Meg Healy

EDUCATION

PhD Candidate, English, Syracuse University (2022-present)

Dissertation: “Cultural Constellations: Science Fiction Between Media”

CAS, Women’s and Gender Studies, Syracuse University (2024)

MA, English, Iowa State University (2022)

Masters Thesis: “Science Fiction and Second Wave Feminism: Women’s Writing, Individuality, and (In)action in Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”

BA, English, Iowa State University (2018)

 

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

20th- and 21st-century American literature and film, science fiction, genre studies, transmedia studies, women & gender studies, adaptation, digital humanities, and videographic criticism.

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Work in progress:

“Franchise Novels, Authorship, and Star Wars Magazines.” The Routledge Companion to Star Wars, ed. Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Angelique Nairn, and Justin Matthews, Routledge. (abstract accepted; chapter under review)

 

Forthcoming:

“In a Galaxy a Wipe Transition Away....” Open Screens, Thinking in the Timeline: Videographic Dissection as Analytical Method special issue, vol. 8, no. 2. (forthcoming May 2026)

 

CONFERENCES & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

“Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and the Growth of a Science-Fiction Film Genre.” Geek/Art Confluence, Syracuse, NY. April 19, 2026.

 

“Canon, Gospel, Legends: Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire (1991) and the Renegotiation of a Transmedia Franchise.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, IL. March 27, 2026.

 

“The Saga Continues?: Lucasfilm Fanclub Magazine and the Star Wars Extended Universe.” Negotiations: Annual English Department Graduate Student Conference. Syracuse, NY. December 5, 2025. 

 

“Reading Memory and Humanity in Koganada’s After Yang (2021).” Northeast Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. March 7, 2025. 

 

“Scientifiction, Scientifilm, and Sci-fi Fans.” Destroy All Monsters: A Panel Discussion on Science Fiction, Horror and Comics Fandom. Syracuse, NY. November 14, 2024. 

 

“‘to break up, to destroy’”: Joanna Russ and Narrative Subversion in The Female Man.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston, MA. March 7, 2024.

 

“Bending Genre, Bending Form: Joanna Russ and Radical Feminist Science Fiction.” Negotiations: Annual English Department Graduate Student Conference. Syracuse, NY. December 1, 2023.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor of Record, Syracuse University 

Science Fiction (Fall 2025, Spring 2026, Fall 2026)

Children’s Literature (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)

Gender and Literary Texts (Spring 2024)

 

Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University

Interpretation of Games (Fall 2023)

Science Fiction (Spring 2023)

Interpretation of Film (Fall 2022)

 

Instructor of Record, Iowa State University

Fundamentals of Public Speaking (Fall 2020-Spring 2022)

 

Teaching Apprentice, Iowa State University

Introduction to Literary Studies (Spring 2021)

Literary Theory and Criticism (Fall 2020)

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AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

Graduate School Summer Dissertation Fellowship (Syracuse University) 2026

Joseph Hughes Memorial Summer Fellowship (Syracuse University)           2025

College of Arts & Sciences Summer Fellowship (Syracuse University)          2024 

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Digital Scholarship Space, lab attendant, Syracuse University (2025-present)

Responsible for assisting with course instruction revolving around virtual reality, gaming, and artificial intelligence, as well as guiding faculty and students through the use of virtual reality headsets (such as Meta Quest and Vive), various gaming platforms (such as PC gaming, flash games, retro game systems, board games, and more), and AI image generators (such as Fooocus). 

 

Broadly Textual, editor, Syracuse University (2024-2026)

Provided editorial feedback for a public humanities blog, located new graduate student writers and collaborators and helped to expand scope of readership and scholarship through the addition of videographic submissions. 

 

Graduate Student Organization, senator, Syracuse University (2024-2025)

Represented the English department graduate student body on Graduate School related issues and acquired additional funding for English graduate student events. 

 

Graduate Student Mentor, Syracuse University  (2023-2026)

Provided one-on-one mentorship to incoming students in the form of semi-regular meetings that addressed their specific needs, questions, and concerns. 

 

English Graduate Organization, various roles,  Syracuse University (2022-2025)

Graduate Student Organization Representative (2024-2025)

Attended monthly Graduate Student Organization Senate meetings as a representative of English and Creative Writing graduate students and reported back to English and Creative Writing graduate students on issues and events from the Graduate School.

Agenda Committee Representative (2023-2024)

Attended committee meetings to discuss and plan items for monthly faculty meetings and represented graduate student interests as a voting member at monthly English department faculty meetings. 

First-Year Student Representative (2022-2023)

Reported to the English Graduate Organization regarding issues specific to the first year English PhD cohort. 

 

Modern Language Association (MLA), volunteer (2022-2023)

Conference Volunteer, San Francisco, CA (Jan. 5-8 2023)

Conference Volunteer, Washington, D.C, (Jan. 6-9, 2022)

 

Graduate Student Mentor, Iowa State University (2021-2022)

Provided one-on-one mentorship to incoming students in the form of semi-regular meetings that address their specific needs, questions, and concerns. 

 

Online Learning Team, volunteer, Iowa State University  (2021-2022)

Worked alongside Disability Services, faculty, and graduate students to continuously improve course accessibility, specifically for the shift to online asynchronous coursework during the COVID-19 quarantine. 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Future Professoriate Program (FPP). Participant. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. 2024-2026.

 

“The Video Essay as Form: Intermediate Workshop.” Workshop participant (regionally competitive). University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. September 26, 2025.

 

“Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice.” Workshop participant (internationally competitive). University of Notre Dame, St. Joseph County, IN. June 9-15, 2025.  

 

MEDIA, INTERVIEWS, & OTHER PUBLICATIONS

“Reframing Screen Studies: Videographic Criticism and Collaborative Scholarship.” Broadly Textual, co-authored with Samuel Santiago and Jacob Reese, 9 Feb. 2026. Available at broadlytextual.com/2026/02/09/reframing-screen-studies-videographic-criticism-and-collaborative-scholarship/. 

 

“Meg Healy — Videographic Criticism.” Syracuse University Gradcast, interviewed by Glenn Wright, (podcast). Syracuse, NY. November 17, 2025.

 

“Rethinking Research through Visual Storytelling.” College of Arts and Sciences News, interview and article by Dan Bernardi. Syracuse, NY. July 11, 2025. 

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Society of Cinema and Media Studies

Modern Language Association

Northeast Modern Language Association

Literature/Film Association

Association of Adaptation Studies

Popular Culture Association

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts