<p> Curriculum Vita</p><p>Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666, 512-245-3725</p><p>I. ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND</p><p>Rebecca Bell-Metereau Professor of English, Director Media Studies Minor </p><p>Educational background:</p><p>B.A., 1971, Indiana University, Bloomington, English M.A., 1973, Indiana University, Bloomington, English Ph.D., 1981, Indiana University, Bloomington, English, Film Studies</p><p>University Professional Experience</p><p>Professor of English, Texas State University, 1990-present Director, Media Studies Minor Program, English Department, 1996-present Fulbright Professor, Gaston Berger University, 1999-2000 Visiting Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1998 Special Assistant to the President, Texas State University, 1995-1997 Associate Professor, Texas State University, 1986-1990 Assistant Professor, Texas State University, 1981-1986 Assistant to Director of First Year Studies, Indiana University, 1978-1980 Associate Instructor, Indiana University, 1977-81 Literature and English Instructor, University of Chad, 1974-75</p><p>Professional Experience</p><p>Editorial and Affirmative Action Assistant, Indiana University, 1976-77 Peace Corps, 1973-75: English Instructor, Lycee Ahmed Mangue, 1973-74 Official interpreter, U.S. grain flights to drought areas in Africa, 1973-75</p><p>II. TEACHING</p><p>Courses Taught:</p><p>Lower-Division Freshman English Freshman Seminar Survey of American Literature, (early and modern) Survey of British Literature, (early and modern) University Seminar Advanced Literature and the Contemporary Reader American and British Drama Introduction to Film Film and Prose Fiction The Discipline of English (for future secondary English teachers) Children’s Literature (for future English teachers) English as a Second Language (at Universite du Chad) **Theory and Practice of Film and Video Production </p><p>Graduate **Graduate Course: Novel Into Film **Media Studies **The Psychology of Gender in Media (with Professor Tim Hulsey) Graduate Introduction to the Study of English **Graduate Theory and Practice of Film and Video Production </p><p>Honors First-year University Seminar for Honors **Honors Sex Roles in Film **Honors Gender and Technology in Film **Honors Philosophy and Film (co-developed with Dr. Craig Hanks) **Honors Hollywood Amnesia</p><p>**indicates I developed the course</p><p>Honors and Awards</p><p>Marquis Who's Who of American Women, 2008-2013 Faculty Development Leave for 2006, awarded Fall 2005 Everette Swinney Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004 Merrick Grant for Service Learning, Texas State University, 2003 Teaching with Technology, Texas State University, 2003 Program for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Texas State University, 2001-2002 Fulbright Scholarship to teach at University Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Senegal 1999-2000 Co-Author, Retention Incentive Grant for Residential College, Texas State University, 1996 (not funded as RIG, but funded at four times original request) Co-Director, Southwest Texas Media Workshop, Texas State University, 1994 Miami University, Ohio, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1993, 1994 Award for Teaching Excellence, Alumni Association, Texas State University, 1992 Texas Committee for the Humanities Grant, Director of Summer Media Institutes for Public School Teachers, Principal Investigator, 1994, 1991, 1990 ($5,000 for each institute) Developmental Leave for Fall of 1988, Texas State University, 1988 Merrick Grants for one course assigned time, Texas S.U., 1993, 1992, 1990, 1987, 1986, 1984 Who’s Who in the Peace Corps </p><p>2 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series Who’s Who in American Scholars Who’s Who in Contemporary Writers</p><p>III. SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE</p><p>A. Work in Print</p><p>Books E-book version of Hollywood Androgyny, Columbia University Press (2008) Simone Weil On Politics, Religion and Society, with Christopher Frost, Sage Publications, 1998 Hollywood Androgyny, 2nd Edition, 2 new chapters, Columbia University Press, 1993, pp. ix-xxii, and pp. 238-315 Hollywood Androgyny, 1st Edition, Columbia University Press, January 1985</p><p>Book Chapters (all refereed)</p><p>"Stealth, Sexuality, and Cult Status in The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds," A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film. Murray Pomerance and F. Barton Palmer, eds. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. (2011), 48-61 "Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger: Androgynous Macho Men," Acting for America. Ed. Robert Eberwein, New Brunswick, NJ, London, UK: Rutgers University Press. (2010), 36-56 "The Three Faces of Lolita, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Adaptation." Authorship in Film Adaptation. Ed. Jack Boozer. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. (2008), 203-228 “The Capital Shape of Science Fiction Heroes to Come,” Cinema and Modernity, (book chapter) Murray Pomerance, ed. New Brunswick, New Jersey, London, UK: Rutgers University Press (2006), 110-129 “Movies and Our Secret Lives.” American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations. (book chapter) Murray Pomerance, ed. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press (2005), 89-110 “The How-To Manual, the Prequel, and the Sequel in Post-9/11 Cinema.” Film and Television After 9/11. Wheeler Winston Dixon, ed. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP (2004), 142-162 “Searching for Blobby Fissures: Slime, Sexuality, and the Grotesque.” Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen. Murray Pomerance, ed. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press (2004), 286-299 “Family in Film,” in The Family in America, Joseph M. Hawes, ed. ABC-CLIO Publishing, (2002), 329-337 Chapter Six, “Eating and Drinking, Men and Women.” Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Murray Pomerance, ed. State University of New York Press (2001) 90-107 “Bridging Boundaries and Giving Gifts: Student Collaboration in Solving Group Problems,” Writing With: New Directions in Collaborative Learning, Writing, and Research, Eds., Sally Barr Reagan, Tom Fox, and David Bleich, State University of New York University Press (1994), 247-264</p><p>3 “La Malinche: Exile as Bridge Builder,” Cultural Conflicts in Twentieth Century Literature, University of Puerto Rico Press (1993), 67-74</p><p>Articles (all refereed):</p><p>“Tiles and Tabaski,” in The Literature Review VI, Dec. 2000, University of Oulu. Finland, 26-35 “How to Use Video in Large Film Classes,” in Cinema Journal, 38, No. 4, 1999, 102-108 “Hunks in Frocks: The New Drag Films,” Solicited interview article. Transgender Tapestry #74, Winter 1995. International Institute for Gender Studies, New York, 1995, 30-35 “Back to the Future of Visual Literacy,” Texas Journal of the Humanities, Texas Committee for the Humanities Publication, Fall/Winter 1991, Vol. 14, No. 1, 10-11 “Nadine Gordimer,” Cyclopedia of World Authors, Salem Press (1988), 612-613 “Cynthia Ozick,” Cyclopedia of World Authors, Salem Press (1988), 1157-1158 “Megan Terry,” Critical Survey of Drama, Salem Press (1987), 340-346 “JoAnne Akalaitis,” Critical Survey of Drama, Salem Press, 1987, 26-7 “Woman: The Other Alien in Alien,” in Women Worldwalkers: Women in Science Fiction, Texas Tech University Press, 1985, 9-24. “A Tale of Two Texts, Verbal and Video,” College English, Fall 1983, Volume 45, Number 5, September 1983, 494-499 “Altered States and the Popular Myth of Self Discovery,” Journal of Popular Film and Television, August 1982 “The Enemy,’’ short story in Thornleigh Review, Spring 1982 “Uncle Mary,” short story in Cats Magazine, January 1982 “Masculine Heroines in the Western Film,” First Labor, Indiana University Press, 1980</p><p>Published Conference Proceedings</p><p>“CIVIC: Using Interactive Video to Teach an Integrated Curriculum,” Deciding Our Future: Technological Imperatives in Education, Eds., Michael Thomas, Thomas Sechrest, Nolan Estes, University of London, University of Texas (1994)</p><p>Selected Refereed Review Articles Review article of Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture by Katherine J. Lehman. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas: Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 30:4, May 2013, 363-367. Review article of Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman by T.J. Demos. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: MIT Press: Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Volume 30, Issue 2, March 2013, 190-193. Review article of Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube, Paul Grainge, British Film Institute, Palgrave MacMillan, 2011, December 2012 Review article of The Haunted Screen, Libby Saxton, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vol 28, Issue 5, 2011, 424-428. Review article of Tarkovsky, ed. Nathan Dunne, Quarterly Review of Film and Literature Rutgers University Press, Volume 26, No. 3, 2009, 237-241</p><p>4 Review article of Reality Television, Quarterly Review of Film and Television, Quarterly Review of Film and Literature Rutgers University Press, Volume 23, No.5, 2006, 443- 448 Review article Action and Adventure Cinema, in Quarterly Review of Film and Literature Rutgers University Press, Volume 25, No.1, 2008 Review article, "Movie-made Memories," review of Memory and Popular Film, edited by Paul Grainge, in Film - Philosophy, Vol. 9 No. 1, January 2005 Review article Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema, in Journal of Film and Video Volume 56, No. 3, Fall 2004 Review article “Carnal Appetites by Elspeth Probyn, in Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, March, 2001 Review article “Laughing, Screaming by William Paul,” Criticism, Vol. 36, No. 4, p. 622, 1998 Review article of Laughing, Screaming: Films of the 80s, Humanities Journal of Wayne State University, Wayne State University Press, 1995 Review of Blackframes, in Research in African Literatures, University of Texas Press, 1989 Review of Twenty-five Black African Filmmakers, in Research in African Literatures, University of Texas Press, 1988</p><p>Encyclopedia and Reference Articles </p><p>Pacific Heights, Magill’s Cinema Annual, Salem Press, 1990 A Handful of Dust, Magill’s Cinema Annual, Salem Press, 1989 Green Card, Critical Survey of Drama, Salem Press, 1989 The Madwoman in the Attic,” in Magill’s Nonfiction Survey, Salem Press, 1988 Willow, Magill’s Cinema Annual, Salem Press, 1988 Jean de Florette, Magill’s Cinema Annual, Salem Press, 1988 True Stories, Magill’s Cinema Annual 1987, Salem Press, 1987 Back to School, Magill’s Cinema Annual 1987, Salem Press, 1987 The Quiet Earth, Magill’s Cinema Annual 1985, Salem Press Young Sherlock Holmes, Magill’s Cinema Annual 1985, Salem Press Even Dwarfs Started Small, Magill’s Survey of Foreign Cinema, Salem Press, 1985 Les Biches in Magill’s Survey of Foreign Cinema, Salem Press, 1985</p><p>Selected Solicited Reviews </p><p>Solicited review of manuscript proposal “Hoarders and Doomsday Preppers.” Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2014. Solicited review of manuscript proposal “The Eternal Spectator: Movies, Myth and Memory.” Kentucky University Press, 2013. Solicited review of The Old Vines Are Buried Deep: Classical Motifs in John Frankenheimer’s Seconds, Quarterly Review of Film and Literature, 2012 Solicited review of Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access, Routledge Press, 2011 Solicited review of Film and Literature, Routledge Press, 2009 Solicited review of History of the Horror Film, Rutgers University Press, 2009 Solicited review of Unmaking Love: Essays on the Male Body, Pornography, and Sexuality, Wayne State University Press, 2008 Solicited review of Film Talk: Directors at Work, Rutgers University Press, 2007</p><p>5 Solicited review of Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film, Wayne State University Press, 2006, 2007 (reviewed two versions of the manuscript) Solicited review of Figures of Light, Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 Solicited review of Critical Thinking in Reading and Writing, Houghton Mifflin, 2005 Solicited review of Theory and Word for Houghton Mifflin, 2005 Solicited review of The Film Experience for Bedford St. Martin’s, 2003 Solicited review of “It’s Only a Piece of Meat: Gender Ambiguity, Sexuality, and Politics in The Crying Game and M. Butterfly,” for Cinema Journal, August 29, 2001 Solicited review of “Ed Wood Revisited,” for Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, August, 2001 Solicited review of “Utopias With a Difference?” for Feminist Media Studies, Dec. 15, 2000 Solicited review of Making Sense of Movies, for McGraw Hill, 1999 Solicited review of The Silver Screen: Readings in Film Studies, Addison-Wesley-Longman, 1999 Solicited review of Thinking About Movies, for Addison-Wesley-Longman, 1998 Solicited review of Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Kennedy/Gioia, for Addison, Wesley-Longman, 1998 Solicited review of Movies: The Social Art, for Addison-Wesley-Longman, 1997 Solicited review of Linda Flower’s Problem-Solving Strategies for Writing in College and Community, Harcourt Brace Publishers, November, 1996 Solicited review of Longman Writing Handbook, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing, 1995 Solicited review of Movies as a Social Art, McGraw Hill, 1995 Solicited review of Art of Movie-Making, Random House, 1993 Solicited review of the Art of Film, Mayfield Publishing, 1993 Outside reader for manuscript, Responding to Film, Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1993</p><p>B. Works Not in Print Selected Papers Presented and Sessions Organized and Chaired (all refereed) “Framing the Gays in History: J. Edgar Hoover.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, IL. March 2013. Chaired session, Figuring, Framing and Outing History; also presented. “Baby, It’s Cold Outside the Closet.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, MA. March 2012. “Private Parts Shame and Star Identities.” Session Organized and Chaired, Boston, MA. March 2012 "Beauty and the Nerd in the Social Network" Popular Culture Association. San Antonio Tx. Apr. 2011 "Star Bodies and the Erotics of the Suffering Hero" Society for Cinema and Media Studies. New Orleans, March 2011 "To Translate or Not to Translate? The Languages of Interracial Love in 'Lili and the Baobab'" Film and History Conference, Milwaukee WI, Nov. 19, 2010 "ABC's of the Culture War" Netroots Nation Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2010 "Preservation, Censorship, and Shame: Effacing Documentary History," Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, CA, Mar.17, 2010 "Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Betrayal: Brecht and the Hollywood Ten," Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 27, 2008 "Forbidden Sights and Forbidden Sites: Surveillance, Evidence, and Memory," Film and History Conference, Chicago, IL, Oct. 31, 2008</p><p>6 Chaired and organized, Session on "Surveillance and Society," Film and History Conference, Chicago, IL, Oct. 31, 2008 Organized, Session on "Surveillance and Identity," Film and History Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov. 1, 2008 "Sylvester Stallone: Reinventing and Remarketing the Androgynous Italian Stallion," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 8, 2008 "The Lone Hero: No Longer Alone, No Longer at Home on the Range," Popular Culture Association Convention, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 15, 2008 "Pure Appetites and Mass Consumption: From French Slaughterhouse to Fastfood Nation." Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, Dec. 27, 2007 "The Strange Love of Lolita." Film and Literature Association Conference, University of Kansas. Lawrence, KA, Oct. 12, 2007 “Post-Traumatic Media Fatigue, New Expressionism, and the Carnivalesque,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, Il, Mar. 9, 2007 “Architecture of Anxiety: Spatial Dynamics in American Film of the 1950s,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, B.C., Mar. 3, 2006 “Docuscripts—Visualizing More Effective Communication Skills for University Undergraduates,” Workshop at Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, B.C., Mar. 5, 2006 “Forgetting to Remember: Film Solutions,” Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, FL, Feb. 5, 2006 “Strange Love, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Adaptations of Lolita,”UT Film conference on Authorship, Austin, TX, October 21, 2005 (invited presentation) “Transnational Visions of Apocalypses Then and Now: La Jetée, The Last Wave, Twelve Monkeys, Twenty-eight Days Later, and The Forgotten,” Film and Literature Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, Jan. 28, 2005 “Hollywood Amnesia,” International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan. 13, 2005 “Film Depictions of Gender and the March to War” Film and History Conference, Dallas Texas, November 13, 2004 “American Cinema of the 1950s: Then Meets Now” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta GA, March 5, 2004 “O Brother, Where Art Thou? Marries Popular Mythology to Popular Music” 34th Annual Popular Culture Association Conference, San Antonio TX, April 10, 2004 “Film and Prose Fiction, From the Inside Out,” University Film and Video Association Conference, University of Toledo, Ohio, August 5, 2004 “Belle et la Bete, Beauty and the Beast, or Extreme Makeover,” University Film and Video Association Conference, University of Toledo, Ohio, August 4, 2004 “Secretary, Quills, and High Art Ask Why Art Hurts.” 29th Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, January 30, 2004 “The -ism Project: Using Video Diaries and Film to Enhance Ethnic Studies Classes.” Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA, December 30, 2003 “Hollywood Heroines and Close Encounters of the Modernist Future.” Modernist Studies Association, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., September 26, 2003 “My Favorite Monster: Gendered Response to Abjection, Liminality, and the Grotesque.” University Film and Video Association. University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C., July 25, 2003 “Learning From Arabic, Wolof, and French,” in Teaching of Writing, Modern Language</p><p>7 Association Convention, New York City, New York, December 30, 2002 Organized and chaired session, “Climax: The Mechanics of Desire in ‘The New Media Age’” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Denver Colorado, May 25, 2002 “Crashing Cars, Hidden Climax: The Semiotics of Desire,” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Denver Colorado, May 25, 2002 “Dismembering the Master Narrative of Film Romance,” 27th Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Jan. 26, 2002 “Postcolonial Politics and Senegalese Film: Moussa Toure’s TGV,” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., May 25, 2001 “Film as a Radical Discipline,” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington, D. C., May 26, 2001 “Exoticism and Postcolonial Television Culture,” Television: Past, Present and Futures, University of Queensland, December 3, 2000 “The Beach as a Site of Transformation: From Here to Eternity, The Last Wave, and The Piano,” International Conference, Cultural Studies Association, University of Queensland, December 5, 2000 Invited keynote address, “African American Poetry and Its African Roots,” United States Information Agency, African American Culture Conference, Dakar, Senegal, February 16, 2000 “Violence and the Apolitical Body,” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, April 17, 1999 “Conflations of Sex and Violence in the Cinematic Climax,” 24th Annual Conference on Film and Literature, January 29, 1999 “Film Initiation Rituals: It’s a Wonderful Life to The Game,” 28th Popular Culture Association Convention, Orlando, Florida, April 11, 1998 Keynote address, Paul Olson Seminar Series, “Films of the Great Plains,” University of Nebraska, February 18, 1998 “Morphing, Sacrificing, and Engendering in Apocalypse Films of the 1990s” 23rd Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Florida State University, Tallahassee, January 29, 1998 “Women’s Cyber-Sidekicks from The Wizard of Oz to The Terminator,” presenter and chair of session on Body Transformations in Cinema, South Central Modern Language Association Convention, November 1, 1997 “What’s It All About: Lessons Learned from a Results-Oriented Program for Training Student Advisors” National Academic Advising Association, October 7, 1997 “Films of Jane Austen: Are the Good Ones Faithful or Pretty?” Invited keynote address for Texas College English Association breakfast, South Padre Island, April 5, 1997 “Images of the Grotesque: Personal and Cultural Mirrors,” Popular Culture Association Convention, San Antonio, Texas, March 28, 1997 “Video Diaries: A New Way of Composing for ISM (n.) Ford Foundation Grant,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, Arizona, March 13, 1997 “The Body as Virtual Site of Social Reality,” 22nd Conference of Film and Literature, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January 31, 1997 “Each One Teach One: Using Video to Address Diversity,” Students in Transition Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 23, 1996 “Student as Outsider: Creating Identity, Recreating Family, and Challenging the Patriarchy,” International Freshman Year Experience Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, 19 July, 1996</p><p>8 “The Human Landscape of the Body in Western Movies,” Popular Culture Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 28, 1996 “Cinematic Body Fragmentation as Post-Modern Metaphor,” Ohio University Film Conference, Athens, Ohio, November 3, 1995 “The Residential College: Negotiating the Bureaucratic Maze,” First-Year Experience Conference, Dallas, Texas, November 28, 1995 “Using Media to Teach Ecological Awareness,” The Wilderness Conference, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, November 22, 1994 “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Media Studies,” The Miami of Ohio University Institute for Integrative Studies, Oxford, Ohio, July 20, 1994 “CIVIC Multimedia,” International Technology in Education Conference, University of London, March 23, 1994 “Ecology in Film: From the Silence of Silent Spring to the Noise of Jurassic Park,” North American Wilderness Conference, Ogden, Utah, November 11, 1993 “Multimedia in Interdisciplinary Courses,” The Miami of Ohio University Institute for Integrative Studies, Oxford, Ohio, October 25, 1993 “Film Images of Unperfect Bodies,” The Discourse of Disability Conference, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, March 3, 1993 “La Malinche: Exile as Bridge Builder,” International Conference on Cultural Conflicts in Literature, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, April 28, 1992 “ Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice,” National Council of Teacher of English, Washington D.C., March 23, 1991 “Collaborative Learning in the Classroom,” Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, Chicago, March 24, 1990 “The African Family in Film,” African Literature Association Conference, University of Pittsburgh, April 3, 1988 “A Woman’s Place in the Family Film,” Popular Culture Association Convention, New Orleans, March 23, 1988 Chaired session on Women in Film and Literature, Popular Culture Association Convention, New Orleans, March 23, 1988 “The Family in African Film: At Home Between Eden and Hades,” University of Texas National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, August 3, 1987 “Composing and Computing: Recent Developments,” National Conference of Teachers of English, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 22, 1986 “High Camp in the Classroom: From Laurence Olivier’s Lear to Mickey Rooney’s Puck,” South Central Renaissance Conference, Southwest Texas State University, Apr. 3, 1986 “Response to Using Rhetorical m Theory to Design Instruction for Higher Level Thinking,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, Mar. 15, 1986 “Film as Indicator of Social Standards,” American Popular Culture Association Convention, University of Louisville, Apr. 6, 1985 “Women’s Influence on American Film and Television,” Women’s Conference, Southwest Texas State University, Mar. 3, 1985 “The Language of Stephen King’s Precocious Children,” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D. C., Dec. 1984 Organized and chaired special session, “Gender Differences in Approaches to Language,” with David Bleich, Jeutonne Brewer, Michael Vivion, and Elizabeth Flynn, at Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1984</p><p>9 “Film Images of-Women in Post-World War II America,” 20th Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Feb. 1984 “Fact and Fiction in Cinema: La Jetee,” Film and Literature Conference, Florida State University, Jan. 1984 “The Masculine Hero Takes on a Partner,” Southwest Popular Culture Association Meeting, Texas Tech University, Oct. 1983 “In Search of the Real Calamity Jane,” American Popular Culture Association, University of Wichita, Oct. 1983 “Unity Out of Chaos: The Cult Film as Social Ritual,” 20th Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Feb. 1983 “Woman: The Other Alien in Alien,” Science Fiction Conference, Texas Tech, 1983 “The Decline of Censorship in the Hollywood Film,” Modern Language Association Convention, Los Angeles, Dec. 1982 “The Professional Woman,” South Central Modern Language Association, Houston, Oct., 1982 “Human Teaching and Machine Entertainment,” College English Association Convention, April, 1982 “Androgyny in American Film,” Film and Literature Conference, Florida State University, Jan., 1982 “Altered States and Dream as Self-Discovery,” Midwest Modern Language Association, Wisconsin, Oct., 1981</p><p>Selected Consultancies, Invited Talk, Moderator, Editorial Board, Reader</p><p>Co-Moderator, H-Net Film List Serve, Michigan State University, 1999-2013 Invited on-screen consultant, Ladies or Gentleman, San Francisco, CA, 2008, documentary film for STARZ Channel, broadcast Jan 21, 2009 Invited keynote lecture at University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2007 Invited keynote lecture at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 2006 Invited lecture at University of Texas, Adaptation Conference, 2006 Two invited guest lectures at Vanderbilt University, sponsored by Program in Women’s Studies: “Sexuality and the Grotesque,” March 18, 2004; sponsored by Program in American Studies: “Gender and the March to War,” March 19, 2004 Editorial Board, Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, Cardiff University, 2000-2005 Editorial Board, Safara Bilingual Journal of French and English Literature, University of Nigeria, 2000-2001 Reader/consultant, for Feminist Media Studies, manuscript, “Utopias with a Difference?” December 2000 Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, consultant for the Great Plains Exhibit, Spring 1998 Nebraska Film Commission and University of Nebraska, Forrest Murray Film Retrospective, panelist on the films of Forrest Murray, March 7, 1998 The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman film, development consultant, telephone interviews, Spring, 1995</p><p>C. Grants and Contracts</p><p>Mitte Foundation Grant for Media Studies Program Development, 2006-2007</p><p>10 Department of Health and Human Services, Video for Case Management, Children and Pregnant Women, 2006 Hobby Foundation Grants for Media Studies, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 1997 San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District, Why Wait? Sex education video grant, 2005 ISM Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, Ford Foundation, Diversity Video, 1996, 1997; Ford Foundation ISM(n.) Grant, Director and Principal Investigator, 1996-1997 Ford Foundation ISM(n.) Grant, Faculty Facilitator in Ethnic Studies, 1995-1996 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Grant for Public School Teacher Training, $3,500, 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Grant for Public School Teacher Training $3,000, 1984 Summer Faculty Research Grant (summer salary), Texas S.U., 1983 Learning Research Center Grants, Texas State University, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993 Indiana University Research Grant (Library of Congress Film Archives), 1980</p><p>IV. Service Selected Departmental, University, and Community Service and Leadership </p><p>Awards:</p><p>Presidential Award for Excellence in Service, Texas State University, 2002 Leadership Development Program Internship, with the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Texas State University 1997-1998</p><p>University:</p><p>Faculty Senate, Secretary, 2013 University Handbook Committee, 1998-2013 Transportation and Parking Committee, 2004-2011 Chair, Honor Council, 2007-2010 Honor Council, 2005-2010 Common Experience Team, 2006-2007 Service Learning Committee, 2003-2011 Director, Media Studies Minor, English Department, Texas State University, 1998-2011 Secretary, Faculty Senator, University Faculty Senate, Texas State University, 2002-2005 Committee on the Role of the Chair, 2005 Presidential Excellence in Service Award Committee, 2003 Fulbright Evaluation Committee, Southwest Texas State University, 2000-2001 University Telecommunications Committee, 1995-2000 Texas Faculty Association, Southwest Texas Chapter Treasurer, 1992-1998 Texas Faculty Association, Southwest Texas Chapter Secretary, 2000-2002 Video Task Force for Freshman Seminar, Chair, 1993, 1994 Co-organizer, Literacy Days at Southwest Texas, 1989, 1990 President, Advancement for Women in Higher Education, Southwest Texas, 1995-1996, member 1997-2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Service Committee, 2003-2005</p><p>11 Presidential Seminar Committee, 1987-1990 (Chair of Presidential Seminar-Committee, 1988- 1990) Presidential Teaching Excellence Award Committee, 1992 SACS Committee Report, co-authored section of report on Instructional Support, 1988 Liberal Arts Grant Committee, 1987-1988 University Committee for Computer Literacy, 1985 University Committee on Audiovisual Facilities and Classroom Use of Media, 1990-1992 Report of University of Texas at Arlington, Composition, Analysis of Texts, Critical Thinking Integrated Program (CACTIP) Program Student Learning Assistance Center Advisor from English Department, 1983 Faculty Liaison, English, for the University Women’s Network, 1983-84 University Audio-visual Committee, 1983-84 Computer Assisted Instruction Committee, 1983-84 Faculty Sponsor: Students Ending Hunger, Cinema Studies Club, Earth First, Amnesty International, SWT Chapter, 1988-present, Alpha Phi Omega Service Organization, 2004-2007, Media Moles, 2000-2007</p><p>Departmental:</p><p>Hiring Committee, Film Studies Position, Spring 2013 Hiring Committee, Film Studies Position, Fall 2008 Developed, Authored and Directed, Media Studies Minor, English Department, Texas S. U., 1998-2011 English Department Advanced Studies Committee, 1993-1998, 2000-2011 English Department Major and Minor Committee, 1988-1998, 2000-2011 English Department Endowment Committee 1998-1999, 2000-2011 Flowers Hall Renovation (and later) Building Committee 1987-2002 Word Processing Committee, 1986-1996 English Department Committee for Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1982 Faculty Sponsor, English Student Association 1988-1995 Academic Day English Department representative 1996-1999 English Department Ph.D. Proposal Committee 2001-2004</p><p>12 Community:</p><p>Franklin Square Homeowners Association: Vice President, President, Historian, Secretary, Treasurer, edit bylaws, architectural documents, parliamentary procedure, 2001-2013 Representative San Marcos Council of Neighborhood Association, 2006-2010 San Marcos Planning and Zoning Commission: edit, assess, suggest revisions, approve, and deny zoning and variance proposals, city master plan documents, 2001-2004 San Marcos Community, Blue Ribbon Bond Commission: edited and co-authored bond proposals, 1990 San Marcos Community Solid Waste Committee: co-authored and edited recycling and solid waste proposals for San Marcos, 1990-1992 Coordinator San Marcos CROP Hunger Walk: created public service announcements, work on promotional materials, coordinated sub-committees, 1987-1990 Healthy Communities organization member, attended monthly meetings, 1997-2002 Assisted with Gifted and Talented classes Travis Elementary, Maria Hernandez School Volunteer Program Travis Elementary, After School Enrichment French Classes, Volunteer, 1992, 1993, 1994</p><p>Statewide:</p><p>Delegate to Texas Association of Faculty Senates, 2002, 2003 Delegate to Texas Faculty Association Convention, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002 Texas Faculty Association Representative Assembly 1997, 1998, 2002</p><p>Regional:</p><p>Candidate, District 5, State Board of Education, 2009-2010; 2011-2012 Exploratory Group, Candidate District 5, State Board of Education, 2008-2010 Regional Women’s Studies Representative, Popular Culture Association, 1988-1991 Representative to the Women’s Caucus of the Modern Language Association from the Southwest, 1988-1993 Campus representative to the Southwest, Central Modern Language Association, 1983-84 Planning Committee, University Women’s Conference, Southwest Texas State University, 1983</p><p>Nationwide:</p><p>Editorial Board advisor and reader, Intensities Online Journal, 2000-2011 Editorial Board reader, Cinema Journal, 1998-2011 Integrative Studies Institute at Miami University of Ohio, (follow-up, Summer 1994) Integrative Studies Institute at Miami University of Ohio, Fall 1993 </p><p>International:</p><p>Planning Committee, Global Odyssey: Gender, Social Justice, and Leadership, Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies, 2013 Co-Moderator for History and Film List Serve, Michigan State University, serving over 1,800 members worldwide, 1999-2013 Texas State at Oxford, Oxford University, Oxford, England, Second Summer Session, 2005</p><p>13 SWT at Canterbury International Program, Teacher, University of Kent, England, Second Summer Session, 2008, 2002, 1992, 1994, 1995 Organized and Chaired panel on Freshman Year Experience, International Freshman Year Experience Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, 1996</p><p>14</p>