Brecken Hunter Wellborn (he/him) is a film studies educator, film and television critic, and serial Mean Girls quoter located in Dallas, Texas.

 

Currently, he is a teaching associate and PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas, where his research focuses on the intersection of genre and queerness in Hollywood cinema. He teaches undergraduate film studies courses, including Film Authorship: Queer(ed) US Cinema, a new, upper-division undergraduate course that provides students with the tools to reconsider what defines a “queer film.”

 

His academic research appears in The Popular Culture Studies Journal, The Avatar Television Franchise: Storytelling, Identity, Trauma, Fandom from Bloomsbury Academic, and New Queer Television: From Marginalization to Mainstreamification from Intellect.

 

His popular criticism and commentary appears on Collider.com, with interpretive takes on film and television from a queer lens.​