John Lynskey

Thesis title: Late Night Double Feature: Queer Monstrosity and Cult Cinema

Biography

Qualifications

MA Film Studies

           University College, Dublin

MPhil Literatures of the Americas

           Trinity College Dublin

BA English Language and Literature

           Catholic University of America

 

Undergraduate teaching

Contemporary Cinema (DESI08010)--Tutor

Edinburgh College of Art

School of Design

 

LEAPS (Lothians Equal Access Programme for Schools) Summer School--Instructor

Language, Literature and Film

University of Edinburgh

 

Academia One--Academic Tutor

Innovation and Enterprise

University College London

 

Current research interests

-Queer horror & monstrosity -Cult cinema spectatorship -Audience participation -Queer audiences -Gender identity

Conference details

Film-Philosophy Conference

University of Edinburgh

6-8 July 2016

Speaker: "Queering Cult Cinema: Performances of Gendered Reception"

 

Cine-Excess X Conference

Birmingham City University

10-12 November 2016

Speaker: 'You Can't Kill the Bogeyman': John Carpenter and the Cult of the Halloween Horrorthon

 

Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference

Queen Margaret University

30-31 March 2017

Speaker: "Carnivalesque Performance Modes of Cult Cinema Audiences"

 

Researching Horror, Cult and Exploitation Cinema                                            

Northumbria University

5 May 2017

Speaker: ‘Carnivalesque Callbacks and the Cult Audience of Rocky Horror’

Organiser

Don't Look: Representations of Horror in the 21st Century Conference

University of Edinburgh

28 April 2018

Co-organiser

Book Chapters

  • Lynskey, J. (2020). "Queer Cult Performance: Recreating Rocky Horror in the 21st Century". In D. Elliott-Smith & J. E. Browning (Eds.), New Queer Horror Film and Television (pp. 31–42). University of Wales Press.

  • Lynskey, J. (2021). "Queer Monstrosity in Cult Horror Cinema". In L. Blake & H. Petrocelli (Eds.), Screening Queer Horror (forthcoming).

Contributor

  • Lynskey, J (2022). In E.J. Dymond & S.J. Murguia (Eds.), Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film (forthcoming). Roman & Littlefield.

Reviews

  • Lynskey, J. (2018). Review: Horror Film: A Critical Introduction by Murray Leeder. Open Screens, 1(1), p.4. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/os.14
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