Ken Feil Email and Phone Number

“Fearless Vulgarity”: Jacqueline Susann, Comedy and Queer Culture (Wayne State University Press, Forthcoming).“Valley of the Dolls,” in Screening American Cinema, Ed. Gary Needham (Routledge, Forthcoming).“Scandal, Critical Gossip and Queer Failure: Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls and Star Biography.” Celebrity Studies (Volume 8, Issue 4, 2017).National Endowment for the Humanities "Enduring Questions" Grant Recipient, 2016-2017Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (Wayne State University Press, 2014).“Post-Closet and Post-9/11: The Bromantic Imagination of Disaster in I’m So Excited! and This is the End.” In After 9/11: Complicating the Representation of Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Post-9/11 Literature and Media, Ed. Paul Petrovic (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)."From Batman to I Love You, Man: Queer Taste, Vulgarity and the Bromance as Sensibility and Film Genre " in Reading the Bromance, Ed. Michael DeAngelis (Wayne State University Press, 2014)."'Fearless Vulgarity': Camp Love as Queer Love for Jackie Susann and Valley of the Dolls" in Queer Love in Film and Television, Eds. Pamela Demory and Chris Pullen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)."'Esthetically As Well As Morally Repulsive': Kiss Me, Stupid, 'Bilious' Billy, and the Battle of Middlebrow Taste" in Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker: Critical Essays on the Films, Ed. Karen McNally (McFarland, 2010).“Sex, Comedy and Controversy: Kiss Me, Stupid, What’s New, Pussycat?, New Hollywood, and Metropolitan Taste, ” Mediascape (Forthcoming, summer 2009).http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/Fall09_1960sSexComedy.html“‘Talk About Bad Taste’: Camp, Cult, and the Reception of What’s New, Pussycat?” in Convergence Media History, Eds. Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake (Routledge Press, 2009).Dying for a Laugh: Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination (Weslyan University Press, 2006)