Nicholas Diak
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Nicholas Diak is a pop culture scholar, specializing in Italian genre cinema (particularly Eurospy films), the sword and sandal genre (esp. neo-peplum), post-industrial music, synthwave music, and H. P. Lovecraft. He has contributed essays and reviews to various academic anthologies, journals and online magazines. He is the editor of “The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s” and "Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays" both from McFarland. He holds an MA from the University of Washington and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. While part of the HWA, he co-created and co-chairs the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference. His hobbies include watching films, video gaming (both retro and modern), pinup art and photography, tiki culture, cooking, cocktail making, and comic books. He lives in Orange CA with his girlfriend Michele Brittany, (also a pop culture scholar) and their two cats, Cecily and Algernon.
