Watching Well Beyond Worldview

Alissa Wilkinson is the staff film writer at Vox.com and an associate professor of English and humanities at The King's College, where she teaches courses in criticism and cultural theory. She was formerly the chief film critic at Christianity Today, and her writing has been published at Rolling Stone, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Pacific Standard, Books & Culture, Paste, and elsewhere. She is co-author, with Robert Joustra, of How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World (Eerdmans), and her second book, Orphaned Believers: Reframing Religion in the Age of Faith-Based Film (The Critical Press) is due out next summer. Alissa and her husband Tom live in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and are members at Resurrection Clinton Hill.