston, Massachusetts, 2012 Alright To Feel Inhuman: Rape as Rite of Passage in Deadgirl Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference: New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011 Girls/Ghosts: Sylvia Likens, Trauma Art, and Feminine Memory Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Annual Conference: San Francisco, California, 2008 INVITED TALKS On Philip Glass’ compositions for Park Chan-wook’s Stoker Invited contributor, horror podcast Film Jive, special episode on music in horror cinema Link: http://filmjive.blogspot.com/2016/10/fj-special-soundtrack-of-terror-vol-ii.html October 2016 Invited guest, Mad Men podcast Not Great, Pod!, S7E9 “New Business” Link: http://notgreatpod.com/2015/04/14/not-great-pod-s7e09-new-business/ April 2015 The Sexy Stuff: Sex and Violence Onscreen Invited speaker, Three Rivers Film Festival Colloquium: “Movies and Violence, A Love Affair” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2010 Slasher and Feminism Invited speaker, panel following performance of Slasher (written by Allison Moore) Fitzpatrick CV 5 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2010 SERVICE Event Programmer/Director, 2011-2014 Film Studies Graduate Student Organization Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh Conceived and executed graduate student-organized Film & Media Studies conferences of up to 40 presenters. Duties include: keynote speaker selection and solicitation, fundraising, CFP composition, abstract selection, panel organization, graphic design, event promotion, and on-site coordination. Member, 2009-present; President, 2011-2012 Film Studies Graduate Student Organization, University of Pittsburgh Programmed and co-organized a biweekly screening series and a series of panels and lectures for this student-run association for the scholarly and professional development of University of Pittsburgh film and media graduate students. .