Spring 2015 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, English
Zachary Price received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and is a Ph.D. student in the English department at Cornell. He is currently the graduate assistant for LGBT Studies, and has been involved in developing a LGBT film series at Cornell with the goal of engaging students on issues surrounding queer cinema. Price focuses on contemporary horror films, with a particular interest in the aesthetics of contagion. His approach to horror is oriented by debates in affect and queer theory. As a Mellon Fellow, he hopes to further explore the link between affect and cinema by looking at the ways urban landscapes are figured in fiction films, asking how cinema can disrupt our affective attachments to "known" spaces.