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Dr. Sam Umland

 Samuel Umland

Office: Thomas 203B

Phone: (308)865-8319

E-mail: umlands@unk.edu






Courses
Spring 2010
ENG102 Writing About Popular Music

ENG234 Reading and Writing About Literature

ENG427 Electronic Literacy

Education
Ph.D.

University of Nebraska at Lincoln

 


Joined UNK 1988
Areas of specialization

Literary Theory
Popular Culture
Film Studies
Media Studies


Recent Publications

Donald Cammell: A Life on the Wild Side
Goldaming, Surrey, England: FAB Press, 2006.

"Burn, Witch, Burn: A First Look at the Scandinavian Horror Film." Horror International. Eds. Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Ser. Wayne State University Press, 2005. Co-Author, with Rebecca A. Umland.

"Cassandra Among the Cyborgs, or, The Silicon Termination Notice (on Philip K. Dick's 'Man, Android and Machine')"
Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History Eds. Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro. Co-Publishers: Syndey: Power Publications (Australia) and Cambridge: the MIT Press (USA) 2002.


Dr. Umland received the Pratt-Heins Award for Distinguished Research in 2004.