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