Katherine Fusco
23 May 2019
Employment
Associate Professor of English, University of Nevada, 2018-
Assistant Professor of English. University of Nevada, 2012-2018.
Crowley Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, University of Nevada, July 2015- 2017.
Assistant Director, Writing Studio. Vanderbilt University, 2008-2012.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of English, Vanderbilt University, 2008.
M.A. Department of English, Vanderbilt University, 2004.
B.A. Summa cum laude. State University of New York at Geneseo, 2003.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
With Nicole Seymour. Kelly Reichardt: Emergency and the Everyday. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature: Time, Narrative, and Modernity. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Articles and Essays
“Feminist (Dis)Pleasure and Anita Loos’s Whisper Networks” (revising for resubmission at Feminist Modernist Studies)
“Speculative Archives and Subjunctive Moods,” invited response to Modernism/Modernity’s special issue on Weak Theory, ed Debra Rae Cohen, PrintPlus, Modernism/Modernity Vol 4. 1(10 March 2019).
“Placing Du Bois’s Ophelia: Multi-Scalar Black Modernity.” PrintPlus cluster on the Scale of the Literary Object, ed Rebecca Walkowitz, PrintPlus, Modernism/Modernity Vol 3.4 (1 February 2019).
“Sexing Farina: Racial Fantasies of Episodic Gender in the Hal Roach Our Gang Comedies.” PMLA Vol 133. 3 (May 2018): 526-541.
Winner of the William Riley Parker Prize
“‘Feast your eyes, glut your soul: Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, Disfigurement, and the Limits of Redemptive Affects.” Cinema Journal 57.4 (Summer 2018): 47-70.
"Better Travel through Brand Names: The Couture Grand Tour in Paris is a Woman’s Town and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 62.1 (Spring 2016): 1-24.
“Squashing the Bookworm: Manly Attention and Representations of Male Reading in Silent Film”. Modernism/Modernity 22.4 (November 2015): 627-650.
“Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupac’s Live Performance at Coachella.” Camera Obscura 30.2 (2015): 29-53.
“The Actress Experience: Cruel Knowing and the Death of the Picture Personality in Black Swan and The Girlfriend Experience.” Camera Obscura 28.1 (2013): 1-35.
“Love and Citation in Midnight in Paris: Remembering Modernism, Remembering Woody.” The Blackwell Companion to Woody Allen. Eds. Peter Bailey and Sam Girgus. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 294-317.
“Taking Naturalism to the Moving Picture Show: Frank Norris’s Influence on D.W. Griffith’s Narrative Development from A Corner in Wheat to The Birth of a Nation.” Adaptation. 3.2 (September 2010): 132-154.
“Systems Not Men: Producing People in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland.” Studies in the Novel. 41.4 (Winter 2009): 418-434.
“Brute Time: Temporal Representation in Vandover and the Brute and the Actuality Film” Studies in American Naturalism. 4.1 (Summer 2009): 22-40.
“Class, at Vanderbilt? Breaking the Silence at an Elite Institution.” Class on Campus. Spec. issue of Diversity & Democracy. 11.3 (Fall 2008): 14.
Scholarly Book Reviews
“Media of Serial Narrative edited by Frank Kelleter.” ASAP Journal. 11 October 2018. http://asapjournal.com/media-of-serial-narrative-katherine-fusco/
“Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women’s Writing by Donna Campbell.” American Literary Realism 50.2 (Winter 2018): 185-186.
Selected Popular Writing
With Nicole Seymour “Wendy and Lucy @ 10” Public Books. 14 December 2018.
https://www.publicbooks.org/wendy-and-lucy-10/
“Anna Biller on Classic Films and Twitter Feminisms.” Public Books. 3 October 2018. https://www.publicbooks.org/anna-biller-on-classic-films-and-twitter-feminisms/
“Hereditary and the Monstrousness of Creative Moms.” The Atlantic. 11 July 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/hereditary-and-the-monstrousness-of-creative-moms/564815/?utm_source=twb
“DIY Whiteness in the Age of the Apocalypse.” Avidly. 24 May 2018. http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2018/05/24/diy-whiteness-in-the-age-of-apocalypse/
“Downton Abbey: Anglophilia is Embarrassing.” Salmagundi 195-196 (Summer –Fall 2017): 101-111.
“The Dangers of Parenting a Beautiful Daughter” (Essay about Shirley Temple). Harper’s Bazaar. 6 June 2017. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a9587361/stage-mother-beautiful-daughter/
“From Witchcraft to ‘Playboy’: Director Anna Biller.” Ozy. 27 March 2017. https://www.ozy.com/good-sht/from-witchcraft-to-playboy-director-anna-biller/76210
Book in Preparation
Cruel Modernism: Celebrity, Identification, and Antipathy in U.S. Cinema, 1920-1940
Articles in Preparation
“At Page’s Edge: Du Bois’s Data Visualizations and The Fiction in the Science”
With Lynda Walsh, "Techniques of Justice: W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Visualizations and the Problem of Representing the Race"
“Episodically Happy: Form and Cruelty in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
“Alien Ovaries” (Creative Nonfiction)
GRANTS AND AWARDS
William Riley Parker Prize for best article from the Modern Language Association, 2018.
Visiting Research Fellowship, Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive, 2018.
Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, 2018.
Modernist Studies Association Research Travel Grant, 2018.
Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, 2016.
Modernist Studies Association Research Travel Grant, 2016.
Crowley Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, University of Nevada, 2015-2017.
Senior Scholar Mentor, University of Nevada, Reno, 2014; 2017.
Associate Collegian, Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Pordenone, Italy October 2013.
Junior Faculty Research Grant, University of Nevada, Summer 2013.
Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, Fall 2012.
"Class in the Classroom" Scholarship, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University, 2006.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks
“Lon Chaney, Ethicist.” Sierra College. Truckee, CA. April 2015.
“What to Do with May Term?” The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. May 2010.
Selected Conference Presentations
“Anita Loos’s Whisper Networks,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Columbus, OH. November 2018.
“The Unhappy Episodes of Horace McCoy’s Novel of Attrition, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” Society for Novel Studies. Ithaca, NY. May 2018.
“Unhappy Victims: The Unreadability of Star Suicides and the Emergence of Personality Science.” American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA. May 2018.
“Temple out of Time: Shirley Temple and Child Stardom’s Temporality”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Toronto, ON. March 2018.
“Black Periodicals and Performance.” Modernist Studies Association. Amsterdam, Netherlands. August, 2017.
“Cluck Cluck Clams and Baby Burlesks: Child Stars and the Marketing of Wholesome Hollywood.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, IL. March, 2017.
“Installations of Black Childhood from Our Gang to The Brownies’ Book.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. January, 2017.
“‘Frolics of Youth’: Modernism’s Child Stars.” Modernist Studies Association. Pasadena, CA. November 2016.
“Sexing Farina: Racial Fantasies of Episodic Gender in the Early Hal Roach Our Gang Comedies.” Modernist Studies Association. Boston, MA. November 2015.
“‘There'd Be No World Left, Only a Movie of the World:’ The 1930s Hollywood Novel at the End of Individualism.” Western Literature Association. Reno, NV. October 2015.
“Against Emotion: Flat Affect as Ideological Critique.” Modern Language Association. Vancouver, BC. January 2015.
“Excess Humanity: The Film Extra in Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” Modernist Studies Association. Pittsburgh, PA. November 2014.
“The Pathetic Visage: The Test Case of Tod Browning.” Symposium on Affect and Inquiry” Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Affect & Inquiry 2014 Symposium. Iowa City, Iowa. March 2014.
“Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupac’s Live Performance at Coachella.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.” Chicago, IL. March 2013.
“Authentic Cartier and ‘Paste’ Kunst: Better Travel through Brand Names, Cinematic Esperanto, and Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. American Studies Association. San Juan, PR. November 2012.
“‘Famous Historical Names like Coty and Cartier’: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Vernacular Modernism’s New Authenticity.” Modernist Studies Association. Las Vegas. October 2012.
“Squashing the Bookworm: Male Readers in Silent Film.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Boston, MA. March 2012.
“Taking Naturalism to the Moving Picture Show.” Modern Language Association Conference. Seattle, WA. January 2012.
Seminar Papers Presented
“Picture Personalities and Female Complaints: Negative Affect in 1930s Hollywood Novels.” Seminar on Modernism and Mental Health. Modernist Studies Association. Boston, MA. November 2015.
“Hard Boiled Abortion: Terminating Extra Lives in Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses Don’t They?” Seminar on Modernism and Efficiency. Modernist Studies Association. Las Vegas, NV. October 2012.
“A Prize for Ezra Pound: Existentialism, New Criticism, and the Bollingen Award.” Seminar on Administration. Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, BC. November 2010.
“An Exploration of Naturalist Film Style,” Seminar on “Recording Modernism,” Modernist Studies Association, Nashville, TN. November 2008.
“Crisis of Creation: Masculine Motherhood and the Displacement of the Female Body,” Seminar on “Tropes of Embodiment in Modernist Cultural Production,” Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, IL. November 2005.
Campus Talks
“Images of Childhood in Black and White.” Art History and Visual Culture Studies Forum Talk. University of Nevada. Reno, NV. March 2017.
“From Baby Burlesks to Cluck Cluck Clams: Sex and Race in Children’s Films from the 1920s-1930s.” Core Humanities Talk. University of Nevada. Reno, NV. November, 2016.
“Teaching with ‘Clickers’ in the Humanities.” Core Humanities Talk. University of Nevada. Reno, NV. April, 2016.
“Sexing Farina: Racial Fantasies of Episodic Gender in the Early Hal Roach Our Gang Comedies.” Core Humanities Talk. University of Nevada. Reno, NV. November, 2015
“Against Identification: Lon Chaney and the Limit of Redemptive Affects.” Department of English. University of Nevada. Reno, NV. April, 2014.
“The Profession,” Renovation Graduate Conference, University of Nevada. Reno, NV. March 2013.
Media Appearances
Nice Try! Utopian vox media podcast
“Ahh, The Pleasure of Soups,” My Minute with Andre podcast, 19 July 2018.
“This is Just like Burning Man,” My Minute with Andre podcast, 12 July 2018.
“Casablanca with Michael Phillips, Filmspotting podcast, 30 March 2017.
Public Talks/Readings
Nevada Humanities Literature Crawl, September 16, 2017.
“Childhoods in Black and White.” Great Conversations Talk, 2017.
“1940s Cinema: Ethics and Choice in Hollywood’s Golden Age.” National Automobile Museum. Reno, NV. May 2014.
Panels Organized
“What Next? Intermedia Adventures in Episodic and Serial Form.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. January 2017.
“Modernism and Performance.” Seminar Organizer. Modernist Studies Association. Pasadena, CA. November 2016.
“Extra! Extra! Film, Civics, and Supernumerary Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association, Panel Organizer. Modernist Studies Association. Pittsburgh, PA, November 2014.
“Disciplinary Confluences: Modernist Studies and Media Studies.” Seminar Organizer. Modernist Studies Association. Pittsburgh, PA, November 2014.
"Touring for Culture: U.S. Tourists and the Formation of Empire in the Early Twentieth Century” Panel Organizer. American Studies Association. San Juan, PR. November 2012.
“Kelly Reichardt” Panel Organizer and Co-Chair. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, MA. March 2012.
TEACHING
Graduate Seminars
American Realism and its Discontents
Affect Theory and Modernism’s Media Experiments
Introduction to Graduate Study
Undergraduate Courses
American Ideas: The Femme Fatale
Film Analysis and Interpretation
American Literature and Culture: Minority Cinemas
Literature of Ethnic Minorities in the U.S.: Modern and Contemporary Black Literature
American Novel II: The Modern Novel and the Problem of Ethics
Transatlantic Survey: 1800 to Present
Major Authors in American Literature: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hughes
American Literature: Mobs, Masses, and Monsters
Introduction to Criticism and Theory
Core Humanities: American Experiences and Constitutional Change
SERVICE
Service to the Profession
Workshop Organizer. “Overcoming Writing Obstacles.” Modernist Studies Association. Pasadena, CA. November 2016.
Reviewer. FILM textbook. Cengage, 2012.
Consultant. Nineteenth Century Collections Online. Gale, Cengage, 2011.
Peer Reviewer, Studies in American Literature.
Peer Reviewer, Studies in The Novel.
Peer Reviewer, Modernism/Modernity.
Peer Reviewer, Open Cultural Studies.
Selected University Service
Co-Chair, Ad Hoc Committee to Propose Cinema Arts Major, College of Liberal Arts, 2018.
Panelist, Thoughts on Tap Event, Core Humanities, December 2018.
Panelist, Tenure and Promotion Session, New Faculty Orientation, October 2018
Panelist, Pedagogical Strategies and Practices of Effective Teachers, College of Liberal Arts, February 2018.
Faculty Diversity Committee, University of Nevada, 2016-2018.
Presenter, “How to Write a Teaching Statement,” The Graduate School, University of Nevada, Fall 2017.
Bilinski Dissertation Award Committee, University of Nevada, 2017.
Judge, Graduate Student Association Creative Writing Competition, University of Nevada, 2017.
“How to Write a Research Statement,” The Graduate School, University of Nevada, October 2016, August 2018.
Presenter, GradFIT Program for First-Generation and Underrepresented Students, University of Nevada, May 2016.
Judge, 3 Minute Thesis Competition, University of Nevada, 2016.
Senator, Faculty Senate, University of Nevada, 2015-2017.
Curriculum Committee, Gender, Race, and Identity University of Nevada, 2014-.
Assessment Coordinator, Core Humanities, University of Nevada, 2014-2017.
Intercultural Council, University of Nevada, 2014.
Selected English Departmental Service
Co-chair, Film Studies Committee, University of Nevada, Spring 2013-.
M.A. Public Engagement Committee, Department of English, University of Nevada, 2018-.
Graduate Committee, Department of English, University of Nevada, 2018-.
Co-Chair, American Lit/Film Studies Search Committee, 2018-2019.
Diversity Officer, Department of English, University of Nevada, 2014-2018.
Chair, Global Anglophone Search Committee, 2017-2018.
Literature Committee, University of Nevada, Fall 2012-.
Job Market Workshop Organizer, University of Nevada, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018.
Chair, Literature Committee, University of Nevada, 2015-2016.
British Modernism Search Committee, University of Nevada, Fall 2014-Spring 2015.
Composition and Rhetoric Search Committee, University of Nevada, Fall 2013-Spring 2014.
Service to the Community
Moderator, Nevada Literature Crawl event with Gemma Hartley, Nevada Humanities, Fall 2018.
Moderator, Nevada Reads Conversation with Julie Buntin, May 2018.
Workshop Facilitator. Summer Youth Writing Program. University of Nevada. July 2016.
Teacher. “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: A Humor Classic.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Reno, Fall 2015.
Judge. Reno-Tahoe International Film Festival. Reno, NV. Spring 2015.
Teacher. “Silent Laughing, Crying, and Screaming.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Reno, Spring 2014.
Teacher. “Film Noir.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Reno, Spring 2013.
Research and Teaching Interests
American Literature
American Studies
Cinema and Media Studies
Diversity in Higher Education
Intellectual History
Theory and Criticism
Writing Pedagogy and Productivity
23 May 2019
Employment
Associate Professor of English, University of Nevada, 2018-
Assistant Professor of English. University of Nevada, 2012-2018.
Crowley Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, University of Nevada, July 2015- 2017.
Assistant Director, Writing Studio. Vanderbilt University, 2008-2012.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of English, Vanderbilt University, 2008.
M.A. Department of English, Vanderbilt University, 2004.
B.A. Summa cum laude. State University of New York at Geneseo, 2003.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
With Nicole Seymour. Kelly Reichardt: Emergency and the Everyday. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature: Time, Narrative, and Modernity. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Articles and Essays
“Feminist (Dis)Pleasure and Anita Loos’s Whisper Networks” (revising for resubmission at Feminist Modernist Studies)
“Speculative Archives and Subjunctive Moods,” invited response to Modernism/Modernity’s special issue on Weak Theory, ed Debra Rae Cohen, PrintPlus, Modernism/Modernity Vol 4. 1(10 March 2019).
“Placing Du Bois’s Ophelia: Multi-Scalar Black Modernity.” PrintPlus cluster on the Scale of the Literary Object, ed Rebecca Walkowitz, PrintPlus, Modernism/Modernity Vol 3.4 (1 February 2019).
“Sexing Farina: Racial Fantasies of Episodic Gender in the Hal Roach Our Gang Comedies.” PMLA Vol 133. 3 (May 2018): 526-541.
Winner of the William Riley Parker Prize
“‘Feast your eyes, glut your soul: Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, Disfigurement, and the Limits of Redemptive Affects.” Cinema Journal 57.4 (Summer 2018): 47-70.
"Better Travel through Brand Names: The Couture Grand Tour in Paris is a Woman’s Town and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 62.1 (Spring 2016): 1-24.
“Squashing the Bookworm: Manly Attention and Representations of Male Reading in Silent Film”. Modernism/Modernity 22.4 (November 2015): 627-650.
“Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupac’s Live Performance at Coachella.” Camera Obscura 30.2 (2015): 29-53.
“The Actress Experience: Cruel Knowing and the Death of the Picture Personality in Black Swan and The Girlfriend Experience.” Camera Obscura 28.1 (2013): 1-35.
“Love and Citation in Midnight in Paris: Remembering Modernism, Remembering Woody.” The Blackwell Companion to Woody Allen. Eds. Peter Bailey and Sam Girgus. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 294-317.
“Taking Naturalism to the Moving Picture Show: Frank Norris’s Influence on D.W. Griffith’s Narrative Development from A Corner in Wheat to The Birth of a Nation.” Adaptation. 3.2 (September 2010): 132-154.
“Systems Not Men: Producing People in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland.” Studies in the Novel. 41.4 (Winter 2009): 418-434.
“Brute Time: Temporal Representation in Vandover and the Brute and the Actuality Film” Studies in American Naturalism. 4.1 (Summer 2009): 22-40.
“Class, at Vanderbilt? Breaking the Silence at an Elite Institution.” Class on Campus. Spec. issue of Diversity & Democracy. 11.3 (Fall 2008): 14.
Scholarly Book Reviews
“Media of Serial Narrative edited by Frank Kelleter.” ASAP Journal. 11 October 2018. http://asapjournal.com/media-of-serial-narrative-katherine-fusco/
“Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women’s Writing by Donna Campbell.” American Literary Realism 50.2 (Winter 2018): 185-186.
Selected Popular Writing
With Nicole Seymour “Wendy and Lucy @ 10” Public Books. 14 December 2018.
https://www.publicbooks.org/wendy-and-lucy-10/
“Anna Biller on Classic Films and Twitter Feminisms.” Public Books. 3 October 2018. https://www.publicbooks.org/anna-biller-on-classic-films-and-twitter-feminisms/
“Hereditary and the Monstrousness of Creative Moms.” The Atlantic. 11 July 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/hereditary-and-the-monstrousness-of-creative-moms/564815/?utm_source=twb
“DIY Whiteness in the Age of the Apocalypse.” Avidly. 24 May 2018. http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2018/05/24/diy-whiteness-in-the-age-of-apocalypse/
“Downton Abbey: Anglophilia is Embarrassing.” Salmagundi 195-196 (Summer –Fall 2017): 101-111.
“The Dangers of Parenting a Beautiful Daughter” (Essay about Shirley Temple). Harper’s Bazaar. 6 June 2017. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a9587361/stage-mother-beautiful-daughter/
“From Witchcraft to ‘Playboy’: Director Anna Biller.” Ozy. 27 March 2017. https://www.ozy.com/good-sht/from-witchcraft-to-playboy-director-anna-biller/76210
Book in Preparation
Cruel Modernism: Celebrity, Identification, and Antipathy in U.S. Cinema, 1920-1940
Articles in Preparation
“At Page’s Edge: Du Bois’s Data Visualizations and The Fiction in the Science”
With Lynda Walsh, "Techniques of Justice: W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Visualizations and the Problem of Representing the Race"
“Episodically Happy: Form and Cruelty in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
“Alien Ovaries” (Creative Nonfiction)
GRANTS AND AWARDS
William Riley Parker Prize for best article from the Modern Language Association, 2018.
Visiting Research Fellowship, Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive, 2018.
Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, 2018.
Modernist Studies Association Research Travel Grant, 2018.
Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, 2016.
Modernist Studies Association Research Travel Grant, 2016.
Crowley Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, University of Nevada, 2015-2017.
Senior Scholar Mentor, University of Nevada, Reno, 2014; 2017.
Associate Collegian, Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Pordenone, Italy October 2013.
Junior Faculty Research Grant, University of Nevada, Summer 2013.
Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, Fall 2012.
"Class in the Classroom" Scholarship, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University, 2006.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks
“Lon Chaney, Ethicist.” Sierra College. Truckee, CA. April 2015.
“What to Do with May Term?” The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. May 2010.
Selected Conference Presentations
“Anita Loos’s Whisper Networks,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Columbus, OH. November 2018.
“The Unhappy Episodes of Horace McCoy’s Novel of Attrition, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” Society for Novel Studies. Ithaca, NY. May 2018.
“Unhappy Victims: The Unreadability of Star Suicides and the Emergence of Personality Science.” American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA. May 2018.
“Temple out of Time: Shirley Temple and Child Stardom’s Temporality”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Toronto, ON. March 2018.
“Black Periodicals and Performance.” Modernist Studies Association. Amsterdam, Netherlands. August, 2017.
“Cluck Cluck Clams and Baby Burlesks: Child Stars and the Marketing of Wholesome Hollywood.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, IL. March, 2017.
“Installations of Black Childhood from Our Gang to The Brownies’ Book.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. January, 2017.
“‘Frolics of Youth’: Modernism’s Child Stars.” Modernist Studies Association. Pasadena, CA. November 2016.
“Sexing Farina: Racial Fantasies of Episodic Gender in the Early Hal Roach Our Gang Comedies.” Modernist Studies Association. Boston, MA. November 2015.
“‘There'd Be No World Left, Only a Movie of the World:’ The 1930s Hollywood Novel at the End of Individualism.” Western Literature Association. Reno, NV. October 2015.
“Against Emotion: Flat Affect as Ideological Critique.” Modern Language Association. Vancouver, BC. January 2015.
“Excess Humanity: The Film Extra in Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” Modernist Studies Association. Pittsburgh, PA. November 2014.
“The Pathetic Visage: The Test Case of Tod Browning.” Symposium on Affect and Inquiry” Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Affect & Inquiry 2014 Symposium. Iowa City, Iowa. March 2014.
“Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupac’s Live Performance at Coachella.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.” Chicago, IL. March 2013.
“Authentic Cartier and ‘Paste’ Kunst: Better Travel through Brand Names, Cinematic Esperanto, and Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. American Studies Association. San Juan, PR. November 2012.
“‘Famous Historical Names like Coty and Cartier’: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Vernacular Modernism’s New Authenticity.” Modernist Studies Association. Las Vegas. October 2012.
“Squashing the Bookworm: Male Readers in Silent Film.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Boston, MA. March 2012.
“Taking Naturalism to the Moving Picture Show.” Modern Language Association Conference. Seattle, WA. January 2012.
Seminar Papers Presented
“Picture Personalities and Female Complaints: Negative Affect in 1930s Hollywood Novels.” Seminar on Modernism and Mental Health. Modernist Studies Association. Boston, MA. November 2015.
“Hard Boiled Abortion: Terminating Extra Lives in Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses Don’t They?” Seminar on Modernism and Efficiency. Modernist Studies Association. Las Vegas, NV. October 2012.
“A Prize for Ezra Pound: Existentialism, New Criticism, and the Bollingen Award.” Seminar on Administration. Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, BC. November 2010.
“An Exploration of Naturalist Film Style,” Seminar on “Recording Modernism,” Modernist Studies Association, Nashville, TN. November 2008.
“Crisis of Creation: Masculine Motherhood and the Displacement of the Female Body,” Seminar on “Tropes of Embodiment in Modernist Cultural Production,” Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, IL. November 2005.
Campus Talks
“Images of Childhood in Black and White.” Art History and Visual Culture Studies Forum Talk. University of Nevada. Reno, NV. March 2017.
“From Baby Burlesks to Cluck Cluck Clams: Sex and Race in Children’s Films from the 1920s-1930s.” Core Humanities Talk. University of Nevada. Reno, NV. November, 2016.
“Teaching with ‘Clickers’ in the Humanities.” Core Humanities Talk. University of Nevada. Reno, NV. April, 2016.
“Sexing Farina: Racial Fantasies of Episodic Gender in the Early Hal Roach Our Gang Comedies.” Core Humanities Talk. University of Nevada. Reno, NV. November, 2015
“Against Identification: Lon Chaney and the Limit of Redemptive Affects.” Department of English. University of Nevada. Reno, NV. April, 2014.
“The Profession,” Renovation Graduate Conference, University of Nevada. Reno, NV. March 2013.
Media Appearances
Nice Try! Utopian vox media podcast
“Ahh, The Pleasure of Soups,” My Minute with Andre podcast, 19 July 2018.
“This is Just like Burning Man,” My Minute with Andre podcast, 12 July 2018.
“Casablanca with Michael Phillips, Filmspotting podcast, 30 March 2017.
Public Talks/Readings
Nevada Humanities Literature Crawl, September 16, 2017.
“Childhoods in Black and White.” Great Conversations Talk, 2017.
“1940s Cinema: Ethics and Choice in Hollywood’s Golden Age.” National Automobile Museum. Reno, NV. May 2014.
Panels Organized
“What Next? Intermedia Adventures in Episodic and Serial Form.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. January 2017.
“Modernism and Performance.” Seminar Organizer. Modernist Studies Association. Pasadena, CA. November 2016.
“Extra! Extra! Film, Civics, and Supernumerary Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association, Panel Organizer. Modernist Studies Association. Pittsburgh, PA, November 2014.
“Disciplinary Confluences: Modernist Studies and Media Studies.” Seminar Organizer. Modernist Studies Association. Pittsburgh, PA, November 2014.
"Touring for Culture: U.S. Tourists and the Formation of Empire in the Early Twentieth Century” Panel Organizer. American Studies Association. San Juan, PR. November 2012.
“Kelly Reichardt” Panel Organizer and Co-Chair. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, MA. March 2012.
TEACHING
Graduate Seminars
American Realism and its Discontents
Affect Theory and Modernism’s Media Experiments
Introduction to Graduate Study
Undergraduate Courses
American Ideas: The Femme Fatale
Film Analysis and Interpretation
American Literature and Culture: Minority Cinemas
Literature of Ethnic Minorities in the U.S.: Modern and Contemporary Black Literature
American Novel II: The Modern Novel and the Problem of Ethics
Transatlantic Survey: 1800 to Present
Major Authors in American Literature: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hughes
American Literature: Mobs, Masses, and Monsters
Introduction to Criticism and Theory
Core Humanities: American Experiences and Constitutional Change
SERVICE
Service to the Profession
Workshop Organizer. “Overcoming Writing Obstacles.” Modernist Studies Association. Pasadena, CA. November 2016.
Reviewer. FILM textbook. Cengage, 2012.
Consultant. Nineteenth Century Collections Online. Gale, Cengage, 2011.
Peer Reviewer, Studies in American Literature.
Peer Reviewer, Studies in The Novel.
Peer Reviewer, Modernism/Modernity.
Peer Reviewer, Open Cultural Studies.
Selected University Service
Co-Chair, Ad Hoc Committee to Propose Cinema Arts Major, College of Liberal Arts, 2018.
Panelist, Thoughts on Tap Event, Core Humanities, December 2018.
Panelist, Tenure and Promotion Session, New Faculty Orientation, October 2018
Panelist, Pedagogical Strategies and Practices of Effective Teachers, College of Liberal Arts, February 2018.
Faculty Diversity Committee, University of Nevada, 2016-2018.
Presenter, “How to Write a Teaching Statement,” The Graduate School, University of Nevada, Fall 2017.
Bilinski Dissertation Award Committee, University of Nevada, 2017.
Judge, Graduate Student Association Creative Writing Competition, University of Nevada, 2017.
“How to Write a Research Statement,” The Graduate School, University of Nevada, October 2016, August 2018.
Presenter, GradFIT Program for First-Generation and Underrepresented Students, University of Nevada, May 2016.
Judge, 3 Minute Thesis Competition, University of Nevada, 2016.
Senator, Faculty Senate, University of Nevada, 2015-2017.
Curriculum Committee, Gender, Race, and Identity University of Nevada, 2014-.
Assessment Coordinator, Core Humanities, University of Nevada, 2014-2017.
Intercultural Council, University of Nevada, 2014.
Selected English Departmental Service
Co-chair, Film Studies Committee, University of Nevada, Spring 2013-.
M.A. Public Engagement Committee, Department of English, University of Nevada, 2018-.
Graduate Committee, Department of English, University of Nevada, 2018-.
Co-Chair, American Lit/Film Studies Search Committee, 2018-2019.
Diversity Officer, Department of English, University of Nevada, 2014-2018.
Chair, Global Anglophone Search Committee, 2017-2018.
Literature Committee, University of Nevada, Fall 2012-.
Job Market Workshop Organizer, University of Nevada, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018.
Chair, Literature Committee, University of Nevada, 2015-2016.
British Modernism Search Committee, University of Nevada, Fall 2014-Spring 2015.
Composition and Rhetoric Search Committee, University of Nevada, Fall 2013-Spring 2014.
Service to the Community
Moderator, Nevada Literature Crawl event with Gemma Hartley, Nevada Humanities, Fall 2018.
Moderator, Nevada Reads Conversation with Julie Buntin, May 2018.
Workshop Facilitator. Summer Youth Writing Program. University of Nevada. July 2016.
Teacher. “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: A Humor Classic.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Reno, Fall 2015.
Judge. Reno-Tahoe International Film Festival. Reno, NV. Spring 2015.
Teacher. “Silent Laughing, Crying, and Screaming.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Reno, Spring 2014.
Teacher. “Film Noir.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Reno, Spring 2013.
Research and Teaching Interests
American Literature
American Studies
Cinema and Media Studies
Diversity in Higher Education
Intellectual History
Theory and Criticism
Writing Pedagogy and Productivity
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