Brian Hauser

Dr. Brian Hauser (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Film/Media Studies and Creative Writing. He is a scholar of film and literature, a novelist, a filmmaker and a screenwriter. He has published essays on cinematic and televisual adaptation, the early career of Wes Craven, women directors of horror films and the aesthetics of weird fiction and film in various journals and collections. His screenplays have garnered multiple awards and his debut novel, Memento Mori: The Fathomless Shadows, was released in 2019.

Educational Background

• Ph.D., The Ohio State University
• M.A., The Ohio State University
• B.A., The Ohio State University

Teaching Interests

• Screenwriting
• Film and Television Studies
• Adaptation and Narrative Theory
• Weird Cinema

Selected Publications

(Feature Film - forthcoming) Pale Magic, Haus.IX, 2025

(Short Film) Better Like This, Haus.IX, 2024

"In Search of Pandora Experimentia." ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven. Ed. Calum Waddell. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

"Short Sharp Shocks: An Interview with Women Who Make Horror Shorts." Eds. Aislinn Clarke and Victoria McCollum. Bloody Women!: Women Directors of Horror. Rowman & Littlefield. 2022.

(Feature Screenplay) The Haunter of the Dark, 2020 - Winner, H.P. Lovecraft Screenwriting Award

(Novel) Memento Mori: The Fathomless Shadows. Word Horde. May 2019.

(Short Screenplay) Flypaper, 2019 - Winner, H.P. Lovecraft Screenwriting Award

"Weird Cinema and the Aesthetics of Dread." Ed. Sean Moreland. New Directions in Supernatural Horror: The Critical Influence of H.P. Lovecraft. Palgrave. 2018. 235-252.

(Feature Film) Nontraditional, Salonista Media, 2013

"The X-Files: I Want to Believe in Forensic Adaptation." Adaptation. 2013. 6(1): 78-92.