Professor David Gerstner. City University of New York, Graduate Center and College of Staten Island
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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
-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)
M.A. Thesis Advisor (GC)-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 National Cinema and Western Film Festivals” (2004).
-Burke, Catherine. “Actors as Authors in the Early Hollywood Sound Period” (2004).-Grasso, Ellen. "Doris Day, Feminism, and Gender Representation" (2011)
-Kuntoh, Sarah. “Race Representation in Cinema: The Western and African Perspective” (2003).
-Milner, Sally. “Documenting the Motherland: Nation and Mothers in Tarnation, Mamma
Roma, and Heavenly Creatures” (2007).
-Nuzzi, Christopher. “A Cinema of Salvation: Science Fiction Film and the Messianic” (2005).
-Tejera, Rómulo Fernando. “Encountering Fascist Imagery in American Films” (2004).
M.A. Thesis Committee Reader (CSI)-Kristie, Falco. "Bodies That Matter." Digital Triptych (2011)
-Friedman, Seth. “Pulling Back the Curtain: The Misdirection Film in its Contexts” (2004)
-Kenny, YoungJames. "The Cameraman" (2009).
-Kocer, Zeynep. “The Representation of Femininity in Turkish Internal Migration (2005)
Films of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s” (2005).
-Kumar, Amit. “Low-Budget Libido Cinema: The Genre of Sleaze Films in India” (2006)
-Innocente, Enrique. “Forlorn Hope.” Screenplay (2007)
Dissertation Committees (GC)
-Burk,Tara. Art History Department (present)
-Colleran, Dan. Department of Comparative Literature (present).
-Jeanjean, Stéphanie, Art History (present)-Stanek, Damon, Art History (present)
Ph.D. Oral Exam Committee (GC) -Burk,Tara. Art History Department (December 2010)
-Colleran, Dan. Department of Comparative Literature (March 2008, April 2009). -DiSumma, Laura. Department of Philosophy (December 2010)
- Galvan, Margaret. English (February 2012)
• 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).
• Book Under Contract
-co-edited with Cynthia Chris. Media Authorship. Routledge, 2012.
-co-authored with Julien Nahmias. Christophe Honoré.
• Reviews of Books
-Queer Pollen
-Somatechnics 2. 1 (March 2012): 148-49.
-Choice (October 2011--Highly Recommended)
-Manly Arts - Scope 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)
• Chapters in Books (peer reviewed *)
--“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/
-African American National Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Entry: Marlon Troy Riggs.
- 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.
- 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).
- Time Out New York. “Eyes of the World: A MoMA Film Series Puts Queer Issues into Global Perspective.” (August 31 - September 6, 2006): 115.
- Movies That Shook the World, interviewed for The Birth of a Nation; first broadcast, October 14, 2005: American Movie Classics, World of Wonder Productions.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
6. Presentations
•Professional Conferences
-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).
-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
- 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)
-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).
-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
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