Biography
Ryan Engley is a Ph.D. candidate at The University of Rhode Island. His dissertation, To Be Continued: Serial Storytelling in New Narrative Media examines the intersection of psychoanalysis and contemporary serial media. His work has appeared in The Serial Podcast and Storytelling in the Digital Age, Can Philosophy Love? Reflections and Encounters, The International Journal of Žižek Studies, and Cinematic Cuts: Theorizing Film Endings.
Research
Psychoanalytic Theory, Contemporary Literature and Media, Television Studies, Digital Humanities
Dissertation Title: To Be Continued: Serial Storytelling in New Narrative Media
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
(under review) “Serial Form, Serial Psyche: Binge Watching as the Structure of Narrative Drive,” Narrative.
“The Nothing that Emerges: Žižek and Baudrillard as Readers of Bret Easton Ellis,” International Journal of Žižek Studies. Vol. 10.1 (2016).
“A Conversation with the Poet Major Jackson.” The Ocean State Review. Vol. 5.1 (2015): 126-141.
Chapters in Edited Collections
“Love and Surveillance: Reformulating the State Gaze in the ‘Age of 1984’.” Can Philosophy Love? Reflections and Encounters. Ed. Cindy Zeiher. London: Rowman & Littlefield International. 2017.
“The Impossible Ethics of Serial: Sarah Koenig, Foucault, Lacan.” The Serial Podcast and Storytelling in The Digital Age. Ed. Ellen McCracken. London: Routledge. 2017.
“The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Played: Desire, Drive, and the Twist Ending.” Cinematic Cuts: Theorizing Film Endings. Ed. Sheila Kunkle. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016.
Book Reviews
Review of Delphine Letort, The Spike Lee Brand: A Study of Documentary Filmmaking. Cercles: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal of Anglophone Writing and Research, 2017. http://www.cercles.com/review/r80/Letort.html
Courses Taught
ENGS 110: Introduction to Literature
ENGS 243: The Short Story (Episodic Narrative)
ENGS 303: Cinematic Auteurs: The Hitchcockian Inheritance
ENGS 300B: Literature into Film: Narrative
Personal Sites:
https://uri.academia.edu/RyanEngley
https://soundcloud.com/synecdochemedia
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/synecdoche-media/id1292682130?mt=2