Critical Studies Adds Faculty

Critical Studies Chair Tara McPherson reports several new faculty who will be teaching this year, including Professor Akira Lippit (who is also part of the Department of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies).  He comes from UC California-Irvine and will teach the avant garde graduate seminar this fall.  Here for the year is Visiting Associate Professor Vicki Callahan, whose expertise is in French cinema, new media, and feminism.  She is the author of  "Zones of Anxiety" and is from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is teaching History of International Cinema and Seminar in Film Theory. 

Joining her will be two visiting Assistant Professors—Osa Hidalgo de la Riva and Dan Leopard, both recent graduates of the Ph.D. Program.  Visiting Assistant Professor Jennifer Holt (from UCLA) returns for her second year to teach Introduction To Television and Video and Film and Television Genres.