Chase Bucklew

English – Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies, PhD

Degrees

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

Interests

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

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
  • "The House at the End of the World: Seriality, Death and the Collapse of Meaning" Serial Killing On-Screen, Palgrave Macmillan, December 2022
  • "A Network of Machines Speaking Only with Each Other" LA Review of Books, April 2024

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

Teaching Experience

  • ENG 101