30 Eylül 2012 Pazar

X Know your monkey

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A Girl realized that she had grown hair in between her legs
She got worried and asked her mother about it
Her mother calmly said:
"that part where hair has grown is called Monkey
and be proud that your monkey has grown hair"
The girl was happy to know that
At dinner, she told her sister:
"my monkey has grown hair"
Her sister smiled and said:
"that's nothing
mine is already eating bananas"

Mother fainted..............

A Smart Canadian Redhead

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I am not sure how true this is, but good humour for all my friends living in
Canada.

Stephen Harper was looking for a call girl.

He found three such girls in a local pub, a blonde, a brunette and a
redhead.

To the blonde he said, I am the Prime Minister of Canada.

Now how much would it cost me to spend some time with you?'

She replied, $200.'

To the brunette he asked the same question.

Her reply was $100.

He then asked the redhead...

Her reply was,

'Mr. Prime Minister, if you can get my skirt up as high as my taxes,

My panties as low as my wages,

Get that thing of yours as hard as the times we are living in,

And keep it rising like the price of gas,

Keep me warmer than it is in my apartment and

Screw me the way you have retirees,

Then you can have it for free, like everything immigrants get.'

How effective is the recommendation letter writing in a competitive job market?

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Most employers will demand a letter of recommendation these days when you apply for any job in any organization. These letters will provide the information about your character, your behaviour and your working capabilities. If you are saying something positive about you, very few people will believe you. But if someone who has been working with you since long time or monitoring your work recommends you and confirms your efficiency, employers will surely believe you. These recommendation letters are playing a vital role in making you get selected for the job.


Significance of Recommendation Letters
Recommendation Letter

Not everyone can provide the recommendation. For business recommendation, anyone who has been working with you for more than 6 months i.e., your colleague or your immediate senior can provide recommendation about your efficiency, performance and capabilities. A personal recommendation can be provided by a respected person in the society who knows the applicant very well and who can confirm the decent behaviour of the applicant. Resume is the basic requirement for any job. After fulfilling these requirements, employer will generally ask you a recommendation letter from your previous company during the personal interview. This letter is required to know about your conduct during your previous employments and how efficient you are at your work.

When you are applying for a job in the job market, keep in mind that you are not alone standing in a queue. There are many others like you, even better than you waiting for the job opportunities. To withstand in this sturdy competition, you must make your application effective enough to grab the opportunity. Sending a copy of recommendation letter along with your application will surely add importance to your resume.

Who can recommend you?

Suppose you are a recent graduate and are now applying for the job in any company, you can get a letter of recommendation from your class teacher or principle. No one can provide a best recommendation if they don’t know you. Hence, you must make efforts to develop a relationship with the teachers to get a recommendation letter that is helpful in getting you dream job.

If you are working in any organization, you can get this letter from your immediate senior who supervises your work. Your colleague can also provide such business recommendation for you.

Here is the sample of recommendation letter to give you complete idea on writing such letters. This letter is written by the principle of college to recommend his/ her student in the company for an internship program.

Sample Recommendation Letter

From Joseph L. StephensPrinciple Violet Education Institute Golden, CO 80401Date: 4th March 2010To David C. MoralesTurbo Boost Solutions Ltd. Anchorage, AK 99501The purpose of this letter is to recommend my student Philip Stone for internship program in your organization. I feel proud to recommend him in your organization as I am observing his performance since past 3 years. Philip Stone is a bright student of our college holding an excellent academic record. He is highly intelligent, perceptive and creative thinker. During his college tenure, he developed the skills like creative thinking, quick learning, effective listening, interpersonal communication, etc. He also participated actively in different competitions and won many of them. Because of his positive attitude and excellent humour, he has overcome many complex situations and emerged as a best student for the year. I strongly recommend Philip in your company for the internship program. I assure you that he can match up with the work culture quickly and learn the things fluently. You can feel free to contact me for any query regarding Philip’s efficiency. I thank you for giving me an opportunity to recommend Philip in your organization. Sincerely, Joseph Stephens PrincipleViolet Education InstituteRefer this recommendation letter to get detailed idea on writing such letters. An effective letter of recommendation will help you get the desired opportunity. 

What is a Character Letter of Recommendation

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Character letter of recommendation is not something that is written in dire consequences, as the name might sprout such notions in one's mind. In fact it has got nothing to do with your actual character sketch. It is a formal document that is required in some procedures like in prosecution cases, other court hearing, signing a bond for renting a house, taking admission in some highly reputed institutes for education purpose, etc.Reference to Context
Character Letter of Recommendation
To answer the question, what is a character letter of recommendation, we need to know the purpose of the letter. Although we described the meaning of the letter, the purpose can decide upon how to write the content. Sample the following examples:
  • Scholarship: If one wishes to get a scholarship for education sake, then the issuer should know about it and highlight the candidate's academic skills and plus points, his or her interest in the subject, career focus, etc. The same applies for admission purposes too.
  • Job: There are many sample character recommendation letters available online for the candidates seeking jobs. Note the skills and experience the writer highlights in order to convince the recipient of the letter of the candidate's abilities.
  • Court Appearance: The requirement for this letter in a court hearing is totally different from the ones mentioned in the above points. One needs to vouch for the person's honesty, dependability, and other such virtues
    Who Can Write the Letter? 
    Ideally, these letters should be written by people who are associated closely with the candidate or applicant. As explained above, only a person who knows the candidate well enough to vouch for certain mentioned qualities hold value. Not that if anyone else writes the letter will not be considered, but usually the tone of the letter should be personal and for that one needs to know the applicant.
For scholarships, your ex teachers, principles, head of the department, visiting faculty, etc., can write the letter for you. Similarly for employment purposes, letters from the ex employers do play an important role. You can request your manager, immediate reporting head, etc., to put in a word for you.
Content of the Character Recommendation LetterThe letter becomes effective when the writer mentions some incidences that show the qualities that he or she is going to mention in the letter. In short, it means that whatever the person writes in the letter should be backed up by substantial supporting information. If possible, get the letter printed on the issuer's letter head. In case you think the person is too busy to accommodate an appointment for you, you may even draft the letter yourself and then just request the person to lend his letter head, give an official stamp and sign on it. The language of the letter should be formal and the length of the letter can go up to two pages, but try and keep the context to the point without unnecessarily expanding on the same topic. While concluding the letter, ensure that it is reiterated why the person is being recommended or just emphasize on the purpose of writing the letter.

Some Tips on Recommendation Letter Template

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Recommendation letter templates help one to write the document concisely and aptly too. The requirement of a template while writing this formal letter is for the following reasons:
  • It saves time of the issuer as well as the recipient (for reading)
  • It offers just the right amount of information and relevant too
  • One does not miss out any crucial information like the date, purpose, etc.
  • Proper formatting and space are allocated for different paragraphs and sections of the letter
  • The contact details can be updated or rectified in the signature section

29 Eylül 2012 Cumartesi

GEORGE CARLINISMS

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Do people in Australia call the rest of the world "up over"?


Does that screwdriver belong to Philip?

Can a stupid person be a smart-ass?


Does killing time damage eternity?

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?


Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips?

Why is it that night falls but day breaks?


Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand?

Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address,
You turn down the volume on the radio?


Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavour,
&
Dish washing liquid made with real lemons?


Are part-time bandleaders semi-conductors?

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?


Daylight savings time - why are they saving it and where do they keep it?

Did Noah keep his bees in archives?


Do jellyfish get gas from eating jellybeans?

Do pilots take crash-courses?


Do stars clean themselves with meteor showers?

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID
That he just whipped out a quarter?


Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

Have you ever seen a toad on a toadstool?


How can there be self-help "groups"?

How do you get off a non-stop flight?


How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

How many weeks are there in a light year?


If a jogger runs at the speed of sound,
Can he still hear his Walkman?


If athletes get athlete's foot,
Do astronauts get mistletoe?


If Barbie's so popular,
Why do you have to buy all her friends?


If blind people wear dark glasses,
Why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?

If cats and dogs didn't have fur would we still pet them?

If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter,
Then what are Girl Scout cookies made out of?


If space is a vacuum,
Who changes the bags?


If swimming is good for your shape,
Then why do the whales look the way they do?

If tin whistles are made out of tin,
What do they make fog horns out of?

If white wine goes with fish,
Do white grapes go with sushi?

If you can't drink and drive,
Why do bars have parking lots?

If you jog backwards, will you gain weight?


If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times,
Does he become disoriented?


Why do the signs that say "Slow Children" have a picture of a running child?

How come wrong numbers are never busy?


Why do they call it "chili" if it's hot?

Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game, when we are already there?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Trip to Italy

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A young New York woman was so depressed that she decided to end her life by
throwing herself into the ocean.

But just before she could throw herself from the docks, a handsome young man
stopped her.

"You have so much to live for," said the man. "I'm a sailor, and we are off
to Italy tomorrow. I can stow you away on my ship. I'll take care of you,
bring you food every day, and keep you happy."

With nothing to lose, combined with the fact that she had always wanted to
go to Italy , the woman accepted. That night the sailor brought her aboard
and hid her in a small but comfortable compartment in the hold. From then
on, every night he would bring her three sandwiches, a bottle of red wine,
and make love to her until dawn.. Three weeks later she was discovered by
the captain during a routine inspection.

"What are you doing here?" asked the captain.

"I have an arrangement with one of the sailors," she replied. "He brings me
food and I get a free trip to Italy ."
"I see," the captain says.

Her conscience got the best of her and she added, "Plus, he's screwing me."

"He certainly is," replied the captain. "This is the Staten Island Ferry ."

XX PUNS OF THE DAY!

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'Twas a sailor who caused commotions
While aboard ships upon the oceans.
He was court-martialed; found
That he likely was bound
To forever go through de-motions.


According to statisticians,
If you live half the year in New York City and half in Los Angeles, on the
average,
You live in Topeka, Kansas.

When I first started practice 44 years ago, each staff physician was
required to cover the local hospitals' emergency rooms in rotation, no
matter what specialty one might be in.
I was on call at a hospital near Disneyland one Sunday and a young man was
brought in who had injured his arm falling off one of the rides.
He was followed by a crowd of spectators and several reporters and I
discovered he was a famous English singer named Mick Jagger.
X-rays revealed a non-displaced fracture and as was policy in those days, an
orthopedist could be called only if the fracture was complicated.
So, I treated him and he left very happy.
However, I never expected the condemnation I received from my medical
colleagues for his care.
Why did I receive such a response?
For casting the first Stone.

My friends call me Mesa because of my big butte.

The instructor was demonstrating the wonders of static electricity to his
college class.
While holding a plastic rod in one hand and a wool cloth in the other, he
told his students,
"You can see that I get a large charge from rubbing my rod."
Which was pretty much the end of learning for that day.

The Bible says Joseph rode into Bethlehem on his ass.
Well, duhhh!
Did you ever hear of anyone riding anywhere on their head?

Donations to the order were down and the convent did not have the funds to
continue in their usual manner.
Rather than shutting down, Mother Superior ordered an austerity program
requiring recycling of old clothing.
As the gowns had faded over the years, they were sent to the manufacturer to
restore them to their original black.
Unfortunately, when the dresses were returned, while improved, they were
still a dark grey.
Which just goes to prove that old habits dye hard.

PMS jokes aren't funny.
Period!

"Because my client is uncertain which of the two men with whom she lived
concurrently is the father of her child, Your Honour," stated the attorney
in court, "she seeks to combine them as joint defendants in this legal
action."
"So, what she really is pressing for then," commented the jurist wryly, "is
a paternity suit with two pairs of pants."

I answered the doorbell and a Jehovah's Witness said,
"Can I talk to you about God?"
I responded,
"Sure, what would you like to know?"

Pat and Harry had just finished all their post-graduate coursework and
defended their theses successfully.
They went to the local bar to celebrate.
When the bartender found out what they were celebrating, he immediately
asked them to leave with the explanation:
"I can't serve two Masters."

Is a group of trainee secret service agents aspiring?

Middle east humor

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An Arab walks into a bar

and is about to order a drink

when he sees a guy close by wearing a Jewish cap,

a prayer shawl /tzitzis and traditional locks of hair.


He doesn't have to be an Einstein

to know that this guy is Jewish.

so he shouts over to the bartender

loudly enough that everyone can hear,




"Drinks for everyone in here, bartender,

but not for that Jew over there".



Soon after the drinks have been handed out,

the Jew gives him a big smile,

waves at him, then says,

"Thank you!" in an equally loud voice.

This infuriates the Arab.


He once again loudly orders drinks for everyone except the Jew.

As before, this does not seem to bother the Jewish guy.

He continues to smile, and again yells, "Thank you!"


The Arab asks the bartender,

"What's the hell is the matter with that Jew?

I've ordered two rounds of drinks for everyone in the bar but him,

and all the silly bugger does is smile and thank me. Is he nuts?"


"Nope," replies the bartender.

"He owns the place.. ."

the aborigine

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A rich man living in Darwin, Australia decided that he wanted to throw
a party and invited all of his buddies and neighbours. He also invited
Colin, the only aborigine in the neighbourhood.

He held the party around the pool in the backyard of his mansion.

Everyone was having a good time drinking, dancing, eating prawns,
oysters and BBQ and
flirting.

At the height of the party, the host said, 'I have a 15ft man-eating
crocodile in my pool and I'll give a million dollars to anyone who has
the balls to jump in.'

The words were barely out of his mouth when there was a loud splash
and everyone turned around and saw Colin in the pool fighting the
croc, jabbing the croc in the eyes with his thumbs, throwing punches,
doing all kinds of stuff like head butts and chokeholds, biting the
croc on the tail and flipping the croc through the air like some kind
of Judo Instructor.

The water was churning and splashing everywhere. Both Colin and the
croc were screaming and raising hell.

Finally Colin strangled the croc and let it float to the top like a
dead goldfish.

Colin then slowly climbed out of the pool.

Everybody was just staring at him in disbelief.

The host says, 'Well, Colin, I reckon I owe you a million dollars.'

'Nah, you all right boss, I don't want it,' said Colin.

The rich man said, 'Man, I have to give you something. You won the
bet. How about half a million bucks then?'

'No thanks. I don't want it,' answered Colin.

The host said, 'Come on, I insist on giving you something. That was
amazing. How about a new Porsche and a Rolex and some stock options?

Again, Colin said "No."

Confused, the rich man asked, 'Well Colin, then what do you want?

Colin said,

'I want the bastard who pushed me in.'

28 Eylül 2012 Cuma

David A. Gerstner Curriculum Vita

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Professor David Gerstner. City University of New York, Graduate Center and College of Staten Island 

*For letter-of-recommendation requests please visit my faculty webpage for the Department of Media Culture or link to: http://davidagerstner.blogspot.com/2010/09/student-letter-of-recommendation.html

David A. Gerstner, Ph. D.
Professor of Cinema Studies 
Department of Media Culture
City University of New York
College of Staten Island (CSI)
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, NY 10314
David.Gerstner (at) csi.cuny.edu 

Doctoral Faculty
Department of Theatre

Film Studies Certificate Program
CUNY, Graduate Center (GC)
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
dgerstner (at) gc.cuny.edu

1. Education

• University of California, Los Angeles (1993 - 1997)
-Doctor of Philosophy
-Department of Film and Television
-Dissertation: “Queer Modernism: Vincente Minnelli, American Creativity, American Masculinity”

• State University of New York, Buffalo (1991 - 1993)
-Master of Arts in Humanities
-English Literature and Media Studies
-Thesis: “Gender Reconstruction of the Symbolic Christ in Derek Jarman’s The Garden: AIDS, ‘Crucifiction,’ and Strategies of Direct Action”

• State University of New York, Buffalo (1985 - 1986)
-Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies with High Distinction

• New York University (1982 - 1985)
-Tisch School of the Arts
-Film Production and Cinema Studies
-Directed and produced a short synch-sound film

2. Academic Appointments (Full Time)

• City University of New York, College of Staten Island (CSI)
-Department of Media Culture
-Professor (January 2010)
-Associate Professor with tenure, Cinema Studies (2006 - 2009)
-Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies (spring 2001 - fall 2005)

• City University of New York, Graduate Center
-Doctoral Faculty (spring 2007 - present)
-Department of Theatre
-Film Studies Certificate Program (FSCP)

• 
University of Otago, New Zealand 
-Lecturer, tenure track (January 1999 - December 2000)
-Film and Media Studies Programme

3. Academic Appointments (Visiting, Adjunct, and Administrative)

• Visiting Scholar
-New York University. 
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
-Queer Culture, Theory, and Media (spring 2008).

• Adjunct Professor—Graduate Teaching
-New School University. Media Research Methods (fall 1998).
-CSI. Transnational Stars (fall 1998).
-New School University. Aesthetics of Queer Cinema (spring 1998).

• Adjunct Professor—Undergraduate Teaching
-CSI Introduction to Cinema (fall 1997 and spring 1998).
-New School University. American Film History (fall 1996 and fall 1997).

• Administrative Positions
-Film Studies Certificate Program Advisory Committee, Graduate Center (2008-2011).
-Acting Chair. Department of Media Culture, CSI (August 2006 - 07).
-Acting Graduate Program Coordinator. Department of Media Culture. CSI (fall 2005).
-Graduate and Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Cinema Studies. CSI (September
2001 - August 2003).
-Summer Chair. Department of Media Culture. CSI (2001).
-Acting Director of Graduate Studies. M.A. Program in Media Studies, Department of
Communications. New School University (February 1998 - August 1998).

4. Courses Taught in Full-Time Positions

• City University of New York

Undergraduate—B.A. in Cinema Studies (CSI)
-Introduction to Film

-Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
-Film History
-Film Theory
-American Myth and Film
-German Cinema
-Studies in Film Authorship

-Internship Supervisor

Graduate—M.A. in Cinema and Media Studies (CSI)
-Film and Media Research Analysis (required course)
-Studies in Media Genre
-Media and Ideology
-New Zealand Cinema (co-taught as interactive online course in conjunction with the
University of Auckland, Department of Film, Television, and Media Studies)
-Studies in Authorship

Graduate—Doctoral Seminars. Film Studies Certificate Program (Graduate Center)




-Film History 2 (spring 2011)-Seminar in Film Theory (spring 2010)
-Queer Culture, Theory, and Media (spring 2009; spring 2012)
-Aesthetics of Film (required course, fall 2005)
-Studies in Film Authorship (fall 2006)
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PhD Dissertation Committees (Graduate Center)            -Burk, Tara (ACT UP Art, in process)            -Colleran, Dan (“Dead Man’s Space andthe Language of Democracy on the American Frontier,”submitted April 2012)            -Jeanjean, Stéphanie (“Spectatorship and the Screen as Interface: French VideoArt and Politics,”submitted September2012)
PhD Oral Exam Committees (Graduate Center)            -Burk, Tara. Art History (December 2010)            -Colleran, Daniel. Comparative Literature (2008 and 2010)            -Dell’Aria, Anni. Art History (September 2011)            -Di Summa, Laura. Philosophy (December 2010)            -Galvan, Margaret. English (February 2012)- Parson, David.History (spring 2008)                                    M.A. Thesis Advisor (Graduate Center)            -Ahern, Mal. “Warhol’s Screentests and Gossip as History” (2011)            -Licata, Catherine. “The Films of Alejandro González Iñárritu” (2009)
M.A.Thesis Advisor (CSI):            - Asgary, Zahra. “Iranian NationalCinema and Western Film Festivals” (2004)            - Burke, Catherine. “Actors asAuthors in the Early Hollywood Sound Period” (2004)            - Golán, Antonio. “Cinema, Drugs,and the American Dream: The Ideologies of the Hollywood Drug Film”(2008)            - Grasso, Ellen. “Doris Day andGender: Calamity Jane, Julie, Pillow Talk” (2011)            - Kuntoh, Sarah. “RaceRepresentation in Cinema: The Western and African Perspective” (2003)            - Milner, Sally. “Documenting theMotherland: Nation and Mothers in Tarnation,MammaRoma, and Heavenly Creatures” (2007)            - Nuzzi, Christopher. “A Cinema ofSalvation: Science Fiction Film and the Messianic” (2005)            - Tejera, Rómulo Fernando.“Encountering Fascist Imagery in American Films” (2004)
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M.A.Thesis Committee (CSI)            - Friedman, Seth. “Pulling Back theCurtain: The Misdirection Film in its Contexts” (2004)            - Kocer, Zeynep. “The Representationof Femininity in Turkish Internal Migration Filmsof the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s” (2005)            - Kumar, Amit. “Low-Budget LibidoCinema: The Genre of Sleaze Films in India” (2006)            - Innocente, Enrique. “ForlornHope.” Screenplay (2007)
• University of Otago, New Zealand


Undergraduate
-Film History
-Film Theory
-Understanding Contemporary Media
-Advanced Media Theory

5. Publications

• Books

-Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black-Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, New Black Studies Series, 2011. *A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2012.




-Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006 (316 pages).

-Editor. 
The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture. London: Routledge, 2006
(720 pages). *Awarded 
Best of Reference 2007, New York Public Library.

-Edited with Janet Staiger. 
Authorship and Film. New York:
Routledge, 2003 (308 pages).

• Reviews of Books

-
Queer Pollen


-Somatechnics 2. 1 (March 2012): 148-49.
 -Choice (October 2011--Highly Recommended)

-Manly ArtsScope 12 (October 2008).
The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (June 18, 2008).
-
GLQ 14. 2/3 (January 2008): 439-41.
-
H/Soz/U/Kult (March 5, 2008)
-
Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 27.4 (2007): 579-80
-
American Historical Review—Author’s communication (October 2007)
-
American Historical Review (June 2007)
-
Screening the Past (July 2007)
-
M/C Reviews: Culture and the Media (July 2007)
-
Choice (December 2006--Highly Recommended)

-
The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture
-
Library Journal (June 2006)
-
Booklist (September 2006)
-
Choice (November 2006--Highly Recommended)

-
Authorship and Film
-
Journal of Film and Video (spring 2004)
-
Film Quarterly (spring 2005)
-
Journal of Popular Film and Television (fall 2005)



• Books in Progress


- co-edited with Cynthia Chris, Media Authorship (Routledge)
-co-authored with Julien Nahmias, Christophe Honoré (Wayne State University Press)
- WSQ,co-edited with Cynthia Chris (special issue entitled, “Engage”)
• Chapters in Books

--“King Vidor’s The Crowd and Urban America During the Silent Era.” Blackwell’s History of American Film.  Edited by Cynthia Lucia and Roy Grundmann. Blackwell Publishers (2011, 332-48).
-“ Christophe Honoré’s Les chansons d’amour and the Musical’s Queer-abilities”). The Sound of Musicals. Edited by Steven Cohan. London: BFI/MacMillan-Palgrave, 2010, 188-99.

-“Turned Inside/Out: Violent Inversions of Heterosexuality in Vincente Minnelli’s Home From the Hill.” 
Hetero. Edited by Sean Griffin. SUNY Press, 2009, 111-28.

-“Queer Modernism: The Cinematic Aesthetic of Vincente Minnelli” (revised reprint). 
Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment. Edited by Joe McElhaney. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009, 252-74.

-“The Production and Display of the Closet: Making Minnelli’s Tea and Sympathy” (reprint). 
Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment. Edited by Joe McElhaney. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009, 275-94.

-“Changement de bord: l’amité cinématique de Marcel Duchamp et Charles Demuth.” 
Marcel Duchamp et l’érotisme. Edited and translated by Marc Décimo. Dijon, France: les presses du réel, 2008, 115-26.

-“Queer Internationale: Pedagogy and Modes of Cultural Production in the Twenty-First Century.” 
21st-Century Gay Culture. Edited by David Powell. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, 85-94.

-“De Profundis: A Love Letter from the Inside Man.” 
The Spike Lee Reader. Edited by Paula Massood. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008, 243-53.

-“Queer Turns: The Cinematic Friendship of Marcel Duchamp and Charles Demuth.” 
Marcel Duchamp and Eroticism. Edited by Marc Décimo. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, 105-115.

-“Ricordi! Peter Wells, Memories of a Queer Land.” 
New Zealand Filmmakers. Edited by Ian Conrich and Stuart Murray. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007, 121-33.

-“Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You: Andy Warhol Records/Is New York.” 
City That Never Sleeps. Edited by Murray Pomerance. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007, 90-101.

-“Unsinkable Masculinity: The Artist and the Work of Art in James Cameron’s Titanic” (abridged reprint). 
Titanic in Myth and Memory: Representation in Visual and Literary Culture. Edited by Tim Bergfelder and Sarah Street. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004, 173-184.


• Journal Articles (peer reviewed *)

- “ ‘Other and Different Scenes:’ Oscar Micheaux’s Bodies and the Cinematic Cut.” 
Wide Angle, special issue, Visual Culture and Black Masculinity.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 21:4 (October 1999 [2004]): 6-19.

-“Unsinkable Masculinity: The Artist and the Work of Art in James Cameron’s Titanic.” 
Cultural Critique 50 (winter 2002): 1-22.

-“Dancer From the Dance: Gene Kelly, Television, and the Beauty of Movement.” 
Velvet Light Trap, special issue, Beauty Marks 49 (spring 2002): 48-66.

-with Sarah Greenlees. “Cinema by Fits and Starts: New Zealand Film Practices in the Twentieth Century.” 
Cine-Action, special issue, What Happened? 51 (February 2000): 36-47.

-
“Queer Modernism: The Cinematic Aesthetic of Vincente Minnelli.” Modernity 2 (2000).

-“Queer Angels of History Take It and Leave It from Behind.” 
Stanford Humanities Review: Inside the Film Archive: Practice, Theory, Canon. Edited by Richard Benjamin. 7:2 (autumn 1999): 150-165.

-“The Production and Display of the Closet: Making Vincente Minnelli’s Tea and Sympathy.” 
Film Quarterly 50:3 (spring 1997): 13-26.

• Film Program Notes

-Program notes for “Another Wave: Global Queer Cinema, Parts 1 and 2.” The Museum of Modern Art (July-August and September 2006 catalogue).

-“Being Boring.” Program notes for “Andy Warhol Films.” Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand (August 2000, see below for curatorial details).

• Editor (online)

-Film and Media Theory, special issue of the on-line journal, 
Deep South (University of Otago, Department of English). A collection of senior undergraduate essays selected from a course in film and media theory (October 2000):http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth

• Encyclopedia and Textbook Entries

- EAS Forum (American Studies Association): The Encyclopedia and American Studies. Internet Forum: discussion about encyclopedias in the field of American Studies.http://www.theasa.net/project_eas_online/page/project_eas_online_eas_EAS_Forum/
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African American National Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Entry: Marlon Troy Riggs.


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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Queer Culture. Edited by David A. Gerstner. London: Routledge, 2006. Entries include: Introduction, Audre Lorde, Metropolitan Community Church, Vincente Minnelli, New York City, Pavel Tchelitchev.

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture. Editorial consultant and contributor. Edited by Gary W. McDonogh, Robert Gregg, and Cindy H. Wong. London: Routledge, 2001. Entries include: queer, homophobia, politics of gay and lesbian life, Stonewall Riot, outing, ACT UP, masculinity, and modernism.

• Interviews

-with New Zealand filmmaker, Peter Wells. 
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (April 2001):105-116.*

• Interviewee

-Edge. “Straight Actors/Gay Roles: Hollywood’s Play for Pay (and Awards).”  (July 12, 2010):http://www.edgesandiego.com/index.php?ch=entertainment&sc=movies&sc2=features&sc3=&id=107862
-Sirius Satellite Radio. 
The Michelangelo Signorile Show. "Five Films to Watch for Pride" (June 26, 2009).

-WNYC. 
The Leonard Lopate Show: "Projections: LGBT Community on Film" (June 16, 2009). Includes full radio interview. (video outtake Lopate Show).

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Time Out New York. “Eyes of the World: A MoMA Film Series Puts Queer Issues into Global Perspective.” (August 31 - September 6, 2006): 115.

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Movies That Shook the World, interviewed for The Birth of a Nation; first broadcast, October 14, 2005: American Movie Classics, World of Wonder Productions.

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A Christmas Special Christmas Special, interviewed for program on Christmas and the media; first broadcast, Bravo TV, December 14, 2004; additional screenings, Trio TV: World of Wonder Productions.

• Book and Media Reviews

-Reviews in Cultural Theory.“Authorship: A Queer Death.” Review of Jane Gallop’s The Deaths of the Author (Durham: DukeUniversity Press, 2011) 3.1 (April 15, 2012): http://www.reviewsinculture.com/?r=84


- University of Illinois Press Blog. “Hide and Seek, Or the History of Difference Under Erasure.”
(December 14, 2010): http://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p=7079
- The American Historical Review. Review of Dan Streible’s Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press) 114 (February 2009): 178–179.

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Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film. Review of Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910 (Manchester University Press) 35.1 (summer 2008): 71-73.

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Cineaste. Review of the remastered DVD of Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied (fall 2007) online exclusive: http://www.cineaste.com/articles/dvd-review-tongues-untied.htm

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Gay City News. “Men on the Verge . . . Again.” Review of Harvey C. Mansfield’s Manliness (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006). 5: 15 (April 13 - 19, 2006): 20.

-Scope On-Line. University of Nottingham, UK. Review of Shawn Michelle Smith’s Photography and the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004):
http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/issue.php?issue=3

-Scope On-Line. University of Nottingham, UK. Reviews of Jane Gaines’ Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era (University of Chicago, 2001) and J. Ronald Green’s Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux (University of Indiana, 2000): http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/bookrev/books-may-02.htm


Editorial Boards
 -Reframe. 2012 - - WSQ.2011 -- Mediascape.2010 -
6. Presentations

• Professional Conferences



-Radically Gay: The Life and Visionary Legacy of Harry Hay, CLAGS. Paper: "Choreographing Homosexual Desire" (September 28, 2012)
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- Crossroads inCultural Studies, Paris. Paper: “Queer au bain” (July 2012).
-Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boys in the Band workshop (chair) and Philippe Vallois' Johan (paper, March 2012).
-Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chair: "Locating Queer Subjectivity (March 2011).
-California Institute of Integral Studies: Expanding the Circle. Panel: “Including Theory: Pedagogical Approaches to Queering Curriculum” (March 2011). -Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Paper: “Langston Hughes and Vachel Lindsay: Cinematic Poetry in Black and White” (March 2010).-Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Workshop chair: “The Book Review” (March 2010).-American Studies Association. Workshop Panelist: “Encyclopedias and the Organization of Knowledge in American Studies” (November 2009).-Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Paper: “James Baldwin’s Cinematic Rooms” (March 2008).
-Modern Language Association. Workshop presenter: “African American Poetry and Performance: Collectives, Critics, Collaboration” (December 2006).
-Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chair: “Masculinity and Popular Culture” (March 2006).
-American Studies Association. Panel: “Cinematic Traditions and Repetitions: Legacies of African American Space and Time,” co-organized with Paula Massood. Paper: “Snap! Dance!: The Defiant Aesthetic Form of Marlon Riggs” (November 2005).
-Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chair: “Transnational Queer: The Intersection of Sex and Gender” (March 2004).
-American Studies Association. Paper: “Violence Seen and Unseen: The Production of African American Bodies in Hollywood and the Race Film, 1917-1929” (October 2003).
-American Studies Association. Paper: “Theodore Roosevelt Makes Movies: 
The Battle Cry of Peace and the Aesthetic of Realism” (November 2002).
-Society for Cinema Studies. Paper: “Fractured Landscapes in Peter Wells’ and Stuart Main’s 
Desperate Remedies: Sexuality, Aesthetics, City and Nationhood in New Zealand” (May 2001).
-Society for Cinema Studies. Co-chair for panel: “Moving-image Theory and Culture in the Age of Global Transnationalism” (May 2001).
-Society for Cinema Studies. Paper: “The Main Event: 1898, Film, and the Spanish-American War” (April 1999).
-Society for Cinema Studies. Co-chaired panel with Janet Staiger: “Reflections in the Archive.” Paper: “Queer Angels Take it and Leave it From Behind” (April 1998).
-Society for Cinema Studies. Paper: “The Production and Display of the Closet: Making Minnelli’s Tea and Sympathy” (March 1995).
-Society for Cinema Studies. Paper: “Adorno and Benjamin: Locating the Aesthetic in the Political” (March 1994).

• Invited Lectures, Conferences, Symposia, Panels


- Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Introduction and discussion with screening of Vincente Minnelli’s
Tea and Sympathy (scheduled October 19, 2011)- CUNY, College of Staten Island. “LGBTQ Campus Life and Learning” (scheduled November 30, 2011) -New York University. "Marlon Riggs, White Seduction, and the Queer Black Look."  Man Enough Colloquium (December 5, 2008).
-City University of New York, Hunter College. “Queer CUNY VIII: The Twilight of Queerness?” Chair for “Visual Pleasure Panel.” (December 1, 2007).
-The Museum of the Moving Image. Symposium: “Open Collections: Exploring Online Cultural Resources.” Presentation on conducting research in the digital age (June 18, 2007).
-Hofstra University, LGBT Studies Program. Symposium: “What Does Gay Mean Today?
Labels, Meaning, and Self Identification of the New Millennium.” Paper: “Queer Internationale: Pedagogy and Modes of Cultural Production in the Twenty-First Century” (October 11, 2006).
-Columbia University Cinema Seminar. Respondent to Jacqueline Reich’s paper: “ ‘The World’s Most Perfectly Developed Man’: Charles Atlas, Visual Culture, and the Visualization of American Masculinity” (February 16, 2006).
- Research Group Intertrad and the Association Marcel Duchamp, l’Université d’Orléans, and the Musée d’Orléans, France. Symposium: “Marcel Duchamp and Eroticism.” Paper: “Rrose Sélavy: Eroticism, America, and the Embodied Ready-Made”(December 2005).
-Rider University. Speaker Series in Film Studies. Lecture: “Manhatta: America and the Avant Garde” (April 18, 2005).
-NewFest: Filmmakers Forum. Moderator for panel discussion: “Regionalism and Sexuality” (June 6, 2004).
-Brooklyn Jewish Film Festival. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Panel participant: Yossi and Jagger (April 30, 2004).
-Yale University. Symposium: “Queer Performance in the Americas, 1945 - 1954.” Paper: “How Homophobia Stole the Idea of Modern Art” (April 2 - 3, 2004).
-Congregation Beth Simchat Torah and Makor. Panel participant: 
Yossi and Jagger: Queer
Israeli Filmmaking (December 1, 2003).
-Columbia University Cinema Seminar. Respondent to David Lugowski’s paper, “ ‘A Treatise on Decay’: Liberal and Leftist Critics and their Queer Readings of Depression-Era US Film” (November 8, 2001).
-Persistence of Vision Conference. Frameline Film Distribution, San Francisco. Conference: “Teaching Queer Cinema.” Panel Participant (June 20, 2001).
- University of Southampton, UK. Symposium: “Nights to Remember: Memory, Modernity, and the Myth of the Titanic.” Paper: “Unsinkable Masculinity: The Artist and the Work of Art in James Cameron’s 
Titanic” (July 2000).
-Otago Polytechnic School of Art Research, New Zealand. Lecture: “Freaks: Surrealism, Neo Romanticism, and the Homosexual Aesthetic” (November 1999).
-The Whitney Museum Symposium on American Art. Symposium: “Visions and Revisions:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Visual Culture.” Paper: “Making Masculinity in Minnelli’s 
Tea and Sympathy” (April 1995).
- State University of New York, Buffalo and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Symposium: “Ways in Being Gay.” Paper: “Queer Modernism: Vincente Minnelli’s Stage Career in New York” (November 1996).
-University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Conference: “Inside and Out, National Graduate Student Queer Theory Conference.” Paper: “Gender Reconstruction of the Symbolic Christ in Derek Jarman’s 
The Garden” (April 1993).

7. Research Grants, Fellowships, and Awards


-Faculty-Led Trips Abroad “Seed-Money” Grant. “Film Studies in Paris.” College of Staten Island (2010).-PSC-CUNY Research Award 40, The City University of New York, 2009-10.
- PSC-CUNY Research Award 37, The City University of New York, 2006 - 07.
-College of Staten Island, Summer Undergraduate Research Associate Award, 2005.
-PSC-CUNY Research Award 35, The City University of New York, 2004 - 05.
-College of Staten Island, Divisional Reassigned Time Research Award, 2003 - 04.
-College of Staten Island, Summer Stipend Award, 2002.
-PSC-CUNY Renewal Application, University Committee on Research Awards, The City
University of New York, 2001 - 2002.
-PSC-CUNY Out-of-Cycle Research Award, University Committee on Research Awards, The
City University of New York, 2001 - 2002.
-University of Otago Advancement of Learning and Teaching Grant, development grant for on-
line teaching component of Film and Media Theory course, 2000.
-University of Otago Humanities Research Grant, 1999.
-University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 1996 - 1997.
-Otis Ferguson Memorial Writing Award in Critical Studies—UCLA, 1996.
(“Hysteria, Dandyism, Disruptive Bodies: Vincente Minnelli and Queer Modernism”).
-UCLA Department of Film and Television: The Leonard Fellowship Award, 1993 - 95.

• Award

-The New York Public Library. “Best of Reference 2007,” 
The Routledge International
Encyclopedia of Queer Culture.

8. Curatorial and Event Work

• Film Curator

- The Museum of Modern Art, New York. “Another Wave: Global Queer Cinema, 
Parts 1 and 2.” Principal organizer and co-curator with Charles Silver, Jim Hubbard, Thomas Beard (July and September 2006).
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Dunedin Film Society, and the Film and Media Studies
Programme at the University of Otago, New Zealand. “The Films of Andy Warhol.” Curator, assistant projectionist for The Chelsea Girls, grant writer for successful funding application with the city for the event, and symposium coordinator (August 18 - 20, 2000).
- New School University. “Mixed Messages.” Special Selection Committee, Media Studies
Awards Presentation (May 1998).
- New School University. “Aesthetics of Queer Cinema Film Series.” A public screening in conjunction with a course of the same title (spring 1998).
-Canadian National Film Distribution Centre films screened at SUNY Buffalo (April 1993).
- SUNY Buffalo. Graduate Student Media Studies Exhibit: “Media Montage” (November 1992).

• Event Coordinator


- CUNY Queers Conference, College of Staten Island.Cross-campus colloquium co-coordinated with Matt Brim (April 27, 2012).- City University of New York, Graduate Center. “Queer Film: Sexuality and Cinematic Form.” Principal organizer and moderator of symposium (panelists include: Su Friedrich, Barbara Hammer, Jim Hubbard, Emile Devereaux, Rhea Combs) (April 27, 2007).
- University of Otago. Grant writer for William Evans Visiting Professor Fellowship to bring Professor Janet Staiger to the Film and Media Studies Programme (2000).
-University of Otago. Film and Media Studies host/coordinator for the New Zealand film premier of 
Scarfies; planned in conjunction with producer and director of film (1999).
-State University of New York, Buffalo. Study Group—Queer Theory: eight panels with guest lecturers studying media representation of gender, class, and race (1992 - 93).
-Hallwalls Contemporary Art Museum and State University of New York, Buffalo. “Queer
Identities,” coordinator of panel discussion (November 1992).


9. Community and Academic Service

 • Committee Memberships (College of Staten Island unless noted otherwise) 


-Film Studies Certificate Program Advisory Committee, Graduate Center (fall 2012 - ) 
-Student/Faculty Disciplinary Committee, Graduate Center (fall 2010 - 2011).
-Distinguished Professor Committee (fall 2009 - )-Women, Gender, and Sexuality Executive Committee (2009 -)-Film Studies Certificate Program Advisory Committee, Graduate Center (spring 2008 – spring 2011).-General Education Committee (fall 2008 - spring 2009).-Film Studies Certificate Program Advisory Committee, Graduate Center (spring 2008 – spring 2011).-Acting Chair, Student Publications Committee (spring 2007). -NEH Summer Grant Review Committee (spring 2006). -Academic Priorities, introduced and prepared Media Literacy agenda (spring 2005). -Institutional Planning (fall 2003 - spring 2006). -Branding and Positioning Committee (fall 2004). -Summer Stipend Review Committee (2003). -Graduate Studies Committee (fall 2001 - spring 2003). -College Council Member (fall 2001).
-Working Group, Communication Studies Programme, University of Otago (1999).

• Curriculum and Course Development

-Introduction of Masculinity Studies concentration for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (in progress, spring and fall 2009).
-Principal organizer and writer for revision of M.A. Program in Cinema and Media Studies, CSI
(2002 - 03).
-Redesign of Introduction to Cinema curriculum to large-class format; arranged funding for
graduate-student tutorial positions, CSI (2001 - 02).
-Design, development, and implementation of new B.A. in Film and Media Studies, University
of Otago (1999).

• Departmental Committees (CSI)

-Promotions Committee (spring 2007 - present)
-Appointments Committee (2002 - present)
-Graduate Studies Committee (spring 2001 - present)

• Non-Committee Service to CSI and CUNY


-Mentor, Undergraduate Research Conference, CSI (spring 2010).-Review for PSC-CUNY 41 grant application (fall 2009).-Graduate Center, Film Studies Certificate Program Seminar. Respondent to David Lugowski’s paper:“Same Director, Studio, Story, and Yet . . . Charting Changes in James Whale's Authorship, Universal Pictures, and U.S. Culture” (March 27, 2009).-SEEK Research Assistant Project, mentor (fall 2008).-Reviewer for PSC-CUNY 40 grant applications (fall 2008).-with Paula Massood. Introduction and post-screening discussion for Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates. “Labor Goes to the Movies (September 26, 2008).-Panel Moderator, “Gender and Sexuality.” Framed: Delimiting the Film Image (CUNY Graduate Student Conference, Cinema Studies Group) (April 11, 2007).-Graduate Student Reading Group, Graduate Center (April 2007).-Brooklyn College, Department of Film. Lecture on Brokeback Mountain (December 5, 2006).
-Reviewer for PSC-CUNY 38 grant applications (2006 - 07).
-Organized Department of Media Culture Internship Forum (December 7, 2006).
-Mentor, Undergraduate Research Conference, College of Staten Island (spring 2006).
-Application facilitator, non-review position, for PSC-CUNY 37 grant applications (2005 - 06).
-Co-organizer with Dr. Paula Massood, Film and Media Studies Lecture Series, CUNY, Graduate Center, sponsored by Film Studies Certificate Program; series of three faculty seminars per semester (3 semesters, spring 2005 - spring 2006).
-Film and Media Studies Lecture Series, CUNY, Graduate Center. Lecture: “Snap! Dance!: The Defiant Aesthetic Form of Marlon Riggs” (working notes) (October 2005).
-New Media Ph.D. Program Seminar, Graduate Center, curriculum committee (fall 2004 - spring 2005).
-Reviewer for PSC-CUNY 36 grant applications (2004 - 05).
-Mentor, Undergraduate Research Conference, CSI (spring 2003).
-Writing Across the Curriculum (spring 2003).
-CSI Center for International Service, “World on Wednesday.” Public lecture: “The Myth of New Zealand Through the Cinematic Image” (May 2003).

• Search Committees

-CSI. Assistant Professor, French. Department of Modern Languages (2008-09).
-CSI. Assistant Professor, Queer Studies in World Literature, English Department (2006 - 07).
-CSI. Director of Communications and Public Relations (summer 2005).
-CSI. Open rank, New Media, Department of Media Culture (spring 2004).
-CSI. Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies (fall 2001).
-CSI. Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies (spring 2001).
-University of Otago. Lecturer, Film and Media Studies (2000).

• Offices Held

-Board of Advisors, The Velvet Foundation. GLBT Museum Development.
-Co-chair, Society for Cinema Studies, Queer Caucus. Developed and designed caucus website (2000 - 2002).
-Library Liaison, Film and Media Studies Programme, University of Otago (2000).
-President, Media Studies Department Club/Graduate Student Association, SUNY Buffalo (1992 - 93).

10. Professional Memberships

Modern Language Association (2005 - present)
American Studies Association (2001 - present)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (1993 - present)
The Writers Room (1996 - 1998)

11. Languages
French (read and conversation)
References on request