ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Chapter 16: “Beyond The 1-Inch-Tall Barrier: Unpacking Parasite’s US Reception” in anthology Squid Game and Beyond: Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary Asian Popular Culture, Volume 2. Palgrave McMillian, forthcoming Dec. 2024.

Master’s thesis: “Local Detail, Universal Appeal: Parasite’s “Best Picture” Win & Trends in South Korea-US Film Exchange.” University of Southern California (USC), 2020.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2024 Pop Culture Association (PCA) National Conference in Chicago, IL.

  • Paper: The Kids Aren’t Alright: ‘Problem Children’ & Shifts in Child Representation in 21st Century Horror Films

2024 Society of Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) National Conference in Boston, MA.

  • Paper: “Meet the Producers: Fun, Fragmentation & (Mis)Identifcations in Transmedia TV.”

2023 Squid Game & Beyond: Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary Asian Popular Culture Conference, Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), New Britain, CT.

  • MA thesis: “Local Detail, Universal Appeal: Parasite’s Best Picture Win & Trends in South Korean-U.S. Film Exchange”


SELECT ARTICLES & ESSAYS

VICE

BITCH MAGAZINE

SALON

POPMATTERS (all essays here)

PSYCH CENTRAL & HEALTHLINE (all articles here and here)

Select queer health articles:

Select mental health articles:

Select clinical articles (as updates writer):


BOOK PROJECTS

At The Broken Places: A Mother & Trans Son Pick Up The Pieces
April 25, 2017, Beacon Press
A collaborative memoir by Donald and Mary Collins that honestly engages the difficult years following Donald's coming out as trans in 2011. ATBP alternates chapters from each author's point of view, and includes a substantial appendix of interviews with trans youth, parents, and professionals. → Facebook page


SELECTED PRESS

WNPR’s Where We Live
*Mary and Donald’s interview with Lucy Nalpathanchil for WNPR’s “Where We Live” won a 2020 Gracie Award!

Hartford Courant

Boston Globe

Toronto Star

Kirkus

Booklist (full review via subscription)

The Bay Area Reporter's "nonfiction matters" list

The Strand's trans lit spotlight

The Atlantic, Mary's Letter to the Editor

Literary Hub


SHORT FICTION

Jeep, RedCleaver Magazine

Don’t Give Up!Literary Orphans


SCRIPTS (upon query)

PILOT: Willa Patterson’s Afterschool Special (hourlong dramedy/mystery)

PILOT: Best Work (half hour comedy/mystery)

SPECS: Our Flag Means Death, Parks & Recreation, Supernatural, Pushing Daisies

 
 
Cover by Louis Roe

Cover by Louis Roe