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I’m
Michael Fuchs,

a scholar working on horror, the gothic, science fiction, popular culture, American studies, and more

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8 books and dozens of essays published
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AAbout Me

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The review panel of an application of mine to a Norwegian university once concluded that I have a “voracious scholarly appetite”—which I don’t think was meant in an entirely positive way, but I’ll go with it. Broadly speaking, I’m a media and cultural studies scholar researching horror, monstrosity, spatiality, and temporality, and intermediality in film, television, videogames, comics, and literature. My work explores how popular media engage with cultural anxieties—ecological, political, historical—through the symbolic and affective work of genre.

BBooks

I’ve co-edited 8 books, ranging from postmodern theory and videogames & intermediality to American spaces and cultural engagements with Covid. But there are many more publications...

Coming to Terms with a Crisis

Cultural Studies, Medical Humanities

The Gothic & American Popular Culture

American Studies, Cultural Studies, Gothic, Horror

Fantastic Cities

American Studies, Space, Speculative Fiction

Intermedia Games

Intermediality, Videogames

Space Oddities

American Studies, Space, Urban Cultural Studies

ConFiguring America

American Studies, Cultural Studies

Placing America

American Studies, Cultural Studies, Space

Landscapes of Postmodernity

American Studies, Theory

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I don’t update this often enough to warrant a “news” section, I fear, but I’ll keep it...

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Get In Touch

University of Innsbruck
Department of American Studies
Innrain 52
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

+43 512 507 ext. 41618

michael.fuchs@uibk.ac.at
contact@michael-fuchs.info