Here you can find out about courses I currently teach or have taught in the past

At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (fall 2004-present)

Graduate Courses

• Introduction to Research and Scholarship (the gateway course to graduate studies in English)
• Theories of Visual Culture
• The Force of Representation: Adorno & Deleuze
• Introduction to Theory and Criticism

Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to Film Theory
• Film Directors
  • Godard, Fassbinder, Almodovar, Wong Kar-wai
  • Godard, Fassbinder, Denis, Haneke
  • German Filmmakers from Weimar to the 21st Century (Click here to get to selected student papers on the "Berlin School")
• National Cinemas
  • German Cinema since 1970
  • German Cinema from Weimar Expressionism to Contemporary Realism
  • 3 New Waves: Italian, French, German
  • Contemporary Danish and British Cinemas
  • New Realisms in Contemporary Europe
• Film Genre
• Introduction to Film History

At Georgia State University (fall 2003-spring 2004)

• Hollywood before 1967
• Hollywood after 1967
• Introduction to Film History
• Introduction to Film Theory

At the Pennsylvania State University (fall 1995-spring 2002)

• Introduction to Literary theory
• Introduction to Contemporary Literature
• Introduction to Popular Culture
• Introduction to American Studies
• Introduction to Film History and Theory