Sigmund C. Shen

About

Sigmund Shen is a Professor of English at LaGuardia, Editorial Board member of the journal Supernatural Studies, and former LaGuardia chapter chair of the Professional Staff Congress. His essays on pop culture, ideology, and resistance have appeared in Supernatural Studies, In These Times, Inside Higher Ed, Scope: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, G-Fan, and three book-length collections: Giant Creatures in Our World: Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture; アメリカ人の見たゴジラ、日本人の見たゴジラ [Nuclear Monsters, Transcending Borders]; and Giant Bug Cinema: A Monster Kid’s Guide. With the Cinema Daikaiju collective he co-founded on Facebook, he has given presentations about monster movies at CUNY, NYU, and Seton Hall University, as well as numerous conventions including New York Comic Con, Baltimore Comic Con, and the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. He is currently working on a study of eco-fascist narratives in post-millennial Godzilla films.