Film Media Program Rebecca Romanow, Ph.D. Office: 147 Independence Spring '08 Film Advising: Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00-2:00 Mondays, 4:00-6:00 pm
Rebecca Fine Romanow is a full-time Lecturer in Film Media and the Undergraduate Advisor for the Film Media Program. She received her PhD in English from the University of Rhode Island in 2006, with an emphasis on postcolonial literature and film. Her dissertation, The Postcolonial Body in Queer Space and Time, was published by Cambridge Scholar's Press (Cambridge, England) in 2006. Her interests include world and transnational cinemas, films of the Middle East, and late 20th and 21st century film. She has developed and taught film classes on The Rock 'n' Roll Film, Films of Terrorism, The World Youth Film, The Theory of Film Excess, and Quentin Tarantino, as well as teaching Film 101 and the History of Film. In the Spring of 2008, she will teach a course on Punk Cinema and the Underground Aesthetic. Romanow's articles have been published in Politics and Culture, Megafoni (Finland), The Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture, and The International Journal of Culture, Tourism, & Hospitality Research. Her current areas of research focus are on youth film from Iran, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories, and „pre-postcolonial‰ literature and film in Britain and the Empire from 1938-1958. She is a member of the Film Review Board for The European Journal of American Studies. |
