Dr. William Thomas McBride
Associate Professor
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 336
Office Hours
By appointment T 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
ENG 124.001 Film Style And Literature
ENG 124.001 Film Style And Literature
ENG 124.002 Film Style And Literature
ENG 321.001 Studies In Drama
ENG 421.001 Studies in Drama
Teaching Interests & Areas
Film Style. Drama. American, British, Global Literature. The Tanakh and New Testament, Ancient Literature. Close Reading.
Research Interests & Areas
Formalism. Cinema. Visual Arts. Music. Biblical Hermeneutics.
Ph D
State University of New York at Buffalo
MA
University of Delaware
BA
University of Delaware
Provost’s Innovation and Enhancement Grant
The Provost's Office
2023
University Research Grant
2020
ISU Harold K. Sage Foundation Fund Grant
2016
Grants and Contracts
Provost’s Innovation and Enhancement Grant to fund Milner Library's perpetual streaming media. $20,000
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The Provost. May 30 2023
MLA Approaches to Teaching Stoker's Dracula
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Illinois State University. July 1 2020 - July 1 2020
ISU Harold K. Sage Foundation Fund Grant
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Illinois State University. April 1 2016 - April 1 2016
Performances and Exhibits
The Six Week Film School
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Town of Normal, The Department of English. September 12 2016 - November 2018
William McBride.
Town of Normal, The Department of English. September 12 2016 - November 2018
Book, Authored
Approaches to Teaching Stoker’s Dracula. Editor. Modern Language Association, 2025.
William T McBride.
(2025), MLA Approaches to Teaching Stoker's DRACULA, no, MLA
Book, Chapter
"Marty Two Bad- Scorsese's Philosophy of Shots and the Music Video". Neglected Scorsese: Overlooked Films, Television Shows, and Commercials. 2025 (forthcoming)
William McBride.
(2025), chapter, Bloomsbury
“`Wast Naked.’ A Biblical Scruple.” .
William McBride.
(2021), Troubling Topics, Sacred Texts. Readings in Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an.
“Dutchman Heaped in Modern Cinema.”
William McBride.
(2018), MLA Approaches to Teaching Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman. Eds. Gerald Early & Matthew Calihman. MLA, 2018.
“Hitchcock’s Stylized Capture of Post-Adolescent Fatheads.” Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock." Ed. Debbie Olson. Palgrave-McMillan, 2014
William McBride.
(2014), Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock, McMillan-Palgrave
“Le Rouge et le Noir et le Blanc: Niki Hoeky’s Cajun Chiasm of Indian Masking and Native Funk.”
William McBride.
(2012), Creoles, Diasporas and Cosmopolitanisms: The Creolization of Nations, Cultural Migrations, Global Languages and Literatures. Ed. David Gallagher. Academica Press 2012, pp. 67-82.
“Call It Magic Surgery: Possessing Members, Possessing Texts/Circumcision & Midrash.” Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an as Literature and Culture. Biblical Interpretation Series 98. Ed. Roberta Sabbath. Brill Press 2009
William McBride.
(2009), Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an as Literature and Culture. Biblical Interpretation Series 98., Brill Press
“Figura Preserves: History (in) Ajar." ." Maps and Mirrors: Topologies of Art and Politics. Ed. Steve Martinot. Northwestern University Press, 2001
William McBride.
(2001), Maps and Mirrors: Topologies of Art and Politics. Ed. Steve Martinot. Northwestern University Press, 2001, pp. 8-15., Northwestern University Press
“What It Is! The Mothership Connection.” The UFO Show. 2000
William McBride.
(2000), University Galleries
"Who Wants Gum? Apocalyptic Fun in Kenny's Jelly Jungle." Kenny Scharf. Eds. Barry Blinderman and Greg Bowen. University Galleries, 1998, Invited
William McBride.
(1998), University Galleries
A Shout Out to Doug Kellner." Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group. Vol. 18, No. 2, Fall 1994, pp. 59-65.
William McBride.
(1994), Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group.
"Esther Passes. Chiasm, Lex Talio and Money in the Book of Esther." Not in Heaven: Coherence and Complexity in Biblical Narrative. Eds. Jason Rosenblatt and Joseph Sitterson., 1991
William McBride.
(1991), Indiana University Press
"Dracula and Mephistopheles: Shyster Vampires." Literature/Film Quarterly. Ed. James M. Welsh. Vol. 18. No. 2, 1990, pp. 116-121.
William McBride.
(1990), Literature/Film Quarterly
"This Mania for Symmetry: Beckett's Homo Mensura." Romance Studies, No. 11, Winter 1987, pp. 77-85.
William McBride.
(1987), Romance Studies
"Bahktin's Marxist Formalism." International Studies in Philosophy. Ed. Stephen David Ross. Vol. XXIII/1, 1991, pp. 23-30.
William McBride.
International Studies in Philosophy
"Dutchman Heaped in Modern Cinema" Eds. Gerald Early & Matthew Calihman. MLA, 2018
William McBride.
MLA Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman., MLA
"`She's Not There': Privacy, Surveillance, and Emerging Modes of Being in Spike Jonze's Her."
William McBride.
Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves. Eds. Susan Flynn, Antonia Mackay, Palgrave-McMillan, 2017., Palgrave-McMillan
Presentations
The Rigid Embrace of the Narrow House’: Gothic Premature Burial from Masoch, Hitchcock, and Poe.”
William Thomas McBride.
"Nights of Horror” series, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Online, October 2, 2021
“Spitting Images: Malkovich, Whitelaw & Brecht, Ltd."
William Thomas McBride.
Presenting the Un- representable., Online originally planned on-site at the Palais de Congrès Center, Montreal, fully virtual., April 8, 2021
“Left Hand Right Hand. Meaning Through Contrastive Splits by Herrmann, Barry, North, Vangelis and Zimmer”.
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Performing Text in Music and Theater: Interdisciplinary Readings and Conversations., Georgetown University. fully virtual, March 20, 2020
“Past the Outskirts of Infinity-The Yahweh Qadash Blues”
William McBride.
“Past the Outskirts of Infinity-The Yahweh Qadash Blues”, Washington D.C., March 8, 2019
“Chuck Berry Drew Influences From Musical Melting Pot” discussing the historical and cultural impact of black rock progenitor Chuck Berry, interviewed by Mike McCurdy on WGLT’s Sound Ideas
William McBride.
WGLT, Normal, IL, April 04, 2017
“Alfred Hitchcock: Master of Style"
William McBride.
Normal Theater’s Spring Six Week Film School, Normal, IL, February 1, 2017
“Hitchcock Pitches `Curve Balls’ During Film Festival,”
William McBride.
WGLT Sound Ideas, Normal, Illinois, February 1, 2017
Alfred Hitchcock-Master of Style
William McBride.
The Steve Fast Show, Bloomington, Illinois, January 29, 2017
“Why Stories Matter: Overcoming Oppression and Celebrating Diversity through Narrative"
William McBride.
Illinois State University’s Culturally Responsive Campus Community (CRCC) Conference, Uniting to Challenge Systems of Oppression,, Normal, IL, October 25, 2016
“Film Noirs: Visual Style & Fortune"
William McBride.
Normal Theater’s Fall Six Week Film School, Normal, Il, September 21, 2016
“Femme Fatales Fail In Film Fest”
William McBride.
WGLT Sound Ideas, Normal, Illinois, September 21, 2016
“Bogie & Bowie: The Quintessential Film Noir Anti-Hero & The Iconic Queer Pop Artist Hero.”
William McBride.
The International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media, Chicago, IL, July 07, 2016
Alphaville
William McBride.
Arts Tech Film Festival, Normal, Il, April 20, 2016
“`Who Told Thee That Thou Wast Naked?’ Troubling Nakedness and Knowing in the Tanak, New Testament, and the Qu’ran."
William McBride.
Sacred Aporia: Troubling Topics in Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an., . Harvard University, Cambridge, MA., March 19, 2016
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Jones 2015) Normal Theater
William McBride.
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Jones 2015) Normal Theater, Normal, IL, March 13, 2016
“Bowie's 'Changes' Will Continue To Keep Fans”
William McBride.
WGLT Sound Ideas, Normal, Illinois, January 14, 2016
Chair & Presented “Connecting the Dots 3 Years On Teaching an Online Film Course & Textbook"
William McBride.
016 Teaching & Learning Symposium, Imagining the Future Reflecting on the Past., Normal, IL, January 06, 2016
Post -Production Roundtable
William McBride, Lori Adams, Brian Rejack, Thomas Burr.
Pride & Prejudice Post-Production Panel Discussion, Illinois State University’s Center for Performing Arts, March 29, 2015
"`She's Not There': Shallow Focus on Emerging Techno-Mediated Modes of Being in Spike Jonze's Her,” Dolls & Dummies panel. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. University of Washington, Seattle WA
William McBride.
American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, WA, March 27, 2015
"Who's Afraid of . . . Oh Snap! Mapping Black Swish Snapping As It Comes Full Circle."
William McBride.
The 28th Annual Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Conference & The Ralph Ellison Centennial Symposium, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, March 8, 2015
"Who's Afraid of . . . Oh Snap! Mapping Black Swish Snapping As It Comes Full Circle." Queer Disruptions, Alternative Masculinities. Going to the Territory: Cultural Geographies of Ethnic American Literature. The 28th Annual Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Conference & The Ralph Ellison Centennial Symposium. March 8, 2014, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
William McBride.
OnlineMarch, 2014
"Hitchcock's Last Laugh—Murnau's Entfesselte Kamera and American Paraphilia." Global Hitchcock. Seminar Organizer, David Greven; Chair: William Thomas McBride. 2014 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, New York University, New York City, NY. March 21-22, 2014.
William McBride.
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, NYU, NYC, NY, March 21, 2014
"Sfumato, Synthesthesia, Spirit: Stoned Theory & Practice." Disorientation Seminar. Global Positioning Systems. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. April 5, 2013.
William McBride.
American Comparative Literature Association, Toronto, Canada, April 5, 2013