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Nicholas Orlando, PhD

Contact Information

Postdoctoral Associate

Education

  • BA in Humanities, University of South Florida, 2014
  • MA in Humanities, University of South Florida, 2018
  • PhD in English, University of Florida, 2025

Courses Taught

  • ENC2256: Writing in the Disciplines
  • ENC2305: Analytical Writing and Thinking
  • ENC3246: Professional Communication for Engineers
  • ENC3252: Writing for Strategic Communication
  • ENG2300: Film Analysis

Pedagogical  and Research Interests

  • Writing for the humanities, Writing as a social practice, Critical thinking, Interpretation, Close reading
  • 20th and 21st century cinema, Television, Political economy, Technology, Spatial theory, Periodization, Historicism, Modernism, Postmodernism

Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

  • “Deconstructing an Evil Fakeness: Digital Media and Truth in Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler”
    • Excursions Journal 9:1 (December 2019)
  • “Diving into Andrew’s Brain: Trauma and Existential Crisis”
    • The CEA Critic 81.3 (November 2019)

Edited Collections:

  • “The Failures of Journalism and Media (Un)Certainty After 9/11 in David Fincher’s Zodiac”
    • ReFocus: The Films of David Fincher, edited by Keith Clavin, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (accepted)
  • “Pushing Through Networks and Media Spaces in Stranger Things”
    • American Science Fiction Television and Space: Production and (Re)configurations (1987-2021), edited by Joel Hawkes, Alexander Christie, and Thomas Nienhaus, London: Palgrave Macmillan (Spring 2023)

Book Reviews