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CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION:
University of California, Santa
Cruz
Ph.D. in History
of Consciousness, June 2007
- Parenthetical degree in
Feminist
Studies (this indicates additional research and coursework
under the direction of Feminist Studies faculty).
- Dissertation:The
Transmission of Trauma: Psychoanalysis, Race, and Technologies
of Cultural Fantasy
- Advisors: Carla Freccero (chair), Donna Haraway,
and David Marriott.
- Areas of research and teaching interest:
Queer Theory/LGBT Studies; Feminist and Gender Studies;
Nineteenth Century Science and Medicine; Critical Race Theory;
Psychoanalysis and Race; Critical Theory; Film and Popular
Culture.
M.A. in History
of Consciousness, 2005
Loyola
Marymount University (Los Angeles, California)
Bachelor of Arts, Film and English, 1996
- Graduated with Honors and Magna Cum Laude.
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS:
“The Impossible Femme: Femininity, Inversion,
and the Visibility of Sex/Gender Transgression.” Talk
in conjunction with hosted screening of FtF: Female to Femme
(Frameline Distribution, 2006).
- Cornell University, LGB Studies (October
2007
- University of California, Davis,Queer Research
Cluster, "FtF: Female to Femme" (May 2007)
- Michigan Technological University, Department
of Humanities, Houghton, MI, "FtF: Female to Femme"
(March 2007)
- Rutgers University, Department of Women &
Gender Studies, New Brunswick, NJ, "FtF: Female to
Femme" (March 2007)
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
-
Street
Haunting (writer, director). 6 min., 16mm film,
b/w. 2007.
- Godspeed
(producer, co-editor). 20 min., HD1080i, color. 2007.
- FtF: Female
to Femme (co-director). 48 min., digital video.
2006.
- Seven
Questions about Desire (director). 26 min.,
digital video, color. 2006.
- Sigmund
Freud: Professional Psychoanalyst (co-director).
6 min., Super 8 mm film, color. 2005.
PAPERS PRESENTED:
- “Frantz Fanon's Real Fantasies.”
Literature & Psychoanalysis conference, University of
California, Berkeley. 2006.
- “Epistemologies of Law & Order:
DNA Culture and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” Popular
Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual
Convention, San Antonio, Texas. 2004.
- “The Origins of Paradise: Trauma
and Collective Fantasy.” Queer Encounters II: Crusades
and (Post)Colonialisms, UC Santa Cruz. 2000.
- “Police ‘N the Hood: The
State, ‘Public Interest,’ and Law &
Order.” Visible Evidence Conference, San Francisco
State University. 1998.
- “Crime and Punishment on Nightline:
Race, News, and Representations of Prisoners.” Critical
Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex, UC Berkeley.
1998.
FELLOWSHIPS:
- Dissertation Fellowship,
Department of Women’s Studies, University of California
at Santa Cruz, 2004.
- Nominated by History of Consciousness
Department for University of California Dissertation
Fellowship, 2004.
- Hayman Dissertation Fellowship,
UCLA Dept. of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, 2001.
- Regents Fellowship,
UC Santa Cruz, 1997, 2000, 2003.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
MFA Program in Fine Arts, California
College of the Arts 2007 - present
"Thesis Seminar"
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This writing-intensive seminar provides
a forum of support, guidance, and critique for MFA students
working on the written component of their masters theses.
Graduate writing seminar, 8 students.
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Visual and Critical Studies, California
College of the Arts 2007 - present
"Thesis Seminar"
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This writing-intensive seminar provides
a forum of support, guidance, and critique for Visual
and Critical Studies students working on their masters
theses.
Graduate writing seminar, 4students. |
Women’s Studies, San Francisco
State University 2005 - present
“Theories
of Female Sexuality”
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This course offers an historical
overview of scientific theories and discourses of “female
sexuality” from roughly 1800 to the present, focusing
on how the category “female sexuality” has
been mobilized, defined, and racialized in and through
the institutions of evolutionary biology, sexology,
medicine, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.
Upper division/graduate course, 32 students.
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“Lesbian/Queer
Literature & Media”
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This course offers a survey of lesbian/queer
representation in classic and contemporary novels, Hollywood
cinema, independent and experimental films, network
and cable television.
upper division, 40 students.
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Gender and Women’s Studies, UC
Berkeley 2006
“Queer
Visual Cultures”
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This course explores issues and questions
on the topic of queer “visibility” through
a survey of representations of queer subjects in film,
television, and video.
Upper division course,
55 students.
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Ethnic Studies, California State University,
East Bay 2005
“Interracial
Sexuality in Film”
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This course offers a survey of interracial
sexuality in Hollywood cinema from 1910 to the present,
examining how films made in various historical periods
represent interracial desire, bodies, and relationships.
Upper division course, 18 students.
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Art History, Sonoma State University
2005
“World Film
History 1945 – Present”
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This course offers an international
survey and history of the film art since 1945.
Lower division lecture course, 45 students.
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History of Consciousness, UC Santa
Cruz 2004
“Popular
Culture”
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This course offers a survey of methodologies
for the study film, television, commodity culture, queer
subcultures, and technocultures.
Lower division seminar, 15 students.
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Women’s Studies, UC Santa Cruz
1999
“Feminist Film
Theory”
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This course offers an introduction
to feminist film theory and the films of experimental,
independent women filmmakers.
Upper division seminar, 10 students.
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Teaching Assistant, University of California,
Santa Cruz 1998– 2005
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Film & Digital Media
Courses
Advanced Topics in Digital Media, American Film 1930-1960,
International Cinema, Intro to Digital Media, Intro
to Film, Intro to Film Production, Intro to Television
Studies, Psychoanalytic Film Theory
American Studies/Cultural
Studies Courses
American Popular Culture, Class in the US, Culture and
Ideology, Intro to Popular Culture, Intro to Semiotics
and Psychoanalysis
Women’s Studies
Courses
Third World Feminisms |
ACADEMIC SERVICE:
- President, Graduate Student Association,
1999 - 2000.
Chair, University of California Student Association (UCSA),
1998 - 1999.
- Ph.D. admissions committee member, department
of History of Consciousness, 1998 - 1999.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING:
- Panel Chair, “Television V:
Drama: Cops, Lawyers, and Detectives.” Popular Culture
Association/ American Culture Association Annual Convention.
April 2004.
- Conference Organizer. “Persistent
Vision,” a conference in honor of the 25th Anniversary
of the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film
Festival. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
June 2001.
- Organizing Committee. “Prison Awareness
Week.” California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Santa
Cruz. April 1999.
LANGUAGES:
- Italian (reading and writing), Spanish (reading), French
(reading).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILATIONS:
- National Women's Studies Association
- Modern Language Association
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Society for Social Studies of Science
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