Latest public output
(newest first):

Guest-Edited Journal (Jan. 2012)
'From Boardroom to Bijou': Exploring Cinema Exhibition'
Volume 30, Number 3, Summer 2011
The second of two special issues of the US peer-reviewed journal.

	ISSN: 0277-9878 Journal website Issue details

Published Interview (Jan. 2012)
'In Conversation with Richard Gray, Chair of Casework for the Cinema Theatre Association (UK)'Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities (website here; See also here)

Book Chapter (Sept. 2011)
“So, what's your story?”: Morphing Myths and Feminising Archetypes, from The Terminator to Avatar'
in: The Films of James Cameron: Critical Essays
Eds. Matthew Wilhelm Kapell & Stephen McVeigh, McFarland and Co., USA (ISBN: 978-07864622792)

ISBN: 978-07864622792 Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com McFarland website

Guest-Edited Journal (July 2011)
'From Boardroom to Bijou': Exploring Cinema Distribution'
Volume 30, Number 2, Winter/Spring 2011
The first of two special issues of the US peer-reviewed journal Post Script.

	ISSN: 0277-9878 Journal website Issue details

Conference Presentation (San Antonio, TX, USA), 20-23 April 2011.
"Science Fiction Peril: Apollo 13 and the Dangers of Genre Definition"
at the 2011 PCA/ACA & SWTX Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Joint Conference. (extras here)
Supported by The University of Hull, UK.

Chair of panel:
'SUPER HEROES, VAMPIRES, SCIENCE FICTION, & HORROR'
Presenting:
~ Justin Schumaker, Texas Tech University - Disguises for Individualized Social Advocacy: Dressing Up/Addressing 21st Century Superhero Cinema’s Super-Intertextuality.
~ Cheryl Lozano-Whitten, Texas A&M Univ. - Analyzing Twilight: More Bark Than Bite (unable to attend).
~ Colva Weissenstein - Georgetown University - Reflective Horror: The Postmodern Prism of Conceptual Space In Film.
~ Dean Conrad - as above.

Conference Discussion/Presentation (San Antonio, TX, USA), 20-23 April 2011
Roundtable Discussion on the nature of 'Good Science Fiction Film'
By invitation.

Journal Paper
"Femmes Futures: 100 years of female representation in science fiction cinema"
in Science Fiction Film and Television, Liverpool University Press, ISSN:1754-3770 (website here)
Volume 4, issue 1, Spring 2011, 79-99.

Published Conference Report (Dec. 2010)
"A Century of Cinema Exhibition: From Silent Screen to Digital Screen De Montfort University, Leicester, 10–11 July 2010"
The Journal of British Cinema and Television, Edinburgh University Press.
Volume 7, Page 496-499 DOI 10.3366/jbctv.2010.0111, ISSN 1743-4521, Available Online December 2010.

Conference Presentation (Norwich, UK); April 8th-11th, 2010
"Picture Palaces: The American movie theatre and its love affair with old-world architecture"
at the 55th British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Conference, School of American Studies, University of East Anglia
(extras here)

Chair of additional panel:
'American Paranoid Cinema'
Presenting:
~ Michael Ahmed, UEA - Kennedy, Conspiracies and Shadow Corporations: Mediating National Trauma through an Alternative Cinematic Aesthetic
~ Wickham Clayton, Roehampton University - America’s Adventures through the Looking Glass: the Aesthetics and Deviant Intertextuality of JFK
~ Gareth James, University of Exeter - ‘Must Security and Safety Come at the Price of Freedom?’: The Disappearance of Strip Search, HBO and Post 9/11 Commentary
~ Matthew Alford - A Propaganda Model for Hollywood (unable to attend)

Published Conference Report
"An Englishman in New Mexico"
Observations from the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association 31st Annual Meeting, 10th-13th February 2010.
Intellect house magazine, IQ.
Available initially on Intellect's blog here.

Conference Presentation (Albuquerque, NM, USA); February 10th-13th, 2010.
"Does My Idea Look Big In This? - image vs. idea in science fiction film"
at the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations, 31st Annual Meeting (extras here)
Supported by The University of Hull, UK.

Journal Paper
"Where Have all the Ripleys Gone?"
in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, ISSN:0306-4964258 (website here)
Vol.38, #105 ('Spring 2009' edition, published January 2010)

Ongoing Projects
Some of what Dean is currently working on:

TV Documentary (20..)
MOVIE PALACES (4-part TV documentary for TV)
"The show starts on the sidewalk."

Book (expected 2012)
"Future's Female: Women in Science Fiction Film" (working title)
An historical overview of the development of female roles in the genre, for scholarly and wider markets.
Contract signed with Intellect Ltd., Bristol, UK. For details, please contact May Yao: may@intellectbooks.com

Book Chapter (expected 2012)
'No Sex Please, We're Star Fleet: Women in the Star Trek Movie Universe'
in Kinky Klingons and Asexual Androids: Exploring Sexuality and Gender in Star Trek
Eds. Maryanne Fisher and Anthony Cox

Further projects await confirmation.