Chase Bucklew

  • PhD Student, English

Education

  • BA, Comparative Literature, Comparative History of Ideas & Art History, University of Washington, 2012
  • MA, Aesthetics & Politics, California Institute of the Arts, 2018

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ENGLISH 102-047 College Writing and Research MW 1pm-2:15pm
ENGLISH 102-053 College Writing and Research MW 2:30pm-3:45pm

Courses Taught

  • ENG 101

Research Interests

  • Apocalypse Media
  • Twin Peaks
  • Aesthetic Theory
  • Necropolitics
  • True Crime

Selected Conference Presentations

  • "Origin Stories of 'Radical': The Dogtown Imaginary and the Inheritors of the ZBoy Revolution." The Stoke Sessions: An International Conference on the Culture, History and Politics of Surfing and Skateboarding, San Diego, CA April 2023
  • “The House at the End of the World: Seriality, Death and the Collapse of Meaning in Twin Peaks.” Framing (Serial) Killing: Changing Narratives, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland, November 2022
  • Rights of the Stateless and the Movement of People." Migrant States of Exception, Wuppertal University, Wuppertal, Germany, November 2019

Selected Publications

"Origin Stories of 'Radical': The Dogtown Imaginary and the Inheritors of the ZBoy Revolution" Waves of Belonging, University of Washington Press, Forthcoming February 2025
"A Network of Machines Speaking Only with Each Other" LA Review of Books, April 2024
"The House at the End of the World: Seriality, Death and the Collapse of Meaning" Serial Killing On-Screen, Palgrave Macmillan, December 2022

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.