Rate My Professor Harry Benshoff

Benshoff's research interests encompass film genres, film history, film theory, and multiculturalism, with emphases on queer cinema, horror films, gender and sexuality in media, blaxploitation horror, and fan cultures such as Dark Shadows. Key publications include his authorship of Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Manchester University Press, 1997), Dark Shadows (Wayne State University Press, 2011), and Film and Television Analysis: An Introduction to Theories, Methods, and Approaches (Routledge, 2015; second edition, 2024). He co-authored with Sean Griffin America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies (Blackwell, 2004; third edition, 2021) and Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), and co-edited Queer Cinema: The Film Reader (Routledge, 2004) and edited A Companion to the Horror Film (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). His contributions extend to numerous book chapters and articles on topics including queer horror in the 21st century and reception studies of films like Brokeback Mountain. Among his honors are the American Library Association Choice Outstanding Academic Title award for Queer Images (2007), UNT SGA Honors Professor (2012), and multiple research grants from UNT and the Greater Denton Arts Council. Benshoff teaches undergraduate courses such as Film and Television Analysis, African American Film, Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Video, and Gender and Sexuality in the Horror Film, alongside graduate seminars in qualitative media theory and film authors.