Texas Tech University

Amylou Ahava

RESEARCH INTERESTS: disability, horror, mad studies, Indigenous studies

PUBLICATIONS

"Patrick Hockstetter: Natural Madness in Stephen King’s It,” Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen King's It. University Press of Mississippi. 2022.  
 
 “The Great Horned Serpent (c. 1450- present) – Iroquois Myth,” The Deep: A Companion. Peter Lang Publishing. 2023  
 
 “Mad Woman in the Bramford: Adapting Dis/Ability from Page to Screen in Rosemary’s Baby.” Adapting Horror in Popular Culture. McFarland & Company. Forthcoming 2024.  
 
 “Conjoined Twins Disjoined: Making a Case for Basket Case.” In Bacon, Simon Doppelgängers. Forthcoming 2025.  
 
 “Vampirism as Disability in My Heart Can’t Beat Unless you Tell it to.”  In Bacon, Simon Bad Vampires. Forthcoming 2025.  
 
"Wombs of Discontent: Unveiling Gender Abjection Through Dolls in Lucky McKee's May.” In Barratt-Peacock, Ruth’s Supernatural Mothers and Wombs of Discontent: Exploring Horror’s Deviant Reproductions. Forthcoming 2025. 

CONFERENCES

“ Forced Disabling in Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians.” ASAIL Conference. Spring 2024. 
 
 “Let’s Hear it for the Boys: Stunted Masculinity in Ageing Horror Heroes,” Fear 2000 Conference. Summer 2022. 
 
 “Wheelchairs and Horror Films: Breaking Disability Tropes in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts conference. 2020.    

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Stacy Rusnak, eds, Final Girls, Feminism, and Popular Culture. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021. 

Review of Lauren Rocha, The Sinful Maternal: Motherhood in Possession Films. The University of Press of Mississippi, 2024.  

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PhD in English
Email: aahava@ttu.edu