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TEACHING
Teaching Interests:
Feminist/queer/race theory; feminist science
studies; histories of sexuality and racism; psychoanalysis and
race; film and television studies
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, 16 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 |
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