Teaching

           

            

            

           

           

My teaching follows from three basic imperatives:

1) to acquaint students with the global history of cinema and the critical tools they need to explore it rigorously

2) to shed light on the specific powers of the film medium, while also observing cinema’s complex place in a broader ecology of other arts and media

3) to improve students’ audiovisual literacy, making them better equipped to think and write about films (or any media-based conjunction of images and sounds) with sensitivity and insight.

 

COURSES

CMPL 143 History of Gobal Cinema

CMPL 144 Engaging Film and Media

CMPL 240 Introduction to Film Theory

CMPL 280 Film Genres (Suspense Thriller/ Horror / Dark Comedy / Crime and Mystery)

CMPL 375 New Wave Cinema: Its Sources and its Legacies (survey of new waves across Europe, North America, Latin America, and East Asia)

ENGL 251 Film Performance and Stardom

ENGL 252 National and Transnational Cinemas

ENGL 323 American Cinema of the 1970s

ENGL 324 Creating the Video Essay

ENGL 380 Film History

ENGL 381 Cinema and Literature

ENGL 389 Film Directors

ENGL 410H Documentary Film

CMPL 420 Film, Photography, and the Digital Image

CMPL 463 Cinema and Surrealism

CMPL 494 The Essay Film

ENGL 680 Film Theory

ENGL 881 Studies in Cinema