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Ph.D., Film History and Theory, Department of Communication Studies, Division of Broadcasting and Film, The University of Iowa
M.A., Modern European History, Modern American History, Department of History, The University of California-Santa Barbara
Cinema and Media History, Theory, and Criticism
Modernism and Modernity
Feminist and Critical Theory
Internationalism and Globalization
Director, Center for International Education, August 1999-present
President, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2007-2009
Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1993
Books:
Cosmopolitan Women: Hollywood, Berlin, Mexico City (in progress).
Star Decades: The 1920s (under contract with Rutgers University Press, in progress).
Teaching Film (co-edited with Lucy Fischer, MLA Options for Teaching Series, in progress).
Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the 'War on Terror' (co-edited with Andrew Martin, 2006, Rutgers University Press).
Global Currents: Media and Technology Now (co-edited with Tasha Oren, Rutgers University Press, 2004)
Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age (co-edited with Linda Krause, Rutgers University Press, 2003)
Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights (co-edited with Mark Bradley, Rutgers University Press, 2002)
Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History (Rutgers University Press, 2001)
Fugitive Images: From Photography to Video (editor, Indiana University Press, 1995)
Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany (Princeton University Press, 1989)
Articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as Screen, New German Critique, Cinema Journal, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, College Art Association, Art in America, and Sight and Sound.
