Brenna Wardell, Ph.D.
(256) 765-5752
UNA Box 5050
Willingham Hall 108
Associate Professor, English
Email: kwardell@una.edu
Film and Television Studies, Gender Studies, British Literature (Renaissance and Long Eighteenth Century), Drama, Ecocriticism, Creative Writing
| Institution | Degree | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Middlebury College | B.A. | 1988 |
| University of California, Berkeley | M.A. | 1991 |
| University of Oregon | Ph.D. | 2010 |
Edited Volumes
January 2019
“All the Better to Know You”: Investigating the Hybrid Monster and Allegories of Self/Other in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Joss Whedon vs. Horror: Fangs, Fans and Genres—Buffy and Beyond (I.B. Tauris). Ed. Kristopher Woofer.
March 2018
“Paint It Red (and Black and Blue…): How Director/Writer Joss Whedon and DP Jack N. Green Created the Bruised, Beautiful Look of Serenity.” Joss Whedon’s Big Damn Movie: Essays on Serenity (McFarland Press). Ed. Frederick Blichert..
November 2017
“The Geek as Rake: Roving Masculinity in Contemporary Film.” The Age of the Geek (Palgrave). Ed. Kathryn E. Lane.
December 2016
“The Murderer in the Garden: Something Rotten in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy.” Critical Insights Film: Alfred Hitchcock (Salem Press). Ed. Douglas Cunningham.
November 2014
“‘Almost a Golden Glow around It’: the Filmic Nostalgia of Walt Disney’s Pollyanna (1960).” Eleanor H. Porter’s Pollyanna: A Children’s Classic at 100 (University Press of Mississippi). Eds. Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola.
Refereed Journal Articles
June 2019
“Fooling With Fashion: Costume as Comic Catalyst in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers.” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies. 17.1 [49]. Winter/Spring 2019.
May 2018
“‘Fully loaded, safety off. This here is a recipe for unpleasantness’: Joss Whedon, John Ford, and the Dark Side of the American Mythos.” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association. Issue 16.1 [47], Winter/Spring 2018.
Summer 2016
“Actors Assemble!: The Intertextual Pleasures of the Joss Whedon Ensemble.” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association. Issue 14.2 [44], Summer 2016
June 2013
“Waste Not: Luis Buñuel Frames Space and Waste in The Phantom of Liberty.” The Cine-Files, Issue 4, Spring 2013. (special issue on mise-en-scène).
Other Publications
April 2020.
“Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang.” Alaska Wilderness League. https://www.alaskawild.org/blog/where-late-the-sweet-birds-sang/
March 2019
Of Moose and Me: Animal Tales from an Alaskan Childhood. Corpus Callosum Press. March 2019.
Courses Taught:
Senior Seminar, Film Authors (classes on the Coen Brothers, the Hollywood Renaissance, and Alfred Hitchcock), Film Theory, Film History, Introduction to Film Studies, World Cinema, Writing About Film, Special Topics: Primary and Archival Research Methods (London Study Abroad summer 2019), British Literature I and II, and Literature of the World I and II
- EN491W: Senior Seminar
- EN 396W: Writing about Film
- EN 395: World Cinema
- EN 394: Perspectives in European Film
- EN 391: Film Authors
- EN 315: History of Film (in-person and online)
- EN 309: Film Theory and Criticism
- EN 307: Introduction to Film Studies
- EN 231: Literature of the World I
- EN 232: Literature of the World II
- EN 211: Survey of English Literature I
- EN 212: Survey of English Literature II
- EN 111: First-Year Composition I
- COM 133: Cinema Appreciation (online)