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FIlm Media Program

Faculty

Rebecca Romanow, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Email: rromanow@mail.uri.edu
Phone: (401) 874-7558
Office: 147 Swan
Office hours: Mondays: 1:30-4:00
Wednesdays: 11:00-2:00 and 5:00-7:00

Rebecca Fine Romanow is a full-time Lecturer in Film/Media and is the Undergraduate Advisor for the Film/Media Program. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Rhode Island in 2006, with an emphasis in postcolonial literature and film. Her dissertation, The Postcolonial Body in Queer Space and Time, was published by Cambridge Scholar's Publishing (Cambridge, England) in 2006, with a paperback edition published in 2008. 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 New Wave Film Theory, Punk Cinema and the Underground Aesthetic, 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 2009, she will teach a new course on Indian cinema as well as one  that focuses on 21st Century Middle Eastern film.  Romanow's articles have been published in Politics and Culture, Megafoni (Finland), and The Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture.  Her current areas of research focus are on youth film from Iran, Iraq, Israel, and the Palestinian territories, and 21st Century world film. She is a member of the Film Review Board for The European Journal of American Studies and the Editorial Board of Subaltern Cinema.


Home Movie, 2011

 

Big Bang, 2011