Research

Publications

   Journal Articles

“The Personal Cinema of Maya Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon and Its Critical Reception in the History of the Avant-Garde.” Self-Projection and Autobiography in Film, Linda Rugg, editor. Special issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Journal 28.1 (Winter 2006): 140-158.

“The Cinematic Relations of Corporeal Feminism.” The Becoming Deleuzo-guattarian of Queer Studies, Michael O’Rourke, editor. Special Double Issue of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 11/12 (Fall 2005/ Spring 2006).  http://www.rhizomes.net/issue11/geller.html

“Queering Hollywood’s Tough Chick: The Subversions of Sex, Race, and Nation in The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Matrix.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 25.3 (2004): 8-34.

“Dorothy Arzner.” Senses of Cinema 26 (May-June 2003). http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/arzner.html

“Deconstructing Postmodern Television in Twin Peaks.” Spectator 12.2 (Spring 1992): 64-71.

   Book Chapters

“‘Each Film Was Built as a Chamber and Became a Corridor’: Maya Deren’s Film Aesthetics as Feminist Praxis.” There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond, Corinn Columpar and Sophie Mayer, editors. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 79-91.

“Transnational Noir: Style and Substance in Kaizo Hayashi’s The Most Terrible Time of My Life.” East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film, Leon Hunt, editor. London: I.B. Taurus, 2008. 172-87.

“The Film-work does not Think: Re-Figuring Fantasy for Feminist Film Theory.” Gender After Lyotard, Margret Grebowicz, editor. SUNY Series in Gender Theory. New York: SUNY Press, 2007. 139-52.

   Reference Works and Other Publications

Book Review—Critical Visions in Film Theory, Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White, and Meta Mazaj, editors. Film Criticism. Spring 2012.

“Maya Deren.” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies. Krin Gabbard, editor-in-chief. Spring 2012. http://aboutobo.com/cinema-and-media-studies/

Editorial (as Guest Editor). Film Matters: Future Film Scholars 2.4. Liza and Tim Palmer, editors-in-chief. Intellect Press. Winter 2011.

“Dorothy Arzner.” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies. Krin Gabbard, editor-in-chief. October 2011. http://aboutobo.com/cinema-and-media-studies/

“Maya Deren.” Movies and American Culture, Phillip DiMare, editor. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Books. December 2010. Invited contributor.

“Trey Ellis.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African-American Literature, Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey, editors. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005. 491-2. Invited contributor.

   Works in Progress

Generic Subversions: De-Formations of Character in Popular Cinema. Book-length manuscript.

“The Group and the Tribe: Queer Politics and Puget Sound Cinema.” Panel: Queering Puget Sound. To be presented at the Modern Language Association, Seattle, 2012.

“Trans/Affect, Monstrous Masculinities, and the Sublime Art of Lady Gaga.” Lady Gaga: Essays on Music, Performance, and Culture. Martin Iddon and Melanie L. Marshall, editors. Routledge Publishing, under review.