Howard R. Marsh Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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About
Dr. Sean M. Donovan (he/him) is an educator and scholar of LGBTQ media cultures. Through a textual lens tracking the cultural work of gender and sexuality systems, his research areas include affect theory and emotions, film festivals, horror media, and reality television. His work has been published in, among others, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, Jump-Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, and Somatechnics. Besides Michigan, he has held teaching appointments at American University and Arizona State University. Outside the academy, Sean is active in film festival worlds, having served as the Ann Arbor Film Festival's curator of LGBTQ experimental cinema since 2019. In his role as the Marsh Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sean is assisting Dr. Hollis Griffin with the research for his forthcoming book on television and gentrification in New York City.
Select Publications
"Over the Corporate Rainbow: LGBTQ Film Festivals and Affective Media Networks." The New Review of Film and Television Studies. 20:2 (2022).
"A Lantern Through Your Labyrinth: Out Histories at the Ann Arbor Film Festival." 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival. 8 July 2022.
"From One Whale to Another: Watching The Whale as a Fat Queer Man." Pride Source. 1 December 2022.
"Pre-Making Drag: RuPaul's Drag Race Spoiler Fandom and Queer Temporal Imagination." Jump-Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. 60 (Spring 2021).
"Animalistic Laughter: Camping Anthropomorphism in Roar." The Cine-Files. 14 (Spring 2019).
"Raw's Anxious Embodiments." Somatechnics. 8.1 (2018). 113–124.
"Becoming Unknown: Hannibal and Queer Epistemology." Gender Forum. 59 (2016).
