Ph.D., American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
M.A., English; B.A., Psychology, History, Villanova University
Cultural studies; popular culture, particularly film and television; trauma studies, focusing on stark cultural change
Book
September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma: A Case Study Through Popular Culture. New York and London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Book Chapters
“A Tale as Old as Time: Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).” Contemporary American Science Fiction Film, edited by Stuart Joy and Terence McSweeney, New York and London, Routledge, 2022, pp. 14-32.
“Changed Worlds? American Studies, Trauma Studies, and September 11, 2001.” 9/11 and the Academy: The Liberal Arts in the 21st-Century World, edited by Mark Finney and Matthew Shannon, New York and London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 31-57.
“We Have Only Ourselves to Fear: Reflections on AI through the Black Mirror of ‘White Christmas’.” Through the Black Mirror – Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age, edited by Stuart Joy and Terence McSweeney, New York and London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 95-107.
“‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’ Stranger Things and the In-Between.” Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series, edited by Kevin Wetmore, McFarland & Company, 2018, pp. 195-204.
“Post-9/11 Power and Responsibility in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.” American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11, edited by Terence McSweeney, Edinburgh UP, 2016, pp. 269-289.
Fiction
“Antony and Cleopatra.” Cleaver, vol. 34, Summer 2021,
https://www.cleavermagazine.com/antony-and-cleopatra-by-christine-muller/.
Creative Nonfiction
“Adult Swims.” Cleaver, vol. 34, Summer 2021,
https://www.cleavermagazine.com/adult-swims-by-christine-muller/.
Nonfiction
“Coming to Terms with a Cultural Trauma: 9/11 Changed Individual Lives and Collective Beliefs.” Inkstick, 16 Sept. 2021, https://inkstickmedia.com/coming-to-terms-with-a-cultural-trauma/.