HANS WILLIAM STAATS 3008 East 17th Street Austin, TX 78702 (646) 338-3332 hstaats@gmail.com EDUCATION: PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Comparative Literature MA, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Comparative Literature BA, City University of New York at Brooklyn, Film Studies 2016 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Austin Waldorf School 2016-present Humanities Teacher Taught film and literature courses, including Goethe’s Faust, Dante’s Divine Comedy, the Novel, and the Art of Poetry; designed an engaging, multi-medial, peer-to-peer classroom curriculum, encouraging students to delve deeply into the texts and explore contemporary resonances of literaryhistorical issues. o Created a course that focuses on the cultural impact of horror media and the intersecting categories of race, class, and gender. Austin Community College 2014-2016 Writing Skills/English Tutor Provided free, non-directive and non-evaluative consultations with undergraduate and graduate students from across the college community, and with a variety of English language and composition skills. o Served on the Presentations Committee, which provided technical writing and process-based composition seminar to faculty classrooms. Independent Research 2011-2014 Contract Writing & Editorial Worked on contract and freelance projects; collaborated with publications ranging from Kirkus Reviews to the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. o Helped to launch the online film journal Cinespect, a leading source on the New York City cinema experience. Stony Brook University 2004-2011 Teaching Assistant & Assistant Instructor Taught a total of 27 sections of 19 different courses, including World Literature; Rhetoric and Writing; Classical Mythology; Film and Media Studies; Cultural Studies; and Gender and Genre in Film; designed engaging, creative assignments and innovative pedagogies. o Created a course that focuses on the Stony Brook Film Festival and the role that digital culture plays in issues of mainstream and independent film distribution and acquisition. HONORS AND AWARDS: American Comparative Literature Association Travel Grant Alliance Française, Dr. Richard Owen Miller Memorial Scholarship Stony Brook University President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching 2015 2014 2010 PUBLICATIONS: “Old and in the Way: Aging in the Modern Horror Film.” Elder Horror on Screen: Hermits, Harbingers, and Hags, edited by Cynthia Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper, forthcoming. “Tag . . . You’re It: Cold War Comics and the Performance of Boyhood and Criminality.” The Representation of Cruel Children in Popular Texts, edited by Monica Flegel and Christopher Parkes, forthcoming. “Let Them Eat Steak: Food and the Family Horror Film Cycle.” What’s Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen, edited by Cynthia Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 31-47. “Mastering Nature: War Gothic and the Monstrous Anthropocene.” War Gothic in Literature and Culture, edited by Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet and Steffen Hantke, Routledge, 2016, pp. 80-97. “Pictures of Anxiety: Girlhood and the Modern American Horror Film.” Offscreen, vol. 18, nos. 6-7, July 2014, http://offscreen.com/view/pictures-of-anxiety. “Re-envisioning the Devil-Doll: Child’s Play and the Modern Horror Film.” The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, no. 11, 30 June 2012, pp. 54-69, https://irishgothichorror.wordpress.com /issue11/. “Ônibus 174 (Bus 174): Intention in the System of Representation.” CineAction, no. 67, Summer 2005, pp. 58-62. Rev. of Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny, Isabella van Elferen. U of Wales P, 2012. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 25, nos. 2-3, Spring 2015, pp. 502-504. Rev. of Let the Right One In, Anne Billson. Columbia UP, 2011. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 24, no. 1, Fall 2013, pp. 149-151. Rev. of Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear, Julian Hanich. Routledge, 2010. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 23, no. 2, Fall 2012, pp. 351-354. CONFERENCES: Chair, Horror: Race, Class, Gender. “Weasels Ripped My Flesh: Men’s Adventure Magazines and the Antinomies of Horror.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM, 2017. “Back to the Eighties: Stranger Things and Horror Nostalgia.” Roundtable. Southwest Popular/ American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM, 2017. “In the War-Torn Land of Ooo: Adventure Time and the Poetics of Boyhood.” European Association for American Studies. Constanta, Romania, 2016. “Tag . . . You’re It: Cold War Comics and the Performance of Boyhood and Criminality.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM, 2016. “Could It Be . . . Satan?: Horror and Moral Panic.” Roundtable. Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM, 2016 “Pictures of Anxiety: Girlhood and the Modern American Horror Film.” American Comparative Literature Association. Seattle, WA, 2015. “From Frankenstein to Swamp Thing: War Gothic and the Monstrous Anthropocene.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM, 2015. “What is the Monstrous Anthropocene?” Roundtable: The Horrors of War. Southwest Popular/ American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM, 2015. Chair, Horrific Houses. “The Housing Horror Show: Financial Crisis, Genre Film & the Body Staats 2 Economic.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM, 2014. “Horror Cinema and Media Studies.” Roundtable: The Year in Horror (2013). Southwest Popular/ American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM, 2014. Chair, Genres in Times of Economic Plenty & Privation: Gangster, Teen & Horror. “The Housing Horror Show: Financial Crisis, Genre Film & the Body Economic.” Film & History Conference. Madison, WI, 2013. “Adventures into the Unknown: Horror Cinema and Media Studies.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, MA, 2012. “Born Criminality in the Modern Horror Film: Dario Argento’s Profondo rosso and Tom Holland’s Child’s Play.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. New Orleans, LA, 2011. “Who is the Cinematic Child/Who is the Cinematic Monster?: Gabriele Salvatores’ Io no ho paura.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Montreal, Quebec, 2010. “Re-envisioning Postwar Berlin: Childhood and National Identity in Fred Zinnemann’s The Search and Gianni Amelio’s Le Chiavi di casa.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Los Angeles, CA, 2010. “Who is the Postwar Cinematic Child?” American Comparative Literature Association. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA, 2009. “Cine-Subjectivity and the Child: The Politics of Culture and the State of Transnational Governance.” University of Massachusetts Amherst. Amherst, MA, 2008. “The Transcultural Child: Trauma and Subjectivity in Germania anno zero and Le Chiavi di casa.” University of Exeter. Devon, UK, 2008. SERVICE: Texas Book Festival 2014-present Venue chair at the annual Texas Book Festival, coordinating authors, moderators, and volunteers. Petite Ecole Internationale 2011-2016 Served as community liason, including scholarship fundraising, facility upkeep, and student outreach. New York Cares 2010-2011 Revitalized Fort Greene Park, a Brooklyn landmark; attended job training panel at Covenant House, the nation’s largest adolescent care agency serving homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth; spruced up Clayton Williams Garden, a local seniors garden in Harlem, NY; sorted, packed, and distributed children’s books for Reach Out and Read, an organization that works with pediatricians to prescribe books and encourage families to read together. o Assisted with improving literacy skills among children from Tilden Hall, a Tier-II residence in Brooklyn, NY. Stony Brook University 2007-2011 Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature Served as graduate colloquium organizer; worked closely with departments of English, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies to foster academic discourse. o Worked as graduate student representative on search committee for Cultural Studies Director. Tutor Writing Skills/English Tutor 2004-2007 Staats 3 The Museum of Modern Art 2002-2004 Assisted with management of Celeste Bartos Film Studies Center; organized research projects, including The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust (Richard Cocks, 2004). o Professor Cocks appeared in Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012); Room 237 premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, was acquired by IFC Films, and appeared in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. AmeriCorps NCCC 1999-2001 Corps Member & Team Leader Served as corps member and team leader organizing work items; conducted training in areas of education, environment, public safety, unmet human needs, and disaster relief; served as field representative and conducted on-air interviews with local media to promote Americorps NCCC programs; determined weekly salary format for team of twelve. o Assisted with management of $30,000 to $50,000 of federal government funds in a fifteen state radius of Colorado. MEMBERSHIPS: Austin Film Society American Comparative Literature Association Modern Language Association Sites of Cinema at Columbia University Society for Cinema & Media Studies Southwest Popular/American Culture Association REFERENCES: Krin Gabbard Professor Emeritus Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature Stony Brook University krin.gabbard@stonybrook.edu Steffen Hantke Professor American Culture Program Sogang University steffenhantke@gmail.com Adam Lowenstein Associate Professor Director, Film Studies Program University of Pittsburgh alowen@pitt.edu Staats 4