University of Connecticut |
Film Studies Faculty
Ed Benson Ed Benson earned a Ph.D from Brown University in 1971, then taught at high schools in Providence, at Central Missouri State University and at the Universities of Rhode Island and New Mexico, before coming to UConn in 1998. He wrote Money and Magic in Montaigne in 1995, and many articles on sixteenth-century literature as well as French cinema; his most recent article was “The Screen of History in Clément’s Forbidden Games.” He is currently an assistant editor for literature of the French Review, and the chair of the Executive Committee on the Teaching of Language of the Modern Language Association. 
Norma Bouchard Norma Bouchard (PhD, 1996, Comparative Literature, Indiana University) is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Chair of Modern and Classical Language. She teaches courses in 19th and 20th century Italian Culture and Literature, Italian American Studies, Film, and Critical Theory. Among her publications are The Politics of Culture and the Ambiguities of Interpretation: Umberto Eco's Alternative (Lang, 1998), Céline, Gadda, Beckett: Experimental Writers of the 1930s (Florida UP, 2000), Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture: Revisiting the 19th century Past in History, Narrative, and Cinema (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2005), Reading and Writing the Mediterranean: Essays by Consolo (Toronto UP, 2006), Italian Cultural Studies: Negotiating Regional, National and Global Identities, Annali d’Italianistica 24 (2006) as well as numerous critical essays and translations. She currently serves as Associate Editor of Italica and Book Review Editor of Italian Culture, and is a member of the AAIS and MLA Executive Committees. 
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Eliane DalMolin Professor DalMolin is the author of "Cutting the Body: Representing Woman in Baudelaire’s Poetry, Truffaut’s Cinema and Freud’s Psychoanalysis." Published in the series “The Body In Theory” at Michigan University Press, 2000. She recently published a cultural history of France "France 1851 to the Present - Universalism in Crisis" with Palgrave, 2007. She also coedited "Beyond French Feminism. Debates on Women, Politics and Culture in France. 1980-2001." Palgrave, 2003. She is currently working on a book on Francophone Louisiana. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Editor in Chief, "Contemporary French and Francophone Studies"(Formerly: "Sites"), with Routledge. 
Jacqueline Loss Jacqueline Loss (PhD, 2000, Comparative Literature, University of Texas-Austin) teaches Latin American and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Her book “Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place” was published by Palgrave in 2005. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming anthology of Cuban short stories to be published by Northwestern University Press and currently she is collaborating on a collection of literature from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Libya, and Cuba. Among the writers she has translated into English are Cubans Víctor Fowler Calzada. Ernesto René Rodríguez, and Jorge Miralles. Her critical essays have appeared in Nepantla:Views from South, Miradas (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños), Chasqui, Latino and Latina Writers, Mandorla, and New Centennial Review, among other publications. She is currently preparing a manuscript whose working title is “Cultural Memory: Cuba and the Soviet Bloc.” 
Lucy S. McNeece Lucy Stone McNeece is co-Chair of the Program in Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies and Head of the Mideast Studies Center at UConn. She received her PhD from Harvard in 1985 in Romance Literatures. She teaches courses in French and English on the literatures of the Caribbean, Africa, the Maghreb and the Middle East, as well courses in Theater, Film, Film theory and Postcolonial theory. She received and American Institute of Maghreb Studies grant, the Provost’s Large Grant and a Fulbright Research Grant for work in North Africa. She has published on Caribbean, African and North African writers as well as writers of the Near East. Her current research concerns the differing relation between signs and images across cultural boundaries and the impact of ancient traditions upon contemporary authors of the Mediterranean and Arabo-muslim world. 
Gustavo Nanclares Gustavo Nanclares teaches Spanish Peninsular literature and culture. Some of his research interests include the Spanish historical avant-garde, the narrative of the 1920s and 30s and their relationship to international film, and the literature of the Spanish-Moroccan war. He is also interested in peripheral nationalisms in Spain, and has published several works on Basque literature and culture. He is the author of several articles on literature and film in the 1920s and on the literary and intellectual works of Jon Juaristi, Ramón de Basterra, Jorge de Oteiza, Benjamín Jarnés, Ernesto Giménez Caballero, Ernestina de Champourcin, José Bergamín, Gilberto Owen, Mario Verdaguer, Miguel Méndez, and others. He is currently working on a book-length project on intermediality in Spanish and Mexican vanguard narrative. 
Laurietz Seda Twentieth Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, postmodernism, globalization, film, drama, women and cultural studies. A recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grants (2000, 2003), professor Seda is the editor of the theatre anthology La nueva dramaturgia puertorriqueña and co-editor of Teatro de frontera11/12. She was the guest editor for a Special Issue on Caribbean Theatre for Latin American Theatre Review (Spring 2004). Professor Seda is member of the editorial board for Latin American Theatre Review, Revista Teatro XXI and Boletín del Archivo Nacional de Teatro y Cine del Ateneo Puertorriqueño. She has also published numerous essays on contemporary Puerto Rican, Cuban, Mexican, Argentine, and Chilean theatre in edited collections and in journals such as Hispanic Journal, Latin American Theatre Review, Gestos, Conjunto, and Revista Teatro XXI. In 2005 she directed and organized the VI Conference/Festival Latin American Theatre Today:Translation, Trangender and Transnationalism. And in the same year she created the Premio de Teatro Latinoamericano George Woodyard. Professor Seda is currently working on a book tentatively titled: Cruzando puentes: La dramaturgia latinoamericana ante la globalización, and is co-editing a book of essays entitled Trans/Acting:The Politics of Performing Latin American Theatre. 
Katharina von Hammerstein Katharina von Hammerstein received her Ph.D. in German at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and holds a degree in Math, German, and Education from Goettingen University, Germany. Her scholarly area of expertise is German literature and culture of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Her publications focus on German Romanticism (including extensive work on Sophie Mereau-Brentano); autobiographical writings / self-(re)presentations as political practice in nineteenth-century public discourses; the ways women have inscribed themselves into literary, social and political discourses in the nineteenth century; and colonial constructions of Self and Other as represented in the ways Black men and women have been represented in German and Austrian literature, ethnology, and visual arts around 1900. She has also published in the area of teaching German and interdisciplinary curriculum development, i.e., on approaches to linking language learning to the learning in other disciplines, such as history, art history, political science, geography, film, etc. Her scholarly background comes to bear in her graduate courses on German Romanticism, Self-Writings and Writing Yourself, Gender and Literature, Love in Literature, the 1848 Revolution, Colonial Literature and Postcolonial Approaches, and various other topics of nineteenth-century literature and culture. Since von Hammerstein is also very interested in film, she includes film and other artistic representations (e.g., UConn's extensive and precious Kaethe Kollwitz collection) whenever possible. Her research projects regularly take her back to Germany and Austria and she has presented papers at national and international conferences ranging from all over the U.S., Canada and Germany to Russia, England, Spain, Italy, France, South Africa, and Namibia. For fun, she loves movies, inspiring discussions, roller-blading, skiing, and travel! 
Friedemann Weidauer Friedemann Weidauer was born in Stuttgart, Germany. He received his BA in Classics from Reed College, Zwischenprüfung in German, American Studies and Education from the FU Berlin, and MA and PhD in German from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His research and teaching focus on post-1945 East and West German culture, among his recent publications are articles on Jurek Becker, Wolfgang Borchert and minority literatures. Current research projects include the debate about the Moscow Trials among German authors in exile (1933- 1945) and a series of studies of East German Kulturpolitik as reflected in DEFA films. 
Sebastian Wogenstein Sebastian Wogenstein holds a doctoral degree from the University of Tübingen and joined the UConn faculty in 2005. While completing his doctoral studies, he had been teaching Comparative and German Literature at the University of Tübingen. He also studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and received an M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. Sebastian Wogenstein’s research focuses on the reception of Greek tragedy in modern German literature and cultural theories, on theater, and on German-Jewish literature. He is also interested in the intersection of literature, human rights, and politics. Recently taught courses include “Word and Myth: Hebrew and Greek Narratives in German Literature,” “Topographies of Terror: The Holocaust, Human Rights, and the Literature of Trauma,” “Text and the City: Studies in 20th Century German Literature.” |
