I am currently in my fourth year in NYU's Cinema Studies Department, where I am writing my PhD dissertation on the aesthetics of horror and uncanniness in fiction film. My published work and research interests have always been of the interdiscplinary sort. As an undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley, I double-majored in English and Philosophy and wrote my Honors thesis on the application of literary theory to Descartes' Meditations. At Birkbeck College (University of London), my Philosophy MA thesis focused on the nature and style of analytic philosophical discourse. For the past several years, as a graduate student at Harvard University and now at NYU, I have written on the psychoanalytic and philosophical dimensions of film, the horror genre in particular. My edited collection, The Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmares, will be published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press, and a book-length study, Designing Fear: The Aesthetics of Cinematic Horror, is due out by Routledge in 2004.