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Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
State University of New York
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355
(631) 632-7460
(631) 632-5707 (fax)
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EDUCATION: |
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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 |
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Professor of Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook, 1996-present
(Associate Professor, 1987-1996; Assistant Professor, 1981-1987)
Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for Jazz Study, Columbia University, 2001-present
Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Stephens College, 1979-1981
Assistant Professor, Depts. of Classics and Modern Languages, University of South
Dakota, 1977-1979 |
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Books: |
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Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture. Faber and Faber/Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2008.
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
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Edited Books: |
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Screening Genders. Rutgers University Press, 2008 (with William Luhr).
Representing Jazz. Duke University Press, 1995.
Jazz Among the Discourses. Duke University Press, 1995.
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Articles: |
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Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film, ed. Graham Lock and David
Murray. Oxford University Press. To appear in 2009.
"Struttin' With Some Brass: African American Transformations of the Trumpet."
Early Twentith-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz, and Other Popular Traditions,
ed. Howard T. Weiner. Scarecrow Press, 2008, 41-48.
"1998: Movies, Dying Fathers, and a Few Survivors." American Cinema of the 1990s:
Themes and Variations, ed. Chris Holmlund. Rutgers University Press, 2008, pp. 203-
224.
"The Jazz Actor in the Racial Matrix." The American Psychoanalyst 41:4 (2007): 21 - 39.
"White Face, Black Noise: Miles Davis and the Soundtrack." Beyond the
Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema, ed. Daniel Goldmark, et al.
University of California Press, 2007, pp. 260-276
"'What Does the Eye Demand?': Sexuality, Forbidden Vision and Embodiment in
Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy." From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings", ed. Ernest Mathijs and Murray Pomerance. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, pp. 265-281. (With Ruth Goldberg)
"Miles Davis and the Soundtrack of Modernity." Cinema and Modernity, ed. Murray
Pomerance. Rutgers University Press, 2006, pp. 155-174.
"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. Wesleyan University Press, 2004, pp. 298-318.
"Paris Blues: Ellington, Armstrong, and Saying It With Music." Uptown
Conversations: The New Jazz Studies, ed. Robert G. O'Meally, et al.
Columbia University Press, 2004, pp. 297-311.
"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.
Routledge, 2003, pp. 121-32.
"The Word Jazz" and "Images of Jazz." The Cambridge Companion to Jazz, ed.
Merwyn Cooke and David Horn. 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
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 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. 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 Brophy. North Ryde, Australia: Australian Film Television and Radio School, 2001, pp. 149-67.
"'Someone's Got to Pay': Resurgent White Masculinity in Ransom." Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture, ed. Peter Lehman. 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. SUNY Press, 2001, pp. 233-47.
"Race and Reappropriation: Spike Lee Meets Aaron Copland." American Music
18.4 (2000): 370-90. Rpt. in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, ed. Judy Lochhead and Joseph Auner. Routledge, 2002, pp. 303-21, and in The Spike Lee Reader, ed. Paula Massood. Temple University Press, 2008, 175-95.
"Kansas City Dreaming: Robert Altman=s Jazz History Lesson." Music and Cinema,
ed. James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer. Westport: Wesleyan
University Press, 2000, pp. 142-57.
"Evidence: Thelonious Monk as Documentary Subject." Black Music Research
Journal 19.2 (1999): 207-25.
"Actor and Musician: Louis Armstrong and his Films." The Louis Armstrong
Companion: Eight Decades of Commentary, ed. Joshua Berrett. New York: Schirmer, 1999, pp. 201-233. (Reprint of a chapter from Jammin' at the Margins.)
"Reel Collection: Notes on the Cinematic Depiction of Memory."
Psyart: A Hyperlink Journal for Psychological Study of the Arts, 1999. (With Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D.)
"The Ethnic Oedipus: The Jazz Singer and Its Remakes." Play It Again, Sam: Retakes
on Remakes, ed. Andrew Horton and Stuart Y. McDougal. University of California Press, 1998, pp. 95-114.
"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. Rpt. in Psyart:A Hyperlink Journal for Psychological Study of the Arts, 1997.
"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. 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 in Literature 21.3
(1989): 13-24.
"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.
"The Science Fiction Film and Psychoanalysis: Alien and Melanie Klein's Night
Music." Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature and Film, ed. Maurice Charney and Joseph Reppen. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1987, pp. 171-80. (With Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.)
"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 Quarterly 10 (1982): 150-54.
"Altman's 3 Women: Sanctuary in the Dream World." Literature/Film Quarterly
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.)
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Reviews: |
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Cadillac Records (2008; directed by Darnell Martin). Journal of American History 96.1 (June 2009): 323-324.
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006; directed by Sophie Fiennes, written by and
starring Slavoj Zizek). Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind 1.2
(Winter 2007): 101-108.
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race,
1903-1967, by Susan Courtney (Princeton University Press, 2005). Film
Quarterly 60.1 (Fall 2006): 66-67.
Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris, by Jeffrey H. Jackson
(Duke University Press, 2003). Contemporary French Civilization 29.1 (2005): 172-74.
Jazz Noir: Listening to Music from Phantom Lady to The Last Seduction, by David
Butler (Praeger, 2002). Genre 37.2 (2004): 344-46.
What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and
Activists, by Eric Porter (University of California 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 (Temple
University 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.
A Great Day in Harlem (1996; directed by Jean Bach). Journal of Musicological
Research 16.4 (1997): 321-26.
Kansas City (1996; directed by Robert Altman). American Historical Review
(October 1997): 1274-75.
Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy, ed. Marc H. Miller (University of
Washington Press, 1995). African American Review 30.2 (1996): 306-08.
The Quick 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 Quarterly 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). New 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
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Other Publications: |
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"Il jazz de 'Friz' Freleng" and "Guardalo per dieci centesimi: Il jazz nei soundies."
Il Secolo del jazz, ed. Daniel Soutif (Milano: Skira, 2008): 151-155, 203-209.
Trans. "Le jazz de 'Friz' Freleng" and "Dix cents le film: Le jazz dans les
soundies." Le Siècle du jazz, ed. Daniel Soutif (Paris: Skira Falmmarion, 2009):
151-155, 203-209. (Italian and French translations of my essays for a museum catalogue.)
"A Jazzman Reborn." Chronicle of Higher Education 55.3 (Sept 12, 2008): B16-17.
"Charles Mingus's Changes." Jazz Times (September 2005): 70-71.
"Cinema and Media Studies: Snapshot of an 'Emerging' Discipline." Chronicle of
Higher Education 52.24 (Feb 17, 2006): B14-15.
"Shrinks Duel for Cable Prestige as Showtime 'Huff's at 'The Sopranos.'" Chronicle of
Higher Education 51.11 (Nov. 8, 2004): B14-16.
"John Wayne." Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical
Encyclopedia, ed. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2004: II, 819-821.
"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, DC: Library of Congress, 2002, pp. 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 (Feb. 15, 2002):
B20.
"Jazz Canon," "Jazz: Etymology," and "Jazz and Film: Cultural Meanings." Entries
in The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition. London and New York: Macmillan, 2002, pp. I:380-82, I:798-801, II:389-93.
"A Roundtable on Ken Burns'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):
B17-19.
"Ken Burns's 'Jazz': Beautiful Music, but Missing a Beat." Chronicle of Higher
Education 47.16 (Dec. 15, 2000): B18-19.
"Louis Armstrong's Life As a Man." Chronicle of Higher Education 46.43 (June 30,
2000): B9-B10.
"Therapy's 'Talking Cure' Still WorksBin Hollywood." Chronicle of Higher Education
46.23 (Feb. 11, 2000): B9-B10.
"Celebrity According to Woody." CultureFront 8.3-4 (1999): 18-22, 76-77.
"Innocence Lost: American Movies Revisit Jazz." Chronicle of Higher Education
46. 2 (Sept. 3, 1999): B10-B11.
"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.
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Invited Lectures: |
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"Mediating Jazz: A Mingus Among Us." Keynote Address at International Jazz Conference, University of Salford, Manchester, UK, November 2009.
"Scenes Through the Cinema Lens: From the Charleston to Hip Hop." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York, May 2009.
"Scenes Through the Cinema Lens: The Great Jazz Pianists." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York, April 2009.
"In Treatment in Context." UCLA Conference on In Treatment and Be-Tipul.
Los Angeles, April 2009.
"Scenes Through the Cinema Lens: Kubrick's Music." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York, March 2009.
"Scenes Through the Cinema Lens: The Art of the Jazz Singer." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York, February 2009.
"Scenes Through the Cinema Lens: Mutant Musicals." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York, December 2008.
"Scenes Through the Cinema Lens: The Jazz Trumpet on Film." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York, November 2008.
"When Brothers Talk About Women." Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine. Columbia University, New York, October 2008.
"Scenes Through the Cinema Lens: Monk, Blakey, and the Small Bands." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York, October 2008.
"Lost Jazz Shrines: We Want Miles." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York,
May 2008.
"Lost Jazz Shrines: The Singers." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York,
April 2008.
"Lost Jazz Shrines: Legacies II." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York,
March 2008.
"Miles Davis and the Movies." Rhode Island College, March 2008.
"Lost Jazz Shrines: The Mingus Connection." Tribeca Performing Arts Center.
New York, February 2008.
"Miles Davis and the Movies." University of Iowa, February 2008
"Lost Jazz Shrines: Dancers." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York,
November 2007.
"Lost Jazz Shrines: Legacies." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York,
September 2007.
"Jazz on Film: Latin Jazz and Beyond." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York,
May 2007.
"Jazz on Film: Jazz Innovators." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York, April
2007.
"Jazz on Film: The Big Band Era." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York,
March 2007.
"Looking at Jazz." Kent State University, February 2007.
"Jazz on Film: The Vocalists." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York,
February 2007.
"Jane Campion and the Therapeutic Discourse." Colloquium on the films of Jane
Campion. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 2006.
"Jazz on Film: The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age." Tribeca Performing Arts
Center. New York, November 2006.
"Jazz on Film: New Orleans." Tribeca Performing Arts Center. New York, October
2006.
"Looking at Jazz." Special meeting for jazz scholars sponsored by National Video
Resources. Chicago, September 2006.
"Redeemed by Ludwig Van: Stanley Kubrick and the Art Cinema." Rider University,
March 2006.
"Writing the Jazz Life: The Many Faces of Miles Davis." University of Pittsburgh,
November 2005.
"Writing the Jazz Life: The Many Faces of Miles Davis." Duke University, October
2005.
"Struttin’ with Some Brass: African American Transformations of the Trumpet."
Institute of Jazz Studies. Rutgers University, Newark, November 2005.
"Desiring Jazz, Desiring Blackness?" Columbia University Jazz Study Group.
New York, October 2005.
"Robert Altman's Kansas City." Columbia University, New York, September 2005.
"Teaching Jazz as American Culture." Taught for one day in NEH Summer Institute
for Teachers, Washington University, St. Louis, July 2005.
"White Face, Black Noise: Miles Davis and the Soundtrack." Texas A&M
University, December 2004.
"White Face, Black Noise: Miles Davis and the Soundtrack." University of Hawaii,
November 2004.
"Writing the Jazz Life: The Many Faces of Miles Davis." Criss Cross (Conference on
Jazz and Culture). Nottingham (England) University, June 2004.
"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: Revising the Latency Stage Western." Washington (D.C.)
Psychoanalytic 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 Psychoanalytic 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 20th 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.
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Conference Papers: |
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"The Vanishing Love Song in Film Noir." Music/Film/Sound Symposium.
Syracuse University, October 2009.
"Malle Meets Miles: Jazzing the French Cinema." UCLA Conference on
Music and Film. Los Angeles, March 2009.
"Malle Meets Miles: Jazzing the French Cinema." European Cinema Research
Forum. Dublin, Ireland, July 2008.
"Bolden’s Brass: The Cornet and the Invention of Jazz." Historic Brass Society.
New Orleans, July 2008.
"The Circulation of Homo-Erotic Desire in Troy and 300." Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Philadelphia, March 2008.
"Preaching with Brass: The Cornet, Early Jazz, and the Evangelical Connection."
International Musicological Society. Zurich, July 2007
"Regendering the Trumpet." Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, March 2007.
"Art in a New York Minute: Kirchheimer's Stations of the Elevated." Society for
American Music. Chicago, March 2006.
"Writing the Jazz Life: The Many Faces of Miles Davis." Society for Cinema and
Media Studies. Vancouver, British Columbia, March 2006.
"Racing the Life, Sexing the Subject: Miles Davis's Autobiography." Cultural Studies
Association. Tucson, Arizona, April 2005.
"Autobiography as Masquerade: The Many Faces of Miles Davis." Experience Music
Project. Seattle, Washington, April 2005.
"Last Jazz Hero: Johnny Staccato and the Domestication of Night Life." Society for
Cinema and Media Studies, London (UK), March 2005.
"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 Conference
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: Millennial 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."
Screen Studies Conference. Glasgow, Scotland, June 2001.
"Pomo-Crypto-Afro: White Racial Politics in Pleasantville and The Talented Mr.
Ripley." Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film.
Tallahassee, January 2001.
"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.
"Synaesthesizing 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.
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Panels Chaired at Conferences:
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"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, December 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.
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Community Service: |
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"Some Like it Hot."
Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine Film Night. New York, February 2009.
"Publishing at a Trade Press." Stony Brook Graduate Student Conference.
February 2007.
"The Notorious Bettie Page." Great Neck Art Center, Long Island, April 2006.
"The Battle of Algiers." Belleport Public Library, Belleport, Long Island, May 2005.
"The Jazz Singer and Cinema History." Sutton Place Synagogue, New York City.
March 2005.
"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.
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NATIONAL OFFICE: |
| 2006-2007 | Consultant, National Video Resources |
| 2006- | Editorial Board, Jazz Perspectives |
| 2006- | Editorial Board, Projections: Movies and the Mind |
| 2006- | Editorial Board, Music and the Moving Image |
| 2005-2006 | Chair, Program Committee, 2006 Conference of Society for Cinema and Media Studies |
| 2004- | Editorial Board, Popular Music History |
| 2003-2006 | Member, Executive Council, Society for Cinema and Media Studies |
| 2001- 2002 | President, MLA Division on Film Studies |
| 1999 | Society for Cinema Studies committee to choose best dissertation in Cinema Studies |
| 1995-1998 | Editorial Board, Cinema Journal |
| 1994-2006 | 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 |
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COURSES TAUGHT: |
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Graduate: |
Classical Tradition
Comparative Literature Methodology
Film and Narrative Theory
Film Theory/Literary Theory
History of Comedy
History of Literary Theory, Plato to Kant
Introduction to Cultural Studies
Music and Cinema
Philosophy and Literature
Popular Culture and Critical Theory
Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Film
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Undergraduate: |
American Pluralism in Literature and Film
Cinema and Cultural Theory
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
Miles Davis and American Culture
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
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HONORS AND AWARDS: |
| 2005 | Black Magic finalist for award by Music Librarians Association |
| 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.
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UNIVERSITY SERVICE AT SUNY, STONY BROOK |
| 2006-2008 | Program Director, “Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures,” 3-Day
Conference at Humanities Institute at Stony Brook. |
| 2007 | Participant, Roundtable Discussion on the T.A. Experience |
| 2006-2008 | Chair, Steering Committee for Conference on Jazz at the Humanities
Institute at Stony Brook |
| 2000-2001 | Member, Search committee for chair of Asian and Asian American
Studies Department |
| 1999-2000 | Chair, Search committee for Associate Director of the Writing Program |
| 1999 | 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 |
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DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE AT SUNY, STONY BROOK |
| 2008- | Chair, Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies |
| 2007- 2008 | Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literary
And Cultural Studies |
| 2007 | Chair, Search committee for assistant professor of digital media |
| 2006-2007 | Chair, Search committee for junior position in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies |
| 2004-2006 | Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literary and
Cultural Studies |
| 2003-2004 | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Comparative
Literature |
| 1996-2002 | Chair, Department of Comparative Literature |
| 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, Department of Comparative Literature |
| 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 |
| 1982-1989 | 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 |
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OTHER ACTIVITIES: |
| 2005- | Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and
Interdisciplinary Interpretation (previously held same position
1995 - 1998) |
| 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
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