Peter Marra
Assistant Professor of Teaching
5057 Woodward, room 9204.3
Department
English
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Peter Marra
Peter Marra is the author of Queer Slashers (Indiana UP, 2025), which argues the queer lineage and function of the slasher film and explores variations on the subgenre by queer filmmakers. Additional work appears in REDEN, Film Criticism, Bright Lights Film Journal, and the edited collections Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema (Lexington Books, 2015), ReFocus: The Films of William Castle (Edinburgh UP, 2018), and Final Girls, Feminism, and Popular Culture (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020).
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
Queer Studies, Horror, Film & Media Studies
Education
- PhD, Wayne State University, 2018
- MA, New York University, 2012
- BA, Fordham University, 2009
Selected publications
Queer Slashers. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2025.
“The Closet Door Is Open: Coming Out (Or Something Like It) in Contemporary Celebrity Culture.” REDEN. Vol. 6 No. 1, 2024.
Courses taught by Peter Marra
Fall Term 2025 (future)
- COM3240 - Queer Film and Media
- GSW3240 - Queer Film and Media
- ENG2470 - Television Culture: Writing about Texts
- GSW2100 - Introduction to Queer Studies
Winter Term 2025
- ENG2530 - Queer Literatures: Writing about Texts
- GSW2100 - Introduction to Queer Studies
- GSW2530 - Queer Literatures: Writing about Texts
- GSW5035 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- ENG5035 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Fall Term 2024
- COM3240 - Queer Film and Media
- ENG5030 - Topics in Women's Studies
- GSW2100 - Introduction to Queer Studies
- GSW3240 - Queer Film and Media
- GSW5030 - Topics in Women's Studies
Winter Term 2024
- GSW5030 - Topics in Women's Studies
- ENG2450 - Introduction to Film
- COM2010 - Introduction to Film
- ENG5030 - Topics in Women's Studies
- GSW2100 - Introduction to Queer Studies
Fall Term 2023
- COM3240 - Queer Film and Media
- GSW2100 - Introduction to Queer Studies
- GSW3240 - Queer Film and Media