Faculty Awards 2025
Prof. Jennifer Cazenave has been awarded the 2025 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education from CAS. This award recognizes a member of the CAS faculty whose commitment and contributions to graduate teaching, mentoring and/or program development have significantly raised the quality and impact of post-baccalaureate training in their disciplinary or interdisciplinary fields. Prof. Cazenave received […]
Jennifer Cazenave Receives Fellowship
Prof. Jennifer Cazenave has been awarded a 2025-2026 fellowship from the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut. She will be spending next academic year at the Institute where she will write the remaining two chapters of her new book, Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive (under contract with Columbia University Press).
Prof. Alex Denison in Film Quarterly
Prof. Alex Denison’s review on Michael Zryd’s new book Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema was published in the Winter 2024 Issue of Film Quarterly. See below an extract from Prof. Denison’s review. “Hollis Frampton is one of the most recognizable names in American avant-garde cinema. Yet, despite the abundance of literature on Frampton’s life […]
Prof. Jennifer Cazenave Signs Advanced Book Contract with Columbia University Press
Professor Jennifer Cazenave’s new book Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive is now under advanced contract with Columbia University Press. The book moves from the 1930s to the 1980s, charting an entangled history of disability and media haunted by overlooked traumas of social exclusion and cultural erasure. One of the neglected archive the […]
Prof. Alex Denison Wins LEF New England Production Grant
Congratulations to Prof. Alex Denison for winning a production grant through LEF New England to support his upcoming project In The Keeping. LEF New England supports new film and video work through their Moving Image Fund (MIF), started in 2001. This year, the LEF Foundation has awarded 11 Moving Image Fund grants totaling $47,500 in support of feature-length […]
Jim Carter Publishes Article in “Film Criticism”
Dr. Jim Carter recently published an article titled, “The Guilty Spectator: Sexuality, Age, Crime and Dario Argento’s Deep Red (1975)” in the journal Film Criticism. An abstract is below, and you can read the full piece on the Film Criticism website. This article performs a close reading of Dario Argento’s Deep Red (1975) together with a speculative reading of how […]
Prof. Petrus Liu Co-Edits Volume “Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories” with Duke University Press
Petrus Liu, Associate Chair of WLL and Associate Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cinema & Media Studies has recently co-edited the volume, “Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories”, a translation of Cui Zi’en’s short stories with a critical introduction and a new interview. Duke […]
Prof. Jonathan Foltz Publishes “Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richard’s Screen Tests” with Duke University Press
Prof. Foltz, Director of Cinema & Media Studies, has recently published his his article, “Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richard’s Screen Tests” with Duke University Press, Modern Language Quarterly on November 17th, 2023. From the Abstract: “This article explores the overlapping histories of close reading and mass media by attending to the late-career film and television experiments […]
Professor Petrus Liu Publishes Book, “The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus.”
Petrus Liu, Associate Chair of WLL and Associate Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cinema & Media Studies has recently published a book titled The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus. The work, focusing mainly on geopolitical queer theory, includes […]
Prof. Schwartz Publishes Article in “Morphology and Historical Sequence”
Professor Peter Schwartz recently published an article titled, Rube Stories and Paradigmatic Crimes as Narrative Modulators at Thresholds of Cultural Change.” in Roberto Gilodi and Luigi Marfè, ed., Morphology and Historical Sequence. Cosmo: Comparative Studies in Modernism.