Dana Och is a Teaching Professor in the Department of English and the Film and Media Studies Program. She serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Film and Media Studies Program (critical studies) and is a Tina and David Bellet Award for Excellence in Teaching recipient (2022). She writes frequently on questions of genre, Irish cinema, cult, and horror, including publications on Neil Jordan’s Irish horror films, the post-colonial zombie comedy, the neopostmodern horror film, transnational horror circulation in Rare Exports, and the gendered reception of Twin Peaks, Pretty Little Liars, Fifty Shades of Grey, and Breaking Bad. She co-edited the anthology Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies (Routledge 2014). She is affiliated faculty with GSWS.
Representative Publications
“Jesse’s House is Not a Home: Space, Place, and the Myth of the Private Domicile in Breaking Bad” in The Interiors of Breaking Bad. Eds Erin Bell, Cheryl Edelson, Will Gray, and Matt Paproth. Lexington: Lexington Books. 55-72. 2019.
“Mainstream Cult of FSOG: Hailing Multiple Women Audiences.” Communication, Culture and Critique. 12(2), 2019.
“Jalmari Helnader’s Rare Exports (2003-2010) – Transnational Horror” The Horror Reader. Ed Simon Baker. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 191-198. 2019.
“The Missing Dead of the Great Hunger: Metaphor and Palimpsest in Irish Film.” The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger. ed Manisha Basu and Anastasia Ulanowicz. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 2017, 177-204.
“All Laura Palmer’s Children: Twin Peaks and Gendering the Discourse of Influence” Cinema Journal 55 (3), 2016, 131-136.
“Beyond Surveillance: Questions of the Real in the Neopostmodern Horror Film.” Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film. ed. Wickham Clayton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 195-212.
Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies. Co-editor with Kirsten Strayer. New York and London: Routledge, 2014.
“The Sheep are Revolting: Becoming Animal in the Post Colonial Zombie Comedy” in Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies. ed. Dana Och and Kirsten Strayer. New York and London: Routledge, 2014.
“Straying from The Path: Horror and the Breakdown of the Cliché in The Company of Wolves.” Genre and Cinema: Ireland and Transnationalism, ed. Brian McIlroy. New York and London: Routledge, 2007, 191-201.