Emily D. Edwards, PhD
Professor, Department of Media Studies
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Partial list of significant publications

Edwards, Emily D.  “Webs We Weave: Women’s Pleasures in Spider-Man’s Journeys.” Essays on Spider-Man.  Ed.
      edited by Robert G. Weiner and Robert Moses Peaslee. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, in press.

Edwards, Emily D.  “The Transgressive Toke: Culture, Subculture, and Pop Culture in Deadhead Imagery.”  From the         Arthouse to the Grindhouse.  Ed. Rob Weiner and John Cline. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010: 223-243.

Edwards, Emily D. Intercollegiate and Community Collaboration: Film Productions for Students and Community                 Volunteers. Journal of Film and Video. 61.1 (Spring issue 2009):  51-61.

Edwards, Emily D. Metaphysical Media: Occult Experience in Popular Culture.  Carbondale, IL: U. of Southern
      Illinois P., 2005.

Edwards, Emily D.  “To Be Rather than to Seem: Liberal Education and Personal Growth through Documentary                 Production.”  Journal of Film and Video 53.4 (2002): 9-19.

Edwards, Emily D.  “A House That Tries To Be Haunted: Ghostly Narrative in Popular Film and Television.” 
      Spirited Exchanges: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hauntings and Poltergeists.  Ed. James Houran and
      Reese Lange. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.  82-119.

Edwards, Emily D.  “The Iniquitous Undertaker: Legends of Oscar and Mary Fischer.”  Southern Folklore 
      55.1 (1998): 43-62.

Edwards, Emily D.  “Firewalking as Drama.”  TDR 42 (1998): 98-114.

McClenon, James, and Emily D. Edwards.  “The Incubus in Experience, Folklore and Film.”  Southern Folklore 
      52.1 (1996): 3-18.

Edwards, Emily D.  “Love Stinks: the Mean World of Love and Sex in Popular Music of the 1980s.”  Teenagers
      and Their Music.  Ed. John Epstein.  New York: Garland, 1994.  225-50.

Edwards, Emily D.  “Ecstasy of Horrible Expectation: Correlations Between Sensation-Seeking and Interest in
      Horror Movies.  Current Research In Film.”  Vol. 5.  Ed. Bruce Austin.   Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1991.  19-38.

Peirce, Kate, and Emily D. Edwards.  “Children's Construction of Fantasy Stories.”  Sex Roles : A Journal of
      Research 18 (1988): 393-403.

Edwards, Emily, and Mike Singletary.  "Mass Media Images in Popular Music."  Popular Music and Society
              9.4 (1984): 17-26.