Recent Colorado State University Ph.D. graduate Riana Slyter’s process for her dissertation, “Live-Mediated Horror Entertainment: The Culture, History, Industry and Experiences of Haunted Attractions,” follows the words of Anne Lamott’s 1994 novel “Bird by Bird.”
“She says, bird by bird, … you only complete these massive projects, these things that might be forever away, step by step,” Slyter said.
For Slyter, the process of looking into the genre of horror and what she calls “haunts” in academia has taken place bird by bird, step by step. Before her time as a doctoral student at CSU, Slyter pursued communication studies at Gonzaga University, where she completed her thesis on horror films…