Rate My Professor Amanda Howell

Howell has an extensive publication record spanning over two decades, with works appearing in prestigious journals and edited volumes. Key journal articles include "Vampire nostalgia" (Continuum, 2021), "Apocalypse Rock and the Auteur Mélomane: The Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” Martin Scorsese’s Musical Signature, in Context" (Rock Music Studies, 2015), "Spectacle, Masculinity, and Music in Blaxploitation Cinema" (Screening the Past, 2005), "‘If we hear any inspirational power chords…’: Rock Music, Rock Culture on Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (Continuum, 2004), and "Lost Boys and Angry Ghouls: Vietnam's Undead" (Genders, 1996). Notable book chapters comprise "Haunted Art House: The Babadook and International Art Cinema Horror" (Australian Screen in the 2000s, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), "Coming of Age, With Vampires" (Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and "A Dance Film with Legs: the Dirty Dancing Franchise" (The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture, Wayne State University Press, 2013). Currently, she is completing a monograph, Monstrous Possibilities: The Female Monster in 21st Century Screen Horror, co-authored with Lucy Baker for Palgrave Macmillan. Howell is a member of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, contributing to scholarly discussions on screen media.