Andrew Scahill is honored to serve as Guest Editor for this special issue of Literature/Film Quarterly, the longest-running international journal for the study of adaptation. For over forty years, LFQ has been on the forefront of scholarship on the complexities of adaptation, and this issue examines an often-neglected area of adaptation: the audience. Check out the latest issue here. In this special issue on "Audiences and Adaptation," the authors ask how we might theorize th

Dr. Scahill's book The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema: Youth Rebellion and Queer Spectatorship was released today from Palgrave Macmillan. Scahill argues that the “revolting child”—whose forms include the child with a dark secret (The Bad Seed), the child who transforms into a monster in adolescence (The Exorcist), or the child who forms a cabal of outcasts (Village of the Damned)—functions as a potent metaphor for queer youth. Drawing together film theory, queer theory, ch