Marc Petersen

Marc Petersen serves as a Teaching Assistant Professor in the English Department at East Carolina University, teaching undergraduate courses spanning creative writing, literature analysis, and discipline-specific composition.

His academic credentials include:

• B.S. in Forestry & Wildlife and English (double major) from Virginia Tech
• M.A. in English Literature from Virginia Tech
• M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama

Research centers on Comics and Sequential Art, Media Studies across film/television/video games, and Hypertext/Hypertheory, with particular focus on narrative adaptation and semiotic analysis between media forms. His work demonstrates consistent exploration of how stories transform across platforms like comics-to-film adaptations.

Scholarly output from 1996-2013 reveals three dominant threads: comics scholarship (especially Preacher and The Goon), genre film studies (Westerns and horror), and educational technology applications. This body of work shows evolving methodology from traditional literary analysis to digital pedagogy research.