He was previously an Assistant Professor at Salisbury University and Assistant Editor of the journal Literature/Film Quarterly. In 2010, Dr. Scahill received his PhD from the Radio-Television-Film department at University of Texas at Austin, where he also served as a Coordinating Editor for the film studies journal The Velvet Light Trap. Dr. Scahill’s work as a whole focuses upon genre and reception studies, with particular interest in youth representation and queer spectatorship. His book The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema: Youth Rebellion and Queer Spectatorship (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) examines the fear surrounding young bodies in revolt, and asks what pleasure the unruly child may offer for the queer spectator.