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gellertl@grinnell.edu
Campus Phone: 
9808
EKI Asst. Prof. of Film Theory and History; English
On-Campus Address: 
Mears Cottage 116
Education / Degrees: 
Ph.D., Literatures in English, Rutgers University; Certification in Women's & Gender Studies
M.A., English, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign; Certification in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; Certification in Cinema Studies
B.A., English and Women's Studies, University of California - Santa Cruz
Primary Academic Interest: 
Film theory, history and aesthetics; feminist and queer theory
Other Academic Interests: 
Critical theory
Cultural studies
Popular Culture
American and East Asian cinemas
Teaching Research Curriculum Vita
Link to Film Studies courses and related programs

Theresa L. Geller joined the Grinnell faculty as its first film specialist through the Expanding Knowledge Initiative (EKI), which was implemented to further enhance interdisciplinary learning. http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/dean/eki  Professor Geller teaches courses in film and media studies, literary and critical theory, and feminist and queer studies. Her research interests include film history, continental philosophy, queer theory, film genre, cultural studies, and feminist film theory. She has published in such journals as Senses of Cinema, Rhizomes,and Biography, and has chapters in the scholarly anthologies Gender After Lyotard and East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film. Her current book project, Generic Subversions: Deformations of Character in Popular Cinema, examines the subversive possibilities of contemporary genre film employing the methodological tools of cultural studies and queer epistemology.