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Other teaching experience: Senior Lecturer & Program Director, Media & Communication, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 1997-2002. Education: 2001: Ph.D. Cinema-Television, School of Cinema-TV, University of Southern California. 1986: MA Communication Studies, California State University, Sacramento. 1983: BA Communication Studies, California State University, Sacramento. Other Teaching Experience: Senior Lecturer & Program Director, Media & Communication, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban, 1997 – 2002 Lecturer, International Human Rights Exchange (IHRE), June 25-July 20, 2001. The IHRE is a month long winter program taught between a number of American and South African Universities, and involving undergraduate students from those universities. The main organizers of this Mellon funded project are Bard College and the University of Cape Town. Lecturer, Communication Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 1996. Teaching Assistant, Critical Studies, School of Cinema and TV, USC, Los Angeles, 1993-1995. Teaching Assistant, Communication Studies, California State University, Sacramento, 1984-1986. Current Teaching Profile: I teach in the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. My areas of teaching include Film Theory, Transnational cinema and television, Third Cinema, and African Cinema. I joined the faculty in August 2002 after six years in South Africa where I developed a Media and Communication Studies Program at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, committed to developing the study of cinema and media in South Africa, an area ignored during the apartheid era. Publications: “The Space of New Citizenship in Democratic South Africa.” Book chapter in Ruins of Modernity. Eds. Julia Hell and Andreas Schonle (Duke Up, forthcoming) “Projecting Citizenship: Sol Plaatje's vision for South Africa in Come See the Bioscope.” Framework 45.2, Fall 2004. pp 24-35. “Circumatlantic Media Migrations – A Conversation.” Catherine Benamou and Lucia Saks. Book chapter in Jonathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin (Eds.) Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia. (British Film Institute/UC Press, 2003) “Three New View-Sites for Change in South African Cinema.” Book chapter in Isabel Balseiro and Ntongela Masilela (Eds.) To Change Reels. Film and Film Culture in South Africa. (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003). Somewhere over the Rainbow: The Endless Deferral of Identity in South Africa,” Communicare 16(1). 1997. “Caught in the Maelstrom: Globalisation, Nation and Identity.” Editorial in Communicare 16(1). 1997. “New Viewsites in South African Cinema.” Book chapter in Change Reels: Film and Film Culture in South Africa (Wayne State University Press, 2003). “Questions of Gender in Contemporary South African Advertising.” A report commissioned and published by the Gender Commission of South Africa. 2000. Co-authored with Dearbhal Ni Charthaigh, (University of Limerick, Ireland). “Camp,” co-authored with Daniel Herwitz, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press. 1998. “Discover the Nation—and Eat It: The TV Cookshows.” Antithesis, Vol. 9. 1999. “ Film Spectator or Film Flaneur?.” Spectator 18(1) Fall/Winter.1998. Cindy Sherman:ecapturing the Rhetoric of Female Identity,” Spectator 12(2), Spring 1992. Conference Presentations: Delivered paper, “Just a Virus, Just a Disease: The Regeneration of Civil Society in Zachie Achmat: Its My Life (Lewis, 2002). Atlantic Studies Initiative Colloquim, March 2007. Delivered paper, “Film Letters in South Africa: Exile and Return in Wa n Wina and Letter to my Cousin in China.” Africa Studies Association, San Francisco, November, 2006 Discussant, “Forms of Media, Change and Resistance in Postcolonial Africa.” Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Istanbul, July 2006 Delivered paper, “Bifurcations in Slave History: Sankofa in South Africa.” Atlantic Studies Initiative, University of Michigan, November, 2004. Delivered paper, “Come See the Bioscape: Plaatje and the New African.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, March 2004 Delivered paper, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Theorizing the endless deferral of identity in South Africa,” Identities, Democracy, Culture and Communication Conference, Durban, February1997. Delivered paper, “Spectator/spectatrix; flaneur/flaneuse- Feminising Benjamin's Flaneur,” Rappprochementbetween Arts and Sciences Conference, University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg August 1996. Delivered paper, “Quo Vadis: Radical Cinema in the New South Africa,” Culture, Communication and Development Symposium, HSRC, Pretoria, August 1996. Delivered paper, “Discover the Nation and Eat It: Television and the Cookshows.” Console-ing Passions Conference, Seattle, Washington, April 1995. Delivered paper, “Tragic Television: South African Resolutions” Console-ing Passions Conference, Los Angeles, Ca., April 1993. Delivered paper, “TV as Metaphor of Pathology,” presented at Society for Cinema Studies, New Orleans, February 1993. Delivered paper, “Gatsha Buthelezi and the Rhetoric of Opposition,” National Communication Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1992. Delivered paper, “Conversation or Diatribe: The Problem of Ideology in Gadamer's Linguistic Tradition,” presented at International Communication Association, Miami, Florida, May 1992. “Cindy Sherman: Recapturing the Rhetoric of Female Identity,” International Communication Association, Miami, Florida, May 1992 Delivered paper, “Contested Spaces: Counter-Narratives of Liminality, Locality and Identity in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and Germany Pale Mother,” Annenberg School Colloquium, 1992. Delivered paper, “Negotiation or Desperation: Two Models for Viewing the Relationship between Television and Viewers,” Annenberg School Media Effects Colloquium, 1992. Lectures and Invited Talks Invited Speaker, “ South African Stories of Love and Disease : House of Love and Ha Ea Rona.” Seminar in Indian Ocean Studies, Open University, London, England, October 2006 Invited Lecturer, South Africa at the Moment of Transition. Faculty Resource Network, New York University, June 2006. Invited Speaker, Ruins of Modernity Conference, U. of Michigan, March 2005. Invited panelist, Ten Years of Freedom conference, International Center for Advanced Studies, NYU, New York, April 2004. Invited speaker, “Cities, Citizenship and Other Jo'burg Stories.” Brown Bag Symposium. Institute of Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, December, 2003. Invited speaker, ”Come See the Bioscope: Cinema and the New African Subject.” African Workshop Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, December 2003. Final respondent for Electronic Elsewheres Conference Northwestern University, May, 2003. Invited speaker and discussion leader,” Palavers in Guelwar,” Center for African and African-American Studies Film Festival, University of Michigan, March 2003. Chair and round table participant,“Towards Establishing a Kwa-Zulu Natal Film Office” Durban International Film Festival Workshop Series, University of Kwa-Zullu Natal, September 2001. Workshop participant and speaker, “Oliver Schmitz and Jo'burg Stories,” Durban International Film Festival . University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, September 2001. Invited speaker, “Cinematic View-sites for Change in South Africa,” English Studies Seminar Series,University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban, October 2000. Invited speaker, “Witnessing the Truth,” Introduction to documentaries dealing with the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, Fault-lines Conference, Cape Town, June 1996. Invited speaker, “Witnessing the Truth,” Introduction to documentaries dealing with the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, Fault-lines Conference, Cape Town, June 1996. Invited speaker, “ Producing Africa in Hollywood,” English Seminar Series, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, October 1992. Courses Taught at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Undergraduate: Film Theory and Criticism Writing Film Criticism The Global Screen: Interactions and Frictions in World Cinema and Media The Global Screen: Circumnavigating the Atlantic: Cinema, Diaspora, Exile African Cinema Introduction to Film as An Art Third World Cinema Classical Film Theory South African Cinema Graduate: Seminar: Film Theory and the Post-Colonial Professional Activities: Member advisory board, International Human Rights Exchange, Bard College and University of Cape Town, 2001 Consultant to “Hopes on the Horizon,” 3 part film documentary project funded by the Ford Foundation and Association of African Universities (AAU) Member of Jury, Durban International Film Festival, 1999, 2000, 2001. Co-Ordinator, Film Outreach Program, Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South Africa . A program organized by the Film Resource Unit in Johannesburg program to bring African and South African cinema to previously disadvantaged school age communities in the Kwa-Zulu Natal province. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Communicare, official journal of South African Communication Association, 1996-1998 Academic Honors and Awards: Moodie Fellowship, awarded by Center for Africa and African American Studies (South African Initiative Office), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003 Research fellow, awarded by South African National Research Foundation Grant 2001 for project on Cinema Literacy. Research fellowship, awarded by the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal University, 2000, 2001. Tuition Fees Award, awarded by University of Southern California School of Cinema –TV, 1988.1999. USC Management Scholarship for Academic Excellence, awarded by USC School of Cinema-TV (997-1998. USC Associates Scholarship for Academic Excellence, awarded by USC School of Cinema-TV 1996-1997. Cinema Circulus Dissertation Fellowship, awarded by USC School of Cinema-TV, 1995.. Three Year All Merit Fellowship, awarded by the Graduate School, USC 1991-1993. Service on University Committees, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Member, Events Planning Committee, Fall 2007 Member, Graduate Program Committee, Fall 2007 Member, 3rd year lecturer review, Winter 2007 Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Winter 2007 Chair, Lecturer Review, Screen Arts and Cultures, Fall 2006 Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Screen Arts and Cultures, Fall 2006 Member, African Studies Steering Committee, 2004-2007 Member, Graduate Proposal Committee, Film and Video Studies Program, 2004-2005 Member, African Studies Steering Committee, 2003, 2004, 2005. 2006, 2007 Member, Ad-Hoc Curriculum Committee, Film and Video Studies Program, 2003, 2004 Member, Search Committee, Lecturer III, Film and Video Studies Program, 2004 Member, Selection Committee, Global Ethnic Literatures Faculty Fellowships 2004 Member, New Courses Committee, Film and Video Studies Program, 2004 University Service: Panel Chair, Zora Neale Hurston Award, CAAS, March 2007 Organizer, Films on AIDS, Institute of Humanities, University of Michigan, Fall 2004 Organizer. South African Film Mini-Festival, Center for African/African-American Studies, University of Michigan, Winter 2004 Professional Affiliations: Member, African Studies Association Member, International Communication Association Member, National Communication Association Member, South African Communication Association Member, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Member, African Studies Association Jury Member, Short Films Festival, Cape Town Advisory Committee Member, Durban International Film Festival, 2006, 2007 Committee Member, Out in Africa. South African Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Nov 2006,2007
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