Tim Welch is a Ph.D. candidate, and their research and scholarly interests lie at the intersections of film studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer-feminist theory, horror studies, and witchcraft studies. Their work explores the ways film and other media construct and contest gendered and sexual subjectivities, with particular attention to the Gothic, horror, and representations of witchcraft in contemporary culture.
Their dissertation, Queer Cine-Magic(k): Reel Witchcraft and Performative Worldmaking in Contemporary Horror, develops a method for examining the relationship between cinematic witchcraft, queer subject formation, and worldmaking. More broadly, their scholarship engages the history and historiography of witchcraft, modern witchcraft practices, and representations of witches and witchcraft across film, literature, and contemporary media. Their additional interests include disability studies, affect theory, and psychoanalysis.
Tim holds an M.A. in Literature, Media and Culture from Florida State University and a B.A. in Political Science from Florida Southern College, with minors in History and Creative Writing. They have taught courses in Film Genres and Hollywood Cinema.
Tim Welch