David Bering-Porter
David Bering-Porter is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at The New School in New York City. David has lectured, taught, and published on zombie movies and other forms of Black horror at the intersections of film, digital media, and technology. His current book project is a study of Undead Labor and the ways that race, labor, and value come together in the mediated body of the zombie as well as other examples of biological excess and his academic writing has appeared in journals such as Culture Machine, Critical Inquiry, Flow, MIRAJ, Post 45, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
David Bushman
David Bushman has been a television curator at the Paley Center since 1992, excluding a two-year stint as program director at TV Land. He is the coauthor of Twin Peaks FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About a Place Both Wonderful and Strange (2016) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Sunnydale’s Slayer of Vampires, Demons, and Other Forces of Darkness (2017). He is co-president/publisher of Fayetteville Mafia Press (http://www.fayettevillemafiapress.com) and has taught media and writing courses as multiple colleges in the New York metropolitan area. He is also a regular contributor to PaleyMatters (www.paleymatters.org).
David Flint
DAVID FLINT is a freelance writer, sometime filmmaker and full time angry misanthrope who has edited Sheer Filth, Divinity and Headpress, authored Babylon Blue, Ten Years of Terror and Zombie Holocaust and written for publications ranging from Rapid Eye, Bizarre and Skin Two to Penthouse, Loaded and Mayfair.
David J. Goodwin
David J. Goodwin is the Assistant Director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University and was a Frederick Lewis Allen Room scholar at the New York Public Library from 2020 to 2023. He is a past commissioner and chairperson of the Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission and a former Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy board member. His first book, Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street, received the J. Owen Grundy History Award in 2018.
David J. Skal
David J. Skal is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on horror in popular culture. His signature book, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror, called “The best book on horror movies I have ever read” by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, has been in continuous print for twenty-five years, including three American editions, a British edition, and translations into Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. His other critically acclaimed books include Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen (“the ultimate book on Dracula,” according to Newsweek); Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture, Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning (with Elias Savada): V is for Vampire, Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween; Dracula: The Ultimate Illustrated Edition of the World-Famous Vampire Play; and, with Jessica Rains, Claude Rains: An Actor’s Voice. With the late Nina Auerbach he is co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, widely regarded as the definitive academic text. In collaboration with John Edgar Browning he is currently preparing a revised second edition for release in 2019. As a documentary filmmaker he has written, produced and directed a dozen DVD/Blu-ray features on Universal Studio’s classic monster movies, as well as a behind-the-scene chronicle of Bill Condon’s Academy Award-winning film Gods and Monsters. His audio commentaries appear on the special-edition DVDs of Tod Browning’s Dracula and Freaks, and he also acts as host/narrator for his own Universal documentaries The Frankenstein Files, Back to the Black Lagoon, and Abbott and Costello meet the Monsters. His hundreds of media appearances have included The Today Show, A&E Biography, NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and Fresh Air. He has lectured internationally on monsters and horror at leading colleges, universities, and cultural institutions, including the Musée du Louvre, and taught courses based on The Monster Show at the University of Victoria and Trinity College Dublin, where he was named a Visiting Research Fellow in 2010. The fellowship supported the primary research for his most recent project, Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, which was a 2017 finalist for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award for biography and criticism. His journalism and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times and the Boston Globe, and he has served for many years as a film critic for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
David Kerekes
David Kerekes is a co-founder of the publishing house Headpress. He is co-author of the books Killing for Culture (1994), revised and updated as Killing for Culture: From Edison to Isis — A New History of Death on Film (2016), and See No Evil: Banned Films and Video Controversy (2001). He is the author of Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit (1994) and has written extensively on popular culture. His meditation on southern Italian Diaspora and folklore, Mezzogiorno, was published in 2012. www.worldheadpress.com
David Metcalfe
David Metcalfe is a researcher, writer and multimedia specialist focusing on the interrelationship of art, culture, and consciousness. He serves as Scholar in Virtual Residence with the Windbridge Institute and Editor-in-Chief for the Windbridge Research Center’s Threshold: Journal of Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies. In 2011 he established the Liminal Analytics: Applied Research Collaborative to focus on combining applied scholarship, digital media and social network development to build strategic transdisciplinary lines of communication.
David Misch
David Misch has been a comic folksinger, stand-up comedian and screenwriter; his credits include the multiple-Emmy-nominated “Mork & Mindy”, the Emmy-losing “Duckman”, the Emmy-ignored “Police Squad!”, the Emmy-engorged “Saturday Night Live” and the Emmy-ineligible “The Muppets Take Manhattan.” David’s written Funny: The Book and A Beginner’s Guide To Corruption; he blogs for The Huffington Post and appears in the anthology Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting sLaughter. His play “Occupied” is in development at the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles.
David’s taught comedy at the University of Southern California, musical satire at UCLA, and spoken about comedy at Oxford University, the Smithsonian Institute, the University of Sydney (Australia); Yale, 92nd St. Y, the Actors Studio, New York Public Library, American Film Insitute, Grammy Museum (Los Angeles), Lucasfilm, Austin Film Festival, Midwest Popular Culture Association and VIEW Cinema Conference (Torino, Italy). More at davidmisch.com.
David Pirie
Author of ‘A Heritage Of Horror’, the seminal text on British Horror Films, David Pirie is also an author and screenwriter of repute. His first TV play ‘Rainy Day Women’ was directly inspired by aspects of Nigel Kneale’s ‘Quatermass II’. Later work includes the acclaimed ‘Murder Rooms’ series of novels and TV which explored the origins of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, an adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ ‘The Woman In White’ for TV, uncredited work on Lars Von Trier’s ‘Breaking The Waves’, and ‘Murderland’ starring Robbie Coltrane.
Dean Cameron
Though Dean Cameron is best known for his role as Francis “Chainsaw” Gremp in the Carl Reiner movie “Summer School” he continues to reinvent himself by exploring varied careers and experiences. While studying acting with Peggy Feury and Bill Traylor at the Loft Studio in the early 80’s, he landed a few guest star roles on television shows like “Facts of Life” resulting in his first regular role on the television series “Spencer” with Chad Lowe. The next year, he recreated Jeff Spicoli”, the role made famous by Sean Penn, in the television version of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” Thankfully, it only lasted seven episodes but he escaped unscathed, having received excellent reviews for undertaking the daunting task.
Dean has appeared in over 50 movies, television programs, stage plays and short films. including “Sleep With Me”, “Hi-Life”, “Men at Work”, “Bad Dreams”, “Highball”, “Rockula” plus the late-night cable staples “Ski School I & II” and “Miracle Beach”. On television, Dean starred, with his Ski School co-star, Stuart Fratkin, in one of the few one hour comedies, “They Came From Outer Space” and a fever dream of a recurring boyfriend/mime role on “ALF.” He continued his active involvement in Los Angeles theater, performing, writing and directing plays you’ve never heard of and studying in Howard Fine’s master class. After co-writing & starring in a feature film, Hollywood Palms, Dean began working as a front end web developer for companies exactly like LegalZoom, TicketMaster, j2 and a couple of shady outfits best not mentioned. It wasn’t until 2012, when he was nudged “out of retirement” by a very wise agent and manager, that Dean began working as an actor enough to happily stop writing code.
Since 2013, Dean has appeared in the television programs The Mentalist, Southland, See Dad Run, American Horror Story, The Neighbors, Glee!, The Newsroom, Shameless, NCIS, Jennifer Falls, How to Get Away with Murder, a role written just for him on Psych and the season 11 madness of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Masters of Sex and Alex Inc. Recent Feature films include “Confessions of a Teenaged Disciple”, “The Waiting”, “Straight Outta Compton” and more.
He married film editor, Jessie Marion, early 2004. They have a son, Duncan Huxley Cameron, who was born August, 2009.