THERESA L. GELLER Department of English 1213 Sixth Ave., Mears Cottage Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 50112 [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT Fall 2014-present: Associate Professor, Film Theory and History, Grinnell College. Expanding Knowledge Initiative Faculty, Department of English. Affiliated Faculty, Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. Fall 2008-Spring 2014: Assistant Professor, Film Theory and History, Grinnell College. Expanding Knowledge Initiative Faculty, Department of English. Affiliated Faculty, Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies. Spring 2003: Lecturer, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University. Winter 2002: Lecturer, Dept. of Women’s and , Rutgers University.

EDUCATION Ph.D. Literatures in English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2009. Certification in Women’s and Gender Studies. M.A. English Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1992. Certification from the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Certification in Cinema Studies. B.A. English and Women’s Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987. Honors in both Majors, and Kresge College Graduate Commencement Speaker.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS (SELECTED) Visiting Research Scholar (upcoming). Beatrice Bain Research Group. University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2017. Andrew W. Mellon Mid-Career Research Fellow. Whitney Humanities Center. Yale University, 2015-16. Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Faculty Career Enhancement Grant for “Associated Colleges of the Midwest Film Festival and Conference” ($38,685). Co-authored, with Amy Ongiri and John Kaufman. Lawrence College, Spring 2016. Summer Academic Research Grant for Queer Archive project. Grinnell College, 2015. Research Assistant Grant for The X-Files book project. Grinnell College, 2015. Summer Academic Research Grant for “Essential(ist) Viewing: Film Festivals and the Politics of Representation.” Grinnell College, 2014. Invited Seminar Participant. The School for Criticism and Theory. Seminar: “Queer Technics,” with Professor Amy Villarejo. Cornell University, Summer 2012. Summer Academic Research Grant for Cinema and Queer Time project. Grinnell College, 2012. Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges (formerly Mellon 23) Grant: “Film and Media Studies in the Liberal Arts: Curricular Development and Research Challenges” ($18,900). Co-authored, with Rebecca Gordon. Reed College, Fall 2011. Summer Academic Research Grant for Global Lesbian Cinema/Transnational Queer Film project. Grinnell College, 2011. Mellon Smith II Travel Grant for “Discordant Technologies” undergraduate panel, presented at the 11th Annual Graduate Film Conference. San Francisco State University, 2009. Competitive Academic Research Grant for Feminist Archive project. Grinnell College, 2009-10. Faculty Workshop Grant. “Teaching Film Across the Disciplines” ($10,000). Grinnell College, Summer 2009. Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2003-4.

BOOKS IN PRESS AND IN PROGRESS The X-Files. TV Milestones Series. Wayne State University Press. December 2016. An Indelible Mark: Women and the Work of . Co-editor, with Julia Leyda. Manuscript solicited by Camera Obscura editorial board for inclusion in their book series at Duke University Press. Under review. Politicizing the Popular, in draft. Full-length monograph, three chapters completed. Modes of Entrustment: Intersubjectivity and Affect in Contemporary Queer Film and Media, in draft. Full-length monograph, two chapters completed. Awarded Mellon Fellowship, Yale University, 2015-16; invited research affiliation with Beatrice Bain Research Group, UC Berkeley. Spring 2017.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES “Race and Allegory in Mass Culture: Historicizing The X-Files.” American Quarterly (forthcoming March 2017). Peer-reviewed. In press. “‘That Magic Box Lies:’ Queer Theory, Seriality, and American Horror Story.” Lead author, with Anna Marie Banker. Velvet Light Trap 79 (forthcoming Spring 2017). Peer-Reviewed. In press. “Thinking Sex, Doing Gender, Watching Film.” Film Theory Handbook. Tom Conley and Hunter Vaughan, editors. UK: Anthem Press. Forthcoming 2017. Peer-Reviewed. “Is Film Theory Queer Theory? Or, Everything I Know About Queerness I Learned at the Movies.” Camera Obscura: , Culture, and Media Studies 84 (December 2013): 59-67. Peer-Reviewed. “Trans/Affect, Monstrous Masculinities, and the Sublime Art of Lady Gaga.” Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion and Culture. Routledge Studies in Popular Music Series. Martin Iddon and Melanie L. Marshall, editors. : Routledge, 2013. 209-230. Peer-Reviewed. Nominated by Routledge editors for the Pauline Alderman Award for outstanding scholarship on women in music.

“Maya Deren.” Oxford Bibliographies in “Cinema and Media Studies.” Krin Gabbard, editor-in-chief. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 40 pages. Peer-Reviewed. Book review. Critical Visions in Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings, by Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White. Film Criticism 36.3 (July 2012): 71-4. “Dorothy Arzner.” Oxford Bibliographies in “Cinema and Media Studies.” Krin Gabbard, editor-in-chief. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 21 pages. Peer- Reviewed. “Maya Deren.” Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia (three volumes), Phillip DiMare, editor. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Books, 2011. 623-6. “‘Each Film Was Built as a Chamber and Became a Corridor’: Maya Deren’s Film Aesthetics as Feminist Praxis.” There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond, Corinn Columpar and Sophie Mayer, editors. MI: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 79-91. Peer-reviewed. “Transnational Noir: Style and Substance in Kaizo Hayashi’s The Most Terrible Time in My Life.” East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film, Leon Hunt and Leung Wing-Fai, editors. Taurus World Cinema Series. London: I.B. Taurus, 2008. 172-87. Peer-reviewed. “The Film-work does not Think: Re-Figuring Fantasy for .” Gender After Lyotard, Margret Grebowicz, editor. SUNY Series in Gender Theory. New York: SUNY Press, 2007. 139-52. “The Personal Cinema of Maya Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon and Its Critical Reception in the History of the Avant-Garde.” Self-Projection and Autobiography in Film, Linda Rugg, editor. Special issue of Biography 28.1 (Winter 2006): 140-158. “The Cinematic Relations of Corporeal Feminism.” The Becoming Deleuzo-guattarian of Queer Studies, Michael O’Rourke, editor. Special Double Issue of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 11/12 (Fall 2005/ Spring 2006). Peer- Reviewed. www.rhizomes.net/issue11/geller “Trey Ellis.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African-American Literature, J. David Macey and Hans Ostrom, editors. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 491-2. “Queering Hollywood’s Tough Chick: The Subversions of Sex, Race, and Nation in The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Matrix.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 25.3 (2004): 8-34. Peer-Reviewed. “Dorothy Arzner.” Senses of Cinema 26 (May-June 2003). sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/arzner/ “Deconstructing Postmodern Television in Twin Peaks.” Spectator 12.2 (Spring 1992): 64-71. Peer-Reviewed.

ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW “‘The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film’: Todd Haynes’ Safe as Feminist Film Praxis.” An Indelible Mark: Women and the Work of Todd Haynes.

“Writing The Spiritual Automaton: The Film-Philosophy of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.” Diacritics. Submitted January 2016. “Haunting the Screen: Revisiting Black Film as Genre.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. Submitted February 2016. “The Wages of !W.A.R.: Activist Historiography and the Movement.” Submitted for Documenting the Visual Arts, Roger Hallas, editor.

EDITORIAL SERVICE Guest Editor-in-Chief. “Thinking Film Genre.” Film Matters: Future Film Scholars 2.4. Bristol, UK and North Carolina: Intellect Press, 2012. As guest editor-in-chief, I proposed the topic, supervised the student editorial board, wrote and distributed the CFP, solicited contributors, edited accepted essays, and wrote the introductory essay.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS “Precarious Intimacies in a Transnational Frame.” Panel: Queer Intimacies, Queer Spaces, and Scales of Desire. Northeast Modern Language Association. Hartford, March 2016. “Billions of Innocent Lives: Contemporary Allegories of (Queer) Settler Colonialism in Guardians of the Galaxy and Naughty Boy/Sam Smith’s “La La La” Music Video.” Panel: Queering Governmentality. American Studies Association. Toronto, October 2015. “Irresistible: X-philia, Shipping, and the Joys of Requited Love.” Panel: Feminism, Fans, and the Future. Science Fiction Research Association. Madison, May 2014. “Luca Guadagnino’s Allegory of the Cave: Italian Feminism and Queer Entrustment in Io sono l’amore.” Panel: Situating Gender—Domesticity Gone Global. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Seattle, March 2014. “‘The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film’: Todd Haynes’ Safe as Feminist Film Praxis.” Panel: “I’m Drawn to Female Characters”: Feminism and the Films of Todd Haynes. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, March 2013. “Trans/Affect, or The Sublime Art of Lady Gaga.” Panel: Loving Monsters. Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism. Suffolk University, Boston, July 2012. “Becoming-Girl, Becoming-Cyborg: Feminist in Live Action East Asian Cinemas.” Panel: Cyborgs, Affect, and Gender/Sexuality. Visions of the Future: Global Science Fiction Cinema Conference. University of Iowa, April 2012. “Is Queer Theory Film Theory?” Panel: Representing Queer Time/ Engaging Queer Theory. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, March 2012. “The Group and the Tribe: Queer Politics and Puget Sound Cinema.” Panel: Queering Puget Sound. Gay Studies Div. Modern Language Association. Seattle, January 2012. “Capitalism, A Fairytale: The Work of Love in I Am Love.” Post/Autonomia Conference. Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2011.

“Guattari Hero: Subjective Arrangements in Film.” Panel: Philosophy and the Moving Image. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. New Orleans, March 2011. “Cinema Time as Transnational Chronotope.” Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Conference. University of Minnesota, October 2010. “‘Borderless’ Postmodernism: Nikkatsu Action Cinema as Transnational Genre.” Panel: Asian Genres. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Los Angeles, April 2010. “‘I’m Not Low’: The Subversive Laughter of Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.” Panel: The Asian Body on the American Screen. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Philadelphia, March 2008. “Rethinking Maya Deren in the History of Independent Cinema.” Panel: Feminism, Filmmaking, Fluidity. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, March 2007. “Transnational Noir.” Panel: Colonialism and East Asian Cultures. Modern Language Association Convention. Philadelphia, December 2006. “The Cinematic Syntax of the Moving Image.” Panel: Meaning in Motion. American Comparative Literature Association. Princeton, April 2006. “The Time-Image of Queer Bodies.” Panel: Media Studies and Critical Theory— Thinking After The Subject. Society for Cinema Studies. Vancouver, March 2006. “Media Studies and Recent Developments in Critical Theory: Thinking After The Subject,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, March 2006. “Cine-Fetishism: Apparatus Theory for New Media.” Panel: Cinephilia. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Atlanta, March 2004. “Critical Race Theory Meets the Alien Bodies of The X-Files.” Panel: Screening Television. Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston, February 2003. “(E)racing Boundaries: Community, Disciplinarity, Genre.” Center for Cultural Analysis Graduate Conference. Rutgers University, February, 2002. “Queer Femininity in Hollywood.” Panel: Queer Popular Culture. Frameline: The International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. San Francisco, June 2001. “Female Subjectivity and the Cinematic Apparatus.” Outside(r)/Hollywood Conference. University of Washington. Seattle, May 2000. “Technologies of Race.” Panel: American Cultures, American Identities. American Culture/Popular Culture Association. Valley Forge, November 1999. “Silence=Death: The Question of Language at the Intersections of Feminist, Postcolonial, and Queer Theories.” Making It Perfectly Queer—The Second Annual (Inter)National Graduate Student Conference in Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, April 1992. “‘Standing On The Rim Of A Volcano’: Gender and Bodily Performances.” Feminism(e) and Postmodernism(e): Comparative Literature Conference. University of Alberta, Edmonton, March 1992.

“Deconstructing Postmodern Television in Twin Peaks.” Dangerous Liaisons? — Conference in Literature, Film, and Video. University of Southern California, February 1992. “‘The Evil That Men Do:’ Postmodern Terror in Television.” Visions and (Re)Visions in Literature and Film, Comparative Literature and Film Circle Seventeenth Annual Conference on Literature and Film. Florida State University, February 1992.

INVITED LECTURES AND PANELS Keynote Speaker. “The Art of Entrustment: Cinema and Italian Feminism.” Whitney Humanities Center. Yale University, November 2015. “Teaching at the Crossroads: Risk-Taking and Promiscuous Thought.” Queer Media Pedagogy Workshop: Principles, Practices, Possibilities. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Seattle, March 2014. “Genre and Gender.” Center for the Humanities Book Talk Series: Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble. Grinnell College, October 2012. Keynote Speaker. “Girls on Film: The Intersecting Histories of Queer Cinema and Feminist Filmmaking.” Invited Public Lecture for Women’s History Month. St. Olaf College, March 2012. “Film Pedagogy Successes.” Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges Workshop: Film and Media Studies in the Liberal Arts. Reed College, September 2011. Invited Panelist. “Making the Most of Faculty-Student Relationships.” Teaching Committee Workshop. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. New Orleans, March 2011. Reviewed by Jason Mittell for SCMS website as “Lessons in Mentoring and the Value Added of Conferences.” Invited Panelist. “Intersecting Identities.” Sponsored by the Queer People of Color Student Organization. Grinnell College, October 2010. “Gender Identity and Repetition.” Faulconer Art Gallery Exhibit Panel: Repeat, Reveal, React—Identities In Flux. Grinnell College, March 2010. Keynote Speaker. “On Bamboozled.” Invited lecture for Black History Month. Concerned Black Students Union. Grinnell College, February 2010. Keynote Speaker. “Roots: Representing Race, Turning to Television.” Burling Library Cultural Event for Family Weekend. Grinnell College, October 2008. “A Queer (Re)Turn to Feminist Film Theory.” Women’s Caucus Workshop: Brainstorming for the Future—Revitalizing Feminist Media Studies. Society for Cinema Studies. Philadelphia, March 2008. Invited Panelist. “Mapping The Matrix.” Multimedia Symposium. Temple University, May 2003. Keynote Speaker. “Meshes, Mirrors, and Metonymies: Maya Deren’s Cinematic Dissidence.” Humanities Gender Group: Gender and History Through Performance. Rutgers University, March 1999.

Keynote Speaker. “The Alien Bodies and Other Worlds of The X-Files.” Rutgers Undergraduate English Association. Rutgers University, September 1998. “Locating the Hybrid Subject in Postcolonial Theory.” Response to May Joseph’s “Hybridity and Hanif Kureishi’s Birds of Passage.” The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloquium Series. University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, March 1992. “A Woman is Being Beaten: A Case for an Hysterical Feminism.” Response to Nancy Blake’s “Casanova’s Parrot: A Lacanian Reading.” The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloquium Series. University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, November 1991.

PANELS, WORKSHOPS, AND EVENTS ORGANIZED (SELECTED) First Annual ACM Student Film Conference and Festival. Lawrence College, April 2016. Grinnell Students awarded first and second prizes for scholarship presented. Chair. —Theory and Praxis. Grinnell College, May 2015. Film Screening and Panel Discussion, The Hunting Ground (Kirby Dick, 2015). Community Event for Faculty Against Rape’s National Day of Action. Invited panel of speakers from National and Statewide Anti-Sexual Violence and Anti-Domestic Violence Organizations. Grinnell College, April 2015. Keynote Lecture, with Jennifer Worley. “Lusty: Adventures in Stripping and Revolution,” and screening of Sex on Wheels: A Secret History of Sex Work (Jennifer Worley, 2011). Grinnell College, April 2015. Four-week Short Course: Non-Fiction Video, led by Jason Livingston. Grinnell College, March 2014. Situating Gender I: Domesticity Gone Global. Co-organized, with Pamela Robertson Wojcik. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Seattle, March 2014. Situating Gender II: New(d) Ecologies and Ludic Landscapes. Co-organized, with Pamela Robertson Wojcik. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Seattle, March 2014. Situating Gender III: Nation and History in Women’s Cinema. Co-organized, with Pamela Robertson Wojcik. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Seattle, March 2014. “Women Contained”: Figuring Feminism in the Films of Todd Haynes. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Seattle, March 2014. Keynote Lecture, with Patricia White. “In a World…: Contemporary Female Filmmakers in a Transnational Frame.” Grinnell College, February 2014. Gender and Women’s Studies Programming. Queer Film Screening: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001) and Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998). Grinnell College, March 2013.

“I’m Drawn to Female Characters”: Feminism and the Films of Todd Haynes. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, March 2013. Keynote Lecture, with Julia Leyda. “Playing with Dolls: Girls and Fans in Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine.” Grinnell College, March 2013. Keynote Lecture, with Kathryn Bond Stockton. “Sameness, Underwear, Pleasure, and Need: What Does Queer Theory Ask Us to Do?” Grinnell College, February 2013. Keynote Lecture, with David Leiwei Li. “Globalization on Speed: Jia Zhangke's Cinematic Meditation on Still Life.” Grinnell College, April 2012. Chair. Representing Queer Time/Engaging Queer Theory. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, March 2012. Women’s History Month Programming. Film Screening: !Women Art Revolution (Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2010). Grinnell College, March 2012. College Convocation, with Steve Kurtz of Critical Art Ensemble. “Intervention and Public Art.” Grinnell College, December 2011. Master Class and Screening, with filmmaker Nina Paley. Sita Sings the Blues (2008). Grinnell College, April 2011. Film Event Screening, Utopia in Four Movements (Sam Green, Dave Cerf, 2010), with narrator Sam Green, and live music performed by musicians from Yo La Tengo. Grinnell College, February 2011. Gender and Women’s Studies Programming. Transgender Film Screening: Maggots and Men (Cary Cronenwett, 2009), May 2010. Master Class and Film Screening, with filmmaker Suzi Yoonessi. Dear Lemon Lima (2009). Grinnell College, April 2010. Faculty Organizer. Animation Film Festival, in conjunction with Animated Painting Exhibit, Faulconer Art Gallery. Grinnell College, April 2010. Faculty Organizer. Eastern European Film Screenings: Morphia (Aleksey Balabanov, 2008); Lotman’s World (Agne Nelk, 2008); Rabbit à la Berlin (Bartosz Konopka, 2009). Grinnell College, March 2010. Workshop Organizer and Chair. The Archive of the Future: New Technologies and/in Media Studies Today. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Los Angeles, March 2010. Workshop Co-Organizer. Queer Mentorship: Genealogies and Affiliations for the Future of LGBTQ Film Studies. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Los Angeles, March 2010. Faculty Organizer. International Women’s Film Festival. Grinnell Cinefest, Grinnell College, December 2009. Faculty Organizer. Short Silent Films with Live Musical Accompaniment. Faulconer Art Gallery, Grinnell College, November 2009.

Chair. Discordant Technologies: Exploring Affective and Epistemological Ruptures in Film Form. Department of Cinema Studies Annual Graduate Student Conference. San Francisco State University, October 2009. North American Premiere of Hayashi Kaizo’s The Code (2009). Grinnell College, September 2009. Gender Symposium Keynote Lecture, with Heather K. Love. “On the Threshold of a Dream: Gender Variance and the Politics of Representation.” Grinnell College, April 2009. Faculty Organizer. International Films Festival. Grinnell Cinefest, December 2008.

FACULTY TUTORIALS Film Research Practicum for German Studies. Faculty tutorial for Prof. Vance Byrd. Grinnell College, Spring 2011. His resulting research on filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger presented at Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, March 2012. Race and Ethnicity in Film and Media. Faculty tutorial for Prof. Nan Ma. Grinnell College, Fall 2010. Film and Media Pedagogy for Russian Studies. Faculty tutorial for Prof. Anatoly Vishevsky. Grinnell College, Spring 2010. Teaching Film Across the Disciplines. Week-long interdisciplinary workshop on film and media pedagogy for twenty faculty from several disciplines; researched and designed individual packets for specific disciplinary needs from Economics to Art History. Grinnell College, Summer 2009.

ADVANCED RESEARCH SEMINARS (Mentored Advanced Projects, presented publicly) Feminist Aesthetics: Theory and Praxis, Spring 2015. Anna Banker (GWSS 2015; current M.A. student, European Graduate School). “Coven’s’ Feminist Spell: Race, Gender and Capitalist Accumulation in American Horror Story.” Led to co-authored article forthcoming in Velvet Light Trap Spring 2017. Ian Byrd (French 2016). “The Queen(s) of Queer Cinema: The Collaborative Politics of and Todd Haynes.” Youngbin Song (Ind. Major in Media and Cultural Praxis 2015; current MFA student, Columbia College Chicago). “Figuring a Counter-Symbolic: Haptics in Feminist Aesthesis.” Affect and Audiences, Summer 2014. Anna Banker (GWSS 2015; current M.A. student, European Graduate School). “Tarrying with the Feminine.” Tolu Edionwe (Soc. 2015). “Step Up: Shaking Off the Myth of a Post-Raciality Now.” Advanced Studies in Film and History, Spring 2012. Laura Stamm (GWSS 2012; current Ph.D. candidate, University of Pittsburgh). “From Maya Deren to Lady Gaga: The Role of the Female Artist in Postmodern Visual Culture.” Delivered at Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Spring 2013.

Paul Dampier (Ind. Major in Global Cinema Studies 2012). “Global Aesthetics and Virtual Possibilities in Neo-Baroque Cinema.” Joel B. Pollick (Economics 2012). “Music Finally Matters: A Study of the Emergence of Art Cinema after World War II.” Kramer McLuckie (History 2012). “Destabilizing Darkness: Film Noir as Emergent and High Postmodernism.” Advanced Studies in Feminist and Queer Theory, Summer 2011 Robin Wetherill (GWSS 2012). “The Stakes Are High: How the Witch Hunt and Other Violence Against Women Are Constitutive of Modern Femininity, And Why This Matters For Queer Theory.” Delivered at “Indecency,” 13th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, University of Illinois, Urbana. March 2012. Christian Loggins (GWSS 2012). “Monstrous Knowledge: The Queer Pedagogy of Nicki Minaj.” Delivered at “Indecency,” 13th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, University of Illinois, Urbana. March 2012. Laura Stamm (GWSS 2012). “New Queer Cinema Today: Film and the Critique of Neoliberalism.” Delivered at “Indecency,” 13th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, University of Illinois, Urbana. March 2012. Winsome Eustace (Ind. Major in Representation). “Playing Against the Machine.” Joseph Hiller (GWSS 2012; current MA student at Tulane University). “Haitian Hauntings; Or, Nationalist Exceptionalism’s Queer Failure.” Delivered at the New School for Social Research’s Annual Anthropology Conference. April 2012. New Perspectives in Visual Culture: Meaning, Materiality, Aesthetics, Spring 2009 Gabe Tomasulo (Ind. Major in Visual Culture; M.A. in Architecture, Harvard University). “Violent Houses: Program and Restriction Following the MOVE Conflict.” Delivered at “Composing Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference,” University of Cincinnati. May 2011. Courtney Sheehan (Ind. Major in Visual Culture 2011; currently Program Director, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA). “Collateral Murder.” Awarded Watson Fellowship, 2011-12, to study political impact of international film festivals. Greg Rossi (English 2010). “Spacing Within Immanence.” Awarded Slought Foundation Internship.

COURSES TAUGHT Upper-Division Courses Studies in Film Theory Queer Cinema/Queer Theory Postmodern Fiction and Film Sex, Gender, and Critical Theory Ethnic America: Multiculturalism and the Media The Gendered Body

Intermediate Courses Film Analysis, Theory, and Criticism Film Genres Popular Culture Alien Cinema Film and Society Ethnic America: Multiculturalism and the Media , Gender, and Literary Theory Theories of Sex and Gender Gothic Literature and Film Media and Cultural Studies Introductory and Writing Courses Cinematic Identity: Race, Sex, and Gender on Film (First-Year Tutorial) Introduction to Film Analysis Literary Analysis Women, Culture, and Society Introduction to Cinema Studies Introduction to Rhetoric Student Internship Supervising Boston Jewish Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum (Seattle, WA), ArtsQuest (Bethlehem, PA), Sam Greene Productions (Brooklyn, NY), Trixie Films (NY)

ADVISING AND MENTORING Society for Cinema and Media Studies Alex Doty Memorial Mentorship Program: Lauran Whitworth (Emory Ph.D., Agnes Scott College), Bridgit Kies (Ph.D. Candidate, English and Media Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), Roxanne Samer (Ph.D. Candidate, Critical Studies Dept., USC). Society for Cinema and Media Studies Women’s Caucus Mentorship Program: Jess Issacharoff (Ph.D. Candidate, Program in Literature, Duke University), Leslie Delassus (Ph.D, Cinema Studies, University of Iowa), Anna M. Banker (M.A. student in Media and Critical Studies, European Graduate School). Mellon Mays Senior Thesis Adviser: Vilma Casteneda (GWSS 2014). Published as “ the Spectacle of Fright and Freaks in Freak Orlando.” Film Matters: Future Film Scholars 5.2 (June 2014). Teaching Assistant Mentor: Victoria Robinson (Fall 2016), Michelle Risacher (Fall 2016), Anna Banker (Spring 2015, Fall 2014), Ian Byrd (Spring 2015), Brian Buckley (Fall 2013), Victor Kyermaten (Fall 2013). Undergraduate Film Studies Scholarship: SCMS Undergraduate Conference (Brian Buckley, Claire Fleckenstein, Vilma Castaneda, Michelle Risacher); Film and History Conference (Torrey MacGregor, Carly Jerome, Phoebe Mogharei, Sophie Donlon, Halley Freger); Literature/Film Association (Teresa Fleming, Sophie Donlon); Cinema Studies Graduate Conference, San Francisco State University (Courtney Sheehan, Amanda Stromquist, Eleanor Russell, Sam Stragand, Laura Stamm);

Popular Culture Association (Torrey MacGregor); 20th Annual (Dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Conference, University of California at Riverside (Victor Kyermaten, Benji Zeledon); Telluride Student Symposium (Seth Hanson, Michelle Risacher, Philip Brogdon, Corbin Eule).

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Participant. Tutorial Instruction Workshop. Grinnell College, Summer 2010. Participant. Center for the Humanities Workshop. Grinnell College, Summer 2010. Participant. Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies for the 21st Century Workshop. Grinnell College, Summer 2009. Pedagogy Seminar: “Teaching Cinema Studies” (Ramona Curry and Robert Carringer), for Cinema Studies Certification. University of Illinois at Urbana, Spring 1991. Pedagogy Seminar: “Teaching Rhetoric and Writing” (Dennis Baron). University of Illinois at Urbana, Fall 1990.

DEPARTMENT AND COLLEGE SERVICE Search Chair. Film and Media Studies Adjunct Hire, English Dept., Spring 2015. Faculty Adviser. Dissenting Voices—Title IX Advocacy Group, 2014-present. Faculty Adviser. American Studies, GWSS, and English Majors, 2009-present. Chair. Interdisciplinary Study Theme in Film Studies, 2013-present. Faculty Adviser. Stonewall Resource Center, 2012-13; 2014-15. Search Committee. 18th Century Literature Position, English Dept., 2013. Faculty Mentor. Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows Program, 2011-13. Committee Chair. Cultural Films Committee, 2009-11. Steering Committee. English Dept. Self-Study and Curricular Review, 2010-2011. Website Creator. Film and Media Studies. Grinnell College, 2009-2010. Steering Committee. Louise R. Noun Program for Women’s Studies, 2008-11. Steering Committee. Center for the Humanities Advisory Board, 2010-11. Steering Committee. Expanding Knowledge Initiative Advisory Board, 2009-2010. Search Committee. Ethnic American Literature Position, English Dept., 2009-2010.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Lead Organizer. Grrrls Night Out (Networking Dinner for 105 Women), Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. March 2014. Nominee. Executive Committee, Film Division. Modern Language Association, January 2013. Organizer. Grrrls Night Out (Networking Dinner for 120 Women), Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. March 2013. Co-Chair. Caucuses Committee. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2011-13. Member. Programming Committee. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2012-13. Organizer. Grrls Night Out (Networking Dinner for 120 Women), Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA. March, 2012. Chair. Student Writing Award. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2011-12. Lead Organizer. Queer Caucus Reception. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, March 2011. Member. Screening Committee. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2010-11.

Queer Caucus Faculty Mentor, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2010-present. Co-Founder. Queer Caucus Mentorship Program. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2009. Co-Chair. Queer Caucus. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2008-11. Peer Review Panelist. National Endowment for the Humanities, Fall 2009. Co-organizer and Chair. Making It Perfectly Queer—The Second Annual (Inter)National Graduate Student Conference in Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies. Keynote speakers: Judith Butler, Essex Hemphill, Richard Dyer, David Halperin, Lisa Duggan. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, April 1992.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Society for Cinema and Media Studies Modern Language Association American Studies Association

LANGUAGES English, French (Reading Knowledge)

LIST OF REFERENCES Brent Hayes Edwards, Professor Department of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University 212-854-2912 [email protected]

Amy Villarejo, Professor Department of Performing and Media Arts Cornell University 607-254-2700 [email protected]

Patricia White, Eugene Lang Research Professor Department of Film and Media Studies Swarthmore College 610-328-8148 [email protected]