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Eva Rueschmann, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies  School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural  Studies  107 Adele Simmons Hall  Hampshire College  Amherst, MA 01002-5001  Office phone: (413) 559-5429  Fax: (413) 559-5438  E-mail: erHA@hampshire.edu I teach courses in modern and contemporary world literature and film, introductions to cultural studies and criticism, cross-cultural readings of the short story, modernism in literature and film, and migration, exile and identity in cinema and culture. Previously I taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where I also served as the administrative assistant to the Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies. Active for several years in co-organizing Five College Film Studies events, including the Annual Multicultural Film Festival, I have been a member of the Five College Film Council since 1999. For complete curriculum vitae, click here. R E C E N T   P U B L I C A T I O N S SISTERS ON SCREEN: SIBLINGS IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA (Temple University Press, 2000) Perhaps the most vital, emotionally complex, and lasting attachments between women occur between sisters. Whether as best friends or antagonists, "sisters remain entangled in a common tapestry of mutual experience and remembrance, family and history," according to author Eva Rueschmann. Although many of the women-centered films in the last three decades depict the relationship between sisters as a pivotal aspect of a character's psychological development, the now substantial body of feminist film criticism has not taken up this theme in any sustained way... To read more, click Temple University Press or amazon.com E D U C A T I O N BA in French and English Languages and Literatures, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1984 MA in Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988 PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994. Dissertation: "Those Precious Bonds: The Representation of Sister Relationships in Twentieth-Century Literature and Film." R E S E A R C H   A N D   T E A C H I N G   I N T E R E S T S Contemporary world literature and film; diaspora, migration and transnationalism in cinema and culture; psychoanalytic theory and criticism; American and European modernism; gender and cultural studies. C U R R E N T   P R O J E C T S - An edited anthology of critical essays on migration and exile in international cinema, Moving Images/Migrating Identities (forthcoming spring/summer 2003 from the University Press of Mississippi). - Research on the representation of landscape and gender in the films of Australian and New Zealand women directors, including Jane Campion, Gillian Armstrong, Tracey Moffat and others

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