Faculty A-D

Frederick Aldama

Professor of English and Associate Faculty of Comparative Studies, Aldama uses the tools of narrative theory and cognitive science in his teaching and scholarship on US Latino and Mexican Cinema. His regularly taught film courses include, “Mexico in Cinema” and "Greed, Vengeance, and Love in Ethnic Technicolor", among others. Author and editor of seven books and is currently completing, Mexico in Cinema. He has published essays on films such as Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi, Edward James Olmos’s American Me as well as on topics more generally that cover isssues of race, cognition, and emotion in film adaptation. He is series co-editor of "Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture" (University of Texas Press) and sits on the editorial boards of Narrative, Journal of Narrative Theory, and Narrative & Image.

Marilyn Blackwell

John Davidson

John E. Davidson became Program Director for Film Studies in 2005 and continues to teach film, literature, and cultural theory for his home department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.  He is author of Deterritorializing the New German Cinema, as well as articles on ecological issues in film, representations of the radical right, coming to terms with the Holocaust and WWII, and the interplay of national and international impulses in the "New Europe."  His current book project is tentatively titled “Cinema, Cars, Calling: The (Auto-)Mobilizing of Work in German Film."  He serves on the editorial board of Studies in European Cinema (Intellect Press).

Kirk Denton

Denton specializes in modern Chinese fiction and literary criticism, and has published mostly in these areas. He is currently working on a study of museums and exhibitionary culture in Greater China. He regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modern Chinese literature and film. His interest in Asian American Studies is primarily in the area of film -- he irregularly offers a course in Asian American film.

For more information, see my website: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/

Associate Professor
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures
375 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus,  OH  43210
Phone: 614-292-5548
Fax: 614-292-3225