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Dana Och is a Teaching Professor in the Department of English and Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh’s Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. She serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Film and Media Studies Program (critical studies track) and holds an affiliation with the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) program. A 2022 recipient of the Tina and David Bellet Award for Excellence in Teaching, her research focuses on horror cinema, Irish film, genre analysis, and gender studies in media.
Her work examines transnational horror circulations, postcolonial zombie comedy, and gendered receptions of cult media such as Twin Peaks, Breaking Bad, and Fifty Shades of Grey. Key publications include Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies (co-edited, 2014), analyses of Neil Jordan’s Irish horror films, and studies on the intersection of horror and cultural memory in Irish cinema. She also explores feminist critiques of contemporary media through essays on audience reception and genre hybridity.
In addition to her academic work, Och contributes to interdisciplinary dialogues on media theory and pedagogy. Her research emphasizes the socio-political dimensions of film and television, particularly how horror genres negotiate cultural anxieties and identity formations across global contexts. She maintains active engagement with both scholarly and popular discourses through publications in Cinema Journal, Communication, Culture and Critique, and edited volumes on transnational media studies.
