Geneveive Newman
Curriculum Vitae
Education
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 2023—Ph.D. Film and Media Studies
Dissertation: Of Victims and Survivors: Representing Collective and Individual Rape Trauma
Committee Chair: Adam Lowenstein
Committee Members: David Pettersen, Mark Lynn Anderson, Neepa Majumdar, Bridget Keown
University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts
Los Angeles, CA 2016—M.A. Cinema and Media Studies
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 2014—B.A. Media and Cultural Studies
Awards, Grants, Fellowships
2022-2023
University of Pittsburgh, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Tuition Scholarship (Fall)
University of Pittsburgh, Richard C. and Barbara N.Tobias Dissertation Fellowship [Awarded]
2020
University of Pittsburgh, English Department Research and Development Grant (Summer)
2019
University of Pittsburgh, English Department Research and Development Grant (Summer)
2018-2019
University of Pittsburgh, Provost’s Humanities Predoctoral Fellowship
Teaching Experience
University of Pittsburgh, English and Film and Media Studies
Fall 2023 — Nazi Cultures (grader)
Spring 2022 —Introduction to Film
Fall 2021—Introduction to Film
Summer 2021—Film Analysis
Spring 2021—Seminar in Composition: Film
Fall 2020—Film Analysis
Spring 2020—Seminar in Composition
Fall 2019—Seminar in Composition
Chaffey College, Broadcasting & Cinema
Spring 2018—Introduction to American Cinema
University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts
Spring 2016—History of International Cinema from WWII-Present
Spring 2016—Theatrical Film Symposium
Spring 2016—International Cinema Post-World War II
Fall 2015—The Gangster in American Culture
Spring 2015—Moving Image Histories: Methods and Approaches
Spring 2015—Theatrical Film Symposium
Fall 2014—International Cinema Post-WWII
Non-Teaching Experience
New Review of Film and Television Studies
Online Journal Editor
University of Pittsburgh
Archives and Special Collections
Graduate Student Assistant (Horror Scripts and Ephemera and Comic Book Special Collections)
Pre-processor (George A. Romero Collection)
Writing Institute
Event Coordinator and Audio-Visual Assistant (Creating a Culture of Access Disability Studies Workshop Series)
University of California, Riverside
Student Research Assistant (Social and Digital Media Trends, A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management)
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journals
[Forthcoming] Fall 2024—“Wallowing in Blood: The Last of Us Franchise and How Not to Imagine Otherwise”. Studies in the Fantastic. University of Tampa Press.
Summer/Fall 2019—“Fungal Zombies and Tentacular Thinking: The Chthonic Mother in the Game The Last of Us”. Studies in the Fantastic Special Issue: No More Room in Hell. University of Tampa Press.
Spring 2018—“Neverending Nightmares and the Epistemology of Mental Illness and Horror Gaming”. Spectator: Subjected to Play. University of Southern California Cinema Studies Graduate Student Journal. 38.1: 28-34
Spring 2017—“Sense8 Roundtable Discussion”. Spectator: Transgender Media. University of Southern California Cinema Studies Graduate Student Journal. 37.2: 74-88.
Book Reviews
June 26, 2023 — The Squid Cinema From Hell by William Brown and David H. Fleming, book review, Synoptique.
December 2021 — Monstrous Forms by Adam Charles Hart, book review, Supernatural Studies.
March, 2018— Cinema’s Bodily Illusions by Scott C. Richmond, book review, Somatechnics Special Issue “Cinematic Bodies.” Edinburgh University Press. 8.1: 119-124.
Digital Scholarship
March 1, 2021, “Haraway’s Cyborg, ASMR, and Adjusting Faces” for In Media Res.
October 29, 2019, “Gendered Horror, Sexual Assault, and Revenge (2017)” for In Media Res.
September 19, 2019, “Roxanne Benjamin Profile” for Cut-Throat Women.
March 20, 2017, “Sonic Horror Geographies: ‘Hush,’ Gender, and Disability” for The Coachella Review Literary Magazine.
Podcasting and Public-Facing Scholarship
Evil in the Stacks Podcast
October 31, 2022, “Trifecta of Golden Age Horror Comics”
November 30, 2022, “Horror Hosts in Comics and TV: Chiller Theatre and Creepy Magazine”
January 31, 2023, Bonus Episode “Interview with Dr. Johnny Walker”
February 28, 2023, “Comics Horror Across Mediums”
April 5, 202, “Transmedia, Gender, and Comics”
March 2, 2023, “Gwendolyn Kiste Interview”
Open Ivory Tower Podcast
2016-2019, Stand-alone Podcasts (7 episodes)
2017-2018, Season 3 : Evolution of a Genre: Art House Horror Then and Now (5 episodes)
2016, Season 2: Silver Screen Final Girls to TV Scream Queens (3 episodes)
2015-2016, Season 1: Everything is Liminal (3 episodes)
Horror Studies Blog
2017, Television Horror History, 1955-2017 (6 entries)
2016-2017, Irish Horror Across Media and Literature (7 entries)
2016-2017, Why Monsters? The Development of the Monster Movie From Hammer Horror to Guillermo del Toro (5 entries)
Film Projects
Screaming in Pixels (2024; 8 minutes)
Lacuna (2023; 16 minutes)
Leakage (2023; 10 minutes)
Small Leaks (2023; 3 minutes)
Collective (2023; 6 minutes)
Dead Water (2015/2022; 3 minutes)
Anxiety (2011/2022; 1 minute 30 seconds)
Falling (2011/2022; 2 minutes)
Lifeline [Editor] (2016; 3 minutes)
Barbed Wire Barriers [Producer, Editor, and Interviewer] (2013; 25 minutes)
Service
Service to Institution
October 6, 2022—“Emerging Voices in Horror” Invited Presenter, University of Pittsburgh
February 18-19 2021—“Striking Back at Empire” Graduate Student Conference Organizer—Film and Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Fall 2013-Spring 2014—Student Festival Director—Media and Cultural Studies First Annual Film Festival, University of California, Riverside
Fall 2012-Spring 2013—Organizing Committee Director—Media and Cultural Studies Inaugural Film Festival, University of California, Riverside
Service to Community
Spring 2024-Fall 2025—Queer Horror Week Co-Organizer
August 2023-May 2023—University of California, Riverside ARTS Volunteer Docent, Barbara and Art Culver Center and California Museum of Photography
August 2021-May 2023—Film and Media Studies Graduate Pedagogy Mentor
August-November 2022—Graduate Student Workshop Series Organizer (four part)—Sexual Violence in Graduate School
Spring 2022-Fall 2022—Queer Horror Week Co-Organizer
Spring 2021—Lecture, Georgetown University, Women and Gender Studies Department, Introduction to Queer Studies, “How to Survive a Plague, Messiness, and Personhood”
Service to The Field
2023-2024—Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Disability Caucus Founder and Interim Co-Chair
2023-2025—Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Horror Scholarly Interest Group Co-Chair
2022-2023—Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Horror Scholarly Interest Group Graduate Student Representative
Spring 2021—Lecture, University of Pittsburgh, English Department, Composing Digital Media, “Podcasting: Creative Selection, Narrative Design, and Writing Structure”
2020-2021—President, Film Studies Graduate Student Organization
Selected Conference Presentations
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
March 2024— “Cruel Productivity?: Navigating the Neoliberal Academy”
April 2023—“Gender, Violence, and Media Representation” (Panel Organizer)
April 2, 2022 — “From Paranormal to Parasocial: YouTubers, Twitch Streamers, and Online Horror Communities”
April 5, 2020—“‘I'll Take Cthulhu Over You Devils Any Day’: Rethinking Race and Lovecraft Across Mediums” (Conference Canceled)
March 13, 2019—“We Feel Time: Temporality and Embodiment in 2014’s It Follows”
Cine-Excess
October 22, 2021—“‘It’s Just Not Good Enough’: New Approaches to Rape and Abuse After 2010”
American Society for Irish Studies National Conference
March 30, 2016—“Fragmentation, Memory, and Intersectional Considerations of Identity in Contemporary Transnational Irish Cultural Production”
Popular Culture Association National Conference
April 15, 2016—“Corporeal Zombies: Zombies, Colonial Haunting, and Irish Images of Infanticide”
April 1, 2015—“Reimagining the Future and Concepts of Utility in The Maze Runner” (Panel Chair)
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference
November 4, 2016—”Mobilized Temporality in Cult Media Across Mediums”
University of Southern California First Forum Graduate Student Conference
October 15, 2016—“Neverending Nightmares and the Epistemology of Mental Illness and Horror Gaming”
University of California, Riverside Graduate Student Conference
November 24, 2015—“Paradox, Possession, and Radical Political Potentiality: The Politics of Disembodiment in The Shining”
Skills and Memberships
Production Proficiencies
Web Design: Wordpress, Wix, PodBean, Apple Podcasts
Video Editing: Avid, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier, Open Broadcast Software (OBS)
Graphic Design: Photoshop, Canva
Audio: Audacity, Audition
Memberships
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Horror Scholarly Interest Group (Co-Chair)
Gender and Feminisms Caucus
Queer and Trans Caucus
Video Games Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Disability Caucus (Co-Chair)
Horror Studies Working Group