Diane Christian

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DIANE CHRISTIAN

ADDRESS Office:Department of English 615 Samuel Clemens Hall State University of New York Buffalo, New York 14260 716-645-2575, ext. 1067

Home: 96 Rumsey Road Buffalo, New York 14209 716- 881-3626 FAX: 716-885-9777 E-MAIL: [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1973 M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1965 B.A., Nazareth College of Rochester, 1961

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

State University of New York at Buffalo: SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor (1997—); Professor of English (1986—); Director, Ph.D. Program in Folklore, Mythology, and Film Studies (1984—); Associate Professor of English (1974-1986); Assistant Professor of English (1970-1974); Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature (1973—); Associate Director of the Center for Studies in American Culture (1972—)

Nazareth College of Rochester: Instructor in English (1968-1970)

Documentary Research, Inc.: Executive Director (1978—), Secretary-Treasurer (1978- 1981), President (1981—1995)

GRANTS

The Margaret Wendt Foundation, 2007, $12,600, projection facilities for The Buffalo Film Seminars Christian— 2

The Buffalo News, 2006-continuing, $20,000 annual advertising support for The Buffalo Film Seminars.

Oishei Foundation, 2004-continuing, $10,000 annual support for The Buffalo Film Seminars, The Robert & Patricia Colby Foundation

The Wendt Foundation, 2003, $60,000, projection system for The Buffalo Film Seminars

The Baird Foundation, 2003, $10,000, support for The Buffalo Film Seminars

SUNY grants, 1992, $2000 for Leading Ladies Film Festival.

SUNY Conferences in the Disciplines, 1991, $2000 for Silent Sirens Film Festival.

New York Council for the Humanities, 1988, $7500. Partial support of "Editing Reality" symposium.

SUNY Conferences in the Disciplines, 1988, $2000. Partial support of "Editing Reality" symposium.

Film/Video Arts, 1988, $1000. Partial support of "Editing Reality" symposium.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Media Program, 1984, $145,000. To produce and direct a 60-minute film on poet Robert Creeley and to do pre-production work on three more films on living American poets.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Media Program, 1981, $188,000. To produce and direct Out of Order, 90-minute film on ex-nuns.

National Endowment for the Arts, Folk Arts Program, 1979, $23,000. For William August May, 1979, film.

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, 1979, $8,500. For Death Row film.

Fund for Investigative Journalism, 1979, for Death Row (book), $1,500.

Playboy Foundation, 1979, $1,000. For Death Row film.

Levi Strauss Foundation and Levi Strauss Corporation, 1979-1988, film, $9,000.

Christian— 3 Polaroid Foundation, 1976, 1979, film, $500.

SUNY Research Foundation Summer Fellowship, 1975.

SUNY Institutional Funds Grant, 1973.

These documentary films were all produced, directed and edited with Bruce Jackson.

Creeley. 60 minutes, 1985.

Out of Order. 89 minutes, 1983. Restored and DVD transfer 2008.

William August May. 18 minutes, 1983.

Robert Creeley: Willy’s Reading. 16 minutes, 1982.

Death Row. 60 minutes, 1979. Restored and DVD transfer 2007.

Services Rendered. 60 minutes. 1979.

PUBLICATIONS

In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America. Co-author with Bruce Jackson. UNC Press & Duke Documentary Series, 2012.

The Priesthood of Death: Essays on Death in Religion, Politics, & Art. Counterpunch Books, Petrolia, California, 2013(forthcoming).

The Allée of the Whales. A Translation of Introduction of Jean Malaurie’s L’Allée des baleines, Minuit, Paris, 2013 (forthcoming).

Blood Sacrifice. Center Working Papers/Center for Studies in American Culture, Buffalo New York, 2003. A collection of essays on violence and homicide.

Get The Money & Shoot: The DRI Guide to Funding Documentary Films. Co-author with Bruce Jackson. Documentary Research Inc., Buffalo New York, 1986. Christian— 4

Wide-Ons. Synergistic Press, San Francisco, California, 1981. (Poetry)

Death Row. With Bruce Jackson. Beacon Press, Boston, 1980. French edition La Quartier de la Mort in La Terre Humaine series, Plon, Paris, 1986. French Book Club edition 1987. Italian edition forthcoming. Currently being adapted for the French stage. Forthcoming Reprint with film dvd.

ARTICLES

“How They Argue Now for the Death Penalty” with Bruce Jackson. Counterpunch Vol 19, #7, April; 1-15, 2012

“Righteous Killing,” Counterpunch, 25 July 2011 http:counterpunch.org/christian/07252011

“Condom Morality,”Counterpunch, 8 December 2010 http:counterpunch.org/christian/12082010

“Looking at Torture,” Counterpunch, 25 May 2009 http://counterpunch.org/christian/05252009

“The Poetics of Perversity,” Counterpunch, 15-16 March 2008 http://counterpunch.org/christian/03152008

“War Corrupts,” Counterpunch, 16-17 February 2008 http://counterpunch.org/christian/02162008

“Winning,” Counterpunch, 31 July 2008 http://counterpunch.org/christian/07312008

“Facing Death Politically,” Counterpunch, 18 April 2007 http://counterpunch.org/christian/04182008

“God Does Not Love the Aggressor,” 26 March 2007 http://counterpunch.org/03262007

“Dying Well,” Counterpunch, 3-4 February 2007 http://counterpunch.org/christian/02032007 Christian— 5 “The Rape of Iraq,” Counterpunch, 23 December 2006 http://counterpunch.org/christian/12232006

“Retaliation,” Counterpunch, 15 September 2006 http://counterpunch.org/christian/09152006

“Zarqawi’s Face,” Counterpunch, 10 June 2006 http://counterpunch.org/christian/06102006

“Negatives: Torture, Massacres & Denial,” Counterpunch, 6 June 2006 http://counterpunch.org/christian/06062006

“The Authority to Kill: War, Execution & Human Sacrifice,” Counterpunch, 20 April 2006. http://counterpunch.org/christian 04202006

“License to Lie,” Counterpunch, 20 March 2006 http://counterpunch.org/christian/03202006

“Sharon’s Stroke,” Counterpunch, 15 March 2006 http://counterpunch.org/christian/02152006

“Abortion and the Politics of Death,” Counterpunch, 17 September 2005 http://counterpunch.org/christian/09172005

“The Politics of Death: Assassination,” Counterpunch, 27 August 2005 http://counterpunch.org/christian/08272005

“The Politics of Death,” Counterpunch, 8 August 2005 http://counterpunch.org/christian/08232005

“Bad Blood: Ritual and Sexual Torture in Gitmo and Abu Ghraib,” Counterpunch, 24 February 2005 http://counterpunch.org/christian/24022005.html

“The Christmas Christ,” Counterpunch, 25 December 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/25122004.html

“Winning,” Counterpunch, 23 December 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/24122004.html Christian— 6 “The Other Cheek,” Counterpunch, 27 November 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/11272004.html

“Death Tolls,” Counterpunch, 1 November 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/11012004.html

“Sheep and Goats: The Language of Goodness,” Counterpunch, 18 October 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/10182004.html

“The Gates of Hell,” Counterpunch, 4 October 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/10042004.html

“Hostage Tactics,” Counterpunch, 7 September 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/09072004.html

“Big Men,” Counterpunch, 28 August 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/08282004.html

“Disarming,” Counterpunch, 27 August, 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/08272004.html

“War Rules,” Counterpunch, 26 August 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/08262004.html

“Holy Places,” Counterpunch, 20 August, 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/08202004.html

“The Priesthood of Death,” Counterpunch, 14 July 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/07142004.html

“Sovereignty,” Counterpunch, 7 July 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/07072004.html

“Morality & Death,” Counterpunch, 19 June 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/06192004.html

“Images & Abstractions & Genitals,” Counterpunch, 10 May 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/05102004.html

“Blood Spilling,” Counterpunch, 1 May 2004 Christian— 7 http://counterpunch.org/christian/05012004.html

“The Passion Story,” Counterpunch, 14 April 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/04142004.html

“On The Politics of Anti-Semitism,” Buffalo Report 5 March 2004 http://buffaloreport.com/2004/040305.christian.politics.html

“Sex & Ideals,” Counterpunch, 4 March 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/03042004.html

”On Lying,” Counterpunch, 10 January 2004 http://counterpunch.org/christian/01102004.html

“The Christmas Story,” Counterpunch, 25 December 2003 http://counterpunch.org/christian/12252003.html

“Warriors & Liberators,” Counterpunch, 25 November 2003 http://counterpunch.org/christian/11252003.html

“Wishing Death,” Counterpunch, 28 October 2003 http://counterpunch.org/christian/10282003.html

“Evil Acts & Evil Actors,” Counterpunch, 25 October 2003 http://counterpunch.org/christian10252003.html

“Ruthlessness,” Counterpunch, 23 October 2003 http://counterpunch.org/christian10232003.html

“Bad Guy/Good Guy,” Counterpunch, 22 July 2003 http://counterpunch.org/christian07222003.html

“Good Killing and Bad Killing,” Counterpunch 2 July 2003 http://counterpunch.org/christian07022003.html

“Who’s the Real Enemy?”[“Enemy Tactics”], Counterpunch, 27 May 2003 http://counterpunch.org/christian05242003.html. Outlook India 27 May 2003.

“Ends, Means and the Present Tense,” Counterpunch,16 April 2003, http://counterpunch.org/christian04162003.html Outlook India 17 April 2003. Christian— 8

“A Scene in An Obscene War,” Counterpunch 7 April 2003 http://counterpunch.org/christian04072003.html/

“A Day of Reckoning,” Counterpunch, 27 March http://counterpunch.org/christian03272003.html

“Blood Sacrifice,” Counterpunch, 24 March 2003 http://counterpunch.org/christian03242003.html

“The Morality of Violence,” Counterpunch, 18 March, 2003 http://counterpunch.org/christian03182003.html

“Occasion Poems,” Buffalo Report, 1 March 2003, http://buffaloreport.com/

“Warriors” (poem), Buffalo Report, 7 February 2003, http://buffaloreport.com/

“License to Kill: The Problem With Religious Definitions of Evil,” Counterpunch, 14 December 2002, http://counterpunch.org/christian1214.html/

“Peace Bridge Models,” Buffalo Report, 26 October 2002, http://buffaloreport.com

“Sex Rules,” The Buffalo Report, 11 June 2002, http://buffaloreport.com

"Editing Reality: History and Film," Visual Sociology, 9(1), 1994, 69-74.

"No New Truths and All the Old Falsehoods," Journal of American Folklore, 399 (January 1988).

"The Long-Goodbye," co-author, Houston City, June 1980, 62-67, 84-92. "My House," co-author, D, May 1980, 124-125, 133-155.

"Death Row" co-author Society, November/December 1979, 55-61.

"Inversion and the Erotic: The Case of William Blake," book chapter in Barbara Babcock, ed., The Reversible World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978), 117-128.

FILM SCREENINGS AND FILM LECTURES Christian— 9 Films broadcast in America, West Germany, and France, showcased at The Museum of Modern Art and included in Melbourne International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Festival Dei Popoli, American Film Festival, Houston International Film Festival, San Francisco Poetry Film Festival, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Studies Association, Pacific Film Archive, National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress and many colleges, universities and libraries.

Regular yearly screenings of Death Row for Amnesty International Human Rights and college groups in the United States and abroad. Screenings of Out of Order (which is distributed by First Run Features) for women's studies, religious and social studies groups in colleges, universities and communities in the United States. Screenings of Creeley in galleries, libraries, colleges and universities.

The following are particularly notable and included lecture and discussion:

Death Row, 1 May 2009, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Introduction, screening and discussion.

“Meet the Makers” series, Donnell Film Library (The New York Public Library Film Center), March 29, 2001. Screening of Death Row and lecture.

International Film League, Bristol Springs, NY, July 20, 1990. Screening of Death Row and Out of Order.

"Meet the Makers" series, Donnell Film Library (The New York Public Library Film Library), New York, October 12, 1985. Screening of Out of Order and lecture.

"Women Direct" series, Ithaca College, March 1985. Screening of Out of Order and lecture.

Dorothy Arzner Film Festival, Boston, May 1984. Discuss and screening of Out of Order, closing film of the festival which was opened by Jane Alexander and Testament.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April, 1983. Screening of Death Row in contemporary documentary series.

American Studies Program, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, West Germany, June 1983. Screening and discussion of Robert Creeley: Willy’s Reading.

Pedagogische Hochschule, Freiburg, Freiburg, West Germany, June 1983. "America Revealed in its Films: A Different Approach to American Studies" Seminar. "Women in Westerns." Lecture. Christian— 10 First Nordic Conference on Teaching American Studies, Helsinki, Finland, June 1983. Screenings and discussions of Out of Order and Death Row.

Kino Arsenal, Berlin, West Germany, June 1983. Screenings and discussions of Out of Order and Death Row.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 1983. Screening of Out of Order in contemporary documentary series.

The American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, October 1983. Screening and discussion of Out of Order.

Baltimore Women's Film and Video Festival, Baltimore, December 1983. Screening and discussion of Out of Order.

New York State Library Association Meeting, Buffalo, December 1983. Screening and discussion of Out of Order.

AmerikaHaus, Berlin, West Germany, 1982. Robert Creeley: Willy’s Reading and Death Row screenings and discussions.

University of Munich, Munich, West Germany, 1982. Death Row screenings and discussions.

University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, West Germany, 1982, Death Row screening and discussion.

Falkenstein Seminar, Falkenstein, West Germany, 1982, Death Row screening and discussion.

Collège de France, Paris, 1982. "Death Row and Criminal Justice." Screening and lecture at the invitation of Michel Foucault.

"That Awesome Space" Conference, Institute of the American West, Sun Valley, 1980. Death Row screening and discussion.

American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles 1980. Death Row screening and discussion.

Sam Houston State University, 1979. Death Row. Screening and discussion. Christian— 11 Death Row of the Texas Department of Corrections, Huntsville, Texas, 1979. Death Row Screening and discussion.

SCHOLARLY TALKS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

University of North Carolina Hutchins Lecture on “American Practice of the Death Penalty.” 29 November 2012.

New York Public Library Lecture series. The Death Penalty & In This Timeless Time. 21 August 2012.

3X3@AKAG The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Great Illusion, The Human Beast, The Rules of the Game by Renoir in February, I Vitelloni, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits by Fellini in March, Late Spring, Tokyo Story , Floating Weeds by Ozu in April 2009. Introduction, film screening and discussion.

“Biblical Canons, Contexts & Codes.” The Garrett Lectures, January 12, 19 & 26, 20007, Buffalo, New York.

“Sexual and Spiritual Torture in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and Afghanistan: Women as Defilers and Defiling,” The Torture Forum, SUNY-Buffalo, 4 October 2006.

Conference on Leadership, Harvard University Kennedy School, 11 May 2006.

La Terre Humaine Conference, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Discussant, 31 March - 2 April 2005.

Introduction of and discussion with poet Carolyn Forché. Turkish Conference, UB Libraries, 17 November 2004.

“Fellini’s Roma,” Introduction and discussion for Dean’s Rome Summer Conference, June 4, 2004.

“Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of St. Joan,” Introduction for The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra performance of Richard Einhorn’s suite on Dryer’s silent film. May 1st and 2nd, 2004. Introduction and discussion with the composer and Bruce Jackson about the film. Christian— 12 Introduction and discussion of “Blue Vinyl,” documentary with filmmaker, 12 April 2004, UB.

Trinh T. Minh-ha’s “The Fourth Dimension,” 5 February 2004, Introduction and Discussion of documentary film with the filmmaker, Women’s International Film Festival, UB/Market Arcade.

A Conversation about Poetry with Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Hilbert College, 3 December 2003.

“William Blake’s Human Form Divine: Blake’s Nude in general and in particular in the Dante’s Inferno and The Book of Job Engravings.” 18 September 2003, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Lecture in conjunction with the Blake Engravings Exhibition.

“Ideas of Violence, Sex & Tolerance in Judaism, Christianity and Islam,” The Garrett Club Lectures, March 28, April 4th & 11th, 2003.

“Women in the Twenty-First Century,” The Twentieth Century Club, March 5, 2003. Buffalo, New York.

“Lost in The Stars: Voices from French Literature and Film 1800 - 1929," The Albright- Knox Art Gallery, November 9, 2001. Opening Guest Lecture Series lecture on French Culture in Context to accompany The Triumph of French Painting: Over a Century of Revolution.

“Gratified Desire: Ideas of Eros in Blake and “Sex in the City,” October 15, 2001. College of Arts & Sciences Lecture Series, SUNY-Buffalo. “Pain & Poetry” The Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference, Session on Pain, Language, and Science, October 14, 2001, Buffalo, New York.

“Seeing God: Images of the Divine in Art & Literature,” The Garrett Club Lectures, March 22 & 29, April 5, 2001.

“Gender Myths: Sacred Stories of Sex, Difference, & Dominance” The Distinguished Faculty Lecture for The Institute for Research & Education on Women & Gender, SUNY-Buffalo, February 22, 2001.

“God, Art & Eros in William Blake,” NYSCA art series, Hilbert College, May 1, 2000.

“Figuring the Feminine: The Lady and the Snake” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, September 1999. Christian— 13 “Heaven Hell & Judgment” The Garrett Club Lectures, November 1998.

"Brain Stories: A Conversation About Consciousness in Science & Myth, " with Professor Louis Goldberg, UB at Sunrise, September 18, 1997.

"The Quest & Question of the Goddess: Five Lectures on Myth, Divinity, & Gender," The Chautauqua Institution, August 21-25, 1995.

"Documenting & Remembering War," seminar with Bruce Jackson on documentary film, The Chautauqua Institution, August 21-25, 1995.

"Fiedlerfest" a conference in celebration of Leslie Fiedler, April 29-30, 1995, co- producer.

"Trinh T. Minh ha's Shoot for The Contents" SUNY-Buffalo, 29 November 1994.

"Desire Gratified: Blake's Recension of Christian Eros," The University of Washington, 26 November 1992.

“Leading Ladies: Women and Power,” organizer and presenter, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 29 February-1 March 1992.

“Silent Sirens: Seduction, Destruction & Eros in 20s Films,” organizer and presenter, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 14-15 April 1991.

"The Goddess: History, Myth & Meaning," The Garret Club Spring Lecture Series, March 1, 8, 15, 1991.

"Editing Reality: Documentary and the New Social History," The Johns Hopkins University Humanities Series, 31 October 1990.

"A Louise Brooks Film Festival," organizer and presenter, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, April 21-22, 1990.

"Film as Social Text" Cal Poly Pomona Filmmakers' Series, 15 February 1989.

"Love in The Silents," organizer and presenter with James Card and William Everson Silent Film Conference, April 1987.

"Psyche's Story in Literature, Art and Psychology." The Garrett Club Lectures, November, 1986.

Christian— 14 “Robert Creeley and the Black Mountain Poets,”University of Mannheim, Mannheim, West Germany, 1983.

“Women in Westerns,” Pedagogische Hochschule, Freiburg, Freiburg, West Germany, 1983.

“Wonderwomen,” First Nordic Conference on Teaching American Studies, Helsinki, Finland, 1983.

“Modern American Poetry,” German-American Institute, Hamburg, West Germany, 1983.

“Regionalism in American Society and Culture” Seminar. “Waiting it Out: Women in Westerns,” Lecture. AmerikaHaus Berlin, Berlin, West Germany, 1982.

“Waiting it Out: Women in Westerns,” Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, West Germany. 1982.

New Documentary Films, SUNY - Buffalo, 1981. Film series conference, screenings and panels. Director and organizer with Bruce Jackson and Stefan Fleischer.

"That Awesome Space" Conference, Institute of the American West, Sun Valley, 1980. Conference discussant.

"The Writer and the West" Conference, Institute of the American West, Sun Valley, 1978. Conference discussant.

“Blake: Poet and Painter,”University of Southern California, 1978.

"Social Theory and the Arts" Conference, Syracuse University, 1978. Discussant.

"The American Hero: Myths and Media" Conference, Institute of the American West, Sun Valley, 1977. "Wonderwomen: Superheroines of Popular Culture" Lecture. "Does the American Hero Have to be a Misogynist?" (Panelist and Chair).

"You're not a Hero 'til You're Sung" - Television special composed of segments from the American Hero Conference, including my lecture and panel appearance (see above). Broadcast nationally on PBS 1978, 1979, 1980. Broadcast internationally 1979.

"Beyond the Revolving Door" Conference, National Project II of the Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education,1976. Discussant. Christian— 15 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 1976. "Video Documentation in Folklore Studies." Panelist.

"Western Movies: Myths and Images" Conference, Institute of the American West, Sun Valley, 1976. "Images of Women in Westerns" (Lecture), "The Myth of the Frontier" (Panelist), "The Real West and the Television Version" (Chair).

Prisoners' Rights Movement Conference, Johnson Foundation, Wingspread, 1974. Discussant.

“Blake’s Composite Form,” LeMoyne College, 1974.

Visual Methods in Sociology Conference, Michigan State University, 1974. Panelist.

“The Genesis Creation as Myth of Technology,”American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Portland, 1974.

"Hard Language" Conference, SUNY/Buffalo, 1974. "The Voice of God: The Biblical Imperative" (paper), Conference director.

“Blake’s Composite Form and the Function of Image,” Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, 1974.

Photography Exhibition, Michigan State University, 1974.

Photography Exhibition, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, 1974.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2013 Presidential Medal in Honor of Extraordinary Service to the University 1997 SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professorship 1991 State of New York and United University Professions Excellence Award National Endowment for the Humanities Media Panel, 1984, 1986 Outstanding Young Teacher of New York State, Delegate, Hamilton College, 1969 Named to Top Ten University Instructors, The Johns Hopkins University, 1968, 1967 Johns Hopkins University Fellowships, 1964-1968 Kappa Gamma Pi Christian— 16 BA magna cum laude in English and Philosophy, 1961

MEMBERSHIPS

American Anthropological Association, Modern Language Association, American Folklore Society, American Association of University Women, Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, The Society for Literature and Science

TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses Heaven Hell & Judgment; Blake; The Romantic Movement; Paradise and Sexual Myths; The Bible as Literature; Social Documentary; Contemporary Cinema; Mythology; World Masterpieces; Major British Writers; Survey of English Literature; Composition; Discovery Seminars in History of Ideas topics.

Graduate Courses Blake; Mythology: The Structure of Religious Narrative; The Bible as Literature, Literature and Film; Romantic Poetry; Social Documentary; Mythology: The Idea of the Goddess; Eros & Civilization; The Representation of Reality.

At both graduate and undergraduate level I have taught history of ideas courses on eros, morality, and judgment. In Spring 1997 I developed a new interdisciplinary course with Professor Dorothy Glass in Art History called "Heaven Hell & Judgment"—a survey of the great verbal and visual texts of eternal punishment, reward and judgment from ancient Sumer to modern film. Since 1999 I have taught the course cross-listed in five departments---Classics, Art History, History, English and Religious Studies.

With Bruce Jackson in Spring 2000, I instituted The Buffalo Film Seminars, a classic cinema class set in a downtown theater open also to the public. The Spring 2008 Seminar is the sixteenth. It was awarded the Artvoice 2007 Best Film Series Award.

I have directed twenty-three completed PhD dissertations and have six in progress. I have served on the committees of over seventy-six other PhDs. Christian— 17

SERVICE

UB Campus Advisory Committee, fall 2012-ongoing UB Search Committee for Director of the Honors College & Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, Chair, fall 2011-spring 2012 UB Presidential Search Committee fall 2010-spring 2011 UB Search Committee for Vice Provost & Dean Undergraduate Education, chair, Spring 2010 UB General Education Taskforce, co-chair, 2009-2012 UB Excellence & Equity Committee, 2009-2012 UB Provost Council on Strategic Strength Planning September 2006-present SUNY Honorary Degree Committee 2007- present SUNY Distinguished Professor and Awards Committee, 1997 - present Faculty Senate Academic Planning Committee, 1997-present, chair Research Academy Humanities Faculty Fellow, 2007-present CURCA Research Awards Committee 2008-present Honors College Hiring Committee spring 2009 UB Women’s Studies Advisory Council, 2005-2010 UB Celebration of Excellence Committee, January - April 2005, 2006 UB Presidential Inaugural Committee, July-October 2004, June-September 2012 UB Academic Planning Committee, September 2004 -present UB Provost Search Committee, December 2003 - May 2004 UB Presidential Search Committee, March-September, 2003 Middlestates Evaluation Steering Committee, 2001-2003, Chair Subcommittee I on Mission Goals and Objectives Founders Committee, 1997-1999 UB Campaign Outreach Committee, 1997-present UB Image Committee, 1997-2003 University Honors Council, 1997-present University Committee on UB, 1996-present English Department Graduate Admissions Committee,1994-2003 English Department Undergraduate Committee, 2003 Provostal Committee on the Humanities, 1995 University Cultural Relations Committee, 1994 English Department Junior and Senior Hiring Committees, 1970-present Erie County Cultural Resources Board, 1990-95 Faculty Senate and Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 11 terms from 1971 to present Arts & Letters Faculty Committees: EPC, Development, ad hoc, Grievance University Grievance and ad hoc committees Christian— 18 Chair, Classics Search Committee, 1973. Many departmental promotion and graduate student committees Lecturing for World Civilization, the Law School, ELS, many departments over the years and jurying occasionally for Harvey Breverman and others. Many addresses and introductions such as the Graduate Excellence in Teaching Awards address, the Honors Commencement address, "Myth is Someone else's Religion" for Horizons Student Association Many television and radio appearances as discussant on issues varying from Biblical Women to the Death Penalty Many community lectures and appearances such as the Biblical Women seminar sponsored by Temple Beth Zion December 1, 1996 "Sarah, Miriam & Ruth: Issues of Family Position and Power," lectures in local colleges, Nichols, The Buffalo Seminary, Park School, City Honors. Commencement Addresses at Nichols and The Buffalo Seminary. Keynote address "Women in Theatre & Media Conference" D'Youville College February 23, 1998.