Courses
ENGLISH 503: HISTORIOGRAPHY OF CINEMA
CINEMA STUDIES 261: SURVEY OF WORLD CINEMA I
ENGLISH 473: BEU/BEG SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM STUDIES-- TOPIC: Cinema and the Colonial Aftermath
ENGLISH 104: INTRO TO FILM
Teaching Interests
Documentary Film and Video; Introduction to Film; Cinema and the Colonial Aftermath.
Specializations
Film and Television Criticism and Historiography; Documentary Studies; Cinema and Sexuality; Cinema and Postcoloniality.
Publications
“You're Nothing But a Second-Rate, Trying Hard Copycat: Notes on the Hybridity of Philippine Cinema” in Contemporary Asian Cinemas: Popular Culture in a Global Frame (forthcoming); “Asian College Girls and Oriental Men with Bamboo Poles: Reading Asian Pornography” in Pornography and Culture (forthcoming); “1997: Movies, Catastrophes and the Reconstruction of History” in Screen Decades: The 1990s (forthcoming); “Homologies of Space, Text and Spectatorship,” Cinema Journal (2005); “Seminal Fantasies: Wakefield Poole, Independent Cinema and the Avant-garde” in American Independent Cinema: From the Margins to the Mainstream (Routledge, 2004); “Filthy Funnies: Notes on the Body in Animated Pornography,” Animation Journal (2004).
Work in Progress
Book projects on American nonfiction cinema and colonialism, Philippine cinema and postcoloniality.
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