Dru Jeffries

Lecturer of Film Studies and Cultural Studies

Dru Jeffries teaches Film Studies and Cultural Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author of Comic Book Film Style: Cinema at 24 Panels per Second (University of Texas Press, 2017) and the editor of #WWE: Professional Wrestling in the Digital Age (Indiana University Press, 2019). His scholarship has appeared in journals like JCMS, Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Porn Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video as well as several edited essay collections. He has been the recipient of multiple SSHRC awards, including the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Scholarship (Concordia University) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto). He is currently writing a monograph about Marvel and DC films from 2008–2024 and co-editing (with Anna F. Peppard) an essay collection about superhero television. In addition to superhero films, he has published widely on other subjects, including comics, the paratextual afterlife of Stanley Kubrick, professional wrestling, doppelgängers in film, and veganism.

Lecturer Profile: https://www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-arts/faculty-profiles/dru-jeffries/index.html