Professor & Academic Unit Head
hagelisx@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
PhD: English, University of Virginia, 2007
MA: English, Purdue University, 2000
BA: English and History, Gonzaga University, 1997
Specialization
Contemporary US Film and Television, Feminist Media Studies, and American Literature and Culture.
Books
The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television (co-authored with Gillian Silverman), University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Awarded the Susan Koppleman Award for Best Multi-Authored Book in Feminist Studies in 2023.
Reel Vulnerability: Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television, Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Edited Collections
Red Threads: Rhetorics and Representations of Menstruation. Co-edited with Jen Almjeld. Under contract with Lexington Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.
Articles & Book Chapters
“Shake My Hand: Racial Fantasies, White Saviors, and Django Unchained’s Haunted Screen.” The Journal of Popular Culture, 56, no. 5-6 (October 2023): 781-796.
“Shame TV: Feminist Anti-Aspirationalism in HBO’s Girls.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 43, no. 4 (Summer 2018): 877-904. (co-authored with Gillian Silverman)
“The Female Antihero and Police Power in FX’s Justified.” Feminist Media Studies, 17, no. 5 (September 2017): 851-865. (co-authored with Gillian Silverman)
“Vulnerability in Spielberg’s America: Schindler’s List and the Ethic of Commerce.” National Responses to the Holocaust: National Identity and Public Memory, ed. Jennifer Taylor. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013.125-137.
“Bleeding Bodies and Post-Cold War Politics: Saving Private Ryan and the Gender of Vulnerability.” The War Body on Screen, ed. Karen Randell and Sean Redmond. New York: Continuum, 2008. 98-117.
“The Passion of the Christ and the Lust for Certitude.” Passionate Dialogues: Critical Perspectives on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, ed. Daniel Burston and Rebecca Denova. Pittsburgh: Mise Publications, 2005. 149-167.
