Biography
Kevin Alexander Boon
Degrees
Ph.D., M.A. (English) University of South Florida
B.A. (Psychology) University of South Florida
A.A. (Music)
Courses Taught
- Script Culture and the American Screenplay (Wayne State University Press)
- At Millennium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut. (State University of New York Press)
- 3 Award-winning Feature Films (A Host of Sparrows, Two Days Back, Ghosting)
Faculty Scholarly Activities
- “Trailing the Zombie through Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literature.” Written Dead. Ed. Kyle Bishop. (McFarland)
- “Ethics and Capitalism in the Screenplays of David Mamet.” (Literature/Film Quarterly)
- "Episteme-ology of Science Fiction." Rpt. Anatomy of Science Fiction. Ed. Donald Morse. (Cambridge Scholars Press,)
Research Interests
Film, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Popular Culture, Gender Studies, etc.
Publications
A Host of Sparrows
"In Defense of John Carpenter's The Thing"
Trailing the Zombie through Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literature - July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2017
Ghosting - October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 4, 2016
The American Renaissance: 1968-1980, BEHIND THE SILVER SCREEN: SCREEN WRITING & STORY TELLING - 2014
Raubicheck, Walter, and Walter Srebnick. Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie., Literature/Film Quarterly - 2013
Kurt Vonnegut - 2012
The Quincy Garden Project: A Service Learning Experience, In house video production for PT, OT and Forestry project. - 2012
“The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Postnuclear Age. - Extended, Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-human in Literature, Film, and Culture - 2011
“Ethics and Capitalism in the Screenplays of David Mamet.” , Literature/Film Quarterly - 2011
Preface. “And the Dead Shall Rise.” , Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-human in Literature, Film, and Culture - 2011
Two Days Back - November, 2011
“Temporal Cohesion and Disorientation in Slaughterhouse-Five: A Chronicle of Form Cuts and Transitional Devices in the Novel.” , Literary Criticism Series Volume on Kurt Vonnegut - 2010
George Orwell: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four - 2009
"Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men", Studies in the Novel - 2008
The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Modern Age.�, Monstrous - 2008
Script Culture: The Screenplay in America - 2008
"The Screenplay, Imagism, and Modern Aesthetics", Literature/Film Quarterly - 2008
"Ontological Anxiety Made Flesh: The Zombie in Literature, Film and Culture.", The Monstrous - 2007
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises and Other Works - 2007
F. Scott Fitzgerald: His Life and Work - 2007
"The Voice of a Generation Goes Silent", The Bridge - 2007
Kurt Vonnegut, Voice of a Generation, Goes Silent.", The Centre Daily Times - May, 2007
"Episteme-ology of Science Fiction.", Anatomy of Science Fiction - 2006
Interview with Carlton Mellick III, Zombie-a-GoGo - October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2006
F. Scott Fitzgerald: His Life and Work - 2005
"Heroes, Metanarratives, and the Paradox of Masculinity in Contemporary Western Culture.", Journal of Men's Studies 13.3 - 2005
"Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God as Aristotelian Tragedy: Janie's Flaw, Tea Cake's Defects, and the Illusion of Romantic Love., The Zora Neale Hurston Forum. - 2005
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God as Aristotelian Tragedy: Janie's Flaw, Tea Cake's Defects, and the Illusion of Romantic Love, The Zora Neale Hurston Forum - 2005
"Light Sabers and Kaiser Blades.", Nota Bene - 2005
"Penguins and Psychos.", Nota Bene - 2005
"Postnuclear Visionary or Literary Vinegarroon? Chuck Palahniuk Shifts the Landscape of American Fiction.", The Fourth Wall - 2005
"PSMA Considering Bachelor's in Liberal Arts.", The Fourth Wall - 2005
Review of Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters - 2004
Elaine May, The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 60s. V2 - 2004
Gilbert Sorrentino: Cataloging The Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, Studies in Modern and Contemporary Fiction: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things - 2004
Kurt Vonnegut, The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 60s. V2 - 2004
Timothy Leary, The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. V4 1994-1996 - 2004
Truman Capote, The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 60s. V2 - 2004
Ernest Hemingway - 2004
The Human Genome Project: What Does Decoding DNA Mean for Us? - 2004
Human 911: Spectacle & Tragedy, Creative Screenwriting - 2004
“A Fourth Wall for the Fifth Estate.” , The Fourth Wall - 2004
Review of Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters , Creative Screenwriting - 2003
“Elaine May.” , The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 60s. - 2003
“Kurt Vonnegut.” , The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 60s. - 2003
“Truman Capote.” , The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 60s. - 2003
Men and the Nostalgia for Violence: Culture and Culpability in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, Journal of Men's Studies - 2003
Gilbert Sorrentino: Cataloging The Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, Review of Contemporary Fiction - January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2003
At Millennium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut - 2001
At Millennium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut - 2001
"Episteme-ology of Science Fiction.", Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts - 2001
"Episteme-ology of Science Fiction.", Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts - 2001
The Poetics and the Screenplay: Revisiting Aristotle, Creative Screenwriting - 2001
Absolute Zero - 1999
Reading the Sea: New Essays on Sea Literature - 1999
"In Defense of John Carpenter's Thing.", Creative Screenwriting - 1999
"Publishing Group Projects: Decentering the Writing Classroom." , Teaching English in the Two-Year College - 1999
An Interpretive Commentary on Virginia Woolf's The Waves - 1998
"Efrem Zimbalist, Sr." , The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives - 1998
"Jack Albertson." , The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives - 1998
"Johnny Marks." , The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives - 1998
Chaos Theory and the Interpretation of Literary Texts: The Case of Kurt Vonne - 1997
"In Debt to Dashiell: John Huston's Adaptation of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon." , Creative Screenwriting - 1997
"The Problem with Pilgrim in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.", Notes on Contemporary Literature - 1996
"Vonnegut's Archi-Texts." , Los Angeles Literary Review - 1995
"Temple Defiled: The Brainwashing of Temple Drake in Faulkner's Sanctuary." , Faulkner Journal - 1993
"Vertical Analysis of Word Choice." , Teaching English in the Two-Year College - 1993
Education
Ph D, English, University of South FLorida