Joshua Vasquez is a lecturer in film and media studies in the Department of English at ASU. He has taught a wide variety of courses in film and media studies, as well as classes in gender studies, and film history. His own work has focused on confluences of melancholy and masculinity throughout a range of American genre film from the silent period into the first decades of the 21st century. He has published on representations of race in the British science fiction series Doctor Who and on literary genre usage in William S. Burrough’s novel "Naked Lunch." Josh’s current research is centered on intersections of comedy and melancholy in film and performance