Curriculum Vitae (Updated February 2018)

Corey K. Creekmur

Business Address: Department of Cinematic Arts W211 Adler Journalism Building University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Office Phone: (319) 335-2824 Home Phone: (319) 354-4748 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

1. Higher Education

1991 Ph.D. in English University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Certification in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory 1981 M.A. in English University of Chicago 1979 B.A. in English University of Florida with High Honors

2. Professional and Academic Positions

2000-present University of Iowa Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts (50%), English (25%), and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies (25%) [with 0% Appointment in The Center for the Book] 1997-2000 University of Iowa Assistant Professor of English 1992-1997 Wayne State University Assistant Professor of English 1995, 1996, 1997 University of Iowa Visiting Assistant Professor of English & Communication Studies 1991-1992 Wayne State University Lecturer in English 1987-1991 University of Chicago Lecturer in English and Humanities

3. Honors and Awards

2004 Outstanding International Educator, International Programs, UI 1998 Selected Participant, International Forum for United States Studies, UI

4. Grants Funded a. External

2015 NEH Workshop Grant (Travel and expenses, plus $500 stipend) “Scholarship in Sound and Image,” Middlebury College, VT, June 2015. 2006-07 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Grant ($5000) (with Sasha Waters-Freyer) 2005-06 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Grant ($7500) (with Sasha Waters-Freyer) 1996 Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship (travel expenses), Lilly Library, Indiana University 1992 Ball Brothers Foundation Visiting Scholar Grant (travel expenses), Lilly Library, Indiana University b. Internal (University of Iowa only)

2017 International Programs Stanley International Travel Award ($4000) 2017 Japan Foundation Faculty Tour Award 2011 Ida Beam Visiting Professorship Grant ($7000) (Phoebe Gloeckner) (with Ana Merino and Rachel Williams) 2011 International Programs Major Project Grant ($12,500) for “Comics, Creativity, and Culture: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (with Ana Merino and Rachel Williams) 2010 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Humanities Symposium Award ($15,000) for “Comics, Creativity, and Culture: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (with Ana Merino and Rachel Williams) [note for Fall 2011 events] 2007 International Programs Summer Institute for Teachers (competitive) 2006-07 International Programs Major Projects Grant ($10,000) 2004 Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) Major Project Grant ($10,000) 2004 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Summer Seminar (with Mark Sidel) 2003 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research Semester Participant (Spring 2004) 2003 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Fellow (Spring 2003) Council on Teaching Instructional Improvement Award ($2000) 2000 Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) Conference Grant ($10,000) 2000 International Programs Course Development Grant, University of Iowa 2000 Curriculum Development Grant, University of Iowa 1998 nTITLE Summer Seminar participant, University of Iowa 1998 Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa 1997 Central Investment Fund for Research Enhancement (CIFRE) Award, University of Iowa

5. Memberships

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Comics Studies Society (elected Founding Member) Oscar Micheaux Society (devoted to the study of Early African-American Cinema)

SCHOLARSHIP

1. Publications (all refereed)

Work in Progress:

Love & Rockets [book manuscript in progress]

Experiments with Truth: The Contemporary Indian Historical Film [book manuscript in progress]

Books:

Cattle Queens and Lonesome Cowboys: Gender and Sexuality in the Western. Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2018.

The International Film Musical, co-edited with Linda Mokdad. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Cinema, Law, and the State In Asia, co-edited with Mark Sidel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. [includes my Introduction and an original essay]

Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular Culture, an anthology co- edited with Alexander Doty. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995: currently in second printing; includes introductory material, extensive bibliography, and my essay “Acting Like a Man: Masculine Performance in My Darling Clementine”: 167-182.

Edited Book Series:

General Editor, “Comics Culture” series for Rutgers University Press, launched in 2014. [Five books published 2014-17: two have been nominated for Eisner Awards, and additional volumes are under contract and review]

Edited Journals:

Edited (and wrote 2 of) 8 weekly essays on “Breaking Bad” Season 5 for Kritk, the online public forum of The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, August 12 - September 30, 2013.

Guest Editor (with Thomas Keegan), “Comics,” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Issue 6 (Spring 2006).

Articles in Anthologies and Journals:

“Madhubala in Mughal-e-Azam,” in Close Up: Great Cinematic Performances Volume 2: International, eds. Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. [solicited essay]

Participant, “Videographic Criticism and Remix Roundtable,” Cinema Journal 56:4 (2017).

“The Indian Graphic Novel,” in The Indian Novel in English, ed. Ulka Anjaria. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. [solicited essay]

“Multiculturalism Meets the Counterculture: Racial Difference in Underground Comix,” in Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels, ed. Ian Hague. London: Routledge, 2014.

“Indian Film Noir,” in International Noir, ed. Homer Pettey, Susan White, and R. Barton Palmer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. [solicited essay]

“Science Fiction and Comics,” in The Oxford Companion to Science Fiction, ed. Rob Latham. London: Oxford University Press, 2014. [solicited essay]

“The Sissy’s Courage: In Memoriam Alexander Doty,” Cinema Journal 53:2 (Winter 2014): 122-126.

“What It Feels Like: Childhood in Gilbert Hernandez’s Marble Season,” Afterword to Gilbert Hernandez, Marble Season. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2013. [solicited essay]

“Film Noir and Cinephilia,” in The Companion to Film Noir, ed. Andrew Spicer and Helen Hanson. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013: 67-76.

“Jacques Tourneur,” in Film Noir: The Directors, ed. Alain Silver and James Ursini. Woodstock, NY: Limelight, 2012: 398-409. [solicited essay]

“The Cowboy Chorus: Musical and Narrative Functions of the Western Theme Song,” in Music and the Western, ed. Kathryn Kalinak. New York: Routledge, 2011: 21-36.

“John Frankenheimer’s “War on Terror’,” in A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer on the American Screen, ed. R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011: 103-116.

“The American Western Film,” in A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West, ed. Nicolas Witschi. London: Blackwell, 2011: 395-408.

“Gary Cooper: Rugged Elegance,” in Star Decades: the 1930s, ed. Adrienne McLean New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011: 66-83.

“The Sound of the ‘War on Terror’,” in Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the “War on Terror,” ed. Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell. New York: Continuum, 2010: 83-96.

“Pyaasa ” in The Cinema of India, ed. Lalitha Gopalan. London: Wallflower Press, 2010.

“The Film Musical: Showcasing Musical Performance,” in Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview, ed. Graeme Harper. New York: Continuum, 2009: 250-260.

“Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through Devdas,” in Popular Indian Cinema and Literature: Recasting Classics, ed. Heidi Paulwels. London: Routledge, 2008: 173-189.

“Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and Behind Hindi Cinema,” in Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia, ed. Corey K. Creekmur and Mark Sidel. New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2007: 29-43.

“Brokeback: The Parody,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 13:1 (2007): 105- 107. [solicited essay]

“Contemporary Indian Cinema,” (with Jyotika Virdi) in Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame. ed. Anne Ciecko. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 2006: 133-143.

“Popular Hindi Cinema and the Film Song,” in Traditions in World Cinema, ed. Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer and Steven Jay Schneider. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006: 193-202. [solicited essay]

“Bombay Boys: Dissolving the Male Child in Popular Hindi Cinema,” in Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth, ed. Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005: 350-376. [solicited essay]

“An Interview with Andrew Ross,” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 1 (Spring 2002): 6- 13.

“Foreward” to Richard deCordova, Picture Personalities: The Emergence of the Star System in America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001, vii-viii. [solicited for first paperback edition]

“Buffalo Bill (Himself): History and Memory in the Western Biopic,” in Westerns: Films Through History, ed. Janet Walker. New York: Routledge / American Film Institute, 2001: 131-147. [solicited essay]

“Picturizing American Cinema: Hindi Film Songs and the Last Days of Genre” in Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music, ed. Pamela Robertson- Wojick and Arthur Knight. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001: 375-406.

“Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt” and [co-authored] “An Oscar Micheaux Filmography: From the Silents through His Transition to Sound, 1919-1931” in Oscar Micheaux & His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era, ed. Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001: 147-158; 228-277. [solicited essays]

“On the Run and On the Road: Fame and the Outlaw Couple in American Cinema,” in The Road Movie Book, eds. Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark. New York: Routledge, 1997: 90-109.

“Lost Objects: Photography, Fiction, and Mourning,” in Photo-Textualities: Reading Photographs and Literature, ed. Marsha Bryant. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1996: 73-82.

“Acting Like a Man: Masculine Performance in My Darling Clementine,” in Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular Culture, eds. Corey K. Creekmur and Alexander Doty. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995: 167-182.

“The Space of Recording: The Production of Popular Music as Spectacle,” Wide Angle 10:2 (Spring 1988): 32-40.

“The Cinematic Photograph and the Possibility of Mourning,” Wide Angle 9:1 (Winter 1986): 41-49.

“Mizoguchi and Desire: Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion,” Proceedings of the 7th Annual Purdue Conference on Film (1983): 106-112.

“How Movies End: Narrative Closure in Cruising,” Proceedings of the 7th Annual Purdue Conference on Film (1983): 140-145.

Online Essays:

“On the Compilation and Found-Footage Traditions of the Video Essay,” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 1:2 (2014): http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/2014/06/28/compilation-and- found-footage-traditions

“Under Pressure, Kritik, September 30, 2013. http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/2013/09/breaking-bad-season-516-under-pressiure.html

“Bad Breaks,” Kritik, August 12, 2013. http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/2013/06/mad-world-on-kritik-mad-men-season-611.html

“What Sally Knew,” Kritik, June 10, 2013. http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/2013/06/mad-world-on-kritik-mad-men-season-611.html

“Remembering Alexander Doty,” Flow, August 7, 2012. http://flowtv.org/2012/08/remembering-alexander-doty/

“Remembering Locas,” The Hooded Utilitarian, March 29, 2012. http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2012/03/remembering-locas/

“The Golden Age of Batman: A Comic Scholar’s Top 5 Batman Picks,” Cultural Transmogrifier Magazine, August 7, 2012. http://www.ctzine.com/the-golden-age-of-batman-a-comic-scholars-top-5-batman-picks/

“The Reckless Moment,” La Furia Humana 9, 2011. http://www.lafuriaumana.it/index.php/archives/37-lfu-9

Newspaper and Magazine Articles:

“`Laramie’ in Ottumwa,” Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 29, 2013. [invited]

“Comics Studied at UI?!” Iowa City Press-Citizen, September 22, 2011. [invited]

“Exhibition Overview: Graphic Language: The Art and Literature of Comics,” UIMA (University of Iowa Museum of Art) Magazine, Fall 2011: 6-7.

Book Reviews:

Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt, Queer Cinema in the World, Cineaste XLIII: 1 (2017).

William Elison, Christian Lee Novetzke and Andy Rotman, Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood and the Nation, South Asian Film and Media, forthcoming.

Rosie Thomas, Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies, Bioscope 7:2 (2016): 237-240.

J. Martin Daughtry, Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma and Survival in Wartime Iraq, Cinema Journal 56: 1 (Fall 2016): 151-156.

Steven Prince, Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism, Cineaste 34:4 (2010): 67-69.

(with Teresa Mangum) “A Graphic Novel Depicting War as an Interspecies Event: A Review of Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon, Pride of Baghdad.” Society and Animals 15:4 (2007): 405-408.

Jigna Desai, Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film, Film Quarterly 59:1 (Fall 2005): 49-51.

“Superheroes and Science Fiction: Who Watches Comic Books?,” Review-Essay of George Khoury, The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore, Geoff Klock. How to Read Superhero Comics and Why, Smoky man and Gary Spencer Millidge, eds. Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman, Jess Nevins, Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Lance Parkin. Alan Moore, Science Fiction Studies 93 (31:2) July 2004: 283- 290.

Eric Greene, Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture, Science Fiction Studies, 27 (2000): 535-539.

Leland Poague, Another Frank Capra and Robert Sklar and Vita Zagarrio, eds., Frank Capra: Authorship and the Studio System, The Hitchcock Annual (1998-99): 109- 117.

Martha Gever, John Greyson, and Pratibha Parmar, eds., Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, Film Quarterly 49:4 (Summer 1996): 56-58.

Robert J. Corber, In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America, LGSN (MLA Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter) 22:3 (Fall 1995): 36-38. [published with missing section restored in subsequent issue]

Caryl Flinn, Strains of Utopia: Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music, Discourse 17:1 (Fall 1994): 172-175.

Roberta Pearson, Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films, Arachne 1:2 (1994): 266-269.

Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark, eds., Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinies in Hollywood Cinema, The Hitchcock Annual (1994): 168-174.

Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumm, eds., You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies, and Men, Film Quarterly 48:1 (Fall 1994): 60-61.

Constance Penley, The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis, Modern Philology 89:1 (August 1991): 166-169.

Teresa de Lauretis, Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema, Film Quarterly 40:1 (Fall 1986): 48-50.

Encyclopedia, Bibliography and Textbook Entries:

Original (14) entries on Lynda Barry, Robert Crumb, Hernandez Brothers, Joe Sacco, and Chris Ware (500 words each), “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?,” Fritz the Cat, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Love and Rockets, My Troubles with Women, Weirdo, and Zap (1000 words each), and Crime Comics (4000 words), for Encyclopedia of Comics and Graphic Novels, ed. M. Keith Booker. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2010. [solicited entries]

“Texas Guinan” The Women Film Pioneers Project, ed. Jane Gaines. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.

Original essays on “The Western” and (with Jyotika Virdi) “Indian Cinema” for The Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, ed. Barry Keith Grant. Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson Gale, 2006.

Original entries on “Popular Music,” “Actors and Actresses,” and “Homoeroticism and Homosociality” for The Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History and Culture, ed. Marc Stein. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006.

Original entries on “Alfred C. Kinsey,” “The Pin-Up,” “Paul Robeson,” and “The Star System” in St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999.

Two original entries on Harvey Keitel and Demi Moore, and seven updated entries on Fred Astaire, Irene Dunne, Setsuko Hara, Machiko Kyo, Paul Robeson, Chishu Ryu, and Isuzu Yamada in International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Actors and Actresses, 3rd edition, ed. Amy L. Unterburger. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997; 4th edition, 2000.

PRESENTATIONS

Public Exhibitions:

Curator (with Ana Merino, Rachel Williams, and Kathleen Edwards) of “Graphic Language: The Art and Literature of Comics,” University of Iowa Museum of Art, Black Box Theatre, September 24-December 11, 2011. [I wrote all of the overview text and individual labels for this exhibit of over 100 pieces of original art.

Mass Media and Public Presentations:

“The Invisibility of Indian Popular Cinema in America, “ Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, February 15, 2017.

“Space, Location, and Virtual Travel in Comics,” National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library, Cedar Rapids, IA, February 5, 2017.

“Cinematic Stairs,” Oaknoll Retirement Residence, Iowa City, IA, September 20, 2016.

Series Organizer, Shakespeare on Film, Iowa City Public Library, Iowa City, IA August 18 – September 22, 2016. [6 film series with introductions]

“The Creative and Critical Impulses of the Video Essay,” Cinematic Arts Colloquium Series, University of Iowa, November 13, 2015.

“Censoring State Fair (1933),” Carol Spaziani Intellectual Freedom Festival, Iowa City Public Library, Iowa City, IA September 24, 2015.

Participant, “WorldCanvass: The Rupture of Civil War,” Old Capitol Museum, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, January 25, 2013.

“Dickens in Film,” Iowa City Public Library, Iowa City, IA, March 9, 2012.

Curator’s Talk, “Graphic Language: The Art and Literature of Comics,” University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, November 3, 2011. (with Ana Merino, Rachel Williams, and Kathleen Edwards)

“Comics and Creativity,” 7th-12th grade student-teacher workshop, Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge, Iowa City, IA, October 5, 2011.

“Thought Balloons: Talking About Comics,” brown-bag lunch discussion, University of Iowa Library, Iowa City, IA, October 4, 2011.

“Conversations and Controversies” public discussion of Joe Sacco’s graphic novel Footnotes in Gaza, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies/Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA, September 27, 2011.

Guest on “Talk of Iowa” Iowa Pubic Radio program on “Graphic Language: The Art and Literature of Comics,” Iowa City, IA, September 26, 2011.

Participant on WordCanvass Radio Program, “Comics, Creativity, and Culture,” University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, September 23, 2011.

Participant on WorldCanvass Radio Program, “The American West of the Imagination,” University of Iowa, December 10, 2010.

Guest Curator of film clips to accompany the display of the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, January 19-March 13, 2005. [selected film clips and wrote accompanying program notes]

Participant on KSUI “Know the Score” Radio Program on “Sounding the Voice,” Iowa City, IA, November 12, 2004.

Participant on WSUI “Iowa Talks Live from the Java House” program on “Hollywood Cowboys,” Iowa City, IA, February 21, 2003.

Participant on Chicago Public Radio “Odyssey” program on “Film Forum: Bollywood and Foreign Cinema,” Chicago, IL, June 14, 2002.

Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations a. International

“Multiculturalism Meets the Counterculture: Racial Difference in Underground Comix,” Comics Forum 2012, Leeds, England, November 16, 2012.

“Death From (Far) Above: Watching the ‘War on Terror’ from a Safe Distance,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Tokyo, Japan, May 2009. [conference cancelled: paper was accepted for the conference in the following year]

Chair for The First Phalke Memorial Lecture by P. K. Nair, The Nehru Centre, London, England, July 9, 2002. [by invitation of Girish Karnad, Director of the Nehru Centre]

“D. W. Griffith and Oscar Micheaux,” Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India, January 2002. [by invitation of Professor Alok Bhalla]

“Re-posing the Question of the Pose,” Udine International Film Studies Conference, Udine, Italy, March 2001.

“Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt,” Society for Cinema Studies, Ottawa, Canada, March 15, 1997. b. National

“The Function of (Videographic) Criticism at the Present Time,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March 2017.

“Legitimating Lowbrow Literature: How Comics Became Unpopular,” The Global- Popular Conference, University of California, Santa-Barbara, CA, November 11, 2016. [invited lecture]

“Sounding the Past in the Hindi Historical Film,” Sound and South Asia Conference, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 8, 2016. [invited lecture]

“Love, God, Rockets, and Science: Superheroes and the Power of Revision in Jaime Hernandez’s Comics,” International Comic Arts Forum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, April 15, 2016.

“Digital Madhubala: The Video Essay and South Asian Cinema,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, GA, April 1, 2016.

Respondent to Panel on “Spatializing Time: Experiments Across Genre in Narrativizing the Self/Other,” Society for Cinema Studies, Montreal, March 28, 2015.

“Girls Now Allowed: Gender and Childhood in the Comics of Jaime Hernandez,” Fun with Dick and Jane: Gender and Childhood, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, December 5, 2014.

“Comics Come Out: Lesbian Feminism, Gay Liberation, and Underground Comix,” International Comic Arts Forum, Ohio State University, November 14, 2014.

Moderator, “Justin Green and Carol Tyler in Conversation,” International Comic Arts Forum, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, November 13, 2014.

“Stares: Up and Down the Cinematic Staircase,” Cinematic Arts Colloquium Series, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, October 31, 2014.

“Experiments with Truth: The Contemporary Hindi Historical Film,” South Asian Studies Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, March 10, 2013.

“Comics in the Library, Museum, and Classroom,” [with Rachel Williams] Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, February 26, 2014.

“Analysis Terminable and Interminable: Comics Continuity from a Narratological Perspective,” Festival of Cartoon Art, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, November 14, 2013.

“Experiments with Truth: The Hindi Colonial Historical Film,” The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, December 9, 2013. [invited lecture]

“The Psychoanalysis of Comics,” International Comic Arts Forum, University of Oregon, Portland, OR, May 23, 2013.

Respondent for Workshop “Queer About Comics: On Working at the Intersections of Queer Theory and Comics,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March 9, 2013.

“Experiments with Truth: Popular Hindi Film and Historiography,” Global Modernities Series, Humanities Center, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, April 3 2012. [invited lecture]

“Comix: The Possibilities and Limitations of a Revolution in Popular Culture,” 12th Annual Craft, Critique, Culture Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, March 30, 2012. [invited keynote lecture]

“The Historical and Historiographical in Popular Hindi Cinema,” South Asia Seminar Series, South Asia Institute, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, February 2, 2012. [invited lecture]

“Gandhi, Our Father: Representations of M.K. Gandhi in Contemporary Hindi Cinema,” Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31, 2011.

“The Cowboy Chorus: Musical and Narrative Functions of the Western Theme Song,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, LA, March 14, 2011.

“Experiments with Truth: The Colonial Historical Hindi Film,” Postcolonial Nation in Popular Culture Lecture Series, University of Houston-Downtown, November 5, 2010. [invited lecture]

“Experiments with Truth: Confronting Colonial History in Popular Indian Cinema,”Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, October 28, 2010 [Invited: Annual Soli Sorabjee Lecture in South Asian Studies]

“Bharat in the 1970s: Popular Hindi Cinema, Periodization, and Manoj Kumar,” Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI, October 15, 2010.

“Race, Revision, and Revenge: Alternate Histories of the African American Superhero,” Annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, The University of Florida, Gainesville, March 2010. [invited keynote lecture]

“Death From (Far) Above: Watching the ‘War on Terror’ from a Safe Distance,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, March 17, 2010.

“The Black Voice on The Wire,” English Department Colloquium Series, University of Iowa, February 25, 2010.

“Race, Revision, and Revenge: Alternate Histories of the African American Superhero,” American Studies Floating Friday Lecture Series, University of Iowa, November 11, 2009. [invited lecture]

“Race, Revision, and Revenge: Alternate Histories of the African American Superhero,” Understanding Superheroes Symposium, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, October 23, 2009.

“Experiments with Truth: Confronting Colonial History in Popular Hindi Cinema,” Culture, Politics, and Performativity: Cinemas of the Middle East and South Asia, University of California, Davis, May 15, 2009. [invited lecture]

“Oscar Micheaux’s Black Crime Narratives,” Faded Glory: Oscar Micheaux and the Pre- War Black Independent Cinema, Columbia University and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY, February 7, 2009. [invited lecture]

“Experiments with Truth: The Contemporary Indian Historical Film,” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 28, 2008.

“The Sound of the ‘War on Terror’,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 2008. [panel chair]

“Gandhi and the Goonda: Non-violence in the Bombay Gangster Film,” Cinema South Asia Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, February 2, 2008.

“Gandhi and the Goonda: Non-violence in the Bombay Gangster Film,” Global Gangsters: Crime and International Cinema conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, October 20, 2007. [invited lecture]

“Guru Dutt and the Indian Melodramatic Imagination,” South Asian Studies Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, April 2007.

“`The Indians are Making Dark Films Too’: The Case for 1950s Bombay Noir,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March 2007. [chair and organizer of panel]

“Evergreen Songs from a Golden Age: Nostalgia and Hindi Film Songs,” 35th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 20, 2006.

“A Wilde Night at the Theatre” Co-presentation with Teresa Mangum. Terrace Hill Lecture Series, Des Moines, IA, June 2006. [invited lecture]

“Guru Dutt and the Indian Melodramatic Imagination,” New York University, New York, April 2006. [invited lecture]

“The Case for Queering Dosti in Popular Hindi Cinema,” Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL, March 2005.

“The American Road in Postwar Film and Popular Music,” University of Iowa Museum of Art, February 10, 2005. [invited lecture]

“Devdas and Repetition,” The South Asia Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, April 2, 2004. [invited lecture]

Organizer and Chair, “Workshop on Indian Cinema and Film Studies Pedagogy,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, GA, March 2004.

“Oscar Micheaux and the Black Crime Tradition,” Micheaux Festival, Great Bend, KS, June 2003.

“A Marginal Mainstream: How Film Studies Neglects Popular Indian Cinema,” Cultural Studies Association, Pittsburgh, June 7, 2003.

“The Underground Negro: Race and Racism in Comix,” 2003 University of Florida Conference on Comics: Underground(s), Gainesville, February 7, 2003.

“Bombay Boys: Dissolving the Male Child in Popular Hindi Cinema,” South Asian Studies Seminar, University of Iowa, October 24, 2002.

“From Angry Young Man to Happy Old Boy: Projecting the Male Child in Hindi Cinema,” 31st Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI, October 11, 2002.

“A Marginal Mainstream Cinema: The Neglect of Indian Cinema by Film Studies,” Chicago Film Seminar, Art Institute of Chicago, February 2002. [invited lecture]

“All Hindi Films Are (Not) Musicals: Film Songs and Genre Definitions in an International Frame,” 30th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI, October 20, 2001.

“Cocktails for Two: The Addictions of Cinema,” University of Iowa Museum of Art, October 6, 2001. [invited lecture]

“The Masala Film Genre,” Bollywood and Beyond: South Asian Film and Popular Culture, Ann Arbor, MI, September 29, 2001. [invited lecture]

“Oscar Micheaux and Film Noir,” Sixth Annual Oscar Micheaux Film Festival, Gregory, SD, August 2001. [invited lecture]

“`I Love My India’: The Hindi Film Star as Non-Resident Indian,” Society for Cinema Studies, Washington DC, May 2001.

“Cowboy Drag: Gender and Sexuality in the Film Western,” The Lure of the West Exhibition, University of Iowa Museum of Art, February 8, 2001. [invited lecture]

“Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt ,” Fifth Annual Oscar Micheaux Film Festival, Norman, SD, August 15, 2000. [invited lecture]

“Western Drag: Portraits of the Cowboy and the Homosexual,” Modern Language Association, Chicago IL, December 28, 1999.

“Marketing Film Music from Hollywood to Bollywood,” Society for Cinema Studies, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL, April 17, 1999.

“The Sounds of Negro Heaven,” Cinema and Popular Song Conference, University of Iowa, April 15, 1999.

“Sounds of Blackness: African American Dialect in the Context of Early Cinema,” Domitor: Society for the Study of Early Cinema, Library of Congress, Washington DC, June 3, 1998.

Respondent, Bollywood (Un)limited: Global Responses to Indian Popular Cinema, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, April 18, 1998.

“Let’s Go West Again: Cowboy Drag in American Popular Culture,” Center for Twentieth-Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI, March 20, 1998. [invited lecture]

“What Does Race Sound Like?: Dialectical Blackness in American Popular Culture,” Sound Research Seminar, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, February 27, 1998.

“Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt,” American Studies Association, Washington DC, October 30, 1997.

“Cowboy Drag in American Popular Culture,” American Studies Program Forum, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, October 29, 1997. [invited lecture]

“Boots, Buckskin, Buttons, and Bows: Cowboy Drag in American Popular Culture,” The Style Conference, Bowling Green OH, July 28, 1997. [invited lecture]

“Picturing the Cowboy and the Homosexual,” Constance Feminore Woolson Society Convention, Mackinac Island MI, October 4, 1996.

“Opposed Poses: Exhibiting the Cowboy and the Homosexual,” Interdisciplinary Nineteen-Century Studies Conference, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven CT, April 12, 1996.

“On the Run and On the Road: Fame and the Outlaw Couple in American Cinema,” Society for Cinema Studies, Dallas TX, March 7, 1996.

“Bettie Page’s Bondage and Freedom,” Society for Cinema Studies, New York NY, March 3, 1995.

Workshop presentation, “Feminism Meets Queer Studies in the Classroom,” Society for Cinema Studies, New York NY, March 2, 1995.

“Between the West and the Western: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Chicago, 1893,” Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study, Texas A&M University, College Station TX, March 24, 1994.

“Clara Bow’s American Twenties,” Society for Cinema Studies, Syracuse NY, March 3, 1994.

“Necrography: The Work of Mourning in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Semiotic Society of America, St. Louis MO, October 22, 1993.

“Annie Oakley’s Performance on the Gender Frontier,” Society for Cinema Studies, New Orleans LA, February 12, 1993. [on my proposed and chaired panel “Cattle Queens and Lonesome Cowboys: Gender Trouble in the Western”]

“Film Studies and the Politics of Enthusiasm: The Louise Brooks Cult,” Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis MO, November 6, 1992. [on my proposed panel “The Film Critic and the Movie Fan”]

“Our Miss Brooks: Film Studies and the Politics of Enthusiasm,” Society for Cinema Studies, Pittsburgh PA, May 2, 1992.

“Remembering and Forgetting Citizen Kane: Adrienne Rich and Madonna,” Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago IL, November 15, 1991.

“Constructing the Contemporary Soundtrack,” Ohio University Film Conference, Athens OH, November 8, 1991. [on my proposed and chaired panel, “At the Margins of the Musical”]

“Acting Like a Man: Masculine Performance in My Darling Clementine,” Society for Cinema Studies, Los Angeles CA, May 25, 1991.

“Rock Music, Popular Film, and the Problem of Elvis Presley,” Society for Cinema Studies, Iowa City IA, April 14, 1989.

“The Postmodernist Parody of Alfred Hitchcock,” Midwest Faculty Seminar, Chicago IL, March 9, 1989.

“Lost Objects: Film, Fiction, and Mourning,” Modern Language Association, New Orleans LA, December 29, 1988. [on co-chaired and organized panel]

“Video and Version,” Society for Cinema Studies, Bozeman MT, July 2, 1988.

“Signifying Subcultures in Love and Rockets,” Midwest Popular Culture Association, St. Louis MO, October 16, 1987.

“The Space of Recording: The Production of Popular Music as Spectacle,” Ohio University Film Conference, Athens OH, March 5, 1987.

“The Cinematic Photograph and the Possiblity of Mourning in Frampton’s nostalgia and Syberberg’s Hitler,” Ohio University Film Conference, Athens OH, November 9, 1985.

“Roland Barthes’s Photo-Graphic Text,” Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloquium Series, Urbana IL, March 25, 1985.

“How Movies End: Narrative Closure in Cruising,” Seventh Annual Purdue Conference on Film, West Lafayette IN, March 25, 1983.

“Mizoguchi and Desire: Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion,” Seventh Annual Purdue Conference on Film, West Lafayette IN, March 24, 1983.

TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA (2001-2017 only)

Semester Course Number Course Title Students

Spring 2017 ENGL: 3105 Topics in Popular 21 Culture: Gender and Sexuality in Comics Spring 2017 CINE: 7615 Seminar: Film 9 Theory: Gender/Sex/Cinema Fall 2016 CINE: 1610 Contemporary 101 Cinema Fall 2016 GWSS: 1060 Sex and Popular 176 Culture in the Postwar U.S. Spring 2016 ENGL: 4000 English Honors 20 Seminar: Readers Write: Modes of Interactive Fandom Fall 2015 CINE: 1610 Contemporary 141 Cinema Fall 2015 GWSS: 1060 Sex and Popular 183 Culture in the Postwar U.S. Fall 2015 CINE: 5673 Advanced Film 7 Theory: Post- Cinematic Film Theory Spring 2015 ENGL: 3142 Topics in Book 24 History: Comic Books & Graphic Novels Spring 2015 CINE: 5675 Advanced Film 16 History: Cold War Hollywood Fall 2014 CINE: 3195 Undergraduate 13 Seminar: How Hollywood Worked Fall 2014 ENGL: 1410 Sex & Popular 190 Culture in the Postwar US Spring 2014 Career Development Award Fall 2013 008:003 Sex & Popular 184 Culture in the Postwar United States Fall 2013 048:615 Seminar: Loving the 5 Cinema: Hollywood, Cinephilia, and Film Studies Spring 2013 048:103 Topics in 14 Contemporary Film: Contemporary American Film Authorship: Lynch, Haynes, Tarantino Spring 2013 008:240 Readings in 10 American Literary Genres: Critical Approaches to Comics Fall 2012 048:273 Advanced Film 9 Theory: The Afterlife of Classical Film Theory Fall 2012 045:060 Sex & Popular 209 Culture in the Postwar US Spring 2012 008:190 Topics in Book 24 History: The Comic Book and the Graphic Novel Spring 2012 008:275 Advanced Film 5 History: New Asian Film Histories Fall 2011 045:060 Sex and Popular 270 Culture in the Postwar US Fall 2011 650:280 Obermann Center 15 Special Topics Seminar: Comics, Creativity, and Culture Spring 2011 008:272 Topics in 11 Interdisciplinary Studies: American Literature and Mass Culture Spring 2011 048:275 Advanced Film 13 History: Histories of Experimental Cinema Fall 2010 048:273 Advanced Film 13 Theory: Contemporary Film Theory Fall 2010 045:060 Sex and Popular 226 Culture in the Postwar US Spring 2010 008:190 Topics in Book 28 History: The American Comic Book Spring 2010 048:275 Advanced Film 10 History: The Western and Hollywood Historiography Fall 2009 008:050 Sex and Popular 305 Culture in the Postwar US Fall 2009 048:106 Topics in Asian 21 Cinema: Popular Hindi Film Spring 2009 048:615 Seminar in Film 8 Theory: Legacies of Marx and Freud Spring 2009 008:241 Topics in 19 Contemporary Literature: Reading Popular Literature Fall 2008 048:273 Advanced Film 12 Theory: Cinema and the “War on Terror” Fall 2008 008:164 Topics in 27 Transnational Literature: Literature and the “War on Terror” Spring 2008 Career Development Award Fall 2007 008:136 Topics in Popular 28 Culture: Sherlock Holmes Fall 2007 048:273 Advanced Film 13 Theory: The Voice in Cinema Summer 2007 075:210 International 20 Programs Summer Institute for Teachers: Terrorism & Mass Media Spring 2007 008:136 Topics in Popular 38 Culture: The Graphic Novel Spring 2007 048:108 Topics in Asian 39 Cinema: Popular Hindi Cinema Fall 2006 008:229 Introduction to 15 Contemporary Theory Fall 2006 048:275 Advanced Film 11 Theory: Film Noir & Hollywood Historiography Spring 2006 048:118 Topics in World 18 Cinema: New Asian Cinemas Fall 2005 008:136 Topics in Popular 41 Culture: Superhero Narratives Fall 2005 048:460 Seminar: Problems 14 in Aesthetics & Literary Theory: Globalization & New Asian Cinemas Spring 2005 008:175 Topics in Film and 41 Literature: Camp and Drag Fall 2004 048:106 Topics in Asian 35 Cinema: Popular Hindi Cinema Fall 2004 143:150 Honors Special 15 Topics: Theoretical Approaches to Popular Culture Spring 2004 048:275 Advanced Film 11 History: African American Cinema Fall 2003 008:458 Seminar in 11 American Literature & Culture: Race & Racism in Popular Texts Fall 2003 048:112 Proseminar in 30 Cinema & Culture: Asian Noir Fall 2003 048:173 Styles & Genres: 37 Film Noir Spring 2003 048:275 Advanced Film 15 Theory: Stars & Fans Spring 2003 008:136 Topics in Popular 30 Culture: Comic Strips, Comic Books & Graphic Novels Fall 2002 008:196 The American 32 Novel since 1945 Fall 2002 048: 173 Styles & Genres: 20 The International Film Musical Spring 2002 048:275 Advanced Film 12 History: D.W. Griffith Spring 2002 008:462 Seminar in Cultural 15 Studies: The Production & Consumption of Popular Texts Fall 2001 008:171 Topics in Film & 27 Popular Culture: Verbal & Visual Collage Fall 2001 048:106 Topics in Asian 23 Cinema: Indian Film

1. Students Supervised (University of Iowa only)

Degree Objective: Student Name Years Outcome a. Ph.D. Candidates (Dissertation Committees): Ernesto Acavedo-Munoz Ph.D. Ulrich Adelt Ph.D. Juho Ahava (director) in progress David Banash Ph.D. Sushmita Banerji (director) Ph.D. Greg Beatty Ph.D. Jay Beck Ph.D. Nilo Couret Ph.D. Brandon Dean Ph.D. Leslie DeLassus Ph.D. Laura Dubek (director) Ph.D. Kevin Esch (director) Ph.D. Kara Fagan Ph.D. Larissa Faulkner Ph.D. Michael Germana Ph.D. Brian Halstoos (co-director) Ph.D. Dennis Hanlon Ph.D. Taylor Harrison Ph.D. Sabine Henlin-Stromme Ph.D. Eleanor Hersey Ph.D. Jacob Horn (director) Ph.D. Christian Keathley Ph.D. Joshua Kierstead (director) Ph.D. Se Young Kim (co-director) Ph.D. Zachary King Ph.D. Yung Bin Kwak (co-director) Ph.D. Young Hee Kwan Ph.D. Dimitrios Latsis Ph.D. Hee-Eun Lee Ph.D. Sucheta Mallick Ph.D. Allison McCracken Ph.D. Allison McGuffie (director) Ph.D. Stephanie Mueller Ph.D. Lori Muntz Ph.D. Juana New in progress Bjorn Nordfjord Ph.D. Russell Peterson (director) Ph.D. Gemmicka Piper Ph.D. Kevin Quirk Ph.D. Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai (director) Ph.D. Elissa Rashkin Ph.D. Bianca Rizzoli Ph.D. Lauren Rosales in progress Satomi Saito (co-director) Ph.D. Jesse Schlotterbeck (director) Ph.D. Louis-Georges Schwartz Ph.D. Michael Slowik Ph.D. Amy Spellacy Ph.D. Amos Stailey-Young (director) in progress Erica Stein Ph.D. Katherine Steinbach Ph.D. Kyle Stine Ph.D. Sara Sullivan (director) Ph.D. Ellen Sweeney (director) Ph.D. Anu Thapa in progress Brittany Tullis Ph.D. James Tweedie Ph.D. Leah Vonderheide Ph.D. Alison Wielgus (co-director) Ph.D. Katlyn Williams in progress Nicholas Yanes (director) Ph.D. Shari Zeck (co-director) Ph.D. b. Master’s Candidates Mauricio Caleiro (advisor) MA Sarah Dunham MFA Nicole Esquibel MFA Mark Huelsbeck MFA Laura Inacu MFA Erica Mena-Landry MFA Katarzyna Plazinska MFA Andre Silva MFA Shannon Silva MFA Remington Smith MFA Richard H. Wiebe Jr. MA

c. Honors Students Gwen Cassidy (thesis director) B.A. Nathan Kreuter (thesis director) B.A. Jennifer Moriconi (thesis director) B.A. Kim Nelson (committee member) B.A. Michael Sudmeier (thesis director) B.A. JoDana Thompson (thesis director) B.A. Robert Blalock (thesis director) B.A. Morgan McCormick B.A. Ryan Grandick (thesis director) B.A.

SERVICE (at University of Iowa only)

1. Profession

Consulting Reader for (journals): Iris, Critical Inquiry, Screen, Criticism, Mosaic, masculinites, Journal of Men’s Studies, M/MLA Journal; (university presses): Duke University Press, The University of Minnesota Press, Wayne State University Press, Indiana University Press, University of Illinois Press, Southern Illinois University Press, University of Texas Press, Oxford University Press, and The University of Chicago Press. (approximately 3 book manuscripts and 3 essays per year)

2017 Editorial Board, Journal of Comics and Culture 2017 Editorial Advisory Board, Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society 2016 Program Reviewer for University of Colorado, Boulder 2016 Outside Tenure Reviewer for University of Southern California 2016 Outside Tenure Reviewer for Occidental College 2016 Outside Tenure Reviewer for Ontario College of Art and Design 2016 Outside Tenure Reviewer for University of Louisiana at Lafayette 2015-present Press Board Member, University of Iowa Press 2014-present Editorial Advisory Board, Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture 2014-2016 Founding Board Member, Comics Studies Society [elected position] 2014-16 Editorial Advisory Board, The Velvet Light Trap 2012-15 Secretary, Society for Cinema and Media Studies [elected position] 2012-present Editorial Advisory Board, REFRAME (open access academic digital platform, University of Sussex) 2011-12 Chair, Distinguished Career Achievement Award Committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2010-11 Member, Distinguished Career Achievement Award Committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2009-12 Member, Media Archives Committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2011 Outside Tenure reviewer for SUNY-Binghamton 2010- present Editorial Board, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies 2010 Outside Tenure reviewer for Yale University 2007-09 Professional Evaluator, American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Award Grants 2007 Outside Tenure reviewer for University of Southern California and Texas Christian University 1998 Advisor, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 1999. 1998-2000 Member, The Living Nickelodeon (a scholarly recreation of early cinema exhibition); performances in Iowa, Washington DC, Montreal, New York City, Detroit, Williamsburg, VA, and Bologna, Italy 1997-2012 Faculty Participant, Sound Research Seminar, University of Iowa 1998 Selected Participant, International Forum for United States Studies (IFUSS), University of Iowa 1996-present Faculty Consultant, Educational Testing Service, Princeton NJ 1991-1992 Chair, Film Studies Division, Midwest Modern Language Association 1989-1990 Acting Director, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago 1988-1991 Faculty Coordinator, Mass Culture Workshop, University of Chicago 1988-1991 Faculty Member, Psychoanalysis and Literature Workshop, University of Chicago 1988-1991 Faculty Advisor, Documentary Film Group, University of Chicago 1988 Mentor, Summer Research Opportunity Program for Minority Students, University of Chicago

2. Departments

2017-18 Chair, Review Committee of Assistant Professor Christopher Goetz, CA 2017-18 Graduate Steering Committee, English 2015-17 Director of Graduate Studies, CA 2015-17 Head of Film Studies, CA 2016-17 Chair, Review Committee of Assistant Professor Mike Gibisser, CA 2015-17 Chair, Film Studies Graduate Admissions Committee 2015-16 Chair, Search Committee, Film Studies and New Media, CA 2015-16 Member, Review Committee of Assistant Professor Aniruddha Dutta, GWSS 2015-16 Faculty Advisor, General Education Literature, English 2014-15 Curriculum Review Committee, CA 2014-15 Director of Undergraduate Teaching, CA 2014-15 Chair, Review Committee of Assistant Professor Jesse McLean, CA 2014-15 Faculty Advisor, General Education Literature, English 2013-14 Chair, Tenure Review Committee of Assistant Professor Steve Choe 2013 Director of Graduate Studies, CCL (Fall only) 2012-13 Assistant Professor Review Committee, English 2012-13 Chair, Search Committee, Transnational Sexualities, GWSS 2012-13 Chair, Film Studies PhD Qualifications Committee, CCL 2012-13 Chair, Film Studies Graduate Admissions Committee, CCL 2011-12 Assistant Professor Review Committee, English 2011-12 Film and Video Production Search Committee, CCL 2011-12 Film Studies MA Exam Committee, CCL 2010-13 Director of Film Studies, CCL 2010-12 Chair, Film Studies Admissions Committee, CCL 2010-12 Chair, Film Studies PhD Qualifications Committee, CCL 2010-11 Pre-Tenure Review Committee of Assistant Professor Michael Hill, English 2010-11 Assistant Professor Review Committee, English 2009-10 Undergraduate Advisor, English 2009-10 Chair, Film Studies PhD Qualification Committee, CCL 2009-10 Director of Film Studies, Fall 2009, CCL 2008-09 Member, Search Committee, Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies 2008-09 Chair, Tenure Review Committee of Assistant Professor Jeff Porter, English 2008-09 Chair, Tenure Review Committee of Assistant Professor Paula Amad, CCL 2007-09 Member, M.A. Examination Committee, Film Studies, CCL 2007 Member, Film Studies Search Committee, CCL (MLA interviews only) 2007 Faculty Supervisor, “Studies in Sound” conference, CCL 2007 Director of Film Studies Program, CCL (Fall only) 2007 Chair, Fifth Year Review of Assistant Professor Jeff Porter, English 2006-07 Director of Undergraduate Studies, CCL 2006-07 Chair, M.A. Examination Committee, Film Studies, CCL 2006-07 Member, Tenure Review Committee of Assistant Professor Priya Kumar, English 2006-07 Chair, Fifth Year Review of Assistant Professor Harry Stecopoulos 2006 DEO, Department of Cinema & Comparative Literature (Spring-Summer) 2004-05 Director of Film Studies, CCL 2004-05 Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, Film Studies, CCL 2004-05 Chair, Literatures of Africa Search Committee, Department of English 2003-04 Chair, Cultural Studies Search Committee, English 2002-03 Chair, Graduate Qualifications, English 2001-06 Film Collection and Equipment Supervisor, CCL 1997-99 Member, Graduate Qualifications Committee, English 1997-00 Teaching Assistant Advisor, General Education in Literature 1997-02 Undergraduate Advisor, English

3. College

2010-13 Dean’s Executive Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2000-03 Member of Faculty Assembly, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 1998-2008 Member of Executive Committee, Program in Sexuality Studies

4. University

2016-2018 Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) Review Committee 2016 Planning Committee, Shakespeare First Folio Events 2014-2017 Graduate Council of the Graduate College 2012-present Provost’s Arts Advancement Committee 2011 Review Committee, Crossing Borders Program 2010-11 Provost’s Committee to Review the International Studies Major 2008-10 Advisory Board, Dual Career Network 2009 Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) Faculty Mentor 2007 Co-author of Review of Director of International Programs Diana Davies (at request of Dean William Reisinger) 2007 Evaluator of Seashore-Ballard Graduate Fellowships, Graduate College 2005-06 Member, Provost’s Committee on Gender Equity 2004 Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) Faculty Mentor 2002-2005 University of Iowa Museum of Art Consulting Committee 2002-2005 Member, Faculty Senate 2001-2017 Director, Institute for Cinema and Culture 2000-2012 Executive Committee, International Programs 1998-99 Interim Director, Institute for Cinema and Culture 1997-0 Advisory Board, Institute for Cinema and Culture