Indiana University, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 1979

Indiana University, M.A., Classics, 1975

Indiana University, M.A., Comparative Literature, 1972

University of Chicago, A.B., General Studies in the Humanities, 1970

Professor of Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook, 1997 - present (Assistant Professor, 1981 - 1987; Associate Professor, 1987-1996)

Visiting Professor of Film Studies, Columbia University, 2001

Assistant Professor of English, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, 1979 - 1981

Assistant Professor of Classics and Modern Languages, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, 1977 - 1979

Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture.  Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Psychiatry and the Cinema, Second Edition. American Psychiatric Press, 1999. (With Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.) First edition: 1987, University of Chicago Press. Italian translation by Paolo Pancheri: Cinema e psichiatria (Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 2000).

Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema. University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Edited Books:

Representing Jazz. Duke University Press, 1995.

Jazz Among the Discourses. Duke University Press, 1995.

Guest Editor of Journal Issues:

Double Issue on film and psychoanalysis: Post Script 14.1&2 (1995).

Special issue on jazz and film: University of Hartford Studies in Literature 21.3 (1989).

Articles:
"Miles From Home: Miles Davis and the Movies."  The Source 1 (2004): 27-41.

"Improvisation and Imitation: Marlon Brando as Jazz Actor."  The Other Side of Nowhere, ed. Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble.  Middletown,
Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2004, pp. 298-318.

"Saving It Twice: Preserving Jazz in Documentaries, Compilation Films, and Short Subjects" and "The Decline and Fall of the Jazz Biopic." 
All That Jazz: From New Orleans to Hollywood and Beyond, ed. Franco La Polla.  Milan, Italy: Edizioni Olivares, 2003, pp. 109-131.

"Stanley Kubrick and the Art Cinema." Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange", ed. Stuart Y. McDougal. Cambridge Film Handbooks. Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 85-108. (With Shailja Sharma)

"Whose Jazz, Whose Cinema?" Movie Music: The Film Reader, ed. Kay Dickinson. London and New York: Routledge, 2003, pp. 121-32.

"The Word Jazz" and "Images of Jazz." The Cambridge Companion to Jazz , ed. Merwyn Cooke and David Horn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 1-6, 332-46.

"The Day the Clown Quit: Jerry Lewis Returns to The Jazz Singer's Roots ." Enfant Terrible: Jerry Lewis in American Film. Ed. Murray Pomerance. New York: New York University Press, 2002, pp. 91-106.

"Saving Private Ryan Too Late."  The End of Cinema As We Know It ... American Film in the Nineties, ed. Jon Lewis. New York: New York University Press, 2001, pp. 131-38.

"Borrowing Black Masculinity: The Role of Johnny Hartman in The Bridges of Madison County."  Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music, ed. Arthur Knight and Pamela Robertson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001, pp. 295-316.

"Redeemed by Ludwig Van: Kubrick's Musical Strategy in A Clockwork Orange ." Cinesonic: Experiencing the Soundtrack. Ed. Philip Brothy. North Ryde, Australia: Australian Film Television and Radio School, 2001. 149-67.

"'Someone's Got to Pay': Resurgent White Masculinities in Ransom ." Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture. Ed. Peter Lehman.  New York: Routledge, 2001, 
pp. 7-23.

"Revenge of the Nerds: Black Jazz Artists and Their White Shadows."  Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the 20th Century, ed. Murray Pomerance.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2001, pp. 233-47.

"Evidence: Thelonius Monk as Documentary Subject." Black Music Research Journal 19.2 (1999): 207-25.

"Kansas City Dreamin': Robert Atlman's Jazz History Lesson."   Music and Cinema. Ed. James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer.  Westport, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2000, pp. 142-57

"Actor and Musician: Louis Armstrong and his Films." The Louis Armstrong Companion: Eight Decades of Commentary. Ed. Joshua Berett. New York: Schirmer, 1999, pp. 201-233. (Reprintof a chapter from Jammin' at the Margins .)

"Reel Collection: Notes on the Cinematic Depiction of Memory." Psyart: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, 1999. (With Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D.) http://www.clas.efl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/greenb02.htm

"The Ethnic Oedipus: The Jazz Singer and Its Remakes." Retakes on Remakes, ed. Andrew Horton and Stuart Y. McDougal. Berkeley: University of California Press. To appear in 1996.

"Louis Armstrong and His Audiences." Jazz: A Century of Change, ed. Lewis Porter. New York: Schirmer, 1997, pp. 164-70.

"Psychoanalysis and Film Study in the 1990s." The American Psychoanalyst 29.4 (1996): 34-35.

"The Circulation of Sado-Masochistic Desire in the Lolita Texts." Journal of Film and Video 46.2 (1994): 19-30.

"Reel Significations." Screen Memories, by Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, pp. 17-37. (With Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D.)

"Phallic Women in Contemporary Cinema." American Imago 50.4 (1993): 421-39. (With Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.)

"The Jazz Canon and Its Consequences." Annual Review of Jazz Studies 6 (1993): 65-98.

"Signifyin(g) the Phallus: Mo' Better Blues and Representations of the Jazz Trumpet." Cinema Journal 32.1 (1992): 43-62.

"The Quoter and His Culture." Jazz in Mind: Essays on the History and Meanings of Jazz, ed. Reginald T. Buckner and Steven Weiland. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1991, pp. 92-111.

"The White Hotel and the Traditions of Ring Composition." Comparative Literature Studies 27.3 (1990): 230-48.

"Play It Again, Sigmund: Psychoanalysis and the Classical Hollywood Text." Journal of Popular Film and Television 18.1 (1990): 6-17. (With Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.)

"Reel Significations: An Anatomy of Psychoanalytic Film Criticism." Psychoanalytic Review 77.1 (1990): 89-110. (With Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D.)

"Wrong Man With a Horn." University of Hartford Studies Literature 21.3 (1989):

"The Female Psychoanalyst in the Movies." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 37.4 (1989): 1031-49. (With Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.)

"Aliens and the New Family Romance." Post Script 8.1 (1988): 29-42.

"Updike, Shaffer and the Centaurs." Helios 14.1 (1987): 47- 58.

"Countertransference in the Movies." Psychoanalytic Review 72 (Spring, 1985): 171-84. (With Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.)

"The Metamorphosis of the Centaur in Fifth-Century Greek Arts and Society." Bucknell Review 29.1 (1984): 89-104.

"Vicissitudes of Narcissism in the Cinematic Autobiography." Psychoanalytic Review 71 (Sept., 1984): 319-28. (With Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.)

"Religious and Political Allegory in Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still." Literature/Film Ouarterly 10 (1982): 150-54.

"Altman's 3 Women: Sanctuary in the Dream World." Literature/ Film Ouarterly 8 (1980), 258-64.

"From Psycho to Dressed to Kill: The Decline and Fall of the Psychiatrist in the Movies." Film/Psychology Review 4 (1980): 157-62. (With Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.)

Reviews:

Jazz Noir: Listening to Music from Phantom Lady to The Last Seduction , by David Butler (Praeger, 2002).  To appear in Genre.

What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Music as Artists, Critics, and Activists, by Eric Porter (University of Californnia Press, 2002). Current Musicology 71-73 (Spring 2001-Spring 2002): 477-83.

Larkin's Blues: Jazz, Popular Music, and Poetry, by B. J. Leggett (Louisiana State University Press, 1999). The Comparatist 26 (May 2002): 158-60.

Heroes in Hard Times: Cop Action Movies in the U.S., by Neal King (TempleUniversity Press, 1999).  Gender and Society 15.1 (February 2001): 159-60.

Saving Private Ryan (1998; directed by Steven Spielberg). International Journal of Psychoanalysis 81.1 (February 2000): 177-79.

Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties, by Steven Cohan (Indiana University Press, 1997). Men and Masculinities 1.4 (1999): 399-401.

Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra, by John Szwed (Pantheon, 1997). American Music 16.2 (Summer 1998): 230-32.

Kansas City (1996; directed by Robert Altman). To appear in Psychoanalytic Review in 1997.

A Great Day in Harlem (1996; directed by Jean Bach). To appear in Journal of Musicological Research in 1997.

Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy, ed. Marc H. Miller (University of Washington Press, 1995). African American Review 30.2 (1996): 306-08.

The Ouick and the Dead (1995; directed by Sam Raimi). Psychoanalytic Review 82.5 (1995): 766-69.

Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body , by Peter Lehman (Temple University Press, 1994). Film Ouarterly 48.4 (Summer 1995): 54-56.

Upside Your Head! Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue by Johnny Otis (University Press of New England, 1993). Journal of Popular Music Studies 6 (1994): 77-80.

Bad Girls (1994; directed by Jonathan Kaplan). Psychoanalytic Review 81.4 (1994): 763-66.

The Psychoanalytic Movement by Ernest Gellner (London: Paladin Books, 1985). New Ideas in Psychology 12.1 (1994): 119-20.

Formations of Fantasy, ed. Victor Burgin, James Donald, and Cora Kaplan (London and New York: Methuen, 1986). Ideas in Psychology 8.3 (1990): 405-407.

The Reception of Jazz in America: A New View by James Lincoln Collier (Brooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1988). American Music 7.3 (1990): 345-6.

Psychotherapy: Portraits in Fiction, ed. Jesse D. Beller and Paul D. Spector (Jason Aronson, Inc., 1987). Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 53.2 (March 1989): 168-69.

The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture by Giles Gunn (Oxford University Press, 1987). Ethics 99.1 (October 1988): 195-96.

"The Poetry of Tess Gallagher." Open Places 29 (Spring, 1980): 53-56; rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism 18 (1981): 170

Over 800 reviews of films, concerts and phonograph records in various newspapers and magazines.

Other Publications:

"Black Angels." Chronicle of Higher Education 49.39 (June 6, 2003): B15-16.

"Jazz on Television at the Library of Congress." Performing Arts: Broadcasting . Ed. Iris Newsom. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2002. 170-85.

"About Boys, Not About Women." Chronicle of Higher Education 48.38 (May 31, 2002): B15.

"Revisiting a Noir Classic." Chronicle of Higher Education 48.30 (April 5, 2002): B16.

"Ralph Ellison, Visible Man." Chronicle of Higher Education 48.23 (February 15, 2002): B20.

"Jazz Canon," "Jazz: The Word," and "Jazz and Film: Cultural Meanings." Entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition. London: Macmillan, 2002. I:380-2, I:798-801, II:389-93.

"A Round Table on Ken Burn's Jazz." Journal of Popular Music Studies 13.2 (Fall 2001): 207-25. (With Geoffrey Jacques, Bernard Gendron, Scott DeVeaux, and Sherrie Tucker)

"Miles Passed, Miles Ahead." Chronicle of Higher Education 47.36 (May 18, 2001): B17-9.

"Ken Burns's Jazz: Beautiful Music, but Missing a Beat." Chronicle of Higher Education 47.16 (December 15, 2000): B18-9.

"Louis Armstrong's Life As a Man." Chronicle of Higher Education 46.43 (June 30, 2000): B9-10.

"Therapy's 'Talking Cure' Still Works -- in Hollywood." Chronicle of Higher Education 46.23 (February 11, 2000): B9-10.

"Celebrity According to Woody Allen." Culture Front 8.3-4 (1999): 18-22, 76-7.

"Innocence Lost: American Movies Revisit Jazz." Chronicle of Higher Education 46.2 (Sept. 3, 1999): B10-B11.

"Jazz Debate at Lincoln Center: A Report." Sonneck Society Bulletin 21.1 (Summer 1995): 10-11. (Published anonymously)

"Cinematic Stereotypes Contributing to the Stigmatization of Psychiatrists." Stigma and Mental Illness, ed. Paul Jay Fink and Allan Tasman. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 1992, pp. 113-26. (With Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.)

Reply to Lawrence Gushee. American Music 8.3 (1990): 360-62.

"Mind Doctor in the Dream Factory: The Psychiatrist in the Movies." The Psychiatric Times 5.3 (March, 1988): 17-18. (With Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.)

"The Pselluloid Psychiatrist." Menninger Perspective 18.2 (Aug., 1987): 25-27. (With Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.)

Invited Lectures:

"White Face, Black Noise: Miles Davis and the Soundtrack."  Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema.  University of Minnesota, April 2004.

Roundtable on Jazz and Cinema.  Locarno (Switzerland) International Film Festival.  August 2003.

"The New Jazz Studies Today." Keynote address at Ninth Annual Leeds International Jazz Educators' Conference. Leeds (England) College of Music, April 2003.

"McCabe and Mrs. Miller: Revisiting the Latency Stage Western." Washington, D.C., Psychoanalysis Association, November 2002.

"Miles from Home." Keynote address at Guelph Jazz Symposium. Guelph, Ontario. September 2002.

"In All Languages." Panelist at the conference, "Talking Jazz: Live at the Village Vanguard," sponsored by the National Arts Journalism Program. New York, April 2002.

"Miles Davis and the Movies." University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 2002.

"Marlon Brando as Jazz Actor." University of Vermont, April 2002.

"Miles Davis as Cinematic Text." Yale University, New Haven, March 2002.

"Throw It Away: Abbey Lincoln and the American Cinema." Conference on Abbey Lincoln. Columbia University, December 2001.

"Clinical Masochism and Film Noir." American Psychoanalytical Association, New York, December 2001.

"The Female Psychotherapist in the Movies." Freudian Society of Long Island. Little Neck, October 2001.

"Miles Davis as Cinematic Text." College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, October 2001.

"Miles Davis as Cinematic Text."  Conference on Miles Davis.  Washington University, St. Louis, May 2001.

"Resisting Louis."  University of North Carolina Jazz Festival.  Chapel Hill, March 2001.

"Louis Armstrong on Film."  Smithsonian Institution.  Washington, D.C., December 2000.

"Redeemed by Ludwig Van: Kubrick's Musical Strategy in A Clockwork Orange ." Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation.  New York, September 2000.

"Jazz in Hollywood: Is There Hope?"  Newport Jazz Festival.  Newport, Rhode Island, August 2000.

"The Greatest Music the World Has Ever Known: Kubrick Markets High Culture."  Third Annual Cinesonic Conference on Cinema and Sound.  Melbourne, Australia, July 2000.

"Jazz in Hollywood."  University of Kansas, April 2000.

"Spike Lee Meets Aaron Copland."  Carnegie Hall, New York City, February 2000.

"Paris Blues: Duke Ellington Meets Louis Armstrong."  Columbia University, February  2000.

"Freud on Film."  Michigan State University, February 2000.

"Borrowing Black Masculinity: The Role of Johnny Hartman in The Bridges of Madison County."  University of Virginia, December 1999.

"Duke Ellington Signifies on Hollywood." Gulbenkian Foundation. Lisbon, Portugal, July, 1999.

"Toward a New Jazz Studies." Keynote address at Fifth Annual Leeds International Jazz Educators' Conference. Leeds (England) College of Music, April 1999.

"Goin' Up: Duke Ellington Revises Cabin in the Sky." University of North Carolina Jazz Festival. Chapel Hill, February, 1999.

"Paris Blues and the Discourses of Art." Seton Hall University, April, 1998.

"Images of Jazz." University of Missouri, April, 1998.

"Monk as Documentary Subject." University of North Carolina Jazz Festival. Chapel Hill, February, 1998.

"Male Bodies, Black and White." University of Arizona, January, 1998.

"Borrowing Black Masculinity: The Role of Johnny Hartman in The Bridges of Madison County." Colby College, March, 1997.

"Constructing the Artist: 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould." Villanova University, February, 1997.

"All Night Long: A Jazz Othello." Library of Congress. Washington, D.C., October, 1996.

"Quacks, Savants, and Advice Columnists: Representations of The Psychiatrist in the Media." Stony Brook Health Sciences Center Grand Rounds. February, 1996.

"Duke Ellington and the Cinema." Music Department Colloquium, SUNY Stony Brook, November 1995.

"The Early Films of Duke Ellington." Duke Ellington Society. New York, June 1995.

"Duke Ellington and the Cinema." Jazz Research Roundtable. Rutgers University, May 1995.

"The Female Psychiatrist in the Movies." Stony Brook Health Sciences Center Grand Rounds. April, 1995.

"Jazz and Pagan Modernism." Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation. New York, December 1994.

"Is Jazz Art? Paris Blues and Duke Ellington's Response." Duke Ellington Society. New York, April 1994.

"The Repression of Race and Aging in Basic Instinct." American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, December 1993.

"Trickster or Uncle Tom: Reading Louis Armstrong and His Films." Humanities Institute at SUNY Stony Brook, December 1993.

"Jazz Becomes Art: Tracking a Discourse." Music Department Colloquium, SUNY Stony Brook, March 1993.

"The Ethnic Oedipus: The Jazz Singer and Its Remakes." American Jewish Congress. New York, March 1993.

"Jazz Becomes Art: Tracking a Discourse." Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation. New York, December 1992.

"Casablanca and the Traditions of Cult Cinema." American Academy of Psychoanalysis. New York, November 1992.

"The Myth of the Phallic Woman in Contemporary Cinema." Long Island Institute for Psychoanalysis. March 1992.

"From Working Girl to Thelma and Louise." Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study of Film. Washington, DC, November 1991.

"The Myth of the Phallic Woman in Contemporary Cinema." American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians. New York, October 1991.

"The Circulation of Sado-Masochistic Desire in the Lolita Texts." American Psychoanalytic Association. New Orleans, May 1991.

"Dracula and the P-Word: Reply to William Luhr." Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation. New York, January 1991.

"The Impact of Freud's Discoveries on 2Oth Century Thought and Culture." Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Columbia University. New York, December 1990.

"Otto Preminger's Whirlpool." Anthology Film Archives. New York, December 1990.

"The Search for the Phallic Woman." American Psychiatric Association. New York, May 1990.

"Psychopathology in Cinema, Then and Now." American Academy of Psychoanalysis. New York, December 1989.

"Marshall Brickman's Lovesick." Anthology Film Archives. New York, November 1989.

"Music: A Voice Beyond the Literary." SUNY Binghamton Conference on Literature and Film. October 1988.

"Play It Again, Sigmund: Psychoanalysis and the Classical Hollywood Text." American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians. New York, June 1988.

"The Female Psychiatrist in the Movies." Manhattan Psychiatric Center Grand Rounds. January 1988.

"Psychiatry in Film and Real Life." New York University Medical Center. October 1987.

"Teaching Comparative Literature." Indiana University Comparative Literature Conference. Bloomington, March 1980.

Conference Papers:

"Marlon Brando's Masculinity and the White Negro Aesthetic."  Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film.  Tallahassee, January 2004.

"Miles to Go: Reading Miles: The Autobiography."  Modern Language Association.  San Diego, December 2003

"Miles From Home: Miles Davis and the Movies." International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Los Angeles, September 2003.

"To Die For: Black Violence in White Cinema." Society for Cinema Studies. Minneapolis, March 2003.

"The Big White Out: Music and Race in Fargo." Florida State University Conferensce on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, January 2003.

"African American Angels: A Millennial Solution to the 'Race Problem.'" Modern Language Association. New York, December 2002.

"The Sexiest Man Alive: Richard Gere's Life As a Man." Society for Cinema Studies. Denver, May 2002.

"Magical Negritude: Millenial Solutions to the Race Problem." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, January 2002.

"'I'm through with Love': Singing the Demise of the Classical Musical." Modern Language Association. New Orleans, December 2001.

"Pomo-Crypto-Afro: White Racial Politics in Pleasantville and The Talented Mr. Ripley." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film.  Tallahassee, February 2000.

"Bricolage in Black and White: Ralph Ellison's Jazz."  Modern Language Association. Washington, DC, December 2000.

"Hipsters and Nerds: Representing the Jazz Record Collector."  American Musicological Association.  Toronto, November 2000.

"Carnivalizing Jazz: Sun Ra on Film."  Jazz Study Group.  Columbia University, May 2000.

"Carnivalizing Jazz: Sun Ra on Film."  Society for Cinema Studies.  Chicago, March 2000.

"Spike Lee Meets Aaron Copland."  Florida State University Conference on Literature  and Film. Tallahassee, January 2000.

"The Invisible Signifier: Race and the Soundtrack."  Modern Language Association. Chicago, December 1999.

"Saving Private Ryan Too Late, or How Spielberg Gets Away with It." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, January, 1999.

"Synthaesizing Jazz: The Case of Marlon Brando." Modern Language Association. San Francisco, December 1998.

"In Search of a Jazz Aesthetic." Society for Cinema Studies. San Diego, April 1998.

"'Someone's Got to Pay': Resurgent White Masculinity in Ransom." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, January, 1998.

"Listeners at the Movies, Competent and Incompetent." Society for Cinema Studies. Ottawa, May, 1997.

"Kansas City Dreaming: Altman's Jazz History Lesson." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, January, 1997.

"Borrowing Black Masculinity: The Role of Johnny Hartman in The Bridges of Madison County." Society for Cinema Studies. Dallas, March 1996.

"'If I Can Make It There': The Death of Jazz and the Performance of Gender in Scorsese's New York, New York." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, January 1996.

"Visualizing a Jazz Composer: Duke Ellington and the Spectacles of Negrophilia." Society for Cinema Studies. New York, March 1995.

"How Duke Ellington Signified on Cabin in the Sky and Got Away With It." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, January 1995.

"Is Jazz Art? Paris Blues and Duke Ellington's Response." Modern Language Association. San Diego, December 1994.

"Louis Armstrong and Cinematic Discourses of Art." Society for Cinema Studies. Syracuse, March 1994.

"Remaking Nat King Cole." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, January 1994.

"How the Ellington Band Transformed Cabin in the Sky." International Duke Ellington Conference. New York, August 1993.

"Jazz Becomes Art: Tracking a Discourse." American Comparative Literature Association. Bloomington, Indiana, March 1993.

"Black and Tan Fantasies: Questions of Influence in the White Jazz Biopic." Society for Cinema Studies. New Orleans, February 1993.

"Is The Jazz Singer Transgressive?" Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, January 1993.

"Gender and Race in The Jazz Singer Texts." Modern Language Association. New York, December 1992.

"The Ethnic Oedipus: The Jazz Singer and Its Remakes." Conference on Remakes. New Orleans, September 1992.

"Jazz Among the Discourses." American Comparative Literature Association. New York, April 1992.

"The Circulation of Sado-Masochistic Desire in the Lolita Texts." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, February 1992.

"Cinematic Representations of the Jazz Trumpet." American Musicological Society. Chicago, November 1991.

"The Construction of Masculinity in Mo' Better Blues." Society for Cinema Studies. Los Angeles, May 1991.

"Lolita: Novel, Film and Intertexts." American Comparative Literature Association. San Diego, March 1991.

"Mo' of the Same Blues: Spike Lee Confronts the History of Jazz in Cinema." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, February 1991.

"Woody Allen, Preston Sturges and the Traditions of Hollywood Reflexivity." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, February 1990.

"Jazz and Classical Cinema: The Case of Young Man with a Horn." Society for Cinema Studies. Iowa City. April 1989.

"The Disempowerment of Psychoanalysis." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, January 1989.

"Alien Within, Aliens Without." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, January 1988.

"Jazz and the Avant-Garde." Avant-Garde Art and Literature Conference. Hofstra University, November 1985.

"Ring Composition in Homer and D.M. Thomas." International Comparative Literature Association Triennial Congress. Paris, August 1985.

"Plot and Symbol in Persona." American Comparative Literature Association Triennial Congress. Santa Barbara, March 1983.

"Updike, Shaffer and the Centaurs." Brooklyn College Comparative Literature Conference. November 1982.

"Growing Up with Homer: Browning's 'Development.'" Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Columbia, SC, March 1980.

"Religious and Political Allegory in The Day the Earth Stood Still . "Conference on the Fantastic. Fort Lauderdale, March 1980.

"The Metamorphosis of the Centaur." Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Madison, Wisconsin, April 1979.

"Altman's 3 Women." Purdue University Film Conference. April 1979.

Panels Chaired at Conferences:

"Marshall Mathers Matters: Eminem and the Media."  Society for Cinema and Media Studies.  Atlanta, March 2004.

"O Coen Brothers, Where Art Thou?" Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, January 2003.

"Film Comedy Today" Modern Language Association. New York, December 2002.

"The Grain of the Voice: Hearing Voices in Movies and Television." Modern Language Association. New Orleans, 2001.

"Corporality at the Millennium: Bodies That Are Raced, Gendered, Costumed, and Eaten."  Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film.  Tallahassee, January 2000.

"New Theories of Film Music." Society for Cinema Studies. Ottawa, May 1997.

"Film and Music." The Sonneck Society. Madison, April 1995.

"Signifyin' Sounds: Blackness, Music and the American Cinema." Modern Language Association. San Diego, December 1994.

"Music and Film: Spectacles and Commodities." Society for Cinema Studies. Syracuse, March 1994.

"(De)centering Masculinity." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, January 1994.

"What Is the Future of Psychoanalysis in Film Studies?" Society for Cinema Studies. Pittsburgh, May 1992.

"Representing Jazz." Modern Language Association. New York, December 1990.

"Gender and Voice." Society for Cinema Studies. Washington, DC, May 1990.

"Jazz and Cinema." Society for Cinema Studies. Iowa City, April 1989.

"Storyville Stories: Four Approaches to the Study of Jazz and Literature." Modern Language Association. New Orleans, December 1988.

Symposium on Psychiatry in the Cinema. Menninger Foundation, March 1982. Delivered four papers and directed discussion in a two-day seminar.

Community Service:

"Posing Questions."  Stony Brook Graduate Student Conference.  March 1999.

"Science Fiction Films of the Cold War."  Smithtown High School Conference on the Cold War.  Smithtown, NY, May 1994.

"Popularizing the Academy."  Stony Brook Graduate Student Conference. November 1994.

"The Power of Images."  Humanities Institute at SUNY Stony Brook.  May 1993.

"Black and Tan Fantasies: Questions of Influence in the White Jazz Biopic."  Thursdays at Noon, SUNY Stony Brook.  February 1993.

"Jazz and the New Curriculum."  Stony Brook Faculty Development Workshop on American Pluralism.  May 1991.

"Opening the Canon."  Superintendent Seminars at Stony Brook. March 1990.

"The Invisible Language of the Cinema."  Stony Brook Evening for Adult Learners. October 1987.

"The American Cinema in the Age of Reagan." Stony Brook Alumni Association College Day.  October 1986.

NATIONAL OFFICE:
2003 Member, Executive Council, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
2001-2002 Member, MLA Division on Film Studies
1999 Society for Cinema Studies committee to choose best dissertation in Cinema Studies
1998-2003 Editorial Board, Cinema Journal
1994-  Book Review Editor, Men and Masculinities
1989-  Advisory Board, Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study of Film
1987-1990 Chair, Student Affairs Committee, American Comparative Literature Association

COURSES TAUGHT:
Graduate:
 Classical Tradition
 Comparative Literature Methodology
 Film and Narrative Theory
 Film Theory/Literary Theory
 History of Comedy
 History of Literary Theory
 Introduction to Cultural Studies
 Music and Cinema
 Philosophy and Literature
 Popular Culture and Critical Theory
 Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Film

Undergraduate:
 American Pluralism in Literature and Film
 Classical Drama
 Classical Mythology
 The Classical Tradition
 The Comic Spirit in Literature and Film
 Contemporary Drama
 Death in Literature
 English Composition
 Film History and Theory
 Film and Video Narrative
 Film Comedy
 Great Novels
 Greek Literature in Translation
 History of Comedy
 Hollywood in the 1960s
 Hollywood Mythology and its Revisions
 Homer (in Greek and in translation)
 The Horror Film
 The Impact of World War II on Literature and Film
 International Cinema
 Introduction to Drama
 Introduction to Film
 Introduction to Literature
 Introduction to Television Studies
 Jazz and Film
 Jazz and High/Low Culture
 The Jazz Life: Studies in Jazz Music and Biography
 Literary Survey: Enlightenment Through Modern
 Literary Theory
 Literature and Film
 Literature and Painting
 Masculinity in the Movies
 Modern Drama
 Modern Literature and the Other Arts
 Music and Cinema
 Senior Seminar in Cinema and Cultural Studies
 Sexuality in Literature
 Theorizing Cinema and Culture

NEW COURSES DEVELOPED:
1998      CCS 301 Theorizing Cinema and Culture
1992      CLT 609  Topics in Cultural Studies
1991      CLT 235  American Pluralism in Literature and Film
1988      CLT 335  The Interdisciplinary Study of Film
1988      HUM 202  Film and Television Studies II
1985      CLT 201  The Study of Literature
1985      COR 101/102  Art, Literature, and Philosophy in Historical Perspective (with three other faculty members)
1983      CLT 510  Comparative Literature Methodology
1983      CEI 501  Foundations of the Humanities

HONORS AND AWARDS:
1998  Presidential Mini-Grant for Innovative Teaching Projects
1997  Jammin' at the Margins nominated for Award for Excellence in Historical
     Recorded Sound Research given by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections
1996  Jammin' at the Margins nominated for National Book Award
1995  Merit Award for Teaching and Curriculum Development
1988  Lilly Foundation Mentor
1987  Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching
1985  Nominated for Chancellor's and President's Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
1985  Award for Exceptional Service to Undergraduate Education
1984  Nominated for Chancellor's and President's Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
1982  University Award from Stony Brook Foundation
1979  NEH Summer Fellow.  Columbia University.
1976  Graduate School Fellowship.  Indiana University.
1970  George S. Kaufman Playwriting Prize from Dramatists Guild Fund.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE AT SUNY, STONY BROOK
2000-2001 Member, Search committee for chair of Asian and Asian American Studies Department
2000-2002 Chair, Search committee for Associate Director of the Writing Program
1999-2000 Chair, Search committee for 6 instructors for Writing Program
1998-1999 Member, Search committee for Assistant Director of the Writing Program
1997-1998 Chair, Committee to create Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
1997-1998 Member, Search committee for Chair of English Dept.
1996-1998 Chair, Committee to develop undergraduate major in Cinema and Cultural Studies
1996-1999 Member, Search committee for senior and junior positions in Italian-American Studies
1996-1997 Member, Search committee for junior position in Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
1994-1995 Member, Search committee for junior position in French and Italian Department
1992-1993 Faculty Member, Federated Learning Community
1990-1991  Member, Sub-Committee of General Education Committee for Curriculum Reform
1989-1990 Acting Director, Federated Learning Community
1988-1990 Faculty Member, Federated Learning Community
1987-1988 Chair, Core Course Advisory Group
1987-1988 Freshman Advisor
1987-1988 Member, Integrated Freshman Year Planning Committee
1985-1986 Member, Arts and Sciences Personnel Policy Committee
1984  Chair, Nominations Committee for President's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Classified Service
1983-1988 Member, Bookstore Advisory Group
1983-1984 Member, CED Council
1983-1984 Member, Arts and Humanities Curriculum Reform Implementation Committee
1983-1984 Member, organizing committee for conference on The Rhetoric of Fiction
1983-1984 Member, Task Force on Part-Time Graduate Education
1981-1984 Member, University Senate
1981-1984 Member, Academic Services Committee

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE AT SUNY, STONY BROOK
2003- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Comparative Studies
1996- 2002 Chair, Department of Comparative Studies
1996  Director of Graduate Studies, Program in Comparative Literature
1994-1995 Member, Search committee for junior position in Comparative Literature
1992  Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies
1992-1993 Advisor to undergraduate majors in Humanities Program
1992-1994  Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Program in Comparative Literature
1991-1997 Advisor to undergraduate majors in Comparative Literature
1991-1992  Member, Ad-hoc committee to revise undergraduate curriculum
1989-1990     Chair, Search committee for junior position in Comparative Literature
1988-1989 Member, Search committee for junior position in Comparative Literature
1986-1990 Member, Classics Advisory Committee
1985-  Member, Comparative Literature Undergraduate Studies Committee
1985-1986 Member, Comparative Literature By-Laws Committee
1982-1984 Member, Search committee for senior position in Comparative Literature
1982-1984 Director of Graduate Studies, Program in Comparative Literature
1981-1982 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Programs in Comparative
Literature, Classics and Humanities

OTHER ACTIVITIES:
1995-1998 Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation
1993  "Ellington '93."  Selected, scheduled, and coordinated 3 days of papers for 11th annual international conference on the music of Duke Ellington.  New York, August 1993.
1987-1996  Record and book reviewer for Cadence, a monthly jazz periodical
1976-1989  Announcer/producer of weekly radio program on American jazz at various radio stations.