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EVA
RUESCHMANN
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies
Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies
107 Adele Simmons Hall
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002-5001
Tel. (413) 559-5429
E-mail: erHA@hampshire.edu
Curriculum
Vitae
E d
u c a t i o n
Ph D. in Comparative Literature,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994
M A in Comparative Literature,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988
B.A. in English/American and French
Languages and Literatures, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1984
Dissertation "Those Precious
Bonds: A Psychoanalytic Study of Sister Relationships in Twentieth-Century
Literature and Film"
Committee: Catherine Portuges (Chair), David Lenson, Lee Edwards, Richard
Noland
A r e a s o f
S p e c i a l i z a t i o n a n d T e a c h i n g
I n t e r e s t s
World Literature from Cross-Cultural
Perspectives; Migration in Cinema; American and European Modernism and
the Modern Novel; lnternational Cinema and Transnational Studies; Film
Theory and Criticism; Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism Gender Studies;
Cultural Studies
E m p l o y m e n t
1999- Assistant
Professor of Cultural Studies, Hampshire College
1994-99 Visiting Assistant
Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Hampshire
College
C o u r s e s T
a u g h t
Hampshire College:
- Twentieth-Century Modernism:
Literature Between the Wars
- Critical Theory Seminar: Psychoanalytic
Theory and Criticism
- Cross-Cultural Readings of the
Short Story
- Introduction to Cultural Studies
(every fall semester)
- Film and Literature: Narrative,
Culture, Identity
- Traveling Identities: Immigrants,
Exiles and Sojourners in Contemporary Film, Literature and Culture
- Gendered Identities in Music
and Narrative (co-taught with Jay Pillay)
- Twentieth Century Cultures of
American and European Modernism
- Place, Culture & the Imagination
- Introduction to Visual Culture
(co-taught with Sura Levine)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst:
- Good and Evil in Modern Literature and Film
- French Film from the 1930s to Present
- Cinema and Psyche (co-taught and co-designed for 5 semesters)
- International Short Story
- Film Style and Imagination
- Avant-Garde Film (co-taught for 3 semesters)
Course descriptions and syllabi available upon request
P
u b l i c a t i o n s
BOOKS
Sisters an Screen: Siblings in Contemporary
Cinema (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000) "Culture and
the Moving Image" series, editor Robert Sklar.
ARTICLES
"Margarethe von Trotta," The Encyclopedia
of Contemporary German Culture, ed. John Sanford (London: Routledge,
1999)
"Female Self-Definition and the African
Community in Mariame Ba's Epistolary Novel So Long a Letter,"
International Women's Writing: New Landscapes of Identities,
ed. Maganne Gooze and Anne Brown (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995),
3-18.
"Sister Bonds: Intersections of Family
and Race in Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun and Dorothy West's
The Living Is Easy. " The Significance of Sibling Relationships
in Literature, ed. Janet Doubler Ward and JoAnna Stephens Mink (Bowling
Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993), 120-32.
"Desire and Loss in Alan Rudolph's The
Moderns, Literature/Film Quarterly 22.1 (January 1994), 5761.
"Psychoanalytic Criticism," Co-authored
with Matthew Schmidt, Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language
Arts, ed. Alan Purves (N.C.T.E. Scholastic Inc. Press, 1994)
CURRENT
PROJECTS
Moving Pictures, Traveling Identities:
Cinemas of Exile and Migration (edited anthology of essays under
review at the University Press of Mississippi)
A Girl's Own Story: The Films of Jane
Campion (monograph in preparation for University of Illinois Press,
"Women Artists in Film," editors: Roswitha Mueller and Kaja Silverman)
P a p e r P r
e s e n t a t i o n s
"Out of Place: Reading Colonial
and Post-colonial Landscapes in Jane Campion's Films" Society for
Cinema Studies Conference, May 25-27, 2001, Washington D.C.
"Introduction to American Gypsy:
A Stranger in Everybody 's Land," Seventh Annual Multicultural
Film Festival: Filmmaking our of Place: Human Rights and the Millennium,
April 12, 2000, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
"Mediating Worlds/Migrating Identities:
Representations of Home, Exile and Identity in Asian American/Canadian
Women's Films," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, March 9-12, 2000,
Chicago, IL.
"Music, Nomadic Cultures and Rom Identity
in Tony Gatlifs Gadjo dilo ("Crazy Stranger',)," Sixth Annual
Multicultural Film Festival: Nations/Generations, New Filmworks, Hampshire
College, May 1999.
"Moving Pictures/Migrating Identities:
Transnationality in Cinema," February 10, 1999, Hampshire College; also
at Middlebury College, February 24, 1999, and the University of Wisconsin
at Milwaukee, March 8, 1999.
"Migration in Post-Industrial Europe:
A Coming-of-Age Tale; Introduction to La Promesse," Fifth Annual
Multicultural Film Festival, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst,
MA, February 25, 1998.
"Matricide and Sororophilia: The Preoedipal
Female Romance in Heavenly Creatures and Sister My Sister,"
Association of Psychoanalysis of Society and Culture Conference: Aggressivity
and Violence, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., November
2-5, 1997.
Moderator on panel, "What was DEFA really?"
The Cinema of Eastern Germany: The View from North America Conference,
Smith College, Northampton, MA, October 2-5, 1997.
"Historical and Geographical Border Crossings:
Introduction to Gianni Amelio's Lamerica," Fourth Multicultural
Film Festival, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Hampshire College,
Amherst, MA, April 27, 1997.
"Vicious Modernism: Postmodern Nostalgia
and the Modern Artist in the Films of Alan Rudolph," The 21st Annual
Conference on Literature and Film: Genre and Gender in Film and Literature,
Tallahassee, Florida, January 25-27, 1996.
"Shame and Postcolonial Identity: Reading
Affect in Janet Frame's Autobiography An Angel at My Table,"
Conference on Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism: Nation, Identity,
Self, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., October 12-14,
1995.
"Border Crossings: Female Adolescence
and A Critique of the Male Frontier in Allison Anders' Gas
Food Lodging," Literature/Film Association Conference, Ocean City,
Maryland, December 2-5, 1993
"Gender, Genius and Madness in Janet
Frame's Autobiography An Angel at My Table," Popular Culture
Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 7-10, 1993.
"'A Girls' Own Story': Female Adolescence
and Self-Encounter in Contemporary Films by Women Directors," University
of Nebraska--Lincoln, January 23, 1993.
"Délire à Deux: Reconstructing
the Paranoiac Crime of the Papin Sisters in Wendy Kesselman's My
Sister In This House," Popular Culture Association Conference, Louisville,
Kentucky, March 18-22, 1992.
"The Commerce of Art, Identity and Desire
in Alan Rudolph's The Moderns," University of Hartford, Hartford,
Connecticut, January 14, 1992.
"Sisters and Selves: Duality and Integration
in the Films of Margarethe von Trotta," Northeast Modern Language Association
Conference, Hartford, Connecticut, April 5-7, 1991.
"Those Precious Bonds: The Representation
of Sisters in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women," 8th National
Women's Studies Graduate Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 8-10,
l991
"Desire and Loss in Alan Rudolph's The
Moderns, Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference, Amherst,
Massachusetts, October 5-6, 1990.
"The Case of Max Ophuls: Freud's Vienna
and Repetition Compulsion in La Ronde and The Earrings of
Madame de...," American Comparative Literature Association Graduate
Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, April 15-17, 1988.
"The Female Condition and the Definition
of the African Female Self in Mariama Bâ's Autobiographical Novel
So Long a Letter," 37th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language
Conference, Richmond, Virginia, October 8-10, 1987.
P r o f e s s i o n a
l A c t i v i t i e s
| 1987-95 |
Assistant to the Director
and co-founder of the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst Responsibilities
included: administration of certificate program in Film Studies;
development of film studies
curriculum on campus; individual advising of undergraduates;
coordination of speakers and film screenings; supervision of interns
in a variety of settings; grant proposal writing; desktop publishing
and advertising; liaison with
Five College Film Council activities; assessment of campus facilities
in film. |
| 1989-95 |
Writer, editor, and
original designer for IN FOCUS, the newsletter of the Interdepartmental
Program in Film Studies. |
| 1994-98 |
Co-organizer of five
Annual Multicultural Film Festivals at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst and the Five Colleges. Distinguished filmmakers and video
artists, film scholars and cultural critics from around the world
were featured each spring semester. Primary responsibilities included
grant writing and programming. |
| 2/94-8/94 |
Administrative Assistant
for the Five College Summer Institute in Media Literacy, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst Responsibilites
included: coordination of publicity and registration; budget programming;
advising of institute participants. |
| 9/93-12/93 |
Research Assistant and translator
to Joyce Berkman, Professor of History at the University
of Massachusetts; translation and interpretation of letters by
German Jewish philosopher
Edith Stein.
|
| 1989-91 |
Assistant to the Director
of the Center for Studies in Contemporary Culture,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst (the Film Studies Program
was a part of the Center until
l991). Responsibilities included: coordination of international
conferences "What's Left of
the Left" and "Design in the l990s"; organization of a speaker
series on issues of contemporary culture. |
| 6/91-8/91 |
Bibliographic
research assistant to Catherine Portuges, Professor of Comparative
Literature at the University of Massachusetts. Project: Screen
Memories: The Hungarian Cinema of Marta Meszaros (Indiana University
Press, 1993). |
| 6/90-8/90 |
Research Assistant to Catherine
Portuges; bibliographical research on Colette for Fifty
French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook,
ed. Eva Sartori and Dorothy
Zimmerman (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991)
|
A c a d e m i c S
e r v i c e
| 2000- |
Manuscript reader for
MELUS: Multiethnic Literature of the United States |
| 2000- |
Co-organizer of the
Visual Studies Group, Hampshire College |
| 2000- |
Co-organizer of the
Teaching Writing Workshop for HACU faculty members at Hampshire
College |
| 1999- |
Member, Five College
Film Council Committee |
| 1999- |
Member, Planning committee
for Revision of the Third World Expectation, Hampshire College |
| 1999- |
Center for the Book
Faculty Discussion Group, Hampshire College |
| 1999- |
Member, HACU Curriculum
Committee, Hampshire College |
| 1998 |
Member, Search Committee
for Film/Photo Replacement Faculty Position, Hampshire College |
| 1995- |
Member, Cultural Studies
Committee, Hampshire College |
| 1989-95 |
Member, Film Studies
Committee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| 1988-89 |
Member, Film Studies
Planning Committee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| 1988 |
Graduate Student Affairs
Coordinator, Comparative Literature Department, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst |
| 1987 |
Graduate Student Member,
Search Committee, Comparative Literature Department, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| 1986 |
Representative of the
Department of Comparative Literature to the Graduate Student
Senate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
H o n o r s & Aw
a r d s
| 2000 |
NEH Summer Faculty Development
Grant, Hampshire College |
| 1999 |
NEH Summer Faculty Development
Grant, Hampshire College |
| 1998 |
Participant
in NEH Focus Grant awarded to the School of Humanities, Arts and
Cultural Studies for a Faculty Seminar on Rethinking the Humanities
|
| 1993-97 |
Grants from the Massachusetts
Foundation for the Humanities, Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts,
the Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Dean of the Graduate
School, the University Arts Council, the Student Affairs Cultural
Enrichment Fund; and the Chancellor's Taskforce on Civility for
Multicultural Film Festivals (principal grant writer, project assistant
and coordinator). |
| 1990 |
Departmental Nomination
for University Fellowship
Comprehensive Examination passed with Distinction |
| 1988 |
Qualifying Examination
passed with Distinction |
| 1984-85 |
Stipend for Freiburg/UMass,
Arnherst Exchange Program from the University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| 1984 |
Fulbright Travel Grant |
| 1983-84 |
Scholarship from the
Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, Germany |
| 1981 |
Strasbourg Prize for
Best Essay on French-German Cultural Exchange from the F.V.S.
Foundation in Hamburg, Germany/Strasbourg, France
Topic: A comparative analysis
of Lessing's and La Fontaine's Fables |
P r o f e s s i o n
a l M e m b e r s h i p s
Modern Language Association
Society for Cinema Studies Association
American Comparative Literature
Association
Association for Psychoanalysis
of Society and Culture
L a n g u a g e s
German: native language; French
R
e f e r e n c e s
Catherine Portuges, Professor of Comparative
Literature and Director of the Interdepartmental Program
in Film Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Mary Russo, Dean of Humanities, Arts
and Cultural Studies and Professor of Literature and Critical
Theory, Hampshire College, Amherst.
Barton Byg, Associate Professor of Germanic
Languages and Literatures, Herter Hall, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
David Lenson, Professor of Comparative
Literature, South College, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Roswitha Mueller, Professor Emerita,
Department of French, Italian and Comparative Literature, University
of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
D o s s i e r
Available upon request.
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