Tony Vinci
Education
Ph.D. Southern Illinois University
M.A. SUNY College at Brockport
B.S. SUNY College at Brockport
Scholarly Focus
American Literature
Popular Literature, Film, & Television
Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
Trauma Studies
Posthumanism
Critical Animality Studies
Publications
Book
Ghost, Android, Animal: Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human. Routledge, 2020.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淪hirley Jackson鈥檚 Posthumanist Ghosts: Revisiting Spectrality and Trauma in The Haunting of Hill House.鈥 Arizona Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 4, 2019, pp. 53-76.
鈥溾楢 World of Death and Phantoms鈥: Auschwitz, Androids, and the Ethical Demands of ReadingTrauma and Fantasy Through Willing Un-Belief,鈥 Topographies of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions, and Transfigurations, edited by Danielle Schaub and Claudio Zanini, Brill Press International, 2019, pp. 45-61.
鈥淧osthumanist Magic: Beyond the Boundaries of Humanist Ethics in Young Adult Fantasy.鈥 Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World, edited by Donna White and Anita Tarr. University Press of Mississippi, 2018, pp. 227-46.
鈥淏reaking Through the Canvas: Towards a Definition of (Meta)Cultural Blackness in the Fantasies of Clive Barker.鈥 Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer, edited by Sorcha Ni Fhlainn. Manchester UP, 2017, pp. 148-63.
鈥淢ourning the Human: Working Through Trauma and the Posthuman Body in Lev Grossman鈥檚 The Magicians 罢谤颈濒辞驳测.鈥 Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 28, no. 3, 2017, pp. 369-387.
鈥淧osthuman Wounds: Trauma, Non-Anthropocentric Vulnerability, and the Human/Android/Animal Dynamic in Philip K. Dick鈥檚 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?鈥 Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 47, no. 2, 2015, pp. 91-112.
鈥淎 Sound 鈥楢lmost Human鈥: Trauma, Anthropocentric Authority, and Nonhuman Otherness in Go Down, Moses.鈥 The Faulkner Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, 2013, pp. 23-44.
鈥淩emembering Why We Once Feared the Dark: Reclaiming Humanity Through Fantasy in Guillermo del Toro鈥檚 Hellboy II.鈥 Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 45, no. 5, 2012, pp. 1041-59.
鈥溾赌楴辞迟 an Apocalypse, the Apocalypse鈥: Existential Proletarization and the Possibility of Soul in Joss Whedon鈥檚 Dollhouse.鈥 Science Fiction Film and Television, vol. 4, no. 2, 2011, pp. 225-48.
Edited Collections
Edited a special issue of Extrapolation, the premier international journal for the study of speculative fiction and theory.
Silvio, Carl and Tony M. Vinci, eds. Culture, Identities and Technology in the Star Wars Films: Essays on the Two Trilogies. McFarland, 2006
Courses Taught
ENG 2310: Speculative Fiction
ENG 3210: American Literature to 1865
ENG 3230: American Literature after 1918
ENG 3400: Analysis of the Moving Image (Star Wars and American Culture; Game of Thrones and Cultural Studies; The Holocaust in Popular Film and Television)
ENG 3560: Young Adult Literature
ENG 3610: Creative Writing (Fiction)
ENG 3970T: Critical Posthumanisms
ENG 3990: Literary Theory
ENG 4600: Haunting and the Literary Imagination
ENG 4900: Apocalyptic American Fictions鈥擳rauma and Intimacy After the End of the World
FILM 2020: Introduction to Film Analysis (Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror) Humanities 2080: Fairy Tales and the American Gothic