About

Ned Schantz is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, where he teaches courses such as Introduction to Film Studies, Horror Film, Hitchcock, and Film of the Forties. He is the author of Gossip, Letters, Phones: The Scandal of Female Networks in Film and Literature (Oxford 2008), and his essays include “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Begins.” (co-authored with J. Shea). In American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper. Eds. Kris Woofter and Will Dodson. Austin: U of Texas P, 2021, 217-228; “Surprised by La Jetée,” Senses of Cinema 76 (September 2015); and “Melodramatic Reenactment and the Ghosts of Grizzly Man,” Criticism Volume 55, Number 4 (Fall 2013). He has recently finished a book on the problem of hospitality in Hitchcock.