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Jo Isaacson

Modesto Junior College, English, Faculty Member

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Johanna Isaacson writes academic and popular pieces on horror and politics. She is a professor of English at Modesto Junior College and a founding editor of Blind Field Journal. She is the author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror (2022) from Common Notions Press and The Ballerina and the Bull (2016) from Repeater Books. Her book What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is forthcoming from Die Die Books.
Address: 435 College Ave

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Papers by Jo Isaacson

Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary, 2024

My Apron is a Chainsaw: Leatherface and his Family Beyond the Masculine Proletariat https://post45.org/2024/09/my-apron-is-a-chainsaw-leatherface-and-his-family-beyond-the-masculine-proletariat/

Post45 Contemporaries, 2024

Kitchens After Midnight https://blindfieldjournal.com/2024/08/22/kitchens-after-midnight-gremlins/

Blind Field, 2024

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50 https://post45.org/2024/09/the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-at-50/

Post45 Contemporaries, 2024

The Repair Women of Slumber Party Massacre https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/the-repair-women-of-slumber-party-massacre/

Horror Homeroom, 2024

“Unsevered is Not a Word”: Anti-work Beyond the Office in Severance https://post45.org/2024/01/unsevered-is-not-a-word-anti-work-beyond-the-office-in-severance/

Post45 Contemporaries, 2024

Of Oozing Walls and Bloody Pools: Horror Film, Water Infrastructure, and Feminist Critique https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/914652

symplokē, 2023

World Revolution of Youth! On Abigail Susik’s “Resurgence!” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/world-revolution-of-youth-on-abigail-susiks-resurgence/

Los Angeles Review of Books , 2023

Women’s Non-Naturalistic Acting in Contemporary Horror: Get Out, Hereditary, Us, and Pearl https://blindfieldjournal.com/2023/07/10/womens-non-naturalistic-acting-in-contemporary-horror-get-out-hereditary-us-and-pearl/

Blind Field, 2023

Imagined, Beloved Communities: a review of M.E. O’Brien’s “Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care” https://blindfieldjournal.com/2023/06/15/imagined-beloved-communities-a-review-of-m-e-obriens-family-abolition-capitalism-and-the-communizing-of-care/

Blind Field Journal, 2023

Chopping it Up and Burning it Down: Queer Camp in “Night Warning” https://blindfieldjournal.com/2023/04/03/chopping-it-up-and-burning-it-down-queer-camp-in-horror/

Blind Field, 2023

Political Horror 101: Reclaiming the culture we love for the world we want to see https://blindfieldjournal.com/2023/01/18/political-horror-101-reclaiming-the-culture-we-love-for-the-world-we-want-to-see/

Blind Field

Don't Throw Away the Baby or The Bathwater http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/dont-throw-away-the-baby-or-the-bathwater/

Horror Homeroom, 2022

Defamiliarizing Family: Abolish the Family Review https://blindfieldjournal.com/2022/08/24/defamiliarizing-family-abolish-the-family-review/

Killer Capitalist Clothes in In Fabric, Slaxx, and Deerskin https://blindfieldjournal.com

Blind Field, 2022

Office Killer: Working from Home is Horror http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/office-killer-working-from-home-is-horror/

Horror Homeroom, 2022

Abjection and the New Soldier Male in Daniel Isn't Real https://blindfieldjournal.com/2022/01/17/abjection-and-the-new-soldier-male-in-daniel-isnt-real/

Blind Field, 2022

Penultimate Girl Blog Entries https://thepenultimategirl.wordpress.com/author/thepenultimategirl/

Feminist Horror Blog

Ex Machina Redux: Refusing the Space Billionaire Technological Sublime https://dsasantacruz.org/articles/ex-machina-redux/?fbclid=IwAR34X29dx5Yh6NhV8ZkuDIestlo2WWLUlakVEO9OPOyKR0ANSirD2sP_a34

Santa Cruz Left, 2021

Cleaning House: Social Reproduction Feminisms and Horror https://uci.zoom.us/rec/play/4o4UanU6qqsiqDEUWgyOloIa4yVulENgf83HX6sGD5ulmizj8l2hT2JsAhxaWpnVZop0I6haslmPb22C.S-wViFcvWALU00nl?continueMode=true&fbclid=IwAR1awHkMk5dKWyD1UbnlelSOU1Ulnwn0XuaWrXYG9PXjaTkit66hjXXSFLk

Critical Theory at UCI, 2021

Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary, 2024

My Apron is a Chainsaw: Leatherface and his Family Beyond the Masculine Proletariat https://post45.org/2024/09/my-apron-is-a-chainsaw-leatherface-and-his-family-beyond-the-masculine-proletariat/

Post45 Contemporaries, 2024

Kitchens After Midnight https://blindfieldjournal.com/2024/08/22/kitchens-after-midnight-gremlins/

Blind Field, 2024

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50 https://post45.org/2024/09/the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-at-50/

Post45 Contemporaries, 2024

The Repair Women of Slumber Party Massacre https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/the-repair-women-of-slumber-party-massacre/

Horror Homeroom, 2024

“Unsevered is Not a Word”: Anti-work Beyond the Office in Severance https://post45.org/2024/01/unsevered-is-not-a-word-anti-work-beyond-the-office-in-severance/

Post45 Contemporaries, 2024

Of Oozing Walls and Bloody Pools: Horror Film, Water Infrastructure, and Feminist Critique https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/914652

symplokē, 2023

World Revolution of Youth! On Abigail Susik’s “Resurgence!” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/world-revolution-of-youth-on-abigail-susiks-resurgence/

Los Angeles Review of Books , 2023

Women’s Non-Naturalistic Acting in Contemporary Horror: Get Out, Hereditary, Us, and Pearl https://blindfieldjournal.com/2023/07/10/womens-non-naturalistic-acting-in-contemporary-horror-get-out-hereditary-us-and-pearl/

Blind Field, 2023

Imagined, Beloved Communities: a review of M.E. O’Brien’s “Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care” https://blindfieldjournal.com/2023/06/15/imagined-beloved-communities-a-review-of-m-e-obriens-family-abolition-capitalism-and-the-communizing-of-care/

Blind Field Journal, 2023

Chopping it Up and Burning it Down: Queer Camp in “Night Warning” https://blindfieldjournal.com/2023/04/03/chopping-it-up-and-burning-it-down-queer-camp-in-horror/

Blind Field, 2023

Political Horror 101: Reclaiming the culture we love for the world we want to see https://blindfieldjournal.com/2023/01/18/political-horror-101-reclaiming-the-culture-we-love-for-the-world-we-want-to-see/

Blind Field

Don't Throw Away the Baby or The Bathwater http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/dont-throw-away-the-baby-or-the-bathwater/

Horror Homeroom, 2022

Defamiliarizing Family: Abolish the Family Review https://blindfieldjournal.com/2022/08/24/defamiliarizing-family-abolish-the-family-review/

Killer Capitalist Clothes in In Fabric, Slaxx, and Deerskin https://blindfieldjournal.com

Blind Field, 2022

Office Killer: Working from Home is Horror http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/office-killer-working-from-home-is-horror/

Horror Homeroom, 2022

Abjection and the New Soldier Male in Daniel Isn't Real https://blindfieldjournal.com/2022/01/17/abjection-and-the-new-soldier-male-in-daniel-isnt-real/

Blind Field, 2022

Penultimate Girl Blog Entries https://thepenultimategirl.wordpress.com/author/thepenultimategirl/

Feminist Horror Blog

Ex Machina Redux: Refusing the Space Billionaire Technological Sublime https://dsasantacruz.org/articles/ex-machina-redux/?fbclid=IwAR34X29dx5Yh6NhV8ZkuDIestlo2WWLUlakVEO9OPOyKR0ANSirD2sP_a34

Santa Cruz Left, 2021

Cleaning House: Social Reproduction Feminisms and Horror https://uci.zoom.us/rec/play/4o4UanU6qqsiqDEUWgyOloIa4yVulENgf83HX6sGD5ulmizj8l2hT2JsAhxaWpnVZop0I6haslmPb22C.S-wViFcvWALU00nl?continueMode=true&fbclid=IwAR1awHkMk5dKWyD1UbnlelSOU1Ulnwn0XuaWrXYG9PXjaTkit66hjXXSFLk

Critical Theory at UCI, 2021

Narrating the New Economy: Bleeding Edge as Historical Novel of the Present

Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror https://www.commonnotions.org/stepford-daughters

The Ballerina and the Bull: Anarchist Utopias in the Age of Finance http://repeaterbooks.com/books/the-ballerina-and-the-bull-johanna-isaacson/

Podcast: Stepford Daughters https://podbay.fm/p/wheres-my-jetpack/e/1678262453

Where's My Jetpack podcast interview