KATIE DUGGAN
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I am a Rotten-Tomatoes approved film critic and freelance writer, contributing pieces of film and cultural criticism to various digital and print outlets.


FILMDAZE
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I am a contributor to FilmDaze, a publication for film and television coverage that aims to challenge dominant voices and advocate for diversity in entertainment criticism. Read all my work for FilmDaze here.
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  • NYFF 2020 ‘French Exit’ Review: A Pretentious Yet Punchy High Society Satire
  • Nightstream 2020: ‘Anything for Jackson’ Review: Grief, Grandparents, and A Few Too Many Demons
  • NYFF 2020: ‘Nomadland’ Review: A Stunningly Natural Look at Life on the Road
  • NYFF 2020: ‘I Carry You with Me’ Review: Love Across Borders, Decades, and Genres
  • Visiting Uncharted, Yet Familiar Violence in 'The Last House on the Left'
  • 'Funny Games' for One: The Perverse Pleasures of Watching Home Invasion Films Alone
  • ‘Original Cast Album: Company’: A Backstage Drama of Connection and Tortured Creation
  • The Lesbian Outlaws of ‘Desert Hearts’: Finding a Place for Denied Desire in the 1950s West
  • ‘Jaws’ at 45: Undercurrents of Economic Anxiety Still Threaten to Rip Us Apart
  • Nicole Holofcener’s Female Character Studies: Neuroses and Insecurities in a Magnified Mirror
  • ‘The Vast of Night’ Review: An Old-School Sci-Fi Tale Picks Up Riveting New Voices in the Void
  • ‘Circus of Books’ Review: An Intimate Portrait of an Explicit Family Business
  • ‘Tigertail’ Review: The Silent Stories of the Taiwanese Immigration Experience Finally Roar Loud
  • Strange Natures: Revisiting the Weird Wilderness of the ‘Twin Peaks’ Pilot After 30 Years
  • ​Women in Horror Month: Anna Biller's Technicolor Nightmares​
  • Criterion Month: The Hallucinogenic Haunting of Nobuhiko Obayashi's 'House'
  • John Waters: King of Camp and Auteur of Cult Trash



​SCREEN QUEENS
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  I am a Staff Writer for 
Screen Queens, a film and television web publication specializing in feminist criticism and women-centric or women-made films.
  
     Read all my work for Screen Queens 
here.

  • 'We Are Little Zombies' is a Coming-of-Age Film in a Kaleidoscopic Rave from the Grave
  • It's Fear and Self-Loathing in LA in Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood"
  • Criterion Month: Food and Female Desire Gone Bad in Vera Chytilova's 'Daisies'
  • Mean Girls Anniversary: 15 Years of High School Horrors
  • Films We're Excited to See from Sundance 2019
  • Work and Magical Domesticity in Disney's Sleeping Beauty
  • Masters of Undeadpan: The Cool Vampire Comedy of Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
  • REVIEW- Eighth Grade: A visceral middle-school memory through the eyes of a teenager today
  • CRITERION MONTH: 4 by Agnès Varda – Cinematic portraits that return your gaze
  • REVIEW- Ocean’s 8: A star-studded spinoff that is self aware of its series’ predecessors, but finally gives women a heist of their own
  • 5 Films from Cannes we’re excited to see
  • INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2018: Unlikely Women Heroes in Film
  • REVIEW- I, Tonya: Skating biopic gives booming voice and punchy attitude whilst overturning reductive narratives
  • Black Mirror Season 4- REVIEWED​
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TAKE ONE MAGAZINE



I was a contributor to Take One Magazine, an independent film magazine based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. I have helped cover 2019's Cambridge Film Festival and 2020's Glasgow Film Festival.


  • Blanco en Blanco review (GFF 2020 coverage)
  • Spookies review (GFF 2020 coverage)
  • Men Inside review (CFF 2019 coverage)
  • Making Waves review (CFF 2019 coverage)
  • Camera d'Afrique review (CFF 2019 coverage)
  • Walking on Water review (CFF 2019 coverage)
  • 7th Heaven review (CFF 2019 coverage)

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CLEO JOURNAL
  • Self-Possession in Janie’s Janie and Madeline’s Madeline​

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SABAT MAGAZINE
  • As the World Burns: The History of Witchcraft and Climate Change



​NASSAU WEEKLY
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I am the former Publisher of The Nassau Weekly, Princeton University's alternative weekly newspaper.

​Read all my work for the Nass here.

  • The Women of the Woody Allen Archives
  • Telescoping Faith
  • Sorry to Bother You review
  • Isle of Dogs review
  • Telescoping Youth
  • ​White Noise (fiction)
  • Greg Simmons Hates His Son (fiction)
  • Telescoping Morning
  • Elevators
  • ​Schrodinger's Lottery (fiction)
  • The Dead Guys (fiction)
  • Peer Review
  • I Still Feel Like I am Dead (fiction)
  • Telescoping Sleep
  • Dreamscape (fiction)
  • ​Suburbia in Eight​


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​THE COVEN MAGAZINE
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I am a former biweekly columnist for ​The Coven, an independently run digital publication devoted to giving voices to college women and carving out a new space for women in the media. I contributed pieces that combine cultural criticism and personal reflection.
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  • Celebrating Women Film Editors
  • Russian Doll Review
  • ​Tidying Up with Marie Kondo
  • ​On College Burnout
  • Blasts from Our '90s Pasts: Considering Nostalgia
  • Little Things to Be Thankful For
  • Not Today, Satan: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina reviewed
  • Erasure: a poem
  • My Favorite Rom-Com Heroines
  • Sk8r Girl(s): An all-women skate collective based in New York
  • Nanette and Self-Deprecation
  • ​Heavenly Bodies: Exalting the female body at the Met
  • Tully film review: Coming of age at any age


​THE PRINCETON TRIANGLE CLUB promotional materials

I served as the Public Relations and Copy Manager for the Princeton Triangle Club from 2017-2019, in addition to serving as a lyricist and bookwriter for the musicals (see the Theater tab for more on that). As the PR/Copy Manager, I helped write press releases, promotional emails, and poster copy for all of the Triangle Club's student-written and student-performed shows.
  • The Princeton Triangle Club presents Night of the Laughing Dead
  • The Famous Princeton Triangle Club Performs the World Premiere of its Annual Original Show: Spy School Musical​


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​RESIST ANTHOLOGY
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My poem appeared in the #Resist Anthology created by Ricky's Back Yard,
an alternative publisher based out of Montreal.

​This anthology's theme was the resistance movement against the Trump regime.
My poem is a found-text poem comprised of words and phrases from Trump's November 2016 tweets.

  • November 2016 - A Test of 150 Characters

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EUROFISH MAGAZINE
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I spent the summer of 2016 as an intern at Eurofish International Organisation in Copenhagen, Denmark.

​My responsibilities as an editorial intern at Eurofish Magazine included writing short news items and longer features on the European fishing industry for the bimonthly Eurofish Magazine.



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  • Buying farmed fish directly from the source: Demand for fresh local fish encourages producers to open their own outlets.  July / August 2016.
  • Health benefits may encourage greater use of fish: In the fast food industry, fish products still have a limited presence. September / October 2016. 
  • UK and Japanese fish consumption continue to decline
  • ​Sweden: Study finds that fish prefer harmful plastic particles over plankton 
  • Norway: Fishing industry group commits to Arctic cod sustainability agreement 
  • EU threatens ban on Thai seafood


PRINCETON MAGAZINE
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​This feature covered the 100th anniversary in February 2017 of a highly restrictive immigration act passed by President Woodrow Wilson, and its lingering legacy.
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​The piece appeared in print in Princeton Magazine and Urban Agenda Magazine,
​as well as online. 

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  • Barred Zones: The Immigration Act of 1917 - ​One Hundred Years Later. February 2017 

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