Luke Holmaas

Teaching Assistant

608-263-2039

2153 Vilas Hall

Luke Holmaas

Research interests include:

Served as:

Coordinating Editor (Submissions Editor), The Velvet Light Trap, Fall 2018.
Editorial Board and Reader, The Velvet Light Trap, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2017.

Elliott Dissertation Scholarship, Department of Communication Arts, UW-Madison, 2019
Graduate School Fellowship, The Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
Helen K. Herman Memorial Fund Scholarship, Department of Communication Arts, UW-Madison, 2018
Honored Instructor, University Housing (UW-Madison), 2014
Ted Larson Scholarship, MSUM Film Studies, 2009

2019. “The Black Cat: From Caligari to Hitler in One Lurid Package.” Cinematheque (UW-Madison), Feb 26, http://cinema.wisc.edu/blog/2019/02/26/black-cat-caligari-hitler-one-lurid-packa….
2019. “Black Book: The Paradoxical Pleasures of the War Thriller.” Cinematheque (UW-Madison), Apr 23, http://cinema.wisc.edu/blog/2019/04/23/black-book-paradoxical-pleasures-war-thri….

2018. “Angel of Mirth: The Use of Thrash and Death Metal in Contemporary Hollywood Comedies,” SWPACA, Albuquerque, NM, February 07, 2018.
2018. “Of Gremlins and Popstars: Considering the Legacy of Vulgar Modernism,” SCMS, Toronto, ON, March 14, 2018.
2018. “I must have broken some taboo”: The Reception of Women in Vulgar Comedies of the New Hollywood,” Women and New Hollywood, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland, May 29, 2018.
2010. “Sounds of Ecstasy: Music in the Films of Werner Herzog,” Minnesota State University Moorhead Student Academic Conference, Moorhead, MN.
2009. “Through A Looking Glass Darkly: The Parallax View and War of the Worlds as Filmed American Nightmares,” Minnesota State University Moorhead Student Academic Conference, Moorhead, MN.