PortalAlert Box
Notification Box
Laura Beadling
Dr. Laura Beadling
Professor
English & World Languages
DeBartolo Hall 214
phone: (330) 941-3648
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
2024 - present
Coordinator
-
2020 - 2021
Coordinator
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
2025 - 2026
Committee Member
America 250 -
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
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.