Dr. David Pagano,

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine M.A.  University of California, Irvine B.A. University of Washington 5020 Batten Arts & Letters 757-683-3997 dpagano@odu.edu

Teaching

• Film Studies
• American Literature
• Critical Theory

Research Areas

• Interdisciplinary study of time
• Horror, Gothic, and apocalyptic narrative
• Critical and rhetorical theory
• Film and film theory
• American literature

Recent Publications

Marmots, Whales, and Pomeranians: The Abiding Animal in The Big Lebowski." The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies. Eds. Edward Comentale and Aaron Jaffe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. Forthcoming

"The Space of Apocalypse in Zombie Cinema." Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead. Eds. Marc Leverette and Shawn McIntosh. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2008.

"Narrative Unreliability in Film and Literature." Notes on American Literature. 16.2 (2007

"Repetition." Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. Eds. Victor E. Taylor and Charles E. Winquist. Routledge, 2001.