Dr. Laura Beadling

Professor
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Dr. Laura Beadling

Professor

English & World Languages

llbeadling@ysu.edu

  • Education
    • 2007

      Ph D, American Studies

      Purdue University

      Dissertation/Thesis Title — ""The Aesthetics of Translating Cultural Trauma: Traumatized Communities in Twentieth Century Fiction and Film""

    • 2001

      MA, English

      Purdue University

    • 1995

      BFA, Creative Writing and English

      Bowling Green State University

  • Professional Positions
    • 2017 -

      Youngstown State University

      Associate Professor

    • 2013 - 2017

      Youngstown State University

      Assistant Professor

    • 2013 - 2013

      University of Wisconsin Platteville

      Associate Professor

    • 2007 - 2013

      University of Wisconsin Platteville

      Assistant Professor

  • Administrative Assignments
    • 2024 - present

      Coordinator

    • 2020 - 2021

      Coordinator

  • Intellectual Contributions
    • 2024

      "Review of New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy"

      L. Beadling

      Journal of American Culture

    • 2023

      "“Food as Story and Spectacle in Big Night (1996).”"

      L. Beadling

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 2020

      "“Weirding Women’s Writing: Karen Russell’s ‘St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves’ as a Defamiliarizing Lens.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2020

      "“Kurt Vonnegut Museum.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2020

      "“Doubles in a Science Fiction Screenplay and Film: Alexander Payne’s Downsizing as a Case Study in Doubling and Duality.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2020

      "“Cherokee Film as Cherokee Storytelling: Randy Redroad’s The Doe Boy (2001) as Filmic Deer Woman Story.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2019

      "“Pregnancy is Not the Point: Fargo’s Molly as a Groundbreaking Female Lead Character on a Television Series.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2019

      "Review of: Berliner, Todd, Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema."

      L. Beadling

    • 2019

      "Review of: Banet-Weiser, Sarah, Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny."

      L. Beadling

    • 2018

      "“Native American Gothic On Screen: Revising Gothic Conventions in Two Recent Indigenous- Centered Films.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2017

      "Review of: Tahmahkera, Dustin, Tribal Television: Viewing Native People in Sitcoms."

      L. Beadling

    • 2016

      "“Reel Indigenous Women’s Lives: Female Protagonists in Films by Indigenous Women."

      L. Beadling

    • 2015

      "“Subverting the Master’s Hero: Firefly’s Malcolm Reynolds as a Feminist-Inflected Space Cowboy.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2015

      "“Girls and Old Men Talking: Gender, Power, and Sound in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men and True Grit.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2014

      "“Power in the Black Stuff: Concision and Style in Screenwriting.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2014

      "“Aging Women on Screen: Alexander Payne’s Depiction of Older Women in About Schmidt and Nebraska.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2014

      "Review of: Joanna Hearne, Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising."

      L. Beadling

    • 2014

      "Review of: Barry Keith Grant, ed, Film Genre Reader IV."

      L. Beadling

    • 2014

      "Practical Composition: Exercises for the English Classroom from Working Instructors."

      L. Beadling, R. Brickey, E. Martens

    • 2013

      "“Screenwriting in the (Film and) Literature Classroom.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2013

      "Review of: Marc Furstenau, The Film Theory Reader: Debates and Arguments."

      L. Beadling

    • 2012

      "“Twin Turns: Race, History, and Intertextuality in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2012

      "“The Trauma of AIDS Then and Now: Tony Kushner’s Angels in America on the Stage and Small Screen.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2012

      "“Native American Filmmakers Reclaiming Voices: Innovative Voice-Overs in Chris Eyre’s Skins.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2011

      "“In an ‘Indian’ Key: Shelley Niro’s Revisioning of the Baroque Suite Form in Suite: INDIAN.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 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

    • 2010

      "“Subject of/to the Camera: Embodied Subjectivity and the Mind/Body Split in Ken Wardrop’s Undressing My Mother.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2010

      "“Imaging Internment: Teaching Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 as a Work of Comics in the Contact Zone.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2010

      "Review of: Mary Jo Bona, By the Breath of their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America."

      L. Beadling

    • 2009

      "“In a Native Key: Shelley Niro’s Revisioning of the Baroque Suite Form in Suite: Indian.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2009

      "Review of: Patricia Melzer, Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought."

      L. Beadling

    • 2009

      "Review of: Lawrence Allen Rosenwald, Multilingual America: Language and the Making of American Literature."

      L. Beadling

    • 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

    • 2008

      "“The Threat of the ‘Good Wife’: Joss Whedon’s Firefly as Postfeminist Text.”"

      L. Beadling

    • 2008

      "Review of: Magali Cornier Michael, New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction: Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison."

      L. Beadling

    • 2008

      "Review of: Janice Peck, The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era."

      L. Beadling

    • 2005

      "Review of: Anne Whitehead, Trauma Fiction."

      L. Beadling

  • Professional Service
    • 2024 - present

      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Journal of Men's Studies

    • 2023 - present

      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

  • Public Service
    • 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

Dr. Laura L. Beadling joined YSU's English Department in 2013 after teaching at a branch campus of the University of Wisconsin system for several years.  She specializes in visual studies—film, television, graphic novels, etc.—and Native American history and culture.  She also does work in rhetoric and composition and creative writing.

She co-edited a book of composition exercises and is currently working on a screenwriting textbook and a single-director study.  She has recently published on Native American Gothic films, Native American women film directors, depictions of women in Alexander Payne's films, voice-over narration in two Coen brothers' films, Joss Whedon's sci-fi television show Firefly, HBO's adaptation of Angels in America, and graphic memoirs by Art Spiegelman and Mine Okubo. 

At YSU, she frequently teaches Screenwriting, Introduction to Film, Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, the composition Practicum, studies in film, film genres, and foreign film.