Current Courses
ENGLISH 104: INTRODUCTION TO FILM
ENGL 199: OPEN UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR
TOPIC: Magical Empire: The Disney Phenomenon from Cultural,
Artistic & Global Economic Perspectives
ENGL 273: American Film Since 1950
ENGLISH 300: WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
TOPIC: Writing Film Criticism
(previous courses)
Areas of Interest
Critical theory and history of film and other forms of media and 20th-21st century popular culture, in the U.S. and internationally; issues of gender and racial representation in cross-cultural media adaptations and their circulation.
Publications
Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West as Cultural Icon (University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
Essays in U.S. and international journals and edited collections on the cross-cultural circulation and impact of films and popular media forms; star studies approaches to U.S. and international media (e.g., analyses of Madonna, Xuxa, and Ivy Ling Po as cultural signs); the history and social impact of media institutions (e.g., female stars in 1910s German cinema; Hong Kong films of the 1960s); feminist film and video production. (selected bibliography)
Work in Progress
Essay on 1950s-60s Hong Kong film versions of the Mulan tale; monograph on the distribution of Hong Kong/Chinese films in the U.S. in the 1950s-60s (pre “kung fu” wave); edited collection on popular icons in international, historical context.
Cross-Campus Affiliations
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University of Illinois