_________________________________________________________ CURRICULUM VITAE _________________________________________________________ OFFICE: Department of Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies Stony Brook University/SUNY, Humanities Building - Room 2058 Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355 EMAIL: hstaats@gmail.com FAX: 631-632-5707 ____________________________________________________________ I. EDUCATION 2008-Present Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Program in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University/SUNY 2008 M.A. in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University/SUNY 2004 B.A. in Film Studies, Brooklyn College/CUNY ____________________________________________________________ II. ACADEMIC HONORS 2010 Stony Brook University/SUNY President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student ____________________________________________________________ III. ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES & DEPARTMENTAL POSITIONSA: Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Department Committees at Stony Brook University: 2007 Search Committee for Cultural Studies Director B: Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Departmental Positions at Stony Brook: Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Colloquium Co-Organizer ____________________________________________________________ IV. PUBLICATIONS A: Articles Published: "Julian Hanich: Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear." Review, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. Forthcoming. "Will Higbee: Mathieu Kassovitz." Review, Contemporary French Civilization, 33:2 (Spring/Summer 2009): 200-202. "Valerie Orpen: Agnès Varda's Cléo de 5 à 7." Review, Contemporary French Civilization, 33:1 (Winter/Spring 2009): 261-264. “Ônibus 174 (Bus 174): Intention in the System of Representation.” Cineaction, 67 (Summer 2005): 58-62. ____________________________________________________________ V. PAPERS PRESENTED (2011) "Born Criminality in the Modern Horror Film: Dario Argento's Profondo rosso and Tom Holland's Child's Play." Society for Cinema and Media Studies. media citizenship. New Orleans, LA. (2010) "Who is the Cinematic Child/Who is the Cinematic Monster?: Gabriele Salvatores' Io non ho paura." Northeast Modern Language Association. NeMLA 2010 Convention. Montreal, Quebec. (2010) "Re-envisioning Postwar Berlin: Childhood and National Identity in Fred Zinnemann's The Search and Gianni Amelio's Le Chiavi di casa." Society for Cinema and Media Studies. SCMS @ 50/LA, Archiving the Future/Mobilizing the Past. Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles, CA. (2009) "Who is the Postwar Cinematic Child?" American Comparative Literature Association: Global Voices, Local Languages. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (2008) "Cine-Subjectivity and the
Child: The Politics of Culture and the State of Transnational Governance." Crossroads Conference. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
(2008) "The Transcultural Child: Trauma and Subjectivity in Germania anno zero and Le Chiavi di casa." Re-envisioning the Child in Italian Film: New Perspectives on Children and Childhoods from Early Cinema to the Present. University of Exeter, Devon, UK. (2008) "Michael Winterbottom's The Road to Guantánamo & A Mighty Heart: Violence, Identity & Self-Determination." Framed: Delimiting the Film Image. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. (2007) "Michael Winterbottom's The Road to Guantánamo: Exilic and Diasporic Documentary Filmmaking." Comparative Literature Colloquium, Humanities Institute. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. (2007) “Michael Winterbottom’s In This World: Exilic and Diasporic Nonfiction Filmmaking.” Stony Brook Manhattan Graduate Conference. Transgressing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Dialogues. Stony Brook Manhattan, New York, NY. (2005) “José Padhila’s Bus 174: Intention in the System of Representation.” Comparative Literature Colloquium, Humanities Institute. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. ____________________________________________________________ VI. PERFORMANCE (2010) Part of a Larger Acting Troupe. "To Preface the Conversation: Did I Answer Your Question?" Crossroads Conference. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. ____________________________________________________________ VII. RESEARCH A: Research Interests: My primary research interests lie in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, film genre, criminal anthropology, childhood studies, queer theory, and postwar national identity. My dissertation title is "The Bad Seed: Horror Cinema and Childhood." B: Research Assistant: I have worked as a research assistant with Paula J. Massood and The Spike Lee Reader (Temple, 2008). The reader is a combination of already existing articles and some newly commissioned pieces, in particular Lee’s more recent work, arranged according to a selection of films (those that are most often covered in a classroom), such as She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and Bamboozled. Contributors include: Christine Acham, Toni Cade Bambara, Mark D. Cunningham, Anna Everett, Daniel Flory, Krin Gabbard, David A. Gerstner, Ed Guerrero, Keith M. Harris, bell hooks, Wahneema Lubiano, James C. McKelly, Tavia Nyong'o, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, Michele Wallace, S. Craig Watkins, and Paula J. Massood. ____________________________________________________________ VIII. TEACHING A: 2004-2011 in the Departments of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Cinema and Cultural Studies, and Writing and Rhetoric -- Stony Brook University/SUNY. At Stony Brook, I have designed and taught many inter-disciplinary undergraduate courses: WRT 101.33:
Introduction to Academic Writing (Fall 2004) WRT
102.65: Intermediate Academic Writing: Censorship and Film (Summer & Fall
2005) WRT
102.30: Intermediate Academic Writing: House, Home, Homeland (Spring 2006) WRT
102.39: Intermediate Academic Writing: Pixar Perfect: The Cinema of Pixar
Animation Studios (Spring 2009) CLS
215.61: Classical Mythology (Summer 2005 & 2006) HUM
201-D Film and Television Genre: Modes of Documentary Imagination (Spring &
Summer 2007) HUM 220-G: Cross-Cultural Encounters: Return from Exile:
Responding to the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (Fall 2008) CCS 201.01:
Writing About Culture (Spring 2006) CCS
101.03: Images and Texts: Understanding Culture (Fall 2005) CCS
204: The Stony Brook Film Festival: Films and
Contexts (Summer 2010 & 2011) CCS
311: Documentary and Gender (Summer 2008) CCS
311: Gender and Genre in Film Four Ways: Horror, Thriller, Noir, Dystopia (Fall
2010) CCS
312-I: Cinema and the Ancient World (Spring 2009, 2010 & 2011) CCS
313: Television Studies: Makeover TV (Fall 2010) CCS
392-K: American Cinema and Cultural Studies: Between Realism and
Representability: The Cinema of Spike Lee (Fall 2008) CCS
487: Independent Research in Cinema and Cultural Studies (Fall 2008) CLT
335.01: Re-envisioning the Child in Postwar Cinema (Summer 2008) CLT
335: Interdisciplinary Study of Film, The Bad Seed: Horror Cinema and Childhood
(Winter & Spring 2010) B: 2009-2010 in the Media Culture Department -- College of Staten Island/CUNY. At CSI, I have designed and taught the following inter-disciplinary undergraduate courses: CIN 100: Introduction to Cinema (Fall 2009 & Spring 2010) CIN 240: Third Cinema (Fall 2009) CIN 304: Nonfiction Film (Spring 2010) ____________________________________________________________ IX. INTERNSHIPS & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
A: INTERNSHIPS: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, May 2002 to September 2004. Responsibilities included, but were not limited to: Upkeep and maintenance of Celeste Bartos Film Studies Center, under supervision of Charles Silver and Ron Magliozzi. Research Assistant to Professor Richard Cocks (Albion College) and The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust (Peter Lang Publishing, 2004). Catalogue and organize “Raising Foodini: A Tribute to Pioneer Puppet Master Morey Bunin,” a selection of rare kinescopes celebrating the work of
early television puppeteer and animator Morey Bunin, screened at The Gramercy Theater in Manhattan, September 2003. B: COMMUNITY OUTREACH: 1. Americorps*NCCC, Denver, CO, January 1999 to January 2001. Team Leader. Responsibilities included but were not limited to: Conducting training in areas of education, environment, public safety, unmet human needs. Serving as field representative and conducting on-air interviews with local media to promote Americorps*NCCC programs. Determining weekly salary format, via Excel, for team of 12. Managing $30,000 to $50,000 of federal government funds in 15-state radius of Colorado. 2. YMCA of Greater Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, February 1999 to March 1999. Responsibilities included but were not limited to: Launching first location in United States of Power-Up, a computer literacy program, under Colin Powell’s America’s Promise initiative. Serving as Team Leader for 600 students; boosting student literacy at Bryant Webster Elementary School. ____________________________________________________________ X. MEMBERSHIPS |