Dan Vena

Dan Vena is an Continuing Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University. He studies a range of topics including horror films and monster movies, women’s cinemas, fan-based reading practices, superhero comics, histories of crime and medicine in the West, and death on screen. His monograph, No More Chain Saws: Feminist Criticism and the New Wave of Women's Horror Cinema, is slated for release in Spring 2026 (Rutgers University Press). His solo and collaborative research has also been published in journals such as Feminist Media Histories, Flow, Monstrum, Crime Fiction Studies, and Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, as well as a variety of anthologies on horror and popular culture.