Raphael Raphael

Raphael Raphael is a Honolulu-based filmmaker, researcher, and transmedia artist. His work spans accessibility, AI, augmented reality, and horror. A professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, he teaches film and disability studies and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed academic journal Review of Disability Studies. Internationally, he has taught film and technology across Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Eurasia. He has also served as a researcher for the Oscars Oral History Project. His publications include the co-authored Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque, and Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture, and a forthcoming book on disability and horror. He is currently in post-production on a psychological horror feature filmed in Guatemala.