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THERESA L. GELLER Department of English 1213 Sixth Ave., Mears Cottage Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 50112 Gellertl@Grinnell.Edu 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 Gender Studies, 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 Todd Haynes. 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: Feminism, 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. London: 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 Feminist Film Theory.” 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 Feminist Art 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 Dystopia in Live Action East Asian Cinemas.” Panel: Cyborgs, Affect, and Gender/Sexuality. Visions of the Future: Global Science Fiction Cinema Conference. University
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