Presentations, Guest Lectures, Interviews, etc.
2006
“On Kim Ki-Duk’s Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring.” Introduction to Screening, March 2005.
“Becoming Adaptations: Corporeal Transformation and Ambiguity in Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, March 11-14, 2005.
“Master and Servant: Sadomasochism and Paradox in Sato Hisayasu's
Muscle
.” The Southwest-Texas
Popular Culture Association/American Association Conference, February 11-15,
2005.
2005
“On the Release of Dark Water.” WNPR Morning Edition. National Public Radio
“Shimizu Takashi's Ju-on and the Haunted Family in Japanese Culture.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, March 11-14, 2005.
“Ghosts of the Present, Specters of the Past: Cinematic Hybridity and the
Haunted Family in Shimizu Takashi’s Ju-on: The Grudge.” The Southwest-Texas
Popular Culture Association/American Association Conference, February 16-19,
2005.
2004
“Transforming Genres.” A Three-Part Public Lecture. Adventures in Life Long Learning, 2004.
“Behind the Veil of Orientalist Discourse: Michael Moore’s ‘Soft Facism’.” University of Wisconsin – Parkside, Humanities-Sponsored Panel Discussion, October 7, 2004.
“Fahrenheit 9/11 and the 2004 Election.” WGTD Radio (A National Public Radio Affiliate), October 6, 2004.
“Critical Thinking in Film Studies.” Critical Thinking Symposium, University of Wisconsin – Parkside, September 24th, 2004.
“Poverty, Violence, Spectacle: Katia Lund and Fernando Meirelles ’ City of God.” University of Wisconsin- Parkside Foreign Film Series Roundtable, April 4, 2004.
“Pornography, Splatter Films, and the Politics of Corporeal Disintegration.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, March 4-7, 2004.
“ ‘I Panic
the World’: Benevolent Exploitation in
Tod
Browning’s Freaks and Harmony
Korine’s
Gummo
.”
(With Guy
Crucianelli
) The Southwest-Texas
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, April
4-7, 2004.
2003
“Nightmare Japan: New Trends in Japanese Horror Cinema.” Midwest Conference on Film, Language, and Literature, March, 2003.
“Revisioning Apocalypse: Battle Royale and Battle Royale 2: Requiem.” Public Screening and Lecture, AnimeFest 2004, University of Wisconsin – Parkside.
“Cinema: Image, Sound, and Motion.” A Three-Part Public Lecture. Adventures in Life Long Learning, 2003.
“African American Silent Film.” WGTD Radio (A National Public Radio Affiliate), January 28, 2002.
“ ‘ Will You Be My Guinea Pig?’: Japanese Body Horror.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, March 6 - 9, 2003.
Chairperson/Moderator. “Body Horror in U.S. and Japanese Films.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, March 6 - 9, 2003.
“Flowers of Flesh and Blood: Body Horror, Pseudo-Snuff, and the Politics of Cultural Transformation in the Guinea Pig Films.” The Southwest-Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, February 12 - 15, 2003.
Chairperson/Moderator. “The Politics of Horror.” The Southwest-Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, February 12 - 15, 2003.
“In the Company
of Wolves: Conspicuous Consumption in Ulli
Lommel’sZärtlichkeit
derWölfe (Tenderness of
the Wolves , 1973).” 24th International Conference on the Fantastic
in the Arts, 2003.
2002
“ ‘ T'aint No Sin to Take Off Your Skin’: Clive Barker's Posthuman Striptease.” 2002 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Special Convention Theme Panel: ‘Thinking Post-Identity’. November 8 - 10, 2002.
“The Horror is Alive: Immersion, Abjection, and the Cinematics of Fear in the Survival Horror Genre.” 2002 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference, October 4 - 6, 2002.
“Some (Re )Assembly Required: Christopher Reeve and the Selling of Late Capitalism.” Midwest Conference on Film, Language, and Literature, 2002.
“Skinning the Body Erotic: Corporeal Disintegration and the Mapping of Desire in Clive Barker's The Forbidden.” 23rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, 2002.
“ ‘ The Dream Has Not Ended Yet’: Meat, Intensity, and the Durable Orgasm in Hisayasu Sato's Naked Blood and David Cronenberg'seXistenZ.” The Southwest-Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, 2002.
Panel Chairperson/Moderator. “Bodies that Splatter.” The Southwest-Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, 2002.
“The Beat Generation
(And Beyond).” WGTD Radio (A National Public Radio Affiliate), January 28,
2002.
2001
“Engaging the (Post )Humanities.” The University of Wisconsin - Parkside Roundtable on the Humanities, 2001.
“ ‘ Our Response Was Only Human’: Monstrous Becomings in Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers.” The 32nd Science Fiction Research Association Conference. SF in the Next Millennium: Looking Forward While Remembering the Past, 2001.
“There Goes the
Neighborhood: Chaotic Apocalypse and Monstrous Genesis in H. P.
Lovecraft’s ‘The Street,’ ‘The Horror at Red Hook,’ and ‘He’.” 22nd
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2001
2000
“In Midian, Where the Monsters Go: Beautiful Abominations in Clive Barker’s Nightbreed.” SUNY at Stony Brook Conference on Literature and Theory, 2000.
“Teaching Writing in the History Classroom.” Department of History New Faculty Practicum, SUNY at Stony Brook, 2000.
“Resistance is
Futile: Collaborative Learning and the Application of On-Line Technologies
in the Teaching of Writing.” SUNY at Stony Brook Faculty Brown-Bag
Lecture Series, 2000.
1999
“Point/Click/Think: Teaching First Year Writing through the Creation of
Online Magazines.” Accepted for Presentation at the 1999 SUNY Counsel On Writing
Conference, 1999.
1998-1994
“Mentoring Groups: What Are They and How Do They Function?” New Instructor Orientation, SUNY at Stony Brook Department of Writing and Rhetoric, 1999.
“Writing Across the Web: The Impact of On-Line Technologies on the Teaching of Writing.” Community College General Education Association’s 16th National Conference, 1998.
“The Beast in the Pockets: Gender and Language Diffusion in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio.” SUNY at Stony Brook Conference on Literature and Theory, 1995.
“I Hate Myself and Want to Die: Baudrillard, the Media, and Kurt Cobain’s Suicidal Simulacra.” SUNY at Stony Brook Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Colloquium, 1995.
“Janie’s Got a Gun: Gender and Violence in Zora NealeHurston’sTheir Eyes Were Watching God .” SUNY at Stony Brook Conference on Literature and Theory, 1994.
“ ‘ Workers Are Pigs, Women Are Worse’: Plagiarizing Kathy Acker.” SUNY at Stony Brook Conference on Literature and Theory, 1994.
“Text Analysis: Working Backwards.” SUNY at Stony Brook Teaching
Practicum, 1994.
Undergraduate Conferences Organized:
3rd Annual University of Wisconsin – Parkside Undergraduate Conference in Literature, Film, and New Media, forthcoming Spring 2005.
2nd Annual University of Wisconsin – Parkside Undergraduate Conference in Literature, Film, and New Media, Spring 2003.
Inaugural University of Wisconsin – Parkside Undergraduate Conference in
Literature, Film, and New Media, Spring 2002.
Workshops/Lecture Facilitation:
2004
Public Lecturer, “Transforming Genres.” Adventures in Life Long Learning, 2004.
Discussion Facilitator, Battle Royale and Battle Royale 2: Requiem . Public Screening, AnimeFest 2004, University of Wisconsin – Parkside.
Discussion Facilitator, Racine Arts Council Film Series, 2004.
2003
·
Public Lecturer, “Cinema: Image, Sound, and Motion.”
Adventures in Life Long Learning, 2003.
2002
Discussion Facilitator, Mamoru Oshii’s
Ghost in the Shell.
Public Screening, November, 2002.
1999 - 1996
Workshop Leader, “Introduction to the Resume." A workshop for students at Half-Hollow Hills Grammar School, 1999.
Presenter/Discussion Facilitator, "Computer-Assisted Instruction." A one-day symposium for instructors and administrators from Hunter College, 1999.
Presenter/Discussion Facilitator, "Teaching On-Line and the Application of On-Line Technologies in the Writing Classroom." A weekly workshop for composition instructors interested in the application of on-line technologies within the classroom, 1998.
Workshop Leader, “Introduction to the Electronic Writing Classroom: A Practical to the Uses of a Networked Computer Classroom," SUNY Stony Brook. This workshop focused on instruction in Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment (DIWE) and CommonSpace, as well as various tools for publishing class-related web pages, 1997-1998.
Workshop Leader, "An Introduction to Computer-Assisted Learning." A workshop for high school teachers interested in computer-assisted instruction, 1996.
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