Brian R. Hauser
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Ohio State University)
Film and Media Studies, Narrative Theory
Contact Information:
Office: HUM 021
Phone: 518.388.6343
E-mail: hauserb@union.edu
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Film and media studies, trauma studies, narrative theory, the genre film, seriality, surrealism, American literature to 1900, the gothic, and screenwriting.
AWARDS and HONORS
Dr. Hauser won the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Screenwriting Competition (2010) for his feature-length screenplay “Cult Flick.”
His short screenplay “The Curfew” has also garnered attention at multiple festivals, including 2011 Slamdance (semi-finalist), 2010 Creative World Awards (honorable mention/second place), 2010 SoCal Film Festival (semi-finalist) and the 2010 Golden Brad Awards (top 75 shorts).
PUBLICATIONS
Brian Hauser has published on The X-Files, and he has co-edited a journal special issue devoted to the aesthetics of European cinema. His research focuses on film and television narratives in which detectives encounter the supernatural. He is currently at work on an essay about space and trauma, an essay about Upton Sinclair as a screenwriter, and a monograph on the supernatural detective in American film and television of the past 20 years.
Co-author with John E. Davidson. “Introduction: The Limits of Collection.” Studies in European Cinema. Special Issue: Aesthetics and European Cinema. 5 (2008): 85-89. Co-Editor with John E. Davidson.
“Vanishing Americans: James Fenimore Cooper’s Detectives and the Trauma of Alien Invasion in The X-Files.” The X-Files and Literature: Unweaving the Story, Unraveling the Lie to Find the Truth, ed. Sharon Yang. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 66-90.