Title: Assistant Professor
Office: Calhoun 213D
Phone: (615) 322-8668
Email: claire.s.king@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Davidson College, 1999
• M.A., Indiana University, 2001
• Ph.D., Indiana University, 2006

Research and Teaching Areas

• film and media studies
• gender studies
• trauma studies

Selected Publications
"The Man Inside: Trauma, Gender, and the Nation in The Brave One," Critical Studies in Media Communication, forthcoming

"Un-Queering Horror: Hellbent and the Policing of the 'Gay Slasher,'" Western Journal of Communication 74 (3), July-September 2010

“It Cuts Both Ways: Fight Club, Masculinity, and Abject-Hegemony,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 6 (4), December 2009

"Rogue Waves, Remakes and Resurrections: Allegorical Displacement and Screen Memory in Poseidon," Quarterly Journal of Speech 94 (4), November 2008

“Acting Up and Sounding Off: Sacrifice and Performativity in Alice, Sweet Alice,” Text and Performance Quarterly 27 (2), April 2007

Selected Honors and Awards
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Fellow, Vanderbilt University, 2008-9

Venture Fund Grant, Vanderbilt University, May 2008

Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 2005-6
   
Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Indiana University, 2003-4

Outstanding Associate Instructor for Introduction to Public Speaking, Indiana University, March 2002
   
Outstanding Associate Instructor for Introduction to Media, Indiana University, March 2002

Chancellor’s Fellowship, Indiana University, 1999-2004