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Linda Ehrlich
WRITER • TEACHER • CURATOR • ADMINISTRATOR For more information: Current Position CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYhttp://sites.google.com/site Associate Professor of Japanese,/lceprofess World Literature, and Cinema College Scholars Program Director and Faculty (former) For more information: Education THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, EASThttp://sites.google.com/site-WEST CENTER Honolulu, Hawaii /lceprofess Ph.D. Department of Drama and Theater Dissertation advisor: James Brandon
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Carbondale, Illinois M.A. ESL
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Ann Arbor, Michigan M.A. Asian Studies
FRIENDS WORLD COLLEGE (Long Island University) Kyoto, Japan/New York B.A. Japanese (w/study at Washington University, St. Louis) (Junior year abroad at Waseda University, Tokyo)
Administrative DIRECTOR, College Scholars Program Experience Case Western Reserve University, 2009-2010, 2006-2007
CO-DIRECTOR, proposed Spain study-tour (with Dept. of Bioethics, Case) “Perspectives on Illness and the Art of Healing in Spanish Cinema” May 2010
ASSOCIATE CHAIR, Department of Modern Languages & Literature Case Western Reserve University, 2003–2004, 2013
CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Liguria Study Center, Italy, 2003–2004
CERTIFICATE, “Flite 8” Leadership Training seminars Case Western Reserve University, 2002–2003
COORDINATOR, guest lecture series, film scholars and film directors Case Western Reserve University, 1996–present
SUPERVISOR, Japanese Studies Program Case Western Reserve University, 1990–present
COORDINATOR, Asia-Pacific Film Festival Tennessee
CERTIFICATE, Pacific-Asian Management Institute The University of Hawaii
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CO-COORDINATOR, Intercultural Training Workshop East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
Experience ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Japanese, World Literature and Cinema Case Western Reserve University, 1996–present FACULTY, College Scholars Program 2001--2010
VISITING PROFESSOR, Semester-at-Sea University of Pittsburgh, Fall 1998 Japan Center for Michigan Universities Winter 2011
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Japanese and Cinema University of Tennessee, 1995–1996 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Japanese and Cinema University of Tennessee, 1989–1995
Publications Cinematic Reveries: Gestures, Stillness, Water (Peter Lang, 2013)
(Edited) Ehrlich, ed. The Cinema of Víctor Erice: An Open Window, Expanded paperback edition (January 2007).
An Open Window: The Cinema of Víctor Erice. Scarecrow Press Filmmaker's Series #72 (August 2000) (Reviewed in Film Quarterly, Hispania, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos).
(Edited) Ehrlich and Desser, ed. Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994 (with David Desser); 2nd ed. 2000, reprint 2008. (Reviewed in: Film Quarterly, Japan Times, Journal of Asian Studies.)
Commentary Featured commentary on the Criterion DVD of The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena, dir. Víctor Erice, 2007).
Essay on Alumbramiento (Lifeline, Erice, 2002) included in the 2011 DVD package of that film and La morte rouge (Erice, 2008)
Publications:Articles “Puppets Dancing, Dancing Puppets: Some interconnected thoughts,” Puppetry International 33 (Spring/Summer 2013): 33-35.
¨Ningyo:An homage to the films of Kawamoto Kihachiro,¨ Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 3:2 (2011): 117-137. “Gaudí” and “Craven vs. Craven” in World Film Locations: Barcelona (ed. Helio San Miguel and Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano, U.K., Intellect Press, 2013): 78-79, 56-57.
¨The Films of Isaki Lacuesta: Hidden Portraits, Multiple Lives,¨ in New Trends in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (Intellect Press, forthcoming)
“Las canciones de Erice—La naturaleza como música/la música como naturaleza” in Secuencias (31, online, 2010: 7-31). Expanded English versión, ¨Erice´s Songs: Nature as Music/Music as Nature¨ in Framework (51: 2, Fall 2010): 199-247.
“Cine de lo real desde Barcelona: espacio, sonido, sugerencia” in Escritura e Imagen, by Universidad Complutense, Madrid (with Beatriz Comella, online) http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ESIM/issue/view/ESIM101011/show Toc
“A tribute to Le rayon vert,” in Senses of Cinema special issue on Eric Rohmer (online, April 2010)
“Tren de sombras” and “El sol del membrillo” in Directory of World Cinema: Spain (Intellect Press, 2012)
“Kore-eda’s Ocean View” in Film Criticism (special issue on Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu), XXXV, no. 2-3 (Winter/Spring 2011): 127-146.
“A Buñuel Scrapbook: The Last Script, Remembering Luis Buñuel and Calanda: 40 Years Later”” in Senses of Cinema (51, online, 2009)
(Firma Invitada) “Narrow Margins at Play [Estrechos márgines en juego],” in Cahiers du Cinema España : 19 (Jan. 2009, in Spanish): 69.
“Monumentality in Why Did Bodhidharma Leave for the East?,” in Frances Gateward, ed. Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2007: 175–188.
“Three Spanish Films: Landscape, Recollection, Voice: in Senses of Cinema (2008, online)
“Kore-eda Hirokazu y el gesto resonante” in the catalogue of 8 Festival Internacional de Cine/Las Palmas de Gran Canaria” (2007): 9–17.
“Letters to the World: Erice-Kiarostami Correspondences” in Senses Of Cinema 41 (Oct.–Dec. 2006, online, www.sensesofcinema.com).
Review, Dare mo shiranai (Nobody Knows), Film Quarterly 59:2 (Winter 2005–06), pp. 45–50.
“Kore-eda Hirokazu: New Visions, New Choices,” Viennale Retrospective, 2004 (Vienna, Austria,): 208-212.
“Víctor Erice's La Promesa de Shanghai and Alumbramiento: The Promise of Words, The Promise of Time,” in Cinema Scope, 23 (summer 2005, with Juan Egea: 21-23). (Reprinted in part in DVD of La morte rouge and Alumbramiento)
“Kore-eda Hirokazu: The Filmmaker as Listener,” Cinemaya 61–62 (2003–04): 38–45.
“Kagawa Kyoko: A Life in the Cinema,” Asian Cinema 15:1 (Spring/Summer 2004):116–142.
“Community and Connection: Itami Juzo’s Tampopo” in Japanese Film: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Alistair Phillips and Julian Stringer. Routledge, 2008: 163-172.
“Adapting Orpheus,” in Religion and World Cinema: Mythmaking, Culture Making. Ed. S. Brent Plate. Palgrave Press (2003): 67–88.
“Beyond Swords and Samurai: Another Look at the Films of Kurosawa,” Asian Cinema 13:1 (Spring/Summer 2002): 44–55.
“The Krishnaswamy Approach: A family of documentarists,” Asian Cinema 11:1 (1999), 9–15.
“Playing with Form: Ichikawa's An Actor's Revenge and the Creative Print,” Kon Ichikawa, ed. James Quandt (Toronto:Cinematheque Ontario/Indiana University Press, 2001), 273–286.
“Stillness in Motion: The Sleeping Man (Nemuru otoko) of Oguri K hei,” Journal of Film and Religion 3:1 (Spring 1999 [electronic journal]).
“Teaching Scent of Green Papaya in Saigon: Film in International Context,” Cinema Journal 39:4 (2000), 89–93.
“The Paintings of Migishi Setsuko: An Appreciation,” Japan Quarterly (April–June 1998): 32–42.
“The American Occupation Remembered: Cinematic Versions.” The Confusion Era: Art and Culture of Japan During the Allied Occupation, Asian Art and Culture (Smithsonian UP, 1997): 39–52.
“Courtyards of Shadow and Light.” Cinemaya 37 (Summer 1997): 8–16
“Dancing For the Fun of It: An Interview with Suo Masayuki.” Japan Quarterly (Jan.–March 1998): 22–25.
Publications: Articles & “Shall We Dance?” Asian Cinema 9:2 (Spring 1998): 94–107.
Chapters “Pacific Cultures: Individual and Collectivity in National Cinemas.” in Pacific Society. Ed. Richard Maidmont. London: Open University, 1998 (w/Mary Farquhar).
“The Laughter of the Gods: Narrative Strategies in Woman in the Dunes.” in Word and Image in Japanese Cinema. Ed. Dennis Washburn and Carole Cavanaugh. Cambridge UP: 2001(with Antonio Santos): 89–107.
“Behold a Pale Horse: Fred Zinnemann's Spanish Civil War.” The Films of Fred Zinneman. Ed. Arthur Nolleti, Jr. New York: SUNY Press, 1999:139–156.
“A Change of Scene, A Change of Fortune: Cinematic Visions of the Sephardic Jew.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies: 15: 2 (Winter 1997): 1–20.
“The Extremes of Innocence: Kurosawa's Dreams and Rhapsodies.” Hibakusha Cinema. Ed. Mick Broderick. Australian Film Commission. Kegan-Paul International Japanese Studies Series. London: Kegan-Paul, 1996: 160–77. (Japanese translation of book by Gendai Shokan Publishers, 1999: 145–158).
“Travel and Furusato in Ozu's Tokyo Story.” Tokyo Story. Ed. David Desser. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press,1997: 53–75.
“Retrospective Focuses on Japanese Director (Mizoguchi).” Cleveland Plain Dealer (19 January 1997): 10–11.
“Wandering Fool: Tora-san and the Comic Traveler Tradition.” Asian Cinema 8, no. 1 (1996): 3–27. Adapted for A Century of Popular Culture in Japan. Ed. Douglas Slaymaker (Mellen Press, 2000).
“Talking About Pictures: The Art of the Benshi.” Cinemaya 27 (Spring 1995): 34–40.
“Interior Gardens: Victor Erice's Dream of Light and the bodegón tradition.” Cinema Journal 34 (February 1995): 22–36.
“Animation for Children: David Ehrlich and the Cleveland Museum of Art Workshop.” Art Education (February 1995): 23–36.
“The Circle of Heaven: Bae Yong-kyun's Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East?” Film Quarterly 48 (1994): 27–31.
“The Year of Living Dangerously: An East-West Dialectic.” New Orleans Review 19: 3 & 4 (1992): 118–24 (with David Dungan).
“Water Flowing Underground: The Films of Oguri K hei.” Japan Forum 4 :2 (April 1992): 145–61; reprint in Japanese in Kangaeru no. 16 (January 1993).
“The Undesired Ones: Images of the Elderly in Japanese Cinema.” Cinemaya 14 (Spring 1992): 4–8.
“Meditations on Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire.” Literature/FilmQuarterly 19: 4 (1991): 242–46.
Publications: Articles & “Kurosawa's Fragile Heroes: Another Look at the Tateyaku.” Kurosawa: Chapters Perceptions on Life/An Anthology of Essays. Ed. Kevin K.W. Chang (Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press 1991): 34–45.
“Oshima Nagisa,” “Mizoguchi Kenji,” “Ichikawa Kon,” “Imamura Shohei,” and “Mifune Toshiro” Encyclopedia of Film. Ed. James Monaco. New York: Putnam,1991.
“Teaching Asian Cinema in the USA: A Juggler's Art.” Cinemaya 11 (Spring 1991): 16–19.
“Thai Cinema: A Popular Feast.” Asian Cinema 5:2 (1990): 8–11.
“The Name of the Child: Cinema as Social Critique.” Film Criticism 14 :2 (Winter 1990): 12–23.
“College Course File: East Asian Cinema.” Journal of Film and Video 42: 2 (Summer 1990): 53–70 (with Ning Ma).
“The Artist's Desire: Reflections on the Films of Mizoguchi Kenji.” East- West Film Journal 4 :2 (June 1990): 1–13.
“The Debut of a Film Director: Nakajima Takehiro.” East-West Film Journal 2 (1988): 129–34.
Publications: Reviews Miyazaki Hayao by Raúl Fortes. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema (2013, forthcoming)
A Sense of Home (omnibus film reflecting on the March 11 earthquake), Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 4:2 (2012): 87-90.
ShadowLight Theatre DVD set, in Asian Cinema 22:1 (2011): 315-318.
Sansho the Bailiff (Criterion DVD); The Willow Tree (Iranian film) in Asian Cinema 19:2 (Fall/Winter 2008): 317-322.
The Clay Bird (dir. Tareque Masud, Bangladesh/France, 2002) in Asian Cinema, 18:1 (Spring/Summer 2007): 269–272.
The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter Through Tears by Arthur Nolletti, Asian Cinema 17:1 (Spring/Summer 2006): 256–258.
Ozu's Anti-Cinema by Yoshida Kiju, Journal of Asian Studies 63:3 (August 2004): 805–807.
Three documentaries on Moroccan-Jewish music by Izza Genini, Ethnomusicology 46:3 (October 2002): 549–552.
“Sansho the Bailiff,” BFI Film Classics series, by Dudley Andrew, Film Quarterly 51:3 (2002): 70–71.
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema, Journal of Asian Studies 60:3 (August 2001): 877–879.
“The Silence” (Iranian film), Journal of Film and Religion 4:1 (2000, online, 3 pages)
“Pizzicata” (Italian film), Visual Anthropology Review 15:1 (Spring/Summer 1999):102–103.
“The Stars Who Created Kabuki,” Monumenta Nipponica 53: 4 (Winter 1998): 580–582.
“Mandala,” The Tibet Review XXIV: 1 (1999), pp. 152–153.
“The Eel,” Cleveland Free Times (21 April, 1999): 64; “AfterLife” ( 7 July 1999); “Eternity and a Day,” (4 August 1999): 65.
Publications: Reviews “Quiet Elegance: Japan Through the Eyes of Nine American Artists,” Cleveland Free Times (6 May, 1998): 25.
“Maboroshi,” “Love Letter,” “Navigators of the Desert”(Tunisian film), “Israeli/Jewish Film Festival,” film reviews) The Plain Dealer ( 14 March, 1997, p. 11; 10 April, 1997, p. 8E; 21 May, 1997, p. 8E, 19 Sept., 1997, pp. 8–9).
“Mastroianni Film Festival,” (film festival review) The Plain Dealer (4 July,1997):6–7.
“Israeli/Jewish Film Festival” (film festival review) The Plain Dealer (19 Sept.,1997): 8–9.
“Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity. Japanese Film.” Asian Cinema 9:1 (Fall 1997): 40–141.
“Sets in Motion: Art Direction and Film Narrative.” Film Quarterly. 50:1 (Fall 1996): 62.
“Japanese Classical Theater in Film” Film Quarterly 49:4 (1996): 47–48.
“Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema under the American Occupation, 1945–52.” Journal of Japanese Studies 20:2 (1994): 556– 58.
“Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s.” Film Quarterly 46 (1993): 57–58.
“Heroic with Grace: Legendary Women of Japan.” Ed. Chieko Irie Mulhern, Asian Thought and Society 19:56 (May–Aug. 1994).
“Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home.” Trans. Burton Watson, Asian Thought and Society 18:52 (Jan.–April 1993): 77–78.
“The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa.” East-West Film Journal 6: 2 (July 1992): 134–37.
“The Japanese Version (video).” Journal of Asian Studies 51 (May 1992): 463–65.
“The Asian Film Industry.” Film Quarterly 45 (1992): 61–62.
“The Elephant Keeper (Thai film).” The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy 8:1 (Winter 1991): 39.
“Moving Pictures.” Post Script 8:3 (Summer 1989): 70–72.
“Black Rain” (by Ridley Scott). Cinemaya (January 1990): 27–28.
Publications: Translations Kawamoto Kihachirō ¨A Puppet´s Life,¨ International Journal of Comic Art 14: 1 (Spring 2012): 525-529, translation from the Japanese with Hiroko Takada Amick)
Andrè, Scala, “Naruse et quelques Hollandais.” Cinemaya 31 (1995–96): 4–10 [Introductory essay, and translation from the French, with Michèle LeGault].
Felix Martialay, “Ugetsu Monogatari.” The Master Mizoguchi in Six Critical Perspectives: Ugetsu. Ed. Keiko McDonald (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1993): 137–42 [Translation from the Spanish with David Anderson].
Sato Tadao, “What is 'Typically Japanese?'“ Cinemaya 20 (Summer 1993): 4–8.
Sato Tadao, “The Spirit of Compassion: Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August.” Cineaste 19, no. 1 (1992): 48–49 [translation from Japanese].
Komatsu Hiroshi, “Some Characteristics of Japanese Cinema Before World War I.” Reframing Japanese Cinema. Ed. David Desser & Arthur Nolleti. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1992: 230–58 [translation from the Japanese, with Okutsu Yuko].
“Miyagawa Kazuo: My Life as a Cameraman.” Post Script 11: 1 (Fall 1991): 5–19.
Federico Garcia Lorca, “Oriental Song.” Cumberland Poetry Review 11: 3 (Fall 1991):36–43 [translation from the Spanish with David Anderson].
Sato Tadao, “Change in the Image of Mother in Japanese Cinema and Television.” Cinema and Cultural Identity: Reflections on Films from Japan, India, and China. Ed. Wimal Dissanayake. New York: Univ. Press of America, 1988: 63–66 [translation from the Japanese, with Tonooka Naomi].
“The Individual in Japanese Discourse: The Artist as Speaker.” Communication Theory: The Asian Perspective. Ed. Wimal Dissayanake. Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre, 1988: 139–49.
Work Cited in: Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Journal of Film and Video, Film History, Journal of Asian Studies, Cinemaya, The New York Times Review of Books, The Japan Times, Art on Screen, Cinema and Painting, among others.
Publications: Creative Writing In the Breathing Time, Night Harbour, Bodegón (3 collections of poetry), Shika Press, distributed through Lulu.com.
¨Chikubushima/Japan 2011¨ in The Bitter Oleander (Fall 2011)
¨In Granada¨ http://blocs.xtec.cat/delaliteraturalescuinesdelamediterrania/ De la literature a les cuines de la Mediterrània(24 Sept. 2010). In Catalan.
“Buster Keaton Takes a Walk,” The Bitter Oleander 15: 1 (2009): 28-31.
“Notes of a Zahorí,” Proteus (April 2009)
“Kagemusha,” [online] and “In Xanadu,” in Puppetry International (26, special issue on Shadow Puppetry, Fall/Winter 2009: 17)
“Mai Po Marshes” and “A Walk in the Magic Garden” The Bitter Oleander 13:1 (Spring 2007); 115, 116.
“Melendéz,” “Oranges: Sicilia,” “Tree of Wooden Clogs.” The Bitter Oleander 13:2 (Autumn 2007): 42–44.
Other original poetry in International Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Grassroots, Tributaries: A Journal of Nature Writing, and other literary journals.
Courses LITERATURE, FILM, CULTURE Introduction to Film Theatre and Film The Comic Film: International Perspectives Images of Women in World Cinema Topics in Film: Great Directors Tragedy (Seminar) Travel Writing on Screen (freshman/sophomore seminar) Great Books (Medieval and Renaissance Literature) Film History (Introduction to Film Studies) Literature and Film Dance on Screen Screenwriting ShadowPlay: East and West (freshman/sophomore seminar)
Spanish Cinema [Spring 2014] The Orpheus Myth: Stage and Screen [Spring 2014]
Asian Cinema and Drama Asian Cinemas Introduction to Asian Theatre Asian Civilizations
JAPANESE CINEMA AND JAPANESE CULTURE Japanese Society through Film Classical Japanese Literature in Translation (Japanese Aesthetics) Modern Japanese Literature in Translation (Cinematic Adaptations) Noh Theatre (special seminar)
COLLEGE SCHOLARS (HONORS PROGRAM
Grants & Awards Japan Foundation Institutional grant. ($3500) To support Rarely Seen Gems of the Japanese Cinema film series. In conjunction with the Cleveland Cinematheque (Fall 2013)
Member, New Media Faculty Development Seminar (Spring 2012, Summer 2013)
NORD grant for teaching innovation (CWRU, 2010-11). Baker-Nord Center Travel to Foreign Collections grant (CWRU, 2010-11) Stimulus funds, College of Arts and Sciences, CWRU
SEMINAR FELLOW, (1) Freedman Center Fellow (2) Faculty Writing Seminar Case Western Reserve University 2007–2008
Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Travel Grant Case Western Reserve University, 2007–2008
Spanish Ministry of Culture Research Grant, 2007–2008
SEMINAR FELLOW, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Case Western Reserve University Interdisciplinary Seminar on “Childhoods,” 2005–2006
LEARNING FELLOW, University Center for Innovations in Teaching and Education, (UCITE) Library Opportunity Fund, Film Music collection Case Western Reserve University, 2004–05
RESEARCH/WRITING GRANT, Bogliasco Foundation Liguria Study Center (Genoa, Italy), 2002
RESEARCH GRANT, Senior Scholars' Fellowship Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (nomination) Case Western Reserve University, 2001–2002
PUBLICATION GRANT, Spanish Ministry of Culture, 1999
Hewlett fund for Undergraduate Education grant Case Western Reserve University, 1999
TRAVEL GRANT, Spain Case Western Reserve University, 1998
TEACHING GRANT, video digitization Case Western Reserve University, 1998
PUBLICATION SUPPORT Case Western Reserve University, 1998
POETRY AWARD, WCLV Cleveland, 1998
FELLOW, Summer Institute in Teaching Ethics Case Western Reserve University, 1997
Grants & Awards TRAVEL GRANT, International Conference University of Tennessee, 1996, 1994
PUBLICATIONS GRANT University of Tennessee, 1994
PUBLICATIONS GRANT Japan Foundation, 1993
RESEARCH GRANT Asian Cultural Council, 1990
TRAVEL GRANT American Council of Learned Societies, 1994, 1990
TRAVEL GRANT Northeast Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies, 1990
FILM FESTIVAL GRANT Tennessee Humanities Council, 1990
Conference Papers “Puppetry and Dance: A Continuum,” Dancing Across Disciplines conference, Long Island University/Post campus (Nov. 2012)
¨Living Dolls: Films of Kawamoto Kihachirõ,¨Association of Asian Performance conference (Chicago, August 2011)
CHAIR, Panel on Images of Water, Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference (Los Angeles, March 2010) Paper: “Kore-eda’s Ocean View”
“Spanish Filmmakers Link with Japan,” Orientalismos conference, Florida International University (Miami, April 2009)
“Erice and Song: The sounds of objects”: Third International Conference on Latin(o)American and Iberian Cinema, University of Hawaii (October 2008)
CHAIR, “Film and Video Within the Gallery Walls,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference (Chicago, March 2007).
CHAIR, “Beyond the Passion and the Fury: The 'Everyday Sacred' on
Screen,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Vancouver , March 2006).
“Border Crossings: The Child's Gaze and the Sacred Screen,” Conference on Trans/national Film and Literature: Cultural Production and the Claims of History, Florida State University (Jan. 2005).
CONFERENCE ORGANIZER: Eiga/Cinema: Japanese and Italian Cinema Mutual Attractions, Liguria Study Center ( Genoa Italy, June 2004). Paper: “Eloquent Silence: Puppetry and the Sacred Screen”
“Jean Vigo and Teshigahara Hiroshi: Mediterranean Travellers on Screen,” In Transit: Conference on Travel and Travel Writing (Cleveland, Oct. 2002).
“A Fine Romance: Pearl Harbor and the Denial of History,” Society for Cinema Studies (Denver, May 2002).
CHAIR, “The Voice of the Landscape: Metaphors and Methodologies,” Society for Cinema Studies (D.C., 2001) “Not Just the Epic: Quiet Epiphanies in Kurosawa's Films,” Society for Cinema Studies (D.C., 2001).
“Scent of Green Papaya in Saigon: Teaching Film on Semester-at-Sea,” Society for Cinema Studies, Florida Atlantic Univ. (April 1999).
“Buddhism and Oguri's Sleeping Man,” Society for Cinema Studies, UC/San Diego (1998).
“Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes,” Wording the Image: A Symposium on Japanese Film and Narrative, Dartmouth College (Sept. 1997).
“The Expansive Courtyard: Landscape Architecture and Film,” Society for Cinema Studies, (Ottowa, 1997).
“Film Journeys: Japanese Cinema and the Idea of Pilgrimage,” Japan Anthropology Workshop, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (May 1996).
Discussant, Panel on Chinese Cinema and Theatre, Association for Asian Studies Southeast Conference (Knoxville, January 1996).
“The Texture of Japanese Cinema: Textiles in the Films of Mizoguchi and Ichikawa,” South Atlantic Modern Languages Association (Atlanta, 1995).
National Endowment for the Humanities Roundtable, “New Resources for Teaching about Asia,” Association for Asian Studies (D.C., 1995).
“Japanese Visual Artists and Filmmakers Discover the 'Outside World': Some Twentieth-Century Examples,” European Association of Japanese Studies (Copenhagen, 1994).
“Nostalgia and Ambivalence: The Japanese Cinema's View of China,” Association for Asian Studies (1994).
“Wandering Fool: Tora-san and the Comic Traveler Tradition,” Washington/Southeast Japan Seminar (1993).
“The Extremes of Innocence: Kurosawa's Dreams and Rhapsodies,” Society for Cinema Studies (1993).
CHAIR, Panel on Asian Theatre and Cinema: Mutual Influences and Visions, SEC/Association for Asian Studies (1993). Paper: “Marginal Winners: Kyogen Influences on the Tora-san Character.”
CHAIR, Panel on Asian Animation, Asian Cinema Studies Society conference (NYC, 1992).
Conference Papers “Asian Cinema and the Visual Arts: Implications for Teaching,” & Presentations Association for Asian Studies (New Orleans, 1991).
“Displaced Neighbors: Koreans in Japanese Film,” Society for Cinema Studies ( Los Angeles, 1991).
“The Image of the Elderly in Japanese Cinema.” Conference on Japanese Biographies—Life Histories, Life Cycles, Life Stages (Vienna, Austria, 1990).
“Acting with Restraint: Melodrama and the Depiction of the Kabuki Actor in An Actor's Revenge,” Society for Cinema Studies (D.C., May 1990).
Introduction of (Japanese film) Grey Sunset, Conference on Dementia (Cleveland, 1990).
“Presenting Art Across Cultures: Some Considerations.” Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) (Amsterdam, 1986).
Invited Lectures Introduction to the screening of The Spirit of the Beehive, in the series ¨Spain´s Film Masters: Beyond Buñuel and Almodovar,¨ Parson´s School of Art and Design History and Theory and the School of Media Studies at the New School (NY, April 2012)
¨The Films of Isaki Lacuesta: Fluid Spaces, Lingering Songs,¨Creating Convergences conference on Spanish Cinema (NY, December 2011)
¨Still Walking¨ by Kore-eda Hirokazu, Allegheny College (April 2011)
“Searching for the Absent Voice: The Films of Lacuesta and Guerín,” Stanford Humanities Center, Under the Magnifying Lens: Catalan Cinema of the Real (Stanford, CA, Nov. 2008)
Lecture on the history of Japanese cinema (Una aproximació a l’’estètica del cinema japonés), Universidad de Girona, Spain (Dec. 2008)
“Nobody Knows and the Resonant Gesture on Screen,” Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (May 2008)
Introduction and post-filmviewing discussion, Antonio López García retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (April 2008)
Panel Discussion with art historian Edward Sullivan about El Sol del Membrillo (Dream of Light, aka The Quince Tree Sun, dir. Víctor Erice, 1992), Guggenheim Museum ( NY, March 7, 2007).
“Poetry and Art,” Escola d’Escriptura, Barcelona, Spain (Oct. 2007).
Introduction to The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), Cinematheque Ontario (Toronto, March 2006).
“Japanese Photography and Film: Thoughts on Traditional Japanese Aesthetics,” Northeast Ohio Japan Society (Sept. 2003).
“Collage of Memory: Documentary Images of the Sephardim,” S. Miami Haverah (April 2003).
Lecture on Japanese Cinema, Institut Universitari d'Historia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (April 2002).
“Sleeping Men and Awakening Children: The Films of Oguri K hei,” University of Pittsburgh (November 2002).
“Beyond Swords and Samurai: Another Look at Kurosawa,” Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities/CWRU (2001).
Introduction, Japan Foundation film series, North Carolina State University , (Feb. 2001).
“Mizoguchi and the Orpheus Myth on Screen.”University of Alberta, Canada (Nov. 2000).
Invited Lectures “The Orpheus Myth on Screen: Cross-Cultural Variations,” Florida International University's “Asian Globalization and Latin America” series (2000).
“Garden Imagery in Dream of Light and in The Makioka Sisters,” Cleveland Botanical Garden (1998).
“WWII Revisited: Imamura's Black Rain,” Oberlin College (Dec. 1997).
“The Exotic West: The Cinema of Teshigahara Hiroshi.” Oxford University, England (March 1997).
GUEST LECTURER, Japan Society Teacher Education Program (NY, 1997).
GUEST LECTURER, Asia House, Oberlin College (1997).
GUEST LECTURER, Japan Foundation Film Series, Univ. of Alabama (1996).
“Visual Style in The Makioka Sisters,” Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN (1996).
GUEST LECTURER, Summer Institute on Japan, Univ. of Tennessee/Chattanooga (1995).
“Infusing Japanese History, Culture and Aesthetics into the Undergraduate Curriculum,” Univ. of North Carolina (1995).
“The'Internationalization' of Japan: Some Twentieth Century Examples,” Japan Society of Cleveland, Ohio (1994).
“Japan Looks at the World: A Cinematic Perspective,” Case Western Reserve University Continuing Education program (1992).
“Kurosawa's Fragile Heroes: A New Look at the Tateyaku,” Kurosawa Symposium, Honolulu Academy of Art (1991).
Centripetal Lecture, Univ. of Tennessee Faculty (1991).
“Women and Film: Western and Eastern Perspectives,” Central Connecticut State Univ. (1991).
Introduction of Imamura Shohei's Black Rain, Japan Society (NY, 1990).
Museum Lectures “Between Stillness and Motion: The Human Landscape in Japanese Photography and Film,” Cleveland Museum of Art (July 2003, in conjunction with The History of Japanese Photography exhibition).
Introduction to Víctor Erice's Dream of Light, Cleveland Museum of Art (2000). Introduction of the Mizoguchi film retrospective, Cleveland Museum of Art (1997).
Guest Lecturer, Visions of the Dharma exhibit, University Art Museum/Pacific, Film Archives, Berkeley, CA (1993). Participant in Summer Institute for Museum Educators, New York Museum of Modern Art (June 1994).
INTERNSHIP, The Cleveland Museum of Art (1991–92)/Museum Management course, University of Delaware Museum Studies program (1992).
Lecture series: Like a Wild Chrysanthemum: Frames and Borders in Japanese Cinema, Cleveland Museum of Art (1992).
“Moving Shadows: On Viewing Japanese Cinema.” (2-day workshop) Cleveland Museum of Art (June 1990).
“The Japanese Silent Film Narrator (benshi).” Cleveland Museum of Art (July 1989).
“A Story from Chikamatsu: The Lovers' Journey (michiyuki) in Japanese Art,” Cleveland Museum of Art (January 1989).
“Utamaro and His Five Women” (a film by Mizoguchi Kenji). Cleveland Museum of Art (October 1988).
Service to the Profession Member of Panel, Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress (2013)
EDITORIAL BOARD, The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema Intellect Press, UK, 2007--present
CHAIR, Kovacs Essay Committee Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2006–2007 Member, 2005-06
INTERVIEW, Dallas Morning News for article “Acting Eastern” (5 Dec.), 2003
INTERVIEW, Radio Bloomberg/NY, for Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Retrospective of films by Víctor Erice, 2002
COMMITTEE MEMBER, Fulbright panel for Japan/Korea grants (D.C.), 2001
MEMBER, Society for Cinema Studies Student Writing Award Committee, 1999
FILM EXHIBTION EDITOR, Asian Cinema, 1996–2000
FILM EDITOR, Education About Asia, 1994–1996
EDITOR, Curriculum Guide Western Reserve Historical Society, Summer 1989
SECRETARY-TREASURER, Asian Cinema Studies Society, 1990–1991
READER/REFEREE, Cambridge University Press, National Endowment for the Humanities, Yale University Film Studies Program, Cinema Journal, City Univ. of New York Grant Program, Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Journal of Japanese Studies, Columbia University Press, University of Michigan Program in Film and Video, Asian Cultural Council, University of Hawaii Press, Universidad Carlos III (Madrid)
Service to Case Western COORDINATOR, Guest lecture by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, 2011, Guest lecture by Hispanic poet/activist, Marjorie Agosín 2007–2008
Member, Search committees for instructors of Chinese and Japanese, 2012
INTRODUCTION, Italian Film Festival, Alla luce del sole, 2008
COORDINATOR, guest lectures by Arthur Nolletti (Gosho scholar) and Diane Carson (Sayles scholar), 2005–2006
MEMBER, Case Distinguished Lecture Series committee, 2005–2006
COORDINATOR, Noh movement workshop (with the Noh Training Project), 2004–2005
Choices Fair: Exploring Academic and Experiential Opportunities Fair, 2004–2008
COORDINATOR, guest lecture by Juan Luis Buñuel (filmmaker, son of Luis Buñuel), with Dept. of English, Kelvin Smith Library, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, 2003–2004
COORDINATOR, Film and Media Studies interdisciplinary major proposal, Multilingual theatre production, DMLL, 2003–2004
GUEST SPEAKER, “Cinematic Justice,” Center for Professional Ethics; Introduction to A Beautiful Mind, CWRU Film Society, 2002–2003
CHAIR, Curriculum Committee, (DMLL), 2002–2003; Member, 2004- present
MEMBER, Spanish search committee, Italian search committee, Media Lab development committee, World Literature major, Pancoast Fellowships for women, 2002–2003
MEMBER, Department of English dissertation committee, 2001–2003
COMMITTEE MEMBER, W.P. Jones Awards committee (CWRU), 2001,2007
COMMITTEE MEMBER, Search committee, Film position, Dept. of English, 2000
COORDINATOR, lecture-concert of four Japanese koto performers, 2000
MEMBER, University Undergraduate Forum Executive Committee (UUF), 1999–2001
GUEST LECTURER, UCITE (University Center for Teaching Excellence), 1999–2001
PRESENTATION,”CWRU Connect” orientation for prospective students, parents, 1999–2000
MEMBER, French search committee, 1998, 2013 Service to Case Western NSEP PANEL, Study Abroad orientations, Major/Minor Fair, 1998 Reserve University MEMBER, Committee on Educational Policies, College of Arts and Sciences, 1997–1998
CHAIR, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Dept.. of Modern Languages and Literatures, 1996–Fall 2001 (resumed in 2003)
Developed Japanese Studies undergraduate major, 1996
MEMBER, Asian Studies committee, 1996–2008
GUIDE, Cleveland Museum of Art collections (all classes), 1996–present
Service to University of MEMBER, College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum committee, 1995–1996 Tennessee MEMBER, Committee to develop Judaic Studies major, 1996
COORDINATOR, Guest Lecture on Jewish Image in Hollywood Films, 1995 Ernst Lubitsch Film Series, with guest speaker, 1994
MEMBER, Departmental Advisory Board, 1994–1995
CHAIR, Departmental Bylaws Revision committee, 1993–1994
COORDINATOR, “Reflections on Chinese Cinema” Lecture/Film series, 1993
COORDINATOR, Japan Foundation Film Series, Knoxville, 1991
COORDINATOR, New Video: Japan Series, Knoxville, 1991
MEMBER, Japanese search committee, College Scholars program, 1991
COORDINATOR, Asia-Pacific Film Festival, 1989–1990
SUPERVISOR, Japanese language instructors, 1989–1996
Service to the Community Co-curator, Rarely Seen Gems of the Japanese Cinema film series, Cleveland Cinematheque (sponsored by the Japan Foundation/NY and CWRU, 2013)
POST-FILM DISCUSSION, El Cielo Gira, Cleveland Cinematheque, 2011
FILM INTRODUCTION, Thin Red Line, Cedar-Lee Theatre, 2011
VOLUNTEER TUTOR, high school program, Japanese kanji, 2010
GUEST CURATOR, “Childhoods” film series, Cleveland Cinematheque, 2005–2006
VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION LEADER, AFS high school students, 2001-2003
PANELIST , post-film discussion of A Beautiful Mind; Benefit for Magnolia House (a mental health treatment center), 2002
FILM GUIDE, The Spirit of the Beehive, Cleveland Cinematheque high school audience program, 2002
Radio interview on WCPN re: Kurosawa/Mifune retrospective, 2002, With film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, 2011
PRESENTATION, Japanese poetry, National Poetry Month, Cleveland Public Library, 2001
DISCUSSION LEADER, Guantanamera (Cuban film), Cuyahoga Public Library, 2001
COORDINATOR, Guest lectures by Stephen Prince, Professor of Film Studies (2001), and Professor Dudley Andrew (1999), in conjunction with the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Cinematheque
FILM GUIDE, Welcome, Mr. Marshall (Bienvenidos, Mr. Marshall), Cleveland Cinematheque high school program, 1999
LECTURER, Japan Society of Cleveland, Film guide to El Sur, Cleveland Cinematheque high school program, 1996
GUEST SPEAKER, National Conference on Japan for Teachers, South Carolina, 1994
HUMANITIES SCHOLAR, Festival of Japanese Culture, South Carolina, 1994
After-School Workshops on Japanese Culture, Webb Middle School (TN), 1994
CURATOR, Family Film Festival, Knoxville Museum of Art, 1994
COORDINATOR, Israeli Film Series (TN), 1990
CURATOR, Kodomo: The Child in Japanese Film Series, International Theatre Festival, 1990
GUEST INSTRUCTOR, high school program (Asian Odyssey, CMA), 1989
Languages JAPANESE, Score 4 (of 5: native speaker) on the Foreign Service Institute Japanese examination.
Excellent skills in SPANISH.
Good comprehension of FRENCH, ITALIAN, HINDI-URDU, PORTUGUESE, and HEBREW.
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