About
Katarina O’Dette (she/her) is Teaching Associate in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on fantasy television, genre studies, and media industry studies. She holds a PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Nottingham, and serves as editor-in-chief of Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research, production editor for Forum for Modern Language Studies, and programming officer on the Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations organising committee. Her research can be found in Extrapolation, Fantastika Journal, Slayage, and A Shadow Within: Evil in Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Education
PhD in Film and Television Studies (grad. 2023): University of Nottingham
MLitt in Fantasy (grad. 2017): University of Glasgow
BFA in Writing for Screen and Television (grad. 2014): University of Southern California Mastodon Feed
Nothing like learning a new citation system to realize you have very strong opinions about things you didn’t know you cared about. I didn’t know I was fond of et al. until MHRA took her from me. (2023-09-20 ↗)
Everyone in our flat loves #Murderbot, but no one as much as Quinn. #cats (2023-09-07 ↗)
Can’t believe I’ve sat through extensive staff training on how to set up an optimal remote workspace and sit in my chair, but zero information is provided about how to best accommodate my favorite colleague. #cats (2023-08-30 ↗)
The effort it has required to complete the final two wee corrections on my thesis somehow feels equal to the effort it took to write the whole thing in the first place. What cursed witchcraft is this? (2023-08-29 ↗)
Publications
- “Fantasy Worlds on the Small Screen: Worldbuilding in Original American Fantasy Television,” Extrapolation, vol. 62(1), 2021, pp. 37–62.
- “Yesterday’s Tyrant: Evolving Evil in Fantasy Television’s Reformed Villains,” A Shadow Within: Evil in Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. by Francesca T Barbini, Luna Press, 2019, pp. 210–230.
- “Holy Motherforking Shirtballs: The Retrospective Hilarity of the Afterlife [Review of The Good Place season two],” Fantastika Journal, vol. 3(1), 2019 , pp. 179–182.
- “Chasing Canon in J. K. Rowling’s Wizarding World: Towards a Poetics of Reception of Transmedia Storyworlds,” Fantastika Journal, vol. 2(1), 2018, pp. 81–94.
- “Heroic Mediocrity: Xander Harris and the Civil Heroism of the Ordinary in Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, vol. 16(1), 2018.
