Faculty

Frederick Aldama

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.

Weihong Bao

Weihong Bao is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. A Chinese film historian by training, she focuses on the silent and early sound period. She is particularly concerned about the interaction between cinema and other media, the production of politicized modes of spectatorship and aesthetic affect, and the historical transformation of Chinese cinema from Shanghai to Chongqing. Her teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century visual and performance culture, the historical imbrications between Chinese cinema and drama, cinema and the city, Taiwan and Hong Kong New Wave and popular cinema, and contemporary Chinese experimental art and documentary. Her recent publications include “Fish, Water, Stone: From City Symphony to Urban Ecology, Towards an Ecoaesthetics of new Chinese Cinema (forthcoming in Ecocinema), “From Pearl White to White Rose Woo, Tracing the Vernacular Body of Nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema, 1927-1931,” Camera Obscura 60 (2005), 193-231; “A Panoramic Worldview: Probing the Visuality of Dianshizhai huabao,” Journal of Modern Chinese Literature 32 (March 2005), 405-462.

Marilyn Blackwell

John Davidson

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).

David Filipi

David Filipi is the Curator of Film/Video at the Wexner Center for the Arts. He has organized retrospectives devoted to visiting filmmakers such as Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Gus Van Sant, Frederick Wiseman, and Babak Payami and a variety of series ranging from B-Movies to rock documentaries to the British New Wave. Since 2004 he has presented an annual program titled “Rare Films from the Baseball Hall of Fame” at institutions around the country. He teaches a course on the history of animation at Ohio State .

Ryan Friedman

Ryan Friedman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, where he teaches courses in critical race studies in American film, film theory, and African American literature. He has also held teaching appointments at Rice University and Northwestern University . Currently, he is at work on a manuscript entitled Negro Talking Pictures: Race, Migration, and Musical Performance in Early American Sound Film; this book examines how a series of Hollywood films from the late 1920s and early 30s, which seek first and foremost to commodify and market black musical performance to white audiences, subtly and surprisingly register the contemporary social, economic, and political struggles of African Americans.

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Jared Gardner

Jared Gardner teaches courses in american literature, popular culture, and film theory and history from the silent era through contemporary digital cinema. He is bouncing around between three projects at the moment: one on myths of origins in the 1920s and 30s U.S. cinema, one on the intersections between film and comics from 1895 to today & a book on early American periodical culture. He is co-editor of the journal American Periodicals, and author of Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).

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Richard Gordon

Richard Gordon Richard A. Gordon, Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish, received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2002. His teaching and research focus on Spanish- and Portuguese-language representations of indigenous populations and the African Diaspora in Latin American colonial literature and culture, as well as in cinema. His book manuscript, “Cannibalizing the Colony: Cinematic Adaptations of Colonial Literature in Latin America,” examines the processes by which filmmakers appropriate and transform colonial writing into a vehicle for engaging concepts of national identity. His current book-length research project, “Blacks and the Lingering 18th Century in Latin America: Strategies of Representation in Writing and Film,” interprets strategies of representing blacks in both writings from the last decades of pre-Independence Latin America and films from the second half of the 20th century that revisit the discursive legacy of such writings. Professor Gordon is active in promoting Portuguese on campus, and is faculty advisor for OSU Portuguese Club, Oi Brasil! Recent scholarship includes: “The Performance of Late-Eighteenth-Century Portugal and Brazil in Novo entremez Os Malaquecos, ou Os costumes brazileiros” (forthcoming in Dieciocho)., “The Slave as National Symbol in Cuban and Brazilian Cinema: Representing Resistance and Promoting National Unity in La última cena and Chico Rei.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 15.3 (Dec. 2006): 301-320., “Following Estevanico: The Influential Presence of an African Slave in Sixteenth-Century New World Historiography.” Colonial Latin American Review 15.2 (Dec. 2006): 183-206., “Sexual Transgression and Models of Reception in Paloma Pedrero’s La llamada de Lauren.” Letras peninsulares 17.3 (Winter 2005 [issued Fall 2006]): 549-557., “Allegories of Resistance and Reception in Xica da Silva” (Luso-Brazilian Review 42.1 (2005): 44-60), and “Recreating Caminha: The Earnest Adaptation of Brazil’s Letter of Discovery in Humberto Mauro’s Descobrimento do Brasil (1937)” (MLN Hispanic Issue 120.2 (Mar. 2005): 408-436).

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J Ronald Green

J Ronald Green Ron Green is professor of film studies in the Department of History of Art at the Ohio State University. Green’s most recently completed research centers on African-American independent filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux. Green’s first book on Micheaux, Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux was released by Indiana University Press in September 2000, and was favorably reviewed in the London Times Literary Supplement, in the London Review of Books, in the Washington Post, on NPR, and in academic publications. His second book, With a Crooked Stick--The Films of Oscar Micheaux, was released by Indiana University Press in March, 2004. His writings on Micheaux and on other topics--including media arts policy and independent documentary and avant-garde films, video, photography, installation, and digital arts--have appeared in journals such as Film Quarterly, Griffithiana, Black Film Review, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Film and Video, Dialogue, Cinema Journal, Aperture, and Afterimage, and in various anthologies including Diawara’s Black American Cinema and Bowser, Musser, and Gaines’s Oscar Micheaux and His Circle. His long essay on the avant-garde loop films of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler is in press at the Galician Center for Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela. He is now writing a book tentatively titled Poor Cinema: The Case for Inexpensive Films, and a book on avant-garde cinema and recent art museum installation work.

Green is a recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, of multiple Ohio Arts Council art-critic fellowships, including a double award in 2003 and a recent award in 2006. He has also served as president of the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, trustee of the American Film Institute, chair of the department of photography and cinema at the Ohio State University, and assistant director of the Media Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently co-chair of the Interdisciplinary Film Studies Committee at the Ohio State University.

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Yana Hashamova

Yana Hashamova (Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures and an Associate Faculty member of the Departments of Comparative Studies and Women’s Studies. She has written articles in the areas of Russian film, comparative literature and the arts, critical theory and gender studies published in journals such as The Russian Review, The Communication Review, Consumption, Markets & Culture, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Elementa, and Theater. She is also an author of a chapter “Castrated Patriarchy, Violence, and Gender Hierarchies in Post-Soviet Film” in Gender and National Identity in Russian Culture (eds. H. Goscilo and A. Lanoux, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006). Her book Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film is forthcoming (Bristol, UK: Intellect Press, distributed in the US by University of Chicago Press, Spring 07). Her most recent work focuses on film representations of trafficking in women.

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John Hellmann

A professor in the English department, John Hellmann (Ph.D. Kent State University) is author of three books on post-World War II American literature, film, and culture: Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as New Fiction (Illinois, 1981), American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam (Columbia, 1986), and The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK (Columbia, 1997). His essays have appeared in such journals as American Quarterly, Genre, Critique, and American Literary History. Hellmann has been the recipient of a year-long grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and has been awarded Senior Fulbright Lectureships to teach in 1985 at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and during 1992-93 at the University of Bonn (Germany). He has also taught as an invited lecturer at the University of Wales, Swansea. Most recently, Hellmann is the author of commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture (2006) and The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006). He teaches courses in such special topics of twentieth-century literature and film as "1973," Kubrick and the Novels, and Apocalypse Now Redux and Its Sources. He is presently working on a study of the 1960s.

William Horrigan

Bill Horrigan has been Director of the Wexner Center's Media Arts program

since 1989. Horrigan has curated moving image-based gallery exhibitions with

such artists as Chris Marker, Johan van der Keuken, Shirin Neshat, Todd

Haynes and Christine Vachon, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Julia Scher, William

Kentridge, and Phil Collins. He's published essays on artists Yvonne Rainer,

William Jones, Sadie Benning, Mark Dion, Steve Fagin, Gregg Bordowitz,

Kutlug Ataman, Tom Kalin, Neil Jordan, and Roman Signer, among others, and

co-curated (with John Greyson) the Video Data Bank's 1989 Video Against AIDS

project. He previously worked at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles,

and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and received his Ph.D. from

Northwestern University.

Judith Mayne

Judith Mayne is Distinguished Humanities Professor and Professor of French. Her major areas of specialization are French cinema and Feminist film studies. She is the author of 8 books in film studies, including THE WOMAN AT THE KEYHOLE (1990), CINEMA AND SPECTATORSHIP (1993), DIRECTED BY DOROTHY ARZNER (1994), and FRAMED: LESBIANS, FEMINISTS, AND MEDIA CULTURE. Her most recent books are a study of the contemporary French director CLAIRE DENIS (University of Illinois Press, 2005), and a study of Henri-Georges Clouzot's controversial 1943 film, LE CORBEAU (I.B. Tauris, 2007). Her work has been translated into French, Korean, German, Finnish, and Polish, and has been reprinted in a wide range of anthologies. She has served on the editorial boards of several film studies journals, including CINEMA JOURNAL and QUARTERLY REVIEW OF FILM AND VIDEO. She has also published articles on stardom, contemporary French cinema, French cinema in the 1950s, and women-in-prison films in books and journals including CAMERA OBSCURA, SIGNS, and STUDIES IN FRENCH CINEMA. Professor Mayne is a recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and of the College of Humanities Exemplary Faculty Award. She has received grants and fellowships from the Center for 20th Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ohio Arts Council. She is currently at work on two book-length research projects, a study of Marlene Dietrich and the archive, and an analysis of French World War II filmmaking during the German occupation.

Linda Mizejewski

Linda Mizejewski, Professor of Women’s Studies, specializes in feminist film theory and cultural studies. She is the author of Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles (Princeton, 1992) and Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema (Duke, 1999). Her most recent book is Hardboiled and High Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2004). She has been the recipient of two Fulbright teaching awards, an ACLS Fellowship, and the OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

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Terry Moore

Sean O'Sullivan

Sean O'Sullivan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English. His areas of interest including British cinema, narrative and the visual arts, and serial fiction across media. He is the author of Mike Leigh, forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press series on Contemporary Film Directors; he also written articles on British television drama, Dickens and Deadwood, and the influences of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue on Six Feet Under and Lost. Recent and upcoming courses include: the cinematic hotel, one-day narratives, and British cinema from Thatcher to Blair.

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Laura Podalsky

Dr. Podalsky specializes in Latin American cinema and cultural studies. She is the author of Specular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires, 1955-1973 (Temple University Press, 2004) and various essays published in anthologies like Youth Culture in Global Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2006) and Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies (Arnold, 2003) as well as in journals like El Ojo que Piensa (Mexico), Screen (UK), Cinemais (Brazil), and Archivos de la Filmoteca (Spain). She is currently working on a book on contemporary Latin American cinema and the politics of affect.

Specific research interests include questions of cinematic affect, urban cinema, contemporary youth cultures, and feminist film studies.

Maurice Stevens

Maurice Stevens’ research interests include the formation of American identities in and through visual culture and performance, historical memory in relation to “trauma theory,” critical race/legal theory, critical psychoanalytic theory, and popular cultural performance. His first book is titled Troubling Beginnings: Trans(per)forming African-American History and Identity, and he is currently working on a second book called From the Past Imperfect: Towards a Critical Trauma Theory. Among Dr. Stevens’ other publications are “Subject to Counter-Memory: Disavowal and Black Manhood in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X,” Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Autumn 2002), "Phenotype(d) Embodiment in Haile Garima’s Sankofa” Black Arts Quarterly, Stanford, Stanford University Committee on Black Performing Arts, v3, n1, (Summer 1998).

Abril Trigo

Abril Trigo is Distinguished Humanities Professor of Latin American Cultures at the Ohio State University. His areas of specialization include Latin American Cultural Studies, literary and cultural theory, theater, film, and popular culture.He has published extensively on Latin American cultural studies, with particular emphasis on the historical formation of national imaginaries and their articulation to popular culture (rock, graffiti, candombe, soccer, etc.). His publications include Caudillo, estado, nación. Literatura, historia e ideología en el Uruguay. (Gaithersburg, MD: Hispamérica, 1990), ¿Cultura uruguaya o culturas linyeras? (Para una cartografía de la neomodernidad posuruguaya.) (Montevideo: Vintén Editor, 1997), and Memorias migrantes. Testimonios y ensayos sobre la diáspora uruguaya (Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo Editora/Montevideo: Ediciones Trilce, 2003), and The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader, co-authored with Ana Del Sarto and Alicia Ríos (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004). Currently, he is working on Crisis y transfiguración de los estudios culturales latinoamericanos, and A Critique of the Political-Libidinal Economy of Culture, a theoretical inquiry on contemporary culture.

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