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  • Ph.D., Emory University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2005

    Department of Women’s Studies, with Ph.D. Certificate from Department of Film Studies

    Dissertation: “The Astounded Soul”: Cinematic Time and Photogenic Love (Wenders, Varda, Kore-eda)

    Committee: Angelika Bammer (adviser), Matthew Bernstein, Dalia Judovitz, Karla Oeler

    BA, Pennsylvania State University (Erie, Behrend College), 1999

    Major: English; Minor: Women’s Studies

    Honors Thesis: Transcending Form and Gender: Feminist Theory and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Sonnets

    Committee: Gregory L. Morris (adviser), Diana Hume George, Melissa Bender

  • Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Literature, Media, and Communication

    Associate Professor of Film, 2024-present

    Hendrix College, Department of English

    Professor of Film and Media Studies and English, 2018-2024

    Associate Professor of Film Studies and English, 2012-2018

    Assistant Professor of Film Studies and English, 2008-2012

    Leadership:

    Chair of English Department, 2017-2021

    Coordinator of Film and Media Studies Program, 2019-2020, 2022-present

    Chair of Film Studies Program, 2008-2017

    Hofstra University, Department of Radio, Television, Film

    Assistant Professor of Film Studies, 2005-2008

    Emory University, Department of Film Studies and Department of Women’s Studies

    Instructor, 2001-05

    Teaching Assistant, 2000-01

  • ecomedia, feminist film history and theory, independent cinema, documentary, social and environmental justice, Hollywood genre history and theory (especially musical, melodrama, comedy, romance), Wes Anderson, Kasi Lemmons, Kelly Reichardt, Agnès Varda, Hirokazu Kore-eda, videographic criticism, phenomenological film theory, film as natural history, essay film (especially teaching the form toward inspiring, shepherding, and workshopping student productions)

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

    Contemporary American Independent Filmmakers

    Hendrix College

    Advanced

    Childhood and Cinema

    Cinematic Lives

    Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Videographic Criticism

    Film and Writing

    Film Comedy

    Film Musicals

    Film Theory

    French New Wave

    Natural Histories and New Worlds

    Non-Fiction Film

    Senior Seminar: Cinematic Landscape and Atmosphere

    Senior Seminar: Early Cinema

    Theories of Cinematic Spectacle

    Theories of Cinematic Time

    Thesis Seminar

    Introductory

    Film and the Environment

    Introduction to Academic Writing

    Introduction to Film Studies

    Literary Analysis

    Literary and Cinematic Adaptations

    Poetry

    Short Fiction

    The Engaged Citizen: Ethics, Film, & Hope (co-taught with Peg Falls-Corbitt)

    The Engaged Citizen: Film, Memory, and Political Change (co-taught with Jay Barth)

    Hofstra University

    Cinema and Transcendence

    Coming of Age in Cinema

    Fairy Tales and Film (co-taught with Ethna Lay and Scott Harshbarger)

    Fellini, Bergman, Antonioni, Truffaut

    Film Comedy

    Film History I & II

    Film Theory

    French New Wave

    Introduction to Film Studies

    Martin Scorsese

    Sound and Image Aesthetics

    Women Filmmakers

    Emory University

    Bergman and Time

    Introduction to Film Studies

    Introduction to Women’s Studies—Envisioning Theory/Theorizing Vision

    Female Film Directors

    Women, Love, Time, and Aesthetics

    Spectacle and Sentiment

    Female Film Directors

    Women, Love, Time, and Aesthetics

    Introduction to Film Studies

  • Books

    Rushmore. BFI Film Classics, Bloomsbury, October 2023.

    Cinema as Weather: Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change. Routledge, March 2013 (hardback); June 2015 (paperback).

    Love in the Time of Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, December 2011.

    Essays

    “‘Always the same and ever new’: Clouds, Aging, and Climatology in Clouds of Sils Maria (2013),” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, May 2021.

    “Creating Light, Sharing Concern: Little Women (Gillian Armstrong, 1994),” CTEQ Annotations, published with Senses of Cinema and Melbourne Cinématheque, April 2020.

    “Time and Friendship in Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006), or How We Age with Film,” Bright Lights Film Journal, 4 October 2019.

    “On Moving Away and Circling Back: Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups,” New England Review special issue on Terrence Malick, Volume 39, no.2 (2018), 61-72.

    Co-editor, with Tracy Cox-Stanton, of special issue of The Cine-Files, “Teaching Film,” December 2017.

    “Glory Fades and Shines: On Rushmore and Empathy,” Bennington Review, Issue 3, July 2017.

    “How Film Remembers: After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998),” CTEQ Annotations, published with Senses of Cinema and Melbourne Cinémathèque, June 2017.

    “Teaching 400 Blows,” The Cine-Files dossier on teaching, invited publication, December 2015.

    “Time, Scale, and Cinephilia in the Cinematic Elegy: Agnès Varda’s Jacquot de Nantes (1991),” Studies in French Cinema 8.3(2008): 211-228.

    “Learning to Love What Passes: Sensual Perception, Temporal Transformation, and Epistemic Production in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life (1998),” Camera Obscura 23.2 68(2008): 69-101.

    “Marriage as Cinematic Movement, or Loving the Face in Close-Up: Scenes from a Marriage,” CTEQ Annotations, published with Senses of Cinema and Melbourne Cinémathèque, July-September 2007.

    “’A state of loving detachment’: Sally Potter’s Impassioned and Intellectual Cinema.” Senses of Cinema 40(July-September 2006).

    Book Chapters

    “'Funny how you forget the things that make you happy': Climate Action and Marital Change in Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years," Attachments: An Andrew Haigh Reader, eds. Cüneyt Çakırlar, Gary Needham, and Justin Wyatt. (proposed to BFI/Bloomsbury, October 2024).

    “Documentary as Ecocinema: Form, Ethics, and Environmental Justice,” Oxford Handbook of American Documentary, eds. Patricia Aufderheide and Joshua Glick, Oxford UP, forthcoming.

    “Kasi Lemmons’s Eve’s Bayou,” for Screening American Independent Film, eds. Justin Wyatt and Wyatt Phillips, Routledge, 2023.

    “On Sharing Films, Learning Care, Keeping Watch, and Finding,” Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor, eds. So Mayer and Corinn Columpar. Wayne State UP, 2022.

    “Teaching Film Nonfictionally: The Reciprocity of Pedagogy, Cinephilia, and Maternity,” For the Love of Cinema, eds. Rashna Richards and David Johnson. Indiana UP, 2017. 125-142.

    “A Home for Cinephilia in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003).” Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction, vol. II, Wallflower Press/Columbia UP, 2012. 132-142.

    Reviews and Public Scholarship

    Review of “Women’s Time Image,” by Jessica McGoff, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 5.2, 2018.

    Book Review: Kelly Reichardt, by Nicole Seymour and Katherine Fusco (University of Illinois Press, 2017), Cineaste (Summer 2018).

    Book Review, Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Beauvoirian Perspective, ed. Jean Pierre Boulé and Ursula Tidd (Berghahn Books, 2012), H-France Review 14 (February 2014), No. 13.

    Film Review, Sommaren med Monika/Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953), Film International, 11.1(2013): 68-9.

    “Cinematic Bodies in Motion: On Raging Bull,” Hendrix Magazine 26 (Fall 2013): 23.

    Book Review, The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America, ed. Hannah Patterson (2nd ed., Wallflower Press, October 2007), Film International 7.5(2009).

    Book Review, Ingmar Bergman’s The Magic Lantern (U of Chicago P, 2007), Film International 7.4 (2009).

    Book Review, Rey Chow’s Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility (Columbia UP, 2007), Film Quarterly 62.1(September 2008): 99-100.

    Book Review-Essay, “Inscribing Cinema in Sylviane Agacinski’s Time Passing: Modernity and Nostalgia.” Film-Philosophy 10.2: 67-81. 2006.

    Book Review-Essay, “Remembrance of Cinema Past: Reading Nostalgia and Writing Possibility in Annette Kuhn's Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory.” Film-Philosophy 7.42 (November 2003).

    Book Review-Essay, “Impassioned Aesthetics: Seeing Sound and Hearing Images in Michel Chion’s Audio-Vision.” Film-Philosophy 6.5(March 2002).

  • 2024“’There won’t be another time’: Natural Histories, Maternal Aesthetics, and Imaginative Play in Céline Sciamma's Petite Maman,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Boston, March [invited to participate in panel on maternal aesthetics, but unable to present due to Covid-19]

    2023 “Toward Biocentric Joy: Ecomedia as Phenomenological and Sensuous Practice,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Denver, April.

    2021 “Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister (2016) as Naturalist History of Slow Change, or Reading the Blossoms and the Trees,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; March (virtual)

    2019 “Contemplative Perception and Child Interiority in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s I Wish (2011), or Koichi Chooses the World,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Seattle, March [invited to participate in panel on contemplative cinema]

    2016 “‘Always the same and ever new’: Meteorology and Aging in Clouds of Sils Maria.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Atlanta, March. [invited to participate in panel on French cinema and science]

    2013 “Screens, Skies, and Books: Cinematic Weather and Emma Bovary’s Reading.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Chicago, March.

    2010 “’It really was no miracle. What happened just was this…the wind began to switch’: Weather, Cinematic Expression, and Narrative Change.” Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland; July.

    2009 “Ephemeral Style: Intimate Scale and Subjectivity in Doris Dörrie’s Cherry Blossoms.” 2009 World Picture Conference: “Style.” Oklahoma State University; Stillwater, Oklahoma; October.

    2008 “Cinematic Desire as Overwhelming Gravity: Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and the Contingency of Weight, Time, Space, and Sexuality.” Screened Sexuality: Desire in Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Cinema. Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities; New York; October.

    2008 “Cinematic Canonicity as Sensual History: Barthes, Benjamin, and The Dreamers.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Philadelphia; March.

    2007 “A History of Sensuality: Nostalgia for the (Cinematic) Past in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers.” The Past in the Present: History as Practice in Art, Design, and Architecture, an International Interdisciplinary Conference. The Glasgow School of Art, Department of Historical and Critical Studies; Glasgow, UK; 26-29 October.

    2006 “Simultaneous Subjectivities and Virtuosic Closure: Cinematic Tragedy in Requiem for a Dream and Taxi Driver.” The Locus of Tragedy Conference; University of Antwerp; Antwerp, Belgium; 23-25 November.

    2006 “’Something to long for’: Stylistic Intimacy and Duration in Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Vancouver; March.

    2004 “Cinephilic Mortality.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Atlanta; March.

    2003 “’Now we are the times’: Romantic Temporality and Historical Forgetting in Wings of Desire and Amélie.” Critical Moments: Re-Membering Community and Self, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts Conference, Emory University, Atlanta; March.

    2003 “In Loving Memory: Agnès Varda’s Jacquot de Nantes and the Cinematic Elegy.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Minneapolis; March.

    2002 “’If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes’: Visual Perception, Female Spectacle, and the Performative Cogito in BladeRunner.” 27th Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee; January.

  • Presentations

    Faculty Keynote, “Women at Work and Play: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023) and the (Brief!) History of Gender, Labor, Leisure, and Leadership in Hollywood,” Hendrix Women’s Leadership Community, Alumni Weekend Celebration, 19 April 2024.

    “Writing about Film: Rushmore and the Literature of the Screen,” Literature and Language over Lunch, Hendrix-Murphy Foundation, 1 December 2023.

    “Film and Finding Purpose,” lecture and workshop, Hendrix Life Launch, June 2022.

    Faculty Keynote, “The Engaged Citizen, or What’s It Like To Learn at Hendrix?” for Embrace the Orange, April 2021

    Co-presenter (with Jay Barth) of “The Engaged Citizen” class for Embrace the Orange; April 2015, April 2016, April 2017

    “Tuesday Talk: What is my calling/vocation, and how do I know?” (lunchtime lecture in cafeteria), October 2016

    Presentation of Sabbatical Work (as supported by Hendrix-Murphy Program), 17 November 2015

    Faculty Welcome to New Students, 2015 Hendrix Academic Convocation, August 2015

    “Hendrix, Hollywood, and Happy Endings,” Hendrix Little Rock Admissions Reception, January 2014

    “On Living and Loving Film: Why Movies Matter to Me,” Friday Afternoon Discussion Series, Steele Center, Hendrix College, April 2013

    “Cinematography as Narration,” lecture for Hendrix Filmmakers, February 2013

    “Tuesday Talk: What is my calling/vocation, and how do I know?” (lunchtime lecture in cafeteria), February 2012

    “Hendrix, Hollywood, and Happy Endings,” Hendrix Little Rock Admissions Reception, January 2012

    Hendrix Project Pericles Forum

    “The Meaning of Moonlight and La La Land: What Do These Films Say About 2017 America?”, Co-Facilitated with Josh Glick, March 2017

    “Oscar 2016: Who Should Win, and Why?”, Co-facilitated with Josh Glick, February 2016

    Boyhood and You,” October 2014

    “Who Should Win an Oscar for Civic Engagement?”, March 2014

    “Oscar 2013: Who Should Win, and Why?”, February 2013

    Downton Abbey—Why does it resonate with 21st-century America?,” Co-facilitated with Carol West, February 2012

    Introductions to Films

    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, 1964), Hendrix Film Society screening; March 2017

    BladeRunner, Hendrix Film Society screening, April 2013

    Tell No One, Hendrix French Club screening, November 2012

    Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut, 1960), Hendrix-Murphy Crime Film Series, March 2012

    M (Lang, 1931), Hendrix-Murphy Crime Film Series, February 2012

    Badlands (Malick, 1973), Hendrix-Murphy Crime Film Series, October 2011

    Heavenly Creatures (Jackson, 1994), Hendrix-Murphy Crime Film Series, September 2011

    The Band’s Visit (Kolirin, 2007), Hendrix-Murphy Comedy Film Series, April 2011

    Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955), Hendrix-Murphy Comedy Film Series, February 2011

    The Awful Truth (McCarey, 1937), Hendrix-Murphy Comedy Film Series, November 2010

    Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936), Hendrix-Murphy Comedy Film Series, September 2010

    Introduction and Discussion Moderator for Driving Miss Daisy (Beresford, 1989), Crain Maling Center for Jewish Culture Film Series “Jews in the South”, March 2010

    Introduction and Discussion Moderator for The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927), Crain-Maling Center for Jewish Culture Film Series “Immigration and Exile: The Jewish Experience in America,” 25 February 2009

    Introduction and Discussion Moderator for Al Otro Lado! (Almada, 2006), with filmmaker Natalia Almada, “Through Our Eyes: A Four Part Documentary Film Series Celebrating Latino Heritage Month,” Hofstra University, 17 October 2006

    Finding Neverland (Forster, 2004), Writers and Writing Film Festival, Hofstra University, 20 September 2006

    Panels

    Discussion Moderator for Orlando (Potter, 1992), “Changing Bodies: The Cinematic Beauty of Transformation” Film Series, Windgate Museum of Art, Hendrix College, 17 February 2021.

    Discussion Moderator for Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016), “Black Representation Matters: In Film and Beyond” Film Series, Let Us March On/Black Lives Matter Exhibit, Windgate Museum of Art, Hendrix College, 6 November 2020

    Panelist, “(Re)Presenting History: Hamilton’s America,” Hendrix College, AETN/PBS documentary screening and discussion, sponsored by Project Pericles, Film Studies, History, Theatre Arts and Dance, Offices of Diversity and Inclusion and Student Activities; October 2016

    Faculty panelist, Hendrix Admissions information session for guidance counselors, April 2014

    Faculty panelist, Hendrix Admissions information session for guidance counselors, April 2011

    Workshop Leader, “Emotion and Affect in the Moving Image: Promises (Bolado, Goldberg, Shapiro, 2001)” and “Qualities of the Image: Visual Analysis and Born into Brothels (Briski and Kauffman, 2004)”, Documenting Diversity; Hofstra School of Communication, 23-24 July 2007

    “Expert Commentator” for the 36 Hour Film Festival, “Thursday Night Live” Television Show; Department of Radio, TV, Film; Hofstra University, 23 April 2007

    Panel Representative for Film Studies, Fall Open House Communication Studies Panel, Hofstra University, 12 November 2006

    Interview Guest, “Hofstra Pride on the Air,” WRHU Radio Station, School of Communication, Hofstra University, recorded 26 October 2006 (for broadcast December 2006)

    Discussion Moderator for Girls Like Us (DiFeliciantonio and Wagner, 1997). Documenting Diversity; Hofstra University School of Communication, 7 July 2006

    Workshop Leader, “Emotion and Affect in the Moving Image: Promises (Bolado, Goldberg, Shapiro, 2001)” and “Qualities of the Image: Visual Analysis and Born into Brothels (Briski and Kauffman, 2004),” Documenting Diversity; Hofstra University School of Communication, 5-6 July 2006.

  • “Wes Anderson’s The Ratcatcher and Contemporary American Film,” presentation to Alan Michael Parker’s “Contemporary American Film” class, Davidson College, 15 February 2024 (virtual).

    Introduction to Rushmore and post-screening discussion with Donna Kornhaber (Arthur J. Thaman and Wilhemina Dore Thaman Endowed Professor in English, University of Texas-Austin) and Patrick Keating (Professor of Communication, Trinity University), Trinity University, San Antonio, 8 February 2024.

    Introduction to Rushmore and post-screening discussion (moderated by Kevin Brockmeier), “Wes Fest,” sponsored by Six Bridges Literary Festival, Central Arkansas Library System, and Arkansas Cinema Society, 17 November 2023.

    “Film and Writing,” presentation to Amelie Hastie’s “The Film Essay” class, Amherst College, October 2021 (virtual).

    Panelist and presenter, “Translating Charles Portis to Film,” 50 Years of True Grit, sponsored by The Oxford American Magazine, Little Rock, April 2018.

    Respondent, “From Spectacle to the Quotidian: Nature and Landscape in Asian Cinema,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago; March 2017.

    “On Time and Friendship in Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006),” University of Oklahoma, visiting lecturer in Presidential Dream Course series (on Kelly Reichardt), February 2017.

    Introduction to Laura (Preminger, 1944), Arkansas Times/Little Rock Film Festival Screening, Ron Robinson Theater, October 2015.

    Introduction to Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978), Arkansas Times/Little Rock Film Festival Screening, Ron Robinson Theater, September 2015.

    Panelist, “Illuminating the Shadows: Film Criticism in Focus,” Northwestern University Block Cinema Panel with Adrian Martin, Girish Shambu, and Elena Gorfinkel, Chicago; May 2012. (unable to attend due to death in family)

    “Cinephilia and Scholarship,” presentation to Amelie Hastie’s “Cinephilia” seminar, Amherst College, April 2012.

    Post-screening interview guest (via Skype) for Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962), Cinema 41, Austin, Texas, November 2011.

    “The Cinematic Face,” presentation to Angela Hunter’s Liberal Arts Seminar, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, March 2011.

    Moderator for panel on Silhouette City (2008) with filmmakers Michael Wilson and Natalie Zimmerman, Arkansas Literary Festival, April 2010.

    “Cinephilia as Sensual (Film) History in The Dreamers (Bertolucci, 2003),” Southern Illinois University Department of Cinema and Photography, 21 September 2009.

    Keynote, “Fortune as a Way of Seeing,” at “Fortunes of Gender,” Penn State Behrend Women’s Studies and Literature Conference, 13 February 2009.

    Keynote, Induction Ceremony for Lambda Pi Eta Communications Honor Society, Hofstra University, 28 April 2008.

    Keynote, “Learning to Love What Passes.” Friday Philosophy Forum, Department of Philosophy and Liberal Studies and the Gender Studies Program; University of Arkansas, Little Rock; 12 October 2007.

    Research Keynote, “Benevolent Perspectives: Sally Potter’s Transformative Gaze,” Hofstra University School of Communication Fall Faculty Meeting, 30 August 2006.

    Panel Chair, “Cinephilia.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Atlanta; March 2004.

    Panel Chair, “Cinema, Memory, Love.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Minneapolis; March 2003.

    Respondent and Discussion Moderator for Independent Lens Community Cinema (sponsored by PBS/AETN)

    Bhutto, April 2011.

    Pushing the Elephant, April 2011.

    The Calling, December 2010.

    Deep Down, November 2010.

    Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian, October 2010.

    The Horse Boy, April 2010.

    Young at Heart, January 2010.

    Copyright Criminals, November 2009.

    D-Tour, October 2009.

  • 2019-2020 Carole Herrick Award for Excellence in Academic Advising

    2019 Mohawk Area High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame, inductee

    Hendrix College Humanities Area Nominee for U.S. Professor of the Year, Council for Advancement and Support of Education and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2015

    Hendrix College 2014-15 Methodist Exemplary Teaching Award

    Academy of American Poets Award, First Prize for “Daylight Savings”; Emory University, 2004

    Emory University Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, 2003-4.

    Academy of American Poets Award, Honorable Mention for “Penelope in Spring”; Emory University, 2003.

    Emory University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, 1999-2003.

    Academy of American Poets Award, Honorable Mention for “May”; Emory University, 2002

    Pennsylvania State University Oswald Award (for a graduating senior with academic excellence, demonstrated leadership, and promise of public-spirited future achievement), 1999

    Pennsylvania State University Walker Award (for one undergraduate student “at the commonwealth locations whose outstanding qualities of character, scholarship, leadership and citizenship have…positively influenced fellow students and have contributed to the prestige and well-being of their campus [and]…University as a whole”), 1998

    Pennsylvania State University Schreyer Scholar, 1995-1999

  • Hendrix-Murphy Project Grant for “Nourishing Our Classroom Community: Dinner and Literary Discussion,” Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

    Hendrix Faculty Project Grant (for travel to the 2023 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver)

    Hendrix Faculty Project Grant for “Screening National Parks: On Photography, Nature, and Experience” (travel to Acadia, Great Smoky Mountain, Hot Springs, and Shenandoah National Parks), Summer 2019

    Hendrix Faculty Project Grant (for travel to the 2019 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle)

    Mellon Pedagogy Grant (award by Hendrix College) for development of “Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Videographic Criticism” course, Spring 2017 ($4,000)

    Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Sabbatical Award, for sabbatical Spring 2015

    Associated Colleges of the South Faculty Development Grant (with Rashna Richards) for Rhodes-Hendrix Film Studies Research Symposium, 2014

    Charles S. And Lucile Esmon Shivley Odyssey Professorship, "Motion Pictures, Active Learning: Festivals, Scholars, Artists, and Research," 2014-2017 (three years/$75,000)

    Associated Colleges of the South Faculty Development Grant (with Rashna Richards) for Hendrix-Rhodes Film Studies Research Symposium, 2013

    Hendrix-Murphy Three-Year Grant for “City Cinema” (dinner and movie for a small group of students/faculty, once per semester), 2010-2013

    Mellon Foundation Curriculum Enrichment Grant for Film Studies (awarded to the Film Studies Working Group by Hendrix College Committee on Faculty), 2010-2012

    Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary “Crossings” Grant (in collaboration with Anne Goldberg, Maxine Payne, Alex Vernon; organized by Jay Barth), 2009-2012

    Hendrix Faculty Research Grant (to Glasgow, UK; Screen conference), Summer 2010

    Hendrix-Murphy Project Grant (for a trip with six students to the 2010 New Directors/New Films Festival; New York City), March 2010

    Hendrix Faculty Travel Grant (to New York City; “Screened Sexuality” conference at Columbia University), 2008

    Hendrix Start-Up Grant to expand film library, 2008-2011 (three years/$15,000)

    Hofstra Faculty Travel Grant (to Glasgow, UK; “The Past in the Present” conference), 2007

    Hofstra Faculty Travel Grant (to Antwerp, Belgium; “The Locus of Tragedy” conference), 2006

    Hofstra Faculty Travel Grant (to Vancouver, Canada; SCMS conference), 2005

    Emory University Conference Travel Grants, 2002-4

  • Faculty Development Reading Group, Larry Ferlazzo’s The Student Motivation Handbook: 50 Ways to Boost an Intrinsic Desire to Learn, Hendrix College, Fall 2023

    Faculty Development Reading Group, Saundra Yancey McGuire’s Teach Students How to Learn, Hendrix College, Fall 2023

    “Women’s Leadership Institute,” Associated Colleges of the South Summer Professional Development Series, June-July 2023

    “A Pedagogy of Reparations: Exploring Anti-Racist Pedagogies,” workshop with Dr. Usha Iyer, University of Washington Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Association, June 2022

    “Ready When You Are: Flexible Delivery and Excellent Pedagogy in Blended Delivery, Active Learning Classes,” Associated Colleges of the South Summer Workshops on Advancing Academic Pedagogies, July 2020

    “Near, Far, Wherever You Are: Models for Building Community in the ‘New’ First-Year Experience,” Associated Colleges of the South Summer Workshops on Advancing Academic Pedagogies, July 2020

    Hendrix Faculty Reading Group, Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race, July 2020

    SCMS+ Webinar: Roundtable and Discussion on Teaching Cinema and Media Studies Online, June 2020

    Hendrix-Murphy Reading Group, “Picture This” (on Balzac’s “Sarrasine” and Tolstaya’s “See the Other Side”), September 2019

    African American History Month Hendrix Faculty Reading Group, Erica Dunbar’s Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, February 2019

    Hendrix-Murphy Reading Group, Sy Montgomery’s How to Be a Good Creature, October 2018

    “Reducing Bias in Our Hiring Practices,” workshop with Dr. Anita Davis, Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the Associated Colleges of the South, September 2017

    Hendrix Diversity and Inclusion Facilitation Training for Fall Faculty Conference, August 2016

    Hendrix-Murphy Teaching with Tutorials Workshop, August 2015

    Hendrix faculty participant in AAC&U Institute on General Education and Assessment, University of Vermont, Burlington, June 2013

    Visit to Five-College Consortium (Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, UMass-Amherst, Hampshire) to study Film Studies within liberal arts (sponsored by Mellon Curricular Breadth and Depth grant), April 2012

    Hendrix Faculty Project Grant for research on Cinema as Weather (travel and lodging to visit Margaret Herrick Library, Harry Ransom Center, and New York Library for the Performing Arts), Summer 2011

    Goethe-Institut Summer Language Class, Berlin, Summer 2009

    Hendrix-Murphy Reading Group on contemporary Indian fiction (“Cusp of India”: Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Mukherjee), Hendrix College, Fall 2008

    Faculty Reading Group on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Hofstra University, Spring 2007

    Faculty Reading Group on Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Hofstra University, Spring 2006

    Center for Humanistic Inquiry Faculty/Graduate Student Seminar, “Memory and Memorializing,” Emory University, Fall 2003-Spring 2004

    Faculty/Graduate Student Reading and Research Seminar, “Memory and History,” Emory University, Fall 2001-Spring 2003

    Research Assistant, Dr. Martine Watson Brownley, Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Director of the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, Summer 2000-Fall 2003

    Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity program, Emory University, 2002-3

    Film Festival Co-Curator, “New Wave Now: Films by Resnais, Varda, and Godard,” Emory University, 28-30 March 2002

    Research Assistant, Dr. Pamela M. Hall, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Women’s Studies, Emory University, Spring 2000

  • Judge, Hofstra University Film Festival, May 2022

    Online Editor, Film Matters Magazine (2020-2022)

    Mentor, ASLE Mentoring Program (2021)

    Advisory Board Member, Film Matters Magazine (2017-2020)

    Guest Editor, 2017 New Directors/New Films Festival print dossier of student essays and online dossier of reviews (Film Matters, 2018)

    Guest Editor, New York Film Festival print dossier of student essays, Film Matters, 2017)

    Guest Editor, New York Film Festival online dossier of reviews (Film Matters, 2016)

    Guest Editor, New Directors/New Films dossier (print), issue 4.3 (Film Matters, 2013)

    Faculty Mentor, Film Matters undergraduate film magazine (2011-2017)

    National Endowment for the Humanities peer review panelist for Film Studies and Theater Summer Stipends (Fall 2016)

    Co-curator, Arkansas Times/Little Rock Film Festival Screening Series, Ron Robinson Theater (2015)

    Board Member, Splice Film Society (2014-2015)

    Manuscript Reviewer

    Bloomsbury/BFI Film Classics

    Age, Culture, Humanities

    Cinema Journal

    Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press

    Intellect Press/University of Chicago Press

    [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies

    Palgrave Macmillan Press

    Professional Associations

    Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Fall 2001-present

    Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, August 2019-present

  • Search Committees

    Tenure-track position in Music, 2023-2024 (Humanities representative)

    Tenure-track position in English-Creative Writing, Fall 2023

    Creative Non-Fiction/Literary Studies Murphy Visiting Fellow, Spring 2023

    Visiting assistant professor position in English-Film and Media Studies, Summer 2022

    Visiting assistant professor position in English-Literary Studies, Summer 2021

    Chair, Poetry/Creative Non-Fiction Murphy Visiting Fellow, Summer 2021

    Chair, Poetry/Creative Non-Fiction Murphy Visiting Fellow, 2018-19

    Poetry/Creative Non-Fiction Murphy Visiting Fellow, 2015-2016

    Chair, English-Film pre-doctoral fellowship, 2013-2014

    Chair, tenure-track position in English-Film, 2013-2014

    Tenure-track position in Early Modern literature, 2013-2014

    Tenure-track position in British poetry, 2012-2013

    Mellon Post-doc in Environmental Studies and the Humanities, 2010-2011

    Tenure-track position in American Literature, 2010-2011

    Director of Digital Learning, 2011

    Tenure-track position in American Literature, 2009-2010

    Tenure-track position in African-American Literature, 2008-2009

    Committees/Groups

    Committee on Committees (elected), 2014-2016, 2020-2022, 2024-2026

    Committee on Engaged Learning, 2023-2024

    Windgate Museum of Art Film Committee, 2020-2022

    College liaison for Rhodes, Marshall, and Mitchell scholarships, 2020-2021

    Chair, Writing Program Committee, 2018-2021

    Distinguished Scholarships and Honors Committee, 2009-2013, 2019-2020

    Council of New Student Advising, 2018-2019, 2015-2016, 2010-2012

    Council on Academic Policy/Academic and Professional Concerns Committee (elected), Fall 2016-Spring 2018

    Red Brick Film Festival Planning Committee, 2016-2017, 2009-2014

    Faculty Advisor, Hendrix Film Society, 2008-2017

    Creative Quad Planning Group, Fall 2016

    Film Studies Working Group (for breadth and depth of curriculum), 2009-2014

    The Engaged Citizen Working Group (appointed), May 2012-August 2013

    Strategic Vision Working Group on Academic Structure, April 2012-May 2013

    2022 Strategic Vision Steering Committee (appointed), April 2012-May 2013

    Faculty Committee on Sustainability, 2011

    Coordinator/Founder of City Cinema Program

    Moonlight, December 2016

    Midnight Special, April 2016

    Birdman, November 2014

    Martha Marcy May Marlene, November 2011

    Win Win, April 2011

    Waiting for Superman, November 2010

    Coordinator of Campus Visits for Scholars, Artists, and Poets

    Caryl Flinn, “Mutating Musicals, Mutating Utopias” lecture, classroom visits, and screening and discussion of There’s No Business Like Show Business (sponsored by Shivley Odyssey Professorship), November 2016

    Amelie Hastie, “Vulnerable Spectatorship: Seeing, Believing, and Knowing Film” lecture and student conferences (sponsored by Shivley Odyssey Professorship), November 2015

    Girish Shambu, “The Practice of Cinephilia” lecture and student conferences (sponsored by Shivley Odyssey Professorship), August 2015

    Josh Glick, “Cinema by the Seashore” lecture and class visits to Literary and Cinematic Adaptations and Film Theory (sponsored by Shivley Odyssey Professorship), October 2014

    Miranda July, “Lost Child” presentation, class visits, and discussion session (sponsored by Hendrix-Murphy Foundation), February 2014 (with reading groups and events beginning fall 2013), co-coordinator with Ty Jaeger

    Patrick Keating, “Electricity and Modern Space in Post-war Noir” lecture and class meeting with Early Cinema seminar (sponsored by Mellon Curricular Breadth and Depth grant), February 2013

    Mark Richard, “Writing as Remedy” lecture and class visits (sponsored by Hendrix-Murphy Foundation), November 2012, co-coordinator with Ty Jaeger

    Rashna Richards, “Get the Antennae! Cinephilia and Storytelling” (lecture) and meetings to discuss breadth and depth of curriculum and possible Film Studies colloquium with Rhodes College (sponsored by Mellon Curricular Breadth and Depth grant), March 2012

    Amelie Hastie, “Columbo and Crime Television,” classroom visits, and screening and discussion of Ratcatcher (Ramsay, 1999), (sponsored by Hendrix-Murphy Foundation), November 2011

    Alan Michael Parker, Visiting Poet (sponsored by Hendrix-Murphy Foundation), April 2011

    Christian Keathley (external consultant to evaluate Film Studies program), March 2011

    Simon Critchley, “How to Laugh at Foreigners,” Keynote lecture for “Comedy” Hendrix-Murphy annual theme, September 2010

    Girish Shambu, “Words on the Screen: Film Blogging, Cinephilia, and Internet Film Culture” lecture, classroom visits, and screening and discussion of The Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak, 1960) (sponsored by Hendrix-Murphy Foundation), April 2010, co-coordinator with Dorian Stuber

    Jorie Graham, Visiting Poet (sponsored by Hendrix-Murphy Foundation), November 2009, co-coordinator with Alex Vernon

    Leadership and Participation

    Faculty liaison for Windgate Museum of Art Film Series, Fall 2023-present

    Fall Faculty Conference facilitator of liberal arts conversation, August 2023

    Small-group Conversation Facilitator, Faculty/Student Dialogue, sponsored by Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Committee on Diversity and Dialogue, October 2020

    Faculty Participant in The Engaged Citizen (team-taught interdisciplinary first-year common experience), 2014, 2019, 2020

    Red Brick Film Festival Jury Chairperson (2016-2017, 2010-2014)

    Consultant (with Josh Glick) on Media Installation in Hendrix College Welcome Center, Spring 2016

    Research and preparation of proposal (with Josh Glick, as invited by President Tsutsui) for film screening room in proposed Creative Quad, 2015-2016

    Diversity and Inclusion discussion facilitator, Fall Faculty Conference, August 2016

    Faculty Participant, Hendrix Fresher Orientation Trip to Crystal Bridges, August 2015

    Co-Organizer and Co-Convener, Rhodes Hendrix Film Studies Research Symposium, Rhodes College, April 11-13, 2014

    Host, Co-Organizer, and Co-Convener, Hendrix-Rhodes Film Studies Research Symposium, Hendrix College, April 12-14, 2013

    Accademia dell’arte Program Evaluation (travel to Tuscany and write program review), June 2013

    Moderator/programmer of Crime Film Series (sponsored by Hendrix-Murphy Foundation), 2011-2012

    Faculty Participant, Hendrix Fresher Orientation Trip to Blanchard Springs, August 2012

    Faculty Participant in “Documentary Studies: Documenting Arkansas” (with Anne Goldberg, Maxine Payne, Alex Vernon), Mellon Crossings Program, 2009-2012

    Moderator/programmer of Comedy Film Series (sponsored by Hendrix-Murphy Foundation), 2010-2011

    Judge, Hays Scholarship Committee (Hendrix’s highest honor of full tuition and room-and-board), February 2011 and February 2010

    Faculty Participant, Hendrix Fresher Orientation Trip to Blanchard Springs, August 2010