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Dr. Santos' research and teaching focus on film studies, especially film noir, classic film studies, literature and film, and myth and fairy tale in popular culture. She is the editor of Verse, and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema (2013) and the author of The Dark Mirror: Psychiatry and Film Noir (2010). She has also authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed anthologies and journals on topics such as movie poster art, food and film, the James Bond franchise, and American mafia cinema, and on directors such as Ida Lupino, Martin Scorsese, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Joseph H. Lewis. Santos has been involved with the NSU Honors College and served on the various Honors committees since the program's inception. She has developed and taught honors courses, including Myth and Fairy Tale in Modern Culture, Reel Science, and Utopias and Dystopias. She is the faculty co-advisor of the Alpha Chi honor society and the faculty President of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.