Dr Duncan Hubber
Teaching Associate
School of Communication and Arts
+61 7 344 34234
Books
Hubber, Duncan (2024). Notes from the Citadel: The Philosophy and Psychology of A Song of Ice and Fire. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Valkyrist Publishing.
Hubber, Duncan (2023). POV Horror: The Trauma Aesthetic of the Found Footage Subgenre. Jefferson, United States: McFarland.
Book Chapters
Hubber, Duncan (2024). User Not Found: The Trauma Virus in Unfriended and The Den. Toxic Nostalgia on Screen: Undead Memory in the Twenty-First Century. (pp. 271-284) edited by Simon Bacon. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Hubber, Duncan (2019). Shallow focus: trawling the gothic undercurrents of Lake Mungo. Horror comes home: essays on hauntings, possessions and other domestic terrors in cinema. (pp. 162-176) edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Jefferson, North Carolina, USA: McFarland & Company.
Journal Articles
Hubber, Duncan (2025). Slender is the night: The traumatized interface of Marble Hornets. Horror Studies, 16 (2), 173-190. doi: 10.1386/host_00101_1
Hubber, Duncan (2025). Hell Hath No Fury: The Madonna-Whore Dichotomy in HBO’s House of the Dragon. Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy, 7 (1), 46-60.
Hubber, Duncan (2021). In the End: A Literary Analysis of the Oldstones scene from A Song of Ice and Fire. Academia Letters. doi: 10.20935/AL2906
Hubber, Duncan (2017). Exhuming the Past: Found-Footage Horror and National Wounds. Frames Cinema Journal, 11.
Hubber, Duncan (2015). Poisoned Memories: Grief and Addiction in A Song of Ice and Fire. Tower of the Hand.
Hubber, Duncan (2014). Gazing into the abyss: the uncanny attraction of horror cinema. Degenerate Magazine, 1 (2).
Hubber, Duncan (2014). "I Know Who I Am": Selfhood and Slavery in Game of Thrones. Tower of the Hand.
Hubber, Duncan (2014). "That’s Ms. Pac-Man to You": Women in Geek Culture. Degenerate Magazine, 1 (1).
Conference Papers
Hubber, Duncan (2020). "A shadow on the wall": metanarrative in A Song of Ice and Fire. 78th World Science Fiction Convention, Wellington, New Zealand / Online, 29 July - 2 August 2020.
Hubber, Duncan (2019). Pixelated Ghosts: The Gothic Undercurrents of Lake Mungo. Supernatural Studies Symposium, New York, NY, United States, 29 March 2019.
Hubber, Duncan (2019). Always watching: demonic panopticism in Paranormal Activity. Federation University Australia – Annual Philosophy Symposium, Ballarat, VIC, Australia, 18 February 2019.
Hubber, Duncan (2019). Italian feasts: devouring the national body in Cannibal Holocaust. Popular Culture Association, Washington, DC, United States, 17-20 April 2019.
Hubber, Duncan (2018). The monster’s gaze: perpetrator trauma in Zero Day. Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aoteeara New Zealand, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 21-23 November 2018.
Hubber, Duncan (2017). Disputed Melbourne: the contested spaces of Geoffrey Wright’s Romper Stomper. Screening Melbourne Symposium, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 22-24 February 2017.
Hubber, Duncan (2017). Out of the rubble: found footage films and the post-9/11 world. Film-Philosophy Conference 2017, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 4-6 July 2017.
Hubber, Duncan (2016). Glimpsing the primordial: the technological interrogation of folklore in found footage horror films. New Research on Horror, Dunedin, New Zealand, 16-18 November 2016.
Hubber, Duncan (2015). The meaning of mealtime in A Song of Ice and Fire. Federation University Australia – Annual Philosophy Symposium, Ballarat, VIC, Australia, 8 December 2015.
Theses
Hubber, Duncan (2021). Diegetic wounds: the representation of individual and collective trauma in found footage horror films. PhD Thesis, School of Arts, Federation University Australia.
Hubber, Duncan (2014). Cityscapes, Screenscapes and Hellscapes: Cinematic Representations of Melbourne Dystopia. Honours Thesis, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Federation University Australia.