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  • Teaching Assistant - Dissertator, English

Education

  • MA, English Literature, Bowling Green State University, 2019
  • AB, English, University of Michigan, 2017

Courses Taught

  • ENGLISH 101 - Introduction to College Writing 
  • ENGLISH 102 - College Writing & Research
  • FILMSTD 111 - Entertainment Arts: Film, Television, and the Internet
  • Teaching Assistant for FILMSTD 205: History of Film I: Development of an Art

Research Interests

  • Postwar U.S. Film
  • Delinquent Films
  • Gender & Sexuality Studies
  • Youth on Film

Conference Presentations

  • “In Luke More Than Luke: Incestuous Narcissism and Congenital Morality in the Star Wars Saga.” Stars and Screen. Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2018.
  • "‘I’m telling you, there is something off about that girl:’ The Female Sociopath in Insatiable.” Ray Browne Conference. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2019.
  • “‘Hokey Religions’ and ‘Thy Weapons Ancient:’ William Shakespeare’s Star Wars and Sinful Adaptation.” Pop Culture Consortium Conference: Telling & Retelling Stories: (Re)imagining Popular Culture. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2019.
  • “Bass Guitars, Bed Sheets, and Broken Engagements: Beatlemania as Feminine Subjectivity in I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978).” Pop Culture Consortium Conference: Disruptions, Gaps, Transitions, and Leaps. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2021.
  • "'It was dark and confusing ... that's it': A Close Reading of Male Virginity Loss in The Wonder Years." Console-ing Passions 2022, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 2022. Virtual.

Selected Publications

Profitt, Blue. "Now Memories: Restorative Nostalgia and Anachronistic Queerness in Stranger Things." In Black Witches & Queer Ghosts: Disrupting Norms in Teen Supernatural Serials, ed. Camille S. Alexander, Lexington Books. Forthcoming, 2023.
Profitt, Blue.  WaynePop2020.
Profitt, Blue.  Watcher Junior 10, no. 1 (2017).