Anthony Enns
Associate Professor
Email: anthony.enns@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1865
Mailing Address:
PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Popular culture
- Cinema & media studies
- Cultural studies
- Critical theory
- History of science and technology
Education
- BA (North Carolina)
- MA, PhD (Iowa)
Anthony Enns is Associate Professor of Contemporary Culture鈥攁n interdisciplinary field that includes literary studies, media studies, and cultural studies. His current research particularly focuses on esoteric media practices and their cultural representations.
Selected Publications
路 鈥淎uditory Revelations: Spiritualism, Technology, and Sound,鈥 in Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies, ed. Ulrike Bergermann, Monika Dommann, Erhard Sch眉ttpelz, and Jeremy Stolow (Z眉rich: Diaphanes, forthcoming)
路 鈥淪atellites and Psychics: The Militarization of Outer and Inner Space,鈥 in Militarizing Outer Space: Astroculture, Dystopia, and the Cold War, ed. Alexander C. T. Geppert, Daniel Brandau, and Tilmann Siebeneichner (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
路 鈥淧sychic Spies: Cold War Science and the Military-Occult Complex,鈥 in Mediality on Trial: Testing and Contesting Trance and other Media Techniques, ed. Daniel C. Barber and Ehler Voss (M眉nchen: De Gruyter, forthcoming)
路 鈥淟ive Musical Spectaculars: Eventizing Network Television in the Post-Network Age,鈥 in Musicals at the Margins, ed. Martha Shearer and Julie Lobalzo Wright (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming)
路 鈥淰isualizing Thoughts: Photography, Neurology, and Neuroimaging,鈥 in Mind Reading as Cultural Practice, ed. Christian Kassung, Laurens Schlicht, and Carla Seemann (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
路 鈥淢artian Channels: Imagining Interplanetary Communication at the Dawn of the Radio Age,鈥 Radio Journal 17.2 (2019)
路 鈥淚nformation Theory of the Soul: Spiritualism, Technology, and Science Fiction,鈥 in Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural, ed. Simone Natale and D. W. Pasulka (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)
路 鈥淎pocryphal Psychotechnologies,鈥 continent 8.1-2 (2019)
路 鈥淧aratextuality and the Lost Urtext,鈥 Notre Dame Review 48 (Summer/Fall 2019)
路 鈥淪ound Photography,鈥 in Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century: Towards an Integrated History, ed. Nicoletta Leonardi and Simone Natale (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2018)
路 鈥淪piritualist Writing Machines: Telegraphy, Typtology, Typewriting鈥 communication+1 4 (2015)
路 鈥溾楾he Message is the Material鈥: Coded Bodies and Embodied Codes in Steve Tomasula鈥檚 VAS: An Opera in Flatland,鈥 in Steve Tomasula: The Art and Science of New Media Fiction, ed. David Banash (London: Bloomsbury, 2015)
路 鈥淭he Poet of the Pulps: Ray Bradbury and the Struggle for Prestige in Postwar SF,鈥 Belph茅gor: Litt茅rature populaire et culture m茅diatique 13.1 (2015)
路 鈥淧seudoscience,鈥 Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction, ed. Rob Latham (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
路 鈥淭he Human Telephone: Physiology, Neurology, and Sound Technologies,鈥 in Sounds of Modern History: Auditory Cultures in the 19th and 20th Century, ed. Daniel Morat (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014)
路 鈥淰ibratory Photography,鈥 in Vibratory Modernism, ed. Anthony Enns and Shelley Trower (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
路 鈥淭he Undead Author: Spiritualism, Technology and Authorship,鈥 in The Ashgate Research Companion to Victorian Spiritualism and the Occult, ed. Tatiana Kontou and Sarah Willburn (London: Ashgate, 2012)
路 鈥淧ost-Reunification Cinema: Horror, Nostalgia, Redemption,鈥 in A Companion to German Cinema, ed. Terri Ginsberg and Andrea Mensch (Oxford: Blackwell, 2012)
路 鈥淭he Acoustic Space of Television,鈥 Journal of Sonic Studies 3 (2012)
路 鈥淎 Sum Over Histories: Faulkner鈥檚 Reconfiguration of Space-Time,鈥 in Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature鈥檚 Refraction of Science, ed. C. C. Barfoot and Valeria Tinkler-Villani (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011)
路 鈥淭he Horror of Media: Technology and Spirituality in the Ringu Films,鈥 in The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring, ed. Kristen Lacefield (London: Ashgate, 2010)
路 鈥淭he City as Archive in Jason Lutes鈥 Berlin,鈥 in Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture, and Sequence, ed. J枚rn Ahrens and Arno Meteling (New York: Continuum, 2010)
路 鈥淧sychic Radio: Sound Technologies, Ether Bodies, and Vibrations of the Soul,鈥 The Senses and Society 3.2 (2008)
路 鈥淭he Phonographic Body: Phreno-Mesmerism, Brain Mapping, and Embodied Recording,鈥 in Sonic Mediations: Body, Sound, Technology, ed. Carolyn Birdsall and Anthony Enns (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008)
路 鈥淭he Politics of Ostalgie: Post-Socialist Nostalgia in Recent German Film,鈥 Screen 48.4 (2007)
路 鈥淢esmerism and the Electric Age: From Poe to Edison,鈥 in Victorian Literary Mesmerism, ed. Martin Willis and Catherine Wynne (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006)
路 鈥淢edia, Drugs, and Schizophrenia in the Works of Philip K. Dick,鈥 Science Fiction Studies 33.1 (2006)
路 鈥淰oices of the Dead: Transmission/Translation/Transgression,鈥 Culture, Theory and Critique 46.1 (2005)
路 鈥淏urroughs鈥檚 Writing Machines, in Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization, ed. Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh (London: Pluto Press, 2004)
路 鈥淢ediality and Mourning in Stanislaw Lem鈥檚 Solaris and His Master鈥檚 Voice,鈥 Science Fiction Studies 29.1 (2002)
路 鈥淏uffy the Vampire Disciplinarian: Institutional Excess and the New Economy of Power,鈥 Popular Culture Review 13.2 (2002)
路 鈥溾楾he Mutated Flowers of Hiroshima鈥: American Reception and Naturalization of Toho鈥檚 Godzilla,鈥 Popular Culture Review 12.2 (2001)
路 鈥淒on鈥檛 Believe the Hype: Rereading Michael Joyce鈥檚 Afternoon and Twelve Blue,鈥 Currents in Electronic Literacy 5 (2001)
路 鈥淭he Fans from U.N.C.L.E.: Marketing the Swinging Sixties Spy Phenomenon,鈥 Journal of Popular Film and Television 28.3 (2000)
路 鈥淭he Spectacle of Disabled Masculinity in John Woo鈥檚 鈥楬eroic Bloodshed鈥 Films,鈥 Quarterly Review of Film and Video 17.2 (2000)
路 鈥淭he Creation and Corruption of Diversity in MTV鈥檚 The Real World,鈥 Studies in Popular Culture 22.1 (1999)