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About

"Dr. Dru" Pagliassotti teaches website design, film theory, film studies, news writing, and copy editing, and supervises student internships. Dru's co-taught classes have included the art/communication travel course , which took students to Venice and Florence in 2011, 2013, and 2018; the history/communication travel course Faces of India, which took students to India in 2006; and an art/communication course on the history, sociology, and creation of comics, . Dru served as the Communication Department chair from 2013-2019 and from 2018-2019 headed the task force that shifted CLU's faculty governance from a full-faculty assembly model to a Faculty Senate/Faculty Assembly model.

Dr. Dru's research interests revolve around the portrayal of gender and sexuality in popular culture. Dru is currently working on a paper applying monster theory to popular characterizations of COVID-19 and recently finished a chapter 91¶ÌÊÓƵ neo-Victorian comics. Past research has examined the development and growing popularity of boys' love (yaoi) manga in the West, including a PLOS article that analyzes that was co-written with researchers in Hungary. Dr. Dru has also written a chapter on the role of technology in steampunk romance and erotica for and a chapter 91¶ÌÊÓƵ female mad scientists in . Dru serves on the editorial board of the and .

Dr. Dru is the author of four novels and a number of short stories; owned and edited The Harrow, an online literary magazine for fantasy and horror, for 11.5 years; and ran The Harrow Press, a publisher of print horror anthologies, for seven years. Dru's past professional experience includes editorial work on print books, journals, and trade magazines; freelance website design; and serving as a content provider for a roleplaying games site on About.Com. Dr. Dru holds a black belt in kempo, plays Dungeons & Dragons, adores iguanas, and is currently trying to master Spanish.

Education

Ph.D., University of Southern California, Communication Theory & Research
M.A., University of Southern California, Communication Theory & Research
Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, University of Southern California
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Communication
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Sociology

Publications

ACADEMIC:

by Ágnes Zsila; Dru Pagliassotti; Róbert Urbán; Gábor Orosz; Orsolya Király; Zsolt Demetrovics. PLOS-One, June 14, 2018.

“People Keep Giving Me Rings, but I Think a Small Death Ray Might Be More Practical”: Women and Mad Science in Steampunk Comics in , Kohlke, M.L. & Gutleben, C. (Eds.) Rodopi Press, 2017.

“Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica” in . Julie Anne Taddeo & Cynthia J. Miller (Eds.). Scarecrow Press, 2013.

 "Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction" in . Levi, McHarry & Pagliassotti (Eds.). McFarland Publishers, 2010.

. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 20. April 2009.

Vietnamese translation of GloBLisation and Hybridisation:

. Participations, 5(2). November 2008. Guest editor.

(Book Review) Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet. Information, Communication, and Society, 6(2), 272-274. 2003.

. Communication Research, 20(3), 472-493. June 1993.

FICTION:

Novels:

(EDGE, Sept. 2014)

(EDGE, March 2014)

(revised, EDGE Sept. 2013)

(Apex Book Company, 2011; reprinted 2016)

Clockwork Heart (Juno Books, 2008) RT Book Reviews’ 2008 Best Small Press Futuristic Novel. Translated into German (Das Mechanische Herz) and French (Icarus).

Short stories:

(Revenant, Winter 2015)

Ghost in the Machine (, 2012)

Code of Blood (, May 2011)

After the Sleep (reprint, Alien Shots/Apex Book Company, January 2011)

Pan de Los Muertos (reprint, , December 2010)

To Every Thing there is a Season (Apexology, August 2010)

Peter, Peter (reprint, , edited by Andrew S. Fuller, from Legion Press, November 2009)

(Beneath Ceaseless Skies, November 2009 — audio January 2010)

Terminus (w/Jo Gerrard;, Ricasso Press, January 2009)

Bookmarked (Reflection’s Edge, October 2007). Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (2008).

Night Shift (Worlds of Wonder, July 2007)

(Anotherealm; July 2007)

Defender of the Faith (Reflection’s Edge, August 2006)

Strange Vintage (Fear of the Unknown, March 2005)

(Strange Horizons, November 2004)

Joseph’s Plaint (Ideomancer, June 2004)

(Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Summer 2003)

(Strange Horizons, April 2003)

After the Sleep (Dark Fire, March 2003)

Analogues (Erratica, Spring 1997: reproduced on this site)

EDITOR, FICTION ANTHOLOGY:

(2012) The Harrow Press

(2011) The Harrow Press

(2007) The Harrow Press