(Updated February 2015) Corey K. Creekmur Business Address
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Curriculum Vitae (Updated February 2015) Corey K. Creekmur Business Address: Department of Cinematic Arts W211 Adler Journalism Building University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Office Phone: (319) 335-2824 Home Phone: (319) 354-4748 E-mail: [email protected] EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY 1. Higher Education 1991 Ph.D. in English University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Certification in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory 1981 M.A. in English University of Chicago 1979 B.A. in English University of Florida with High Honors 2. Professional and Academic Positions 2000-present University of Iowa Associate Professor of English and Cinematic Arts [formerly Cinema & Comparative Literature] (with 0% Appointment in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies) 1997-2000 University of Iowa Assistant Professor of English 1992-1997 Wayne State University Assistant Professor of English 1995, 1996, 1997 University of Iowa Visiting Assistant Professor of English & Communication Studies 1991-1992 Wayne State University Lecturer in English 1987-1991 University of Chicago Lecturer in English and Humanities 3. Honors and Awards 2004 Outstanding International Educator, International Programs, UI 1998 Selected Participant, International Forum for United States Studies, UI 4. Grants Funded a. External 2015 NEH Workshop Grant (Travel and expenses, plus $500 stipend) “Scholarship in Sound and Image,” Middlebury College, VT, June 2015. 2006-07 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Grant ($5000) (with Sasha Waters-Freyer) 2005-06 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Grant ($7500) (with Sasha Waters-Freyer) 1996 Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship (travel expenses), Lilly Library, Indiana University 1992 Ball Brothers Foundation Visiting Scholar Grant (travel expenses), Lilly Library, Indiana University b. Internal (University of Iowa only) 2011 Ida Beam Visiting Professorship Grant ($7000) (Phoebe Gloeckner) (with Ana Merino and Rachel Williams) 2011 International Programs Major Project Grant ($12,500) for “Comics, Creativity, and Culture: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (with Ana Merino and Rachel Williams) 2010 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Humanities Symposium Award ($15,000) for “Comics, Creativity, and Culture: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (with Ana Merino and Rachel Williams) [note for Fall 2011 events] 2007 International Programs Summer Institute for Teachers (competitive) 2006-07 International Programs Major Projects Grant ($10,000) 2004 Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) Major Project Grant ($10,000) 2004 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Summer Seminar (with Mark Sidel) 2003 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research Semester Participant (Spring 2004) 2003 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Fellow (Spring 2003) Council on Teaching Instructional Improvement Award ($2000) 2000 Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) Conference Grant ($10,000) 2000 International Programs Course Development Grant, University of Iowa 2000 Curriculum Development Grant, University of Iowa 1998 nTITLE Summer Seminar participant, University of Iowa 1998 Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa 1997 Central Investment Fund for Research Enhancement (CIFRE) Award, University of Iowa 5. Memberships Modern Language Association Society for Cinema and Media Studies Domitor: Society for the Study of Early Cinema Oscar Micheaux Society (devoted to the study of Early African-American Cinema) SCHOLARSHIP 1. Publications (all refereed) Work in Progress: Love & Rockets [book manuscript] Experiments with Truth: The Contemporary Indian Historical Film [book manuscript] Books: Cattle Queens and Lonesome Cowboys: Gender and Sexuality in the Western. Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2015. The International Film Musical, co-edited with Linda Mokdad. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Cinema, Law, and the State In Asia, co-edited with Mark Sidel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. [includes my Introduction and an original essay] Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular Culture, an anthology co- edited with Alexander Doty. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995: currently in second printing; includes introductory material, extensive bibliography, and my essay “Acting Like a Man: Masculine Performance in My Darling Clementine”: 167-182. Edited Book Series: General Editor, “Comics Culture” series for Rutgers University Press, launched in 2014. [Three books published in 2014: three are under contract] Edited Journals: Edited (and wrote 2 of) 8 weekly essays on “Breaking Bad” Season 5 for Kritk, the online public forum of The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, August 12 - September 30, 2013. Guest Editor (with Thomas Keegan), “Comics,” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Issue 6 (Spring 2006). Articles in Anthologies and Journals: “The Indian Graphic Novel,” in A History of The Indian Novel in English, ed. Ulka Anjaria. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. [solicited essay] “Multiculturalism Meets the Counterculture: Racial Difference in Underground Comix,” in Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels, ed. Ian Hague. London: Routledge, 2014. “Indian Film Noir,” in International Noir, ed. Homer Pettey, Susan White, and R. Barton Palmer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. [solicited essay] “Science Fiction and Comics,” in The Oxford Companion to Science Fiction, ed. Rob Latham. London: Oxford University Press, 2014. “The Sissy’s Courage: In Memoriam Alexander Doty,” Cinema Journal 53:2 (Winter 2014): 122-126. “What It Feels Like: Childhood in Gilbert Hernandez’s Marble Season,” Afterword to Gilbert Hernandez, Marble Season. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2013. [solicited essay] “Film Noir and Cinephilia,” in The Companion to Film Noir, ed. Andrew Spicer and Helen Hanson. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013: 67-76. “Jacques Tourneur,” in Film Noir: The Directors, ed. Alain Silver and James Ursini. Woodstock, NY: Limelight, 2012: 398-409. [solicited essay] “The Cowboy Chorus: Musical and Narrative Functions of the Western Theme Song,” in Music and the Western, ed. Kathryn Kalinak. New York: Routledge, 2011: 21-36. “John Frankenheimer’s “War on Terror’,” in A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer on the American Screen, ed. R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011: 103-116. “The American Western Film,” in A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West, ed. Nicolas Witschi. London: Blackwell, 2011: 395-408. “Gary Cooper: Rugged Elegance,” in Star Decades: the 1930s, ed. Adrienne McLean New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011: 66-83. “The Sound of the ‘War on Terror’,” in Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the “War on Terror,” ed. Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell. New York: Continuum, 2010: 83-96. “Pyaasa ” in The Cinema of India, ed. Lalitha Gopalan. London: Wallflower Press, 2010. “The Film Musical: Showcasing Musical Performance,” in Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview, ed. Graeme Harper. New York: Continuum, 2009: 250-260. “Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through Devdas,” in Popular Indian Cinema and Literature: Recasting Classics, ed. Heidi Paulwels. London: Routledge, 2008: 173-189. “Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and Behind Hindi Cinema,” in Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia, ed. Corey K. Creekmur and Mark Sidel. New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2007: 29-43. “Brokeback: The Parody,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 13:1 (2007): 105- 107. [solicited essay] “Contemporary Indian Cinema,” (with Jyotika Virdi) in Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame. ed. Anne Ciecko. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 2006: 133-143. “Popular Hindi Cinema and the Film Song,” in Traditions in World Cinema, ed. Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer and Steven Jay Schneider. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006: 193-202. [solicited essay] “Bombay Boys: Dissolving the Male Child in Popular Hindi Cinema,” in Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth, ed. Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005: 350-376. [solicited essay] “An Interview with Andrew Ross,” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 1 (Spring 2002): 6- 13. “Foreward” to Richard deCordova, Picture Personalities: The Emergence of the Star System in America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001, vii-viii. [solicited for first paperback edition] “Buffalo Bill (Himself): History and Memory in the Western Biopic,” in Westerns: Films Through History, ed. Janet Walker. New York: Routledge / American Film Institute, 2001: 131-147. [solicited essay] “Picturizing American Cinema: Hindi Film Songs and the Last Days of Genre” in Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music, ed. Pamela Robertson- Wojick and Arthur Knight. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001: 375-406. “Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt” and [co-authored] “An Oscar Micheaux Filmography: From the Silents through His Transition to Sound, 1919-1931” in Oscar Micheaux & His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era, ed. Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001: 147-158; 228-277. [solicited essays] “On the Run and On the Road: Fame and the Outlaw Couple in American Cinema,” in The Road Movie Book, eds. Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark. New York: Routledge, 1997: 90-109. “Lost Objects: Photography,