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Will Dodson

Will Dodson

Lecturer, Media Studies and Affiliated Faculty, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Media Studies

Email Address: wjdodson@uncg.edu

Education

Ph.D. English, UNC Greensboro
M.A. English, Radford University

Courses Taught

  • MST 100: Understanding Media
    Introduction to the discipline of Media Studies with emphasis on industry development, delivery systems, and audiences in a changing media landscape.
  • MST 225: Film Appreciation
    Designed and implemented online course for UNCG undergraduates. Analysis of selected, significant motion pictures of the world’s cinema, from the silent period to the present.
  • MST 226: Television Appreciation
    Analysis of the cultural and artistic significance of selected television programs.
  • MST 321: Topics in Film and Popular Culture
    Variable topics; examines film as a reflection of and expression of culture. Individual courses have included “Horror,” “The American West in Film and Television,” and “George A. Romero and the Philosophy of the Living Dead”
  • MST 330: Cult Films
    Explores cultural contexts and technological developments that help form small but influential cults around certain films.
  • MST 428: Topics in Electronic Media
    Study of selected topics in fictive or non-fictive programming for the electronic media including genres, delivery systems, or other emphasis. Individual course sections have included: Alien Invasion Television and Conspiracy Culture

Research

Cinema and media theory; media history; global cinema history; cult and exploitation cinema; rhetoric and composition theory and history

Selected Publications

Co-editor with Adam Lowenstein, Johnny Walker, and Kristopher Woofter, Foundations of Horror Studies, Manchester University Press, 2024-present

Co-editor with David A. Cook, The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema. Anthem Press, 2020-present

American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper. Co-edited with Kristopher Woofter. University of Texas Press, 2021.

“‘One Thing About Time’: Woody Strode’s Late Films.” Comebacks: The Return of the Aging Star, ed. Gloria Monti and Martin Shingler. Wayne State, 2025.

“Weird Whiteness in Octavia E. Butler’s Fiction.” The Weird: A Companion, ed. Carl Sederholm and Kristopher Woofter. Peter Lang, 2025.

“Welcome to Prime Time: Wes Craven’s Television Nightmares.” A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, eds. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and John Darowski. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.

“‘Why Are You Doing This?!? Flashbacks in Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes Part 2.” ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven, ed. Calum Waddell. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

“From Freaks to Timbuctoo.” Scripts From the Crypt: Tod Browning’s The Revolt of the Dead, ed. Gary D. Rhodes. Bear Manor Media, August 2022.

“Some Disturbing Obstruction: Lizzie from The Bird’s Nest.” Shirley Jackson: A Companion, ed. Kristopher Woofter. Peter Lang, July 2021.

“Finding Franco: A Filmographic Odyssey.” The Films of Jess Franco, ed. Ian Olney and Antonio Lázaro-Reboll. Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, July 2018.