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Selected Work

Pop Culture Writing & Editorial Portfolio

Writing, editing, and conversations shaped by film, television, celebrity, fandom, horror, and the cultural objects that stay with us.

Writing

Essays I’ve Written

There She Is. There They Are

On publishing Gellar Studies, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Virginia Woolf, queer identity, influence, and the pop culture that becomes part of a life.

The Daily Drunk

Martin Short’s Nose

On Only Murders in the Building, Martin Short, childhood memory, and falling back in love with film.

The Daily Drunk

The Fragile Beauty of Superman and Lois

On the quiet emotional life of a superhero series, visual narrative, disability, fragility, and what it means to be super.

Books

My Books

Cover of Gellar Studies by Erik Fuhrer

Nine Books of Poetry, Hybrid Writing & Theatre

Including Gellar Studies, a poetry collection engaging with Sarah Michelle Gellar’s characters and the role pop culture can play in identity, memory, trauma, and survival, as well as the forthcoming My Buffed Up Life.

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Editorial

Work I’ve Edited

Selected pop-culture-infused work published in Hush: A Journal of Noise, where I am Founding & Managing Editor.

Hush · Andrew K. Peterson

My Falsetto Leopard Print Is a Dream of Alec Baldwin

Hush · Brandon Monokian

Zombie Cheerleaders, A Teenage Witch & The Demonic Voice on the Other End of the Phone

Hush · Michael Chin

Wandering After Willow

Hush · Thomson Guster

The Clone Saga

Coverage & Reviews

Work About My Work

Psychology Today

Slaying Trauma: A Pop Culture Healing Journey

A feature on Gellar Studies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the scream queen, and using pop-cultural narratives to process experience.

Psychology Today

How Writing Poetry Became a Lifeline for Processing Trauma

An interview about Gellar Studies, horror, Sarah Michelle Gellar, identity, and pop culture as a narrative bridge.

Book Review: Gellar Studies

Sean Woodard reviews the collection’s engagement with Sarah Michelle Gellar, film, identity, and popular culture.

Audio & Conversation

Podcasts & Interviews

Interview: Author & Poet Erik Fuhrer

A conversation about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, writing through trauma, and the Strength card.

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Erik Fuhrer: Gellar Studies

A conversation about Gellar Studies and the writing, film, and pop-cultural influences behind the book.