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- Teaching Assistant - Dissertator, English
Education
- MA, English Literature, Bowling Green State University, 2019
- AB, English, University of Michigan, 2017
Courses Taught
- ENGLISH 101 - Introduction to College Writing
- ENGLISH 102 - College Writing & Research
- FILMSTD 111 - Entertainment Arts: Film, Television, and the Internet
- Teaching Assistant for FILMSTD 205: History of Film I: Development of an Art
Research Interests
- Postwar U.S. Film
- Delinquent Films
- Gender & Sexuality Studies
- Youth on Film
Conference Presentations
- “In Luke More Than Luke: Incestuous Narcissism and Congenital Morality in the Star Wars Saga.” Stars and Screen. Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2018.
- "‘I’m telling you, there is something off about that girl:’ The Female Sociopath in Insatiable.” Ray Browne Conference. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2019.
- “‘Hokey Religions’ and ‘Thy Weapons Ancient:’ William Shakespeare’s Star Wars and Sinful Adaptation.” Pop Culture Consortium Conference: Telling & Retelling Stories: (Re)imagining Popular Culture. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2019.
- “Bass Guitars, Bed Sheets, and Broken Engagements: Beatlemania as Feminine Subjectivity in I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978).” Pop Culture Consortium Conference: Disruptions, Gaps, Transitions, and Leaps. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2021.
- "'It was dark and confusing ... that's it': A Close Reading of Male Virginity Loss in The Wonder Years." Console-ing Passions 2022, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 2022. Virtual.
Selected Publications
Profitt, Blue. "Now Memories: Restorative Nostalgia and Anachronistic Queerness in Stranger Things." In Black Witches & Queer Ghosts: Disrupting Norms in Teen Supernatural Serials, ed. Camille S. Alexander, Lexington Books. Forthcoming, 2023.
Profitt, Blue. "He appeared [...] clad only in a pair of low-cut blue jeans": Incipient Female Gazing at The Outsiders (1983)." WaynePop2020.
Profitt, Blue. "Regressive Sex-and-Gender Tropes in Stoker's Dracula and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior 10, no. 1 (2017).