Resume

• 2014

  Salem State University

  Independent Magazine | Obsessed with Independent Film Since 1976

  Regis College

  Salem

  MA

  I taught film studies

  literature

  and writing emphasizing analysis

  aesthetics

  history

  and theory for The English Department at Salem State University.

  Assistant Professor

  Salem State University

• 2007

  Emerson College

  At Emerson

  I taught courses in media

  film

  and critical theory for the Visual and Media Arts Department.

  Emerson College

  Curry College

  Milton

  MA

  I teach research

  theory

  and foundational courses in film and cultural analysis for the Communication Department. I began as an adjunct for the department in 2011 and accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in 2015.

  Associate Professor

  http://independent-magazine.org

  Edited essay series \"The Global Screen\"

  Film Studies Guest Editor

  Independent Magazine | Obsessed with Independent Film Since 1976

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  During my time at URI

  I studied alongside very smart and supportive faculty who nurtured my intellectual curiosity in film theory

  literary adaptation

  and the various ways in which internationalism past and present shapes perspectives of citizenship. I have very fond memories of the conversations with fellow graduate students whose varied interests shape my scholarship and teaching.

  English

  Graduate Writers Group

  University of Rhode Island

• 2003

  Massachusetts Bay Community College

  Stonehill College

  Easton

  MA

  I taught rhetoric and public speaking for Stonehill College as an emergency faculty replacement during the Spring 2014 term for the Department of Communication.

  Lecturer (adjunct)

  Stonehill College

  While at MassBay

  I taught communication

  film

  and writing courses

  and participated in the honors capstone course in my last year.

  Massachusetts Bay Community College

  Curry College

  MIlton

  MA

  I was asked to take on the role as Honors Program Director at Curry College. The career pivot provides the challenge and reward of working with the college's best and brightest across all majors and programs. I am particularly thrilled to support and develop a program of rigor and relevance alongside participating Honors Program Faculty.

  Honors Program Director

  Weston

  MA

  I served in a joint appointment for the English and Communication Departments

  typically teaching courses in writing

  literature

  film

  and media. I had the good fortune of mentoring several senior research projects

  a few of my students presented their work at the Eastern Communication Association Conference and went on to graduate studies. Moreover

  I worked with some of the most dedicated colleagues in higher education.

  Assistant Professor

  Cinema Studies Advisor (term track)

  Regis College

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  As a master's student at Trinity College specializing in writing

  rhetoric

  and media studies

  I more precisely developed my analytical skills using theory to open up readings of film

  literature

  and culture. I am deeply indebted to the closeness with which I was able to work with faculty mentors.

  English

  Trinity College-Hartford

  Foundational Communication courses

  Marxist Media Criticism

  Screenwriting

  Film Theory and Criticism courses

  Freshman Writing Seminar

  Media Production Seminars

  Film Analysis

  Freshman Writing Seminars

  Introduction to Film

  American Literature Seminars

  Media

  Culture

  and Society

  Media Theory Courses

  Introduction to Literature

  Communication Theory

  Literature courses

  History of Cinema

  Communication Research

  Global/Postcolonial Literature and Film

  Philosophy of the Image

• 1999

  Master of Science (M.S.)

  RPI changed my life by introducing me to a life of scholarship

  intellectual inquiry

  and close mentorship as a master's student from 1998-2000

  and doctoral student from 2001-2002. Rensselaer began my deep academic journey into film

  media

  and literary theory

  particularly the intersections between the humanities and social sciences.

  Communication and Management

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• 1993

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  I arrived at UNH as a young man in my 20s after returning from trying to \"make it\" in the Seattle music scene in the early 1990s. UNH taught me academic rigor and introduced me to the idea that I am a lifelong learner. It was late in my junior year when I realized that a bachelor's degree was only the beginning. Go Chargers!

  Music

  University of New Haven

• Communication

  One of Curry College's largest and most diverse programs

  communication provides a solid foundation in theory and analysis combined with hands-on courses where you learn the craft of your chosen concentration. In our major

  minors

  eight concentrations and numerous elective classes

  you're sure to find the communication-related offering that best fits your professional goals.

  Communication Program at Curry College

  English Department - University of Rhode Island

  The University of Rhode Island

  Communication Major

  A Program Built to Foster Your Success Professors in the Communication Department are committed to undergraduate teaching and strive to create a supportive and challenging learning environment. Our faculty members are also productive scholars

  whose work has been presented at professional conferences and published as books

  book chapters and refereed journal articles.

  Professors in the Communication Department are committed to undergraduate teaching and strive to create a supportive and challenging learning environment. Our faculty members are also productive scholars

  whose work has been presented at professional conferences and published as books

  book chapters and refereed journal articles.

  Communication

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  Mission The Communication Department at Regis College empowers women and men to challenge themselves academically

  to serve and lead.

  Regis College

  Division of Performing Arts

  Welcome to the Division of Performing Arts The division of Performing Arts includes both theater arts and music programs. This department works to promote the natural synergies between Music and Theater with integrated classes

  talented and professional faculty members and with clubs and extracurricular groups.

  Department of Communication and Media - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

  The School of Humanities

  Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy

  NY

  invites applications for a one academic year appointment as a Lecturer in Writing

  starting August 2013

  to teach courses in Poetry

  Fiction

  Non-fiction

  Rhetoric

  and Expository Writing.

  The Department of Communication and Media at Rensselaer is an internationally recognized center for interdisciplinary education and research. Our graduate and undergraduate programs prepare students to understand traditional and emerging communication technologies from a variety of perspectives

  including rhetorical studies

  media studies

  human-computer interaction

  game studies

  technical communication

  professional and creative writing

  cross-cultural communication

  and graphic design.

  Visual & Media Arts | Emerson College

  At Emerson's Department of Visual and Media Arts

  the process of transforming your vision into reality is fast-paced

  exciting

  and rewarding. You'll dive right in and start working with talented mentors

  collaborators

  and crew members from day one. Emerson's Department of Visual and Media Arts is all about learning by doing.

  Visual & Media Arts | Emerson College

  English

  English

  Salem State University: English

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  Mission The members of the English Department are committed to preparing our majors for the future as well-read

  critical

  and creative thinkers and communicators ready to lead and to serve in a variety of professional careers.

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  Bloodsport: Black Athletes

  White Spectators

  and the U.S. Racial Imagination

  This essay deploys an interdisciplinary scholarly method to open up conversations about sports spectatorship and present-day racial thinking in U.S. culture through an analysis of Marco Ramirez’ play

  The Royale. Performance analysis reads stagecraft through mise en scene and engages the play’s script to closely examine themes of black on black athletic violence as white spectacle

  and ways the pleasure of viewing re-trenches racial hierarchies. These analytical approaches borrow the work of Black Studies and whiteness scholars to intervene textual and performance analyses. Theoretical interventions and close reading takes shape from the perspective of the white writer. The essay incorporates the writer’s experiences as a parent of an African American child and faculty chaperone attending the Lincoln Center production of The Royale with white students and colleagues.

  Bloodsport: Black Athletes

  White Spectators

  and the U.S. Racial Imagination

  In this work

  I explain how Time Warner's The Matrix Trilogy incorporates anti-capitalist theory into its \"mode of production\" to broaden its participation in the global film market. This contradiction

  which argues media industries have it in their interest to produce films \"against\" the way they make and generate profit from movies

  works out through the hero (Neo) figure. The Matrix films describe a type of individualism central to Neo's ability to resist the \"super-structure

  \" metaphorically the world capitalist system. As if going it alone will somehow change the world. Don't we need a collective to resist corporate power?

  Waking Up the Mythic American Neo

  Ousmane Sembene's La Noire de (1966) is widely considered the first African film

  made by an African for Africans. The essay commemorates the film by consolidating the themes discussed in five decades of scholarship and offers new readings on the way familial discourses shape and respond to attitudes about the global movements of people. Sembene situates Diouana across Antibes and Dakar where she choses to work for a French family assuming prospects for a better life are more possible in Europe. Taken today

  this film traces migratory flows

  guest worker disenfranchisement

  gender and racial marginalization; circumstances ever-present in this era of internationalism.

  Ousmane Sembene's La Noire de..at Fifty: Why We're Still De/Re-Colonizing the African/European Family

  Historian Harlow Robinson's book Russians in Hollywood

  Hollywood's Russians: Biography of an Image traces the way Russian actors

  filmmakers

  and performers shape American cinema. Robinson also pays attention to how the Russian images shifts through the United States' changing perspective on its relations with Russia

  the Soviet Union

  and then post-Soviet Russia. My review stresses how Robinson deftly explores biographical and geo-political dimensions of the Russian image.

  A Review of Harlow Robinson’s \"Russians in Hollywood

  Hollywood Russians.”

  Jane Campion's adaptation of The Portrait of a Lady (1996) interrupts the rich

  opulent

  and colorful images of the costumed drama world she creates of the 19th century with montage sequences featuring jump-cuts

  altered film stocks

  and superimpositions. These cinematic special effects and postproduction techniques illustrate Isabel Archer's thoughts and feelings as a cosmopolitan woman and non-citizen. In one sense

  Campion's film emphasizes Archer's multiple attachments to European and American suitors

  but the film also draws Archer identifying with Arabic women. I argue reading Archer through Campion's vignettes illustrates a reinvigorated imperialist posture toward the Middle East and a sympathetic attachment to subaltern communities brought into contact with the West at the onset of globalization.

  Between the Persian Gulf Wars: The Cosmo-politics of Isabel Archer in the Arabic World

  Exiled Americans in Midnight in Paris: Reframing Modernity and Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Global Terror

  Gil Pender

  the protagonist in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris

  experiences temporal and spatial displacement as an American tourist visiting Paris in the contemporary era. Gil's spatial dislocation deepens through his preference to visit Paris in the 1920s. Gil's displacement in time and space describes a strained attachment to yet a detachment from the tone and temperament he assigns to the United States. These difficult and competing feelings of belonging illustrate a rethinking of citizenship and belonging in the present global era

  and seemingly a preference to live indefinitely in exile.

  Exiled Americans in Midnight in Paris: Reframing Modernity and Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Global Terror

  \"There's No Space Like Home\" is a revision of a chapter from my dissertation explaining the way Henry James' American heiress

  Catherine Sloper

  as described in the novel Washington Square and Agniezska Holland's adaptation

  resembles the position and articulates the perspective of elite and marginalized groups. I argue Catherine's uncertain citizenship expresses the viewpoints of established communities fearing the way new migratory flows upset a national hierarchy they imagined ensured their privilege social position. At the same time

  Catherine is a non-citizen as an American woman of the late 19th century. The heiress also shares a likeness with newly nationalized African American men and many European immigrants historically considered non white. When read through a contemporary \"global\" lens

  Washington Square participates in the Henry James cinematic revival in the 1990s and refracts American thinking and feeling about citizenship and opportunity in the emerging international era twenty years ago. This work is currently available for readers.

  There's No Space Like Home: Anglo American Displacement in Washington Square

  This article consolidates the larger argument put forth in my dissertation which has been more deeply explored in published chapters by Oxford University

  Indiana University

  and Duke University presses. In this work

  I close read sections in novels and scenes in films featuring American heroines in Washington Square

  The Portrait of a Lady

  and The Golden Bowl. The trope of the marriageable American heiress in Jamesian literature articulates opportunism and loss in the internationalism of the late nineteenth century. Cinematic adaptations featuring the American heiress reinvent and intervene the imperialism of James’ era informing conceptions of citizenship and transnational mobility in the 1990s. Nation

  literary

  and film theory provide tools to explain national protectionism and neo-imperial desire in the fin di siècle era and global age.

  The Inter-Imperiality of Henry James' American Heroines

  Henry James curiously elides descriptions of American City in The Golden Bowl (1904). James prefers to develop the thinking and feeling of Adam and Maggie Verver and their spouses Charlotte Stant and Prince Amerigo through the novel’s double marriage plot. Oddly

  “American City” in The Golden Bowl reads as a loose signifier devoid of specific illustrations of the city’s population

  streetscapes

  and international landmarks

  details James painstakingly draws in other works. \n\nOmitting sketches of American City in the novel supplies James Ivory full creative license to invent an early twentieth century cityscape in the film adaptation of The Golden Bowl (2000). Ivory’s focus on Charlotte Stant’s mental images of American City expresses her ambivalent connection to privileged classes in the United States and preference to live in exile. Stant’s cinematic re-imagination of American City creates an image of marginalized whiteness seeking a place of belonging outside her nation of origin

  a social position provisionally secured as Adam Verver’s spouse. The Golden Bowl (2000) exposes contemporary xenophobic fear of immigrant workers while permitting ethnic alliances through Charlotte’s affair with and Maggie Verver’s marriage to Prince Amerigo. Stant distances herself from the United States because her middleclass social position too closely resembles labor classes in service to Verver’s global prestige. The marriage plots subsume Charlotte and Prince Amerigo into the Verver family paralleling the way Adam Verver’s enterprise incorporates different ethnic groups and labor classes en route to building his industrial empire. Though the Verver marriages appear inclusive on the surface

  the father and daughter are encircled in a higher tier of whiteness

  and are depicted

  for the most part

  well outside American City.

  The Globalization of 'American City': Whiteness

  Multiculturalism

  and Empire in James Ivory's The Golden Bowl

  Famous culture critic and African American scholar

  bell hooks

  who chooses to write her name in lowercase lettering to express her resistance to 'capitalization'

  argues American movies featuring the interracial romance fail to address underlying issues of race permeating the nation. Though I largely agree with the spirit of hooks' claim

  she fails to introduce a foreign film with an interracial romance to illuminate how films could positively contribute to the national discourse on race. I do that work for her in this article through close readings of Le Petit Soldat (France

  1963)

  Memories of Underdevelopment (Cuba

  1968)

  and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Germany

  1973).

  Guess Who’s off the hook: Inventing Interracial Coupling in Global Art Cinema

  I was awarded a Co-Curricular Grant where I will direct a film series on global cinema. Six faculty members from the School of Liberal Arts

  Education

  and Social Science will select films exploring \"globalization\" from African

  Middle Eastern

  European

  North and South American

  and Asian perspectives. Each film screening will involve a panel of experts and student scholars. More details to follow...

  Sights/Sites of Interrogation: Queering

  the Public Sphere

  and Interracial Parenting (A Critical Memoir)

  This project is beginning to crystalize and occupy my thinking. I am formulating ways to explain engagements my son and I have in the public sphere through queer

  gaze and cinema theory. I am particularly thinking of ways empowered/disempowered positions and subject/object tensions operate through the exchange of looks

  looking

  looking away

  looking back

  and so forth. This is my first attempt at memoir but I am also playing with narrative form by combining self-writing with poststructuralist theory. No deadline to this project

  like parenting...

  Remediating the American Civil War and the Obama Presidency

  After presenting initial readings on recent Civil War films to Curry College colleagues and attendees of the Film and History Conference at the University of Wisconsin in early November 2015

  I am beginning to develop a clearer picture of a book length project interpreting how citizenship rights

  belonging

  and privilege anchored in Antebellum culture are unmoored from their space in time and circulate in present national consciousness. Pheng Cheah's Spectral Nationality and Garrett Stewart's Framed Time are theoretical frameworks factoring significantly

  or so I think now.

  Baker

  Ph.D.

  Jayson

  Baker

  Ph.D.

  Curry College