Jaymen Neff-Strickland

Biography

Jaymen Neff-Strickland’s teaching and research interests focus on American Studies, film and television studies, and cultural studies. He is completing his PhD in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University, where his dissertation, “Culmination and Critique: Rethinking Prestige Television and Television Studies through an Interdisciplinary Approach to Succession,” introduces new interdisciplinary methods to television studies by examining how form, narrative, and representations of power have evolved in prestige television.

Education

• Ph.D. Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies, 2025
• M.A. Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture, 2022
• B.A. Bowling Green State University, Film Production, 2020

Teaching and Research Interests

• American Studies, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies, Genre Studies, Popular Culture, and Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research Methods

Courses Taught

• AMS 205
  
• AMS 305

Selected Publications

Articles

• Neff-Strickland, Jaymen. “What Kind of Monster Is This Show?: Genre Liminality and the Hybrid Form of Teen Wolf.” Supernatural Studies, forthcoming Summer 2026.
  
  
• Neff-Strickland, Jaymen. “Quiet on Set Calls Attention to the Abuse at Nickelodeon: How Growth of Neoliberalism During the 1980s and 1990s Allowed it to Happen” Cinematic Codes Review, vol. 9, no. 3, Fall 2024, pp. 39-48
  
  
• Neff-Strickland, Jaymen. “Freak of the Week to Super Serialized: The Complex Narrative Evolution of Smallville” Cinematic Codes Review, vol. 9, no. 3, Fall 2024, pp. 49-67
  

Book Chapters

• Neff-Strickland, Jaymen. “Military Influences and Trauma in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” in The Legacy of Leatherface: Essays on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series, edited by Shane H. Weathers, (MacFarland & Company, 2025)

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