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TIM PALMER Professor of Film Studies; Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film Matters 3508 Whispering Pines Court, Wilmington, NC 28409 USA

(910) 796-8608 [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. in Communication Arts, Film Program, 2003 University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Dissertation: Tales of the Underworld: Jean-Pierre Melville and 1950s French Cinema M.A. for Research in Film and Television Studies, 1997 Warwick University, England; Graduated with Distinction B.A. (Hons.) in Film and Literature, 1996 Warwick University, England

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Professor of Film Studies 2013- Associate Professor of Film Studies 2008-2013 Assistant Professor of Film Studies, 2003-2008 Department of Film Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington Classes taught include: Introduction to Film Study Introduction to French Cinema Contemporary French Cinema Japanese Cinema New Wave Cinemas American Cinema 1927-1960 Perspectives in World Cinema Producing the Undergraduate Film Journal Studio Seminar in Film Production Short French Cinema Introduction to World Cinema The French New Wave: Culture, Politics, Gender Postwar French Culture Minimalist Cinema Classical French Cinema

Lecturer and Teaching Assistant 2000-2003 Communication Arts Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000-2003 Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002-2003

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS A Liberated Cinema: Creating the Postwar French Film State, 1946-1958 (Manuscript in progress, supported with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities) Irreversible (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Directory of World Cinema: France (University of Chicago Press/Intellect, 2013). Co-Editor with Charlie Michael. Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema (Wesleyan University Press, 2011).


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PUBLICATIONS: PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS “Celebration/Flagellation: Representing Memory in French Cinema of the Fourth Republic” solicited book chapter commissioned and to be published in Nancy Membrez (ed.), Memory in World Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2017). “Riches Out of Reach: The Postwar French Economic Boom and the Policier Crime Film,” solicited book chapter commissioned and to be published in Jim Leach (ed.), World Heist Cinema (Wayne State University Press, 2017). “Valérie Donzelli’s La Guerre est declarée: War and Peace in the Contemporary French Cinema Ecosystem,” article manuscript in progress. “Drift: Paula Delsol Inside and Outside the French New Wave,” article manuscript in progress. “Child-Centric Cinema: An Interview with Carine Tardieu,” article manuscript in progress. “Modes of Masculinity in Contemporary French Cinema,” in Hilary Radner, Raphaëlle Moine and Alistair Fox (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary French Film (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). “Rites of Passing: Conceptual Nihilism in Jean Paul Civeyrac’s Des filles en noir,” Cinephile 8.2, Spring 2013: 8-15. “Melodramas of the Everyday: An Interview with Julie Lopes-Curval,” The French Review 86:3, February 2013: 94-104. “Crashing the Millionaires’ Club: Popular Women’s Cinema in Twenty-First Century France,” Studies in French Cinema 12:3, Autumn 2012: 201-214. “Le Cercle rouge: Jean-Pierre Melville entre cinéma d’auteur et cinéma populaire,” in Marguerite Chabrol and Alain Kleinberger (eds.), Le Cercle rouge: Lectures croisées (L’Harmattan, 2011). “The Rules of the World: Japanese Eco-Cinema and Kiyoshi Kurosawa,” in Paula Willoquet-Maricondi (ed.), Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film (University of Virginia Press, 2010). “Don’t Look Back: An Interview with Marina de Van,” The French Review 83:5, April 2010: 96-103. “Contemporary French Feminine Cinema and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence,” The French Review 83:2, December 2009: 38-49. “Star, Interrupted: The Reinvention of James Stewart,” in Kylo-Patrick Hart (ed.), Film and Television Stardom (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), 43-57. “Paris, City of Shadows: French Crime Cinema Before the New Wave,” in New Review of Film and Television Studies 6:2, August 2008: 113-131. “Threading the Eye of the Needle: Contemporary Pop-Art French Cinema and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi’s Il est plus facile pour un chameau…” in Isabelle Vanderschelden and Darren Waldron


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(eds.), France at the Flicks: Trends in Contemporary French Popular Cinema (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), 89-102. “An Amateur of Quality: Postwar French Cinema and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Silence de la mer,” Journal of Film and Video 59:4, Winter 2007: 3-19. “Under Your Skin: Marina de Van and the Contemporary French Cinéma du corps,” Studies in French Cinema 6:3, Fall 2006: 171-181. “Style and Sensation in the Contemporary French Cinema of the Body,” Journal of Film and Video 58:3, Fall 2006: 22-32. “Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï,” in Phil Powrie (ed.), The Cinema of France (Wallflower Press, 2006), 122-131. “Side of the Angels: Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood Trade Press, and the Blacklist,” Cinema Journal 44:4, Summer 2005: 57-74. “Jean-Pierre Melville and 1970s French Film Style,” Studies in French Cinema 2:3, Spring 2003: 135-145.

“From Extra to Everyman: The Expressive Dialectic of Director and Actor in the Films of James Stewart and Frank Capra,” in Laura Vichi (ed.), The Visible Man: Film Acting From Early Cinema To The Threshold Of Modern Cinema, (University of Udine Press, 2002), 179-187.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS, ESSAYS, REVIEWS “Women’s Filmmaking in France,” in Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael (eds.), Directory of World Cinema: France (University of Chicago Press/Intellect, 2013). “Tomboy,” “Classe tous risques,” “Entre onze heures et minuit,” “La Main du diable,” “L’Ours et la poupée,” “Le Diable au coeur,” “La Nuit du carrefour,” “La Symphonie pastorale,” in Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael (eds.), Directory of World Cinema: France (University of Chicago Press/Intellect, 2013). “An Interview with François Truffart, Director of the City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival,” in Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael (eds.), Directory of World Cinema: France (University of Chicago Press/Intellect, 2013). “The French Old Wave: Claude Sautet’s Classe tous risques,” Film International 40, 2009: 58-61. “Festival Report: 2009 VCU/University of Richmond French Film Festival,” Film International 39, 2009: 88-90. “Book Review: Tarkovsky edited by Nathan Dunne,” Film International 36, 2009: 86-87. “Les Enfants terribles: An Interview with Françoise Marie,” Film International 34, 2008: 94-98. With Liza Palmer.


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“La Vie en Richmond: Report of the 2008 VCU French Film Festival,” Film International 33, 2008: 90-94. With Liza Palmer. “Army of Shadows,” Film International 28, 2007: 120-123. “Ugetsu,” Film International 19, 2006: 78-80. “Kiss Me Deadly: Two Films by Seijun Suzuki,” Film International 17, 2005: 61-63. “Throne of Blood: Kurosawa, East and West,” Film International 14, 2005: 54-55. “Pépé le moko,” Film International 7, 2004: 62-63. “Robert Bresson and Les Dames du bois du Boulogne,” Film International 4, 2003: 47. “Two by Jean-Luc Godard,” Film International 2, 2003: 56. “Exotic Aesthetics: Long Take Style and Staging in the Films of Mizoguchi and von Sternberg,” Filmhäftet 122: 4, July 2002: 1-6. “Jean-Luc Godard: Le Petit Soldat,” Senses of Cinema 19, March/April 2002. Book Review: The Invisible Seen in French Cinema Before 1917 by Marina Dahlquist. Filmhäftet 122:4, September 2002. “Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound,” Filmhäftet 123:2, September 2002. Book Review: Do the Right Thing by Ed Guerrero. Filmhäftet 120:2, April 2002.

PUBLICATIONS: REPRINTED ESSAYS “Style and Sensation in the Contemporary French Cinema of the Body,” in Phil Powrie (ed.), French Cinema (Routledge, 2014). “Jean-Pierre Melville and 1970s French Film Style,” in Phil Powrie (ed.), French Cinema (Routledge, 2014).

PUBLICATIONS: PEDAGOGY AND PROFESSIONAL 2012 “Interview with Tim Palmer, Author of Brutal Intimacy,” Film International, July 16, 2012. I

was interviewed for this article about my first book, Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema. Viewable at: http://filmint.nu/?p=5236

2011 “Loving French Film: Brutal Intimacy,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 8, 2011. I was

interviewed for this article about my work on French cinema. Viewable at: http://chronicle.com/blogs/pageview/loving-french-film/28692


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2011 “Roundtable: The French New Wave Revisited,” Film Matters 1:4, April 2011. Editor and Moderator of a group conversation about the French New Wave, the culmination of my spring 2010 French New Wave senior seminar.

2011 “Catherine Deneuve: Ice Maiden Comes Down to Earth,” Los Angeles Times, March 20,

2011: D4, D16. I was interviewed and cited in this essay/conversation with Deneuve, by Rebecca Keegan, about the release of the François Ozon film Potiche.

Viewable at: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/20/entertainment/la-ca-catherine-deneuve-20110320

2010 “Film Matters.” I was interviewed for this essay, on the origins and launch of Film Matters,

written by Nina Ayoub, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 12, 2010, LVI: 26: B16-17.

Viewable at: http://chronicle.com/article/Film-Matters/64451/

HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS 2014 Winner of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend award, awarded by

the American Government, in support of archival research in Paris for my A Liberated Cinema project.

2014 Research Reassignment awarded by the UNCW. 2013 Curriculum Development Grant awarded by the Office of International Programs, UNCW. 2013 International Faculty Travel Grant awarded by the Office of International Programs, UNCW. 2012 Charles L. Cahill Grant winner, awarded by the UNCW for archival research at the

Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France. 2012 Summer Research Initiative awarded by the UNCW for archival research and interviews in

Paris, July-August 2012. 2011 Cultural programming award received from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy,

New York City, in support of my Exclusif 35mm French film festival, co-organized with students in my Contemporary French Cinema class, staged at the UNCW.

2011 International Faculty Travel Grant awarded by the Office of International Programs, UNCW. 2009 Charles L. Cahill Grant winner, awarded by the UNCW for archival research on HUAC and the

Blacklist at the UCLA and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences archives, Los Angeles.

2009 Research Reassignment, competitive research leave awarded by the UNCW for fall 2009. 2009 International Faculty Travel Grant awarded by the Office of International Programs, UNCW. 2009 Winner, Friends of UNCW Collection Development Grant, in the area of French cinema.


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2008 Summer Research Initiative awarded by the UNCW for archival research and interviews in Paris, July-August 2008.

2008 International Travel Grant awarded by the Office of International Programs at the UNCW. 2007 Faculty Research Development award given by the UNCW Center for Faculty Leadership. 2007 Awarded a Tournées film festival programming grant from the French Ministry of Culture; I

also won this grant in 2006, 2005 and twice in 2004. 2006 Charles L. Cahill Grant awarded by the UNCW for archival research on HUAC and the

Blacklist in the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Madison, Wisconsin. 2005 Summer Research Initiative awarded by the UNCW, for scholarly and archival research in

Paris, France, June-July, 2004. 2004 Charles L. Cahill Grant awarded by the UNCW for archival research in contemporary French

cinema in Paris, France. 2003 Curriculum Development Grant awarded by the UNCW, to devise new courses in Japanese

cinema and French cinema. 2002 Ruth McCarty Travel Award given twice by the Department of Communication Arts,

University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2002 Ruth McCarty Dissertation Award from the Department of Communication Arts, University

of Wisconsin-Madison.

2001 Henry Vilas Travel Fellowship, top level with commendation, awarded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison for archival research in Paris, France.

2001 Ruth McCarty Travel Award from the Department of Communication Arts. 1998 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Two-Year Fellowship -2000 awarded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1998 Vilas Award received from the Department of Communication Arts. 1997 BUNAC Education Scholarship Trust (BEST) award from the BUNAC academic division, an

affiliate of the UK Fulbright Commission. 1997 Distinction Award received from the Department of Film and Television Studies, Warwick

University, for my M.A. thesis on classical Hollywood acting style. 1997 Lord Rootes Memorial Award from Warwick University for American Autumn, a video

production and travel narrative project produced during six weeks of travelling by Greyhound buses across North America.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES


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2015 Book proposal reviewer for Edinburgh University Press. 2014- Elected Co-Chair, French and Francophone Special Interest Group, Society of Cinema and

Media Studies. 2014- Member, UNCW University Research Council 2014 Book manuscript reviewer for Indiana University Press. 2014 Invited contributor to the In Media Res online multi-media domain, author of a special

feature on “extreme cinema.” 2014 Invited referee for Studies in French Cinema. 2014 Invited referee for the Film-Philosophy journal. 2013 Invited referee for the New Review of Film and Television Studies journal. 2013 Book proposal reviewer for Bloomsbury Books. 2013 Book manuscript reviewer for Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 2013 Film festival jury member, My French Film Festival, online festival sponsored by Unifrance. 2012 Invited participant and panelist, City of Lights, City of Angels film festival and trade fair, Los

Angeles, CA. 2012 Invited manuscript reviewer for Illinois University Press. 2012 Invited referee for the Screen journal. 2012 Invited referee for W. W. Norton and Company academic book proposal. 2012 Invited referee for Wisconsin University Press academic book proposal. 2012 Invited referee for the Film-Philosophy journal. 2011- Member of Office of International Programs Advisory committee, and Office of International

Programs Student and Scholar Services committee, at the UNCW. 2011 Member of Society for Cinema and Media Studies Edited Book Collection award committee. 2011 Invited referee for Wisconsin University Press book manuscript proposal. 2011- UNCW University committee memberships: Athletics Council, Faculty Handbook committee,

Randall Library committee, Calendar committee. 2011 Member, Critical Studies Job Search committee, Film Studies Department, UNCW. 2011 Invited referee for the Comparative Literature journal.


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2011- Invited member of the Studies in French Cinema editorial caucus; invited referee for the Studies in French Cinema journal.

2011 Invited external reviewer, tenure dossier for Goucher College. 2010 Invited referee for the Studies in French Cinema journal. 2009- Co-Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Film Matters, North America’s inaugural peer-reviewed

undergraduate film journal, published quarterly by Intellect Press. 2009 Member, Critical Studies Job Search committee, Film Studies Department, UNCW. 2009 Invited referee for the New Review of Film and Television Studies journal. 2009 Invited external reviewer, tenure dossier for Hunter College. 2008-9 Chair, Critical Studies committee, Film Studies Department, UNCW. 2008-9 Member, University Curriculum committee, University of North Carolina Wilmington. 2009- Created partnership with Intellect Press, resulting in opening of an office on the UNCW

campus, as well as international internships, publication components in teaching modules, etc.

2009 Invited referee for Wesleyan University Press academic book proposal. 2009- Member, MA-MFA development committee, Film Studies Department, UNCW. 2007-9 Associate Chair of the Film Studies Department, UNCW. 2008 Invited referee for Blackwell Press academic book proposal. 2007- Coordinator of Film International internships in Bristol, UK. 2007- Member, Asian Studies Minor committee at the UNCW. 2007-9 Faculty Senator for Film Studies at the UNCW. 2007-9 Member, Critical Studies and Production Job Search committees, Film Studies Department,

UNCW. 2008-9 Chair, Cultural Events Committee, Film Studies Department, UNCW. 2006- Chair, Randall Library Liaison committee: Supervising all faculty library orders, as well as

extensive collection development in new academic publishing and DVD releases relevant to the department’s activities.

2006 Coordinator and Principal Instructor for the inaugural UNCW Summer Cinema Academy, an

intensive residential introductory film study course for high school students. 2006-7 Chair, Film Studies Department’s Cultural Events committee.


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2006-8 Member, Film Studies Curriculum committee. 2006-9 Member, UNCW Union Theater Programming committee, organizing and promoting 35mm

screenings, film series, and coordinating film culture on-campus. 2005-6 Member, two job search committees in the Film Studies Department. 2005-6 Chair, Film Studies Department’s Student Alumni and Student Relations committee. 2005 Academic reader for the University of Kentucky Press. 2003-5 Chair, Film Studies Department’s Cultural Events committee. 2004 Academic advisor to Wallflower Press, London, England. 2004-5 Member, two job search committees in the Film Studies Department. 2003-5 Member, Film Studies Department’s Policies committee, developing and implementing

departmental operating procedures. 2003-7 Co-organizer and co-founder of Cinema Nouveau, Wilmington’s festival of new French film,

funded by competitive grants awarded by the French Ministry of Culture. The first series, presenting the regional premieres of first-time French directors, was held on the UNCW campus, February, 2004. The second festival took place October–November, 2004; the third in October-November, 2005; the fourth in October-November 2006; the fifth event was November 2007.

2003-4 Programming advisor, as part of the Organizing committee of the Cucalorus Film Festival,

Wilmington, NC. 2003-4 Member, Assistant Professor of French, Job Search committee, Department of Foreign

Languages and Literatures, UNCW. 2001- Contributor and reviewer for the Film International journal. 1998 Member, Editorial Board of The Velvet Light Trap film journal, reviewing -2000 article submissions, drafting paper calls, and supervising editorial policies.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS “Building the ‘Spiritual Chain of Civilization’: Creating the Cannes Film Festival and the Postwar French Film State.” Paper proposal accepted for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Montreal, Canada, March, 2015. “At Home with France’s First (Screen) Family: Valérie Donzelli, Domestic Aesthetics, and the Contemporary French Film Ecosystem.” Paper presented at the Modern Language Association annual conference, Boston, January, 2013.


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“Ghosts of the Past and Present: Applied Cinephilia, la Fémis and Jean Paul Civeyrac’s Through the Forest.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, New Orleans, March, 2011. “Le Cercle rouge: Jean-Pierre Melville entre le cinéma d’auteur et cinéma populaire.” Paper presented at the Conférence en études cinématographiques, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, March, 2011. “Crashing the Millionaires’ Club: Popular Feminine Filmmaking in Twenty-First Century France.” Paper presented at the Women’s Filmmaking in France, 2000-2010 conference, University of London, UK, December, 2010. “The Auteur Complex: Strategies of Self-Promotion Among Contemporary French Filmmakers.” Paper presented at the Studies in French Cinema Conference, Institut de l’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, France, March, 2010. “States of Mind, States of the Art: Contemporary Lyrical French Cinema.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, March, 2008. “Sexuality and High Film Art.” Respondent paper given for the panel “Rethinking Shock Value: Contemporary Representations of Sexuality,” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March, 2006. “Star, Interrupted: The Reinvention of James Stewart.” Paper presented at the Media Stardom Conference, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, October, 2005. “Under Your Skin: Marina de Van and the Contemporary French cinéma du corps.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Institute of Education, London, England, April, 2005. “Brutal Intimacy: Recent French Cinema and Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, March, 2004. “Breaking the Waves: Rethinking the History of the French Nouvelle vague.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2003. “Un flic, un style: The polars of Jean-Pierre Melville.” Paper presented in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts Colloquium, April, 2002. “Jean-Pierre Melville and 1970s French Film Style.” Paper presented at the Studies in French Cinema international film conference, Institut Français, London, England, April, 2002. “A Band Apart?: Jean-Pierre Melville and Jean-Luc Godard at the Cusp of the New Wave.” Paper presented at the Midwestern Conference of Film, Literature and Language, Northern Illinois University, IL, April, 2002. “From Extra To Everyman: The Expressive Dialectic of Actor and Director in the Films of Frank Capra and James Stewart.” Paper presented in The Visible Man international film conference, Udine University, Udine, Italy, April, 2001.


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“Stardom, Genre and Hollywood Performance.” Paper presented at Warwick University’s Department of Film and Television Studies Colloquium, Warwick, England, June, 1998.

CHAIRED CONFERENCE PANELS “Contemporary French Cinema.” Chair of panel at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, March, 2011. “Changing Architectures of Contemporary French Cinema.” Co-chair of panel at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Philadelphia, March, 2008. “Cinema and the Craft of Provocation.” Chair of panel at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Institute of Education, London, England, April, 2005. “At the Vanguard of French Cinema.” Organized and chaired panel of international scholars at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Atlanta, GA, March, 2004 “The French New Wave Revisited.” Organized and chaired panel at the Midwestern Conference of Film, Literature and Language, Northern Illinois University, IL, April, 2002.

INVITED LECTURES AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS “Declarations of War: Valérie Donzelli and the Contemporary French Film Ecosystem.” Invited lecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, May 2013. “To Have and Have Not: The Classical Hollywood Complex.” Invited lecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, May 2013. “What’s So Great About French Cinema?” Invited lecture, Clocktower Lounge, UNCW, April 2013. “French Genre Films and American Film Distribution.” Invited panelist at the City of Lights, City of Angels film festival and trade fair, Los Angeles, April, 2012. “Three Paths to Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies: Conceptual Histories of French Cinema.” Invited lecture for the Moviemakers and Scholars class, UNCW, November, 2011. “The Haunted Archipelago: Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Contemporary Japanese Eco-Horror Cinema.” Invited lecture at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, April, 2011. “Contemporary French Masters: Laurent Cantet” and “Contemporary French Masters: Jacques Audiard.” Invited lectures/discussions at the RiverRun International Film Festival, Winston-Salem, NC, April, 2011. “Early Cinema About Early Cinema: Self-Reflexivity in the Pre-Sound Gaumont Short Features of Léonce Perret and Louis Feuillade.” Invited lecture at the annual UNCW Silents, Please early film event, August, 2010. “What Good Is Cinema?” Invited lecture at the Wilmington Humanist Association, Wilmington, NC, June, 2009.


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“The Bread and the Flowerpot: Minimalism in Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s A Moment of Innocence.” Invited lecture at the One Book, One Community Iranian film series, Randall Library Theater, Wilmington, NC, October, 2007. “The Rules of the Game: Jafar Panahi’s Offside and Contemporary Iranian Cinema.” Invited lecture at the One Book, One Community Iranian film series, Lumina Theater, Wilmington, NC, September, 2007. “Army of One: Jean-Pierre Melville’s L’Armée des ombres.” Invited introductory lecture to Cinematique, Thalian Hall, Wilmington, NC, November, 2006. “Rebels and Renegades: Scholarly Pursuits in Film.” Invited lecture for the Film Studies Department’s Moviemakers and Scholars series, March, 2006. “Race and the Academy: Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing.” Introductory lecture for the One Book, One Community series, Wilmington, NC, January, 2006 “Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Contemporary French Women’s Cinema.” Invited lecture at the University of Toronto, Canada, January, 2006. “Rings, Cures, and Grudges: Contemporary J-Horror.” Invited presentation at the UNCW’s Halloween Theater event, October, 2005. “Democracy and Frank Capra’s Mr Smith Goes to Washington.” Panel participant for the UNCW’s September 11th Project, September, 2005. “Louis Feuillade: Mystery and Mise-en-scène.” Invited lecture at the annual UNCW Silents, Please early film event, August, 2005. “Franco-Vietnamese Cinema and Tran Anh Hung’s The Scent of Green Papaya.” Invited presentation for the One Book, One Community series, Wilmington, NC, February, 2005. “Frank Capra, Hollywood, and It’s a Wonderful Life.” Invited presentation and panel participation at the UNCW/Capra family’s annual panel discussion and screening, December, 2003; and December, 2004. “Eyes Without a Face: Georges Franju and the French Horror Film.” Invited presentation at the UNCW’s Halloween Theater Event, October, 2004. “Out of the (American) Past: The Myth of Film Noir.” Invited lecture at the Cape Fear Crime Festival, Wilmington, NC, October, 2004. “Georges Méliès and the Early Cinema of Attractions.” Invited presentation at the annual UNCW Silents, Please early film event, August, 2004. “Bruno Dumont, Twentynine Palms, and Contemporary French Cinema.” Invited presentation at the Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, March, 2004. “Three Colors: Kieslowski.” Invited presentation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Kryzysztof Kieslowski retrospective, March, 2003.


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“The Films of Agnès Varda.” Invited panel member and respondent as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Agnès Varda retrospective, on Madison Public Radio, September, 2002.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Elected Co-Chair, Scholarly Interest Group in French and Francophone Visual Culture, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Society for Cinema and Media Studies American Association of Teachers of French Invited Editorial Caucus Member, Studies in French Cinema Modern Language Association

LANGUAGES English: native French: fluent reading and advanced conversational proficiency; experience in translation and subtitling German: basic ability

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Available upon request

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