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Dr. Laura Beadling
Professor
English & World Languages
DeBartolo Hall 214
phone: (330) 941-3648
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2007
Ph D, American Studies
Purdue University
Dissertation/Thesis Title — ""The Aesthetics of Translating Cultural Trauma: Traumatized Communities in Twentieth Century Fiction and Film""
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2001
MA, English
Purdue University
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1995
BFA, Creative Writing and English
Bowling Green State University
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2025
Faculty Improvement Leave
I was awarded a Faculty Improvement Leave for Spring 2026 to work on two essays and the beginnings of a book project.
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2017 -
Youngstown State University
Associate Professor
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2013 - 2017
Youngstown State University
Assistant Professor
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2013 - 2013
University of Wisconsin Platteville
Associate Professor
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2007 - 2013
University of Wisconsin Platteville
Assistant Professor
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2024 - present
Coordinator
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2020 - 2021
Coordinator
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2024
"New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, recovery, and legacy By NathanAbrams, GregoryFrame (Eds.), New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2021. pp. 261. ISBN: 978‐1‐5013‐7272‐8"
L. Beadling
The Journal of American Culture, Wiley, volume 47, issue 4, p. 332-332
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2024
"Review of New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy"
L. Beadling
Journal of American Culture
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2023
"“Food as Story and Spectacle in Big Night (1996).”"
L. Beadling
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2023
"“Comics as Heterotopic Medium: Lucy Knisley’s Graphic Memoir Displacement as Exemplar of Heterotopic Comics.”"
L. Beadling
ImageText: An Interdisciplinary Comics Studies Journal, volume 14, issue 3
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2022
"The Dog Stars – Peter Heller"
L. Beadling
ABC-CLIO -
2022
"Review of: Kirscher, Jonathan and Jon Lewis. When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited."
L. Beadling
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2022
"Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler."
L. Beadling
ABC-CLIO -
2022
"Looper – dir. Rian Johnson"
L. Beadling
ABC-CLIO -
2022
"All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders"
L. Beadling
ABC-CLIO -
2021
"Review of: Garrett, Greg, Living With the Living Dead: The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse."
L. Beadling
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2020
"“Weirding Women’s Writing: Karen Russell’s ‘St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves’ as a Defamiliarizing Lens.”"
L. Beadling
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2020
"“Kurt Vonnegut Museum.”"
L. Beadling
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2020
"“Doubles in a Science Fiction Screenplay and Film: Alexander Payne’s Downsizing as a Case Study in Doubling and Duality.”"
L. Beadling
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2020
"“Cherokee Film as Cherokee Storytelling: Randy Redroad’s The Doe Boy (2001) as Filmic Deer Woman Story.”"
L. Beadling
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2019
"“Pregnancy is Not the Point: Fargo’s Molly as a Groundbreaking Female Lead Character on a Television Series.”"
L. Beadling
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2019
"Review of: Berliner, Todd, Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema."
L. Beadling
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2019
"Review of: Banet-Weiser, Sarah, Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny."
L. Beadling
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2019
"Pregnancy Is Not the Point: Fargo’s Marge, Fargo Season One’s Molly, and Midwestern Feminisms"
L. Beadling
Middle West Review, Project MUSE, volume 5, issue 2, p. 105-113
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2018
"“Native American Gothic On Screen: Revising Gothic Conventions in Two Recent Indigenous- Centered Films.”"
L. Beadling
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2017
"Review of: Tahmahkera, Dustin, Tribal Television: Viewing Native People in Sitcoms."
L. Beadling
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2016
"“Reel Indigenous Women’s Lives: Female Protagonists in Films by Indigenous Women."
L. Beadling
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2015
"“Subverting the Master’s Hero: Firefly’s Malcolm Reynolds as a Feminist-Inflected Space Cowboy.”"
L. Beadling
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2015
"“Girls and Old Men Talking: Gender, Power, and Sound in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men and True Grit.”"
L. Beadling
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2014
"“Power in the Black Stuff: Concision and Style in Screenwriting.”"
L. Beadling
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2014
"“Aging Women on Screen: Alexander Payne’s Depiction of Older Women in About Schmidt and Nebraska.”"
L. Beadling
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2014
"Review of: Joanna Hearne, Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising."
L. Beadling
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2014
"Review of: Barry Keith Grant, ed, Film Genre Reader IV."
L. Beadling
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2014
"Practical Composition: Exercises for the English Classroom from Working Instructors."
L. Beadling, R. Brickey, E. Martens
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2013
"“Screenwriting in the (Film and) Literature Classroom.”"
L. Beadling
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2013
"Review of: Marc Furstenau, The Film Theory Reader: Debates and Arguments."
L. Beadling
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2012
"“Twin Turns: Race, History, and Intertextuality in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers.”"
L. Beadling
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2012
"“The Trauma of AIDS Then and Now: Tony Kushner’s Angels in America on the Stage and Small Screen.”"
L. Beadling
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2012
"“Native American Filmmakers Reclaiming Voices: Innovative Voice-Overs in Chris Eyre’s Skins.”"
L. Beadling
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2011
"“In an ‘Indian’ Key: Shelley Niro’s Revisioning of the Baroque Suite Form in Suite: INDIAN.”"
L. Beadling
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2010
"“Who Are You If You Don’t Remember Who You’ve Been: Kaufman and Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Postmodern Screwball.”"
L. Beadling
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2010
"“Subject of/to the Camera: Embodied Subjectivity and the Mind/Body Split in Ken Wardrop’s Undressing My Mother.”"
L. Beadling
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2010
"“Imaging Internment: Teaching Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 as a Work of Comics in the Contact Zone.”"
L. Beadling
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2010
"Review of: Mary Jo Bona, By the Breath of their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America."
L. Beadling
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2009
"“In a Native Key: Shelley Niro’s Revisioning of the Baroque Suite Form in Suite: Indian.”"
L. Beadling
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2009
"Review of: Patricia Melzer, Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought."
L. Beadling
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2009
"Review of: Lawrence Allen Rosenwald, Multilingual America: Language and the Making of American Literature."
L. Beadling
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2008
"“Who Are You If You Don’t Remember Who You’ve Been: Technology as Emotional Analgesic in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”"
L. Beadling
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2008
"“The Threat of the ‘Good Wife’: Joss Whedon’s Firefly as Postfeminist Text.”"
L. Beadling
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2008
"Review of: Magali Cornier Michael, New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction: Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison."
L. Beadling
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2008
"Review of: Janice Peck, The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era."
L. Beadling
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2005
"Review of: Anne Whitehead, Trauma Fiction."
L. Beadling
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2024 - 2024
Reviewer, Journal Article
American Literatures -
Unknown
Reviewer, Journal Article
Humanities Journal -
2024 - present
Reviewer, Journal Article
Journal of Men's Studies -
2023 - 2022
Reviewer, Journal Article
Humanities Journal -
2022 - 2022
Tulsa Journal of Women's Literature -
Unknown
American Literatures. -
2022 - 2022
Mosaic Journal -
Unknown
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature on Midwestern -
Unknown
Feminist Border Arts Film Festival -
2019 - present
Journal of American Culture -
Unknown
Midwest Popular Culture Association
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Unknown
Guest Speaker
Youngstown Rayen Early College -
2023 - 2024
Chair
John Scalzi Visit -
Unknown
Sponsored local children to attend English Festival with Endowed Funds -
2020 - present
Lit Youngstown -
2019 - present
Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County -
2018 - 2021
Ursuline Scholars Program -
2018 - 2020
Youngstown Reading Radio -
2018 - 2020
American Cancer Society