EDUCATION

Ph.D., English and Film Studies, Lehigh University, May 2004.

M.A., English, Colorado State University, August 1997.

B.A., English and Philosophy, University of Delaware, May 1994. Cum Laude.

PUBLICATIONS

            BOOKS

Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of Radical Film Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.

                SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

PEER REVIEWED

“‘Because I Hate Fathers, and I Never Wanted to Be One’: Wes Anderson, Entitled

Masculinity, and the ‘Crisis’ of the Patriarch.” American Movie Masculinity. Ed. Tim Shary. Detroit: Wayne State Press. Forthcoming Spring 2011.

“The Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War and U.S. Left Film Criticism.” Framework 51., no. 1 (Spring 2010): 79-107.

“Taking Hollywood Back: The Historical Costume Drama, the Bio-Pic, and Popular Front U.S. Film Criticism.” Cinema Journal 48, no. 2 (Winter 2009): 70-87.

“Revolting Women: The Role of Gender in Sergei Eisenstein’s Que Viva Mexico! and

                American Depression-Era Left Film Criticism.” Jump Cut 48 (Winter 2006):

                <http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/QueVivaMexico/index.html>.

“Eisenstein Abroad: The Que Viva Mexico! Debates and the Emergent Popular Front in U.S. Film Theory and Criticism.” The Velvet Light Trap 54 (Fall 2004): 18-31.

“Saint Mazie: A Socialist-Feminist Understanding of Film in Tillie Olsen’s Yonnondio: From The Thirties.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 25 (2004): 162-77.

“In Search of Burkittsville.”  Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch

Controversies. Ed. Sarah Higley.  Detroit: Wayne State Press, January 2004: 217-28.

“Pop Avant-Garde: A Critical Inquiry into the Various Performances of Sonic Youth.” 

Enculturation 2 (Spring 1999): < http://www.uta.edu/huma/enculturation>.

NON-PEER REVIEWED

                                                “Be the Media: The Current State of Activist Media and the Work of Franklin

López.” Pop Matters.<http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/129560-be-the-media-the-current-state-of-activist-media-and-the-work-of-fra/>, 12 November 2010: 20 pages.

FILM REVIEWS

“B-Movie Billionaires.” Review of Casino Jack. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/139611-casino-jack/>, 18 April 2011.

“The Haunting of Lars von Trier in Anti-Christ.” Review of Anti-Christ. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/133771-anti-christ/>, 24 November 2010.

“The Grapes of Wrath: The Specter of Tom Joad Emerges from America’s Dark Past, Once Again.” Review of The Grapes of Wrath. Pop Matters.  <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/131727-the-grapes-of-wrath-the-populist-rhetoric-that-still-haunts-us-cinem/>, 7 October 2010.

“The Art of Prostitution.” Review of Vivre Sa Vie. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/123750-vivre-sa-viemy-life-to-live>, 19 April 2010.

Review of Che: Parts One and Two. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/119634-che-part-one-and-two/>, 12 February 2010.

“Where the Wild Things Were.” Review of Jackass: The Lost Tapes. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/114730-jackass-the-lost-tapes/>, 30 October 2009.

“Forbidden Hollywood’s William Wellman: The Forgotten Man.” Review of Forbidden Hollywood, Vol. 3. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/72170-forbidden-hollywoods-william-wellman-the-forgotten-man/>, 21 May 2009.

“The Institution.” Review of State Legislature. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/70429-state-legislature>, 27 February 2009.

“Democratic Vistas.” Review of The Robert Frank Collection. Pop Matters.

<http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/62327/robert-frank-the-complete-film-works-volumes-1-2-3/>, 29 August 2008.

“Sculpting through Movement.” Review of Satantango. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/61727/satantango/>, 8 August, 2008.

Review of 30 Days: Season 2. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/61033/30-days-season-2/>, 25 July 2008.

“Agnés Varda: Gleaning the Dispossessed.” Review of 4 by Agnés Varda. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/53634/gleaning-the-dispossessed/>, 19 March 2008.

“Unforgettable.” Review of Killer of Sheep. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/film/reviews//50836/killer-of-sheep>, 30 November 2007.

“Prophets Without Honor.” Review of The Spaghetti West.  Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/film/reviews//46933/the-spaghetti-west>, 14 August 2007.

“A People’s Historian.” Review of Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/41752/a-peoples-historian/>, 9 July 2007.

“Occupy, Resist, Produce.” Review of The Take. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/39274/occupy-resist-and-produce>, 7 June 2007.

“Children of the Revolution.” Review of The Revolution Trilogy. Pop Matters. <http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/11826/children-of-the-revolution/>, 10 April 2007.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Florida Atlantic University, 2004-Present

Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, 2011-present

Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, 2004-2011

Film to The 1940’s

Film Since The 1940’s

Film Criticism

Film Theory (undergraduate and graduate)

Introduction to Film

Radical Film, New Media, and Social Movements

Hollywood, Censorship, and Regulation

Historiography and the Archaeology of Film & Media Studies (graduate)

Lehigh University, 1999-2004

English Instructor

Depression-Era Hollywood Film

The Sixties

Paranoia in Film and Literature

Narratives of Rebellion

            Space and Place

The Individual and Modernity

Oliver Stone’s America

African-American Literature

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS

“Ground Noise and Static: The Anarchist Media of Franklin López.” Society for Cinema

and Media Studies. New Orleans, LA, Spring 2011.

“The Archive and Materializing Cultural Studies.”  Modernist Studies Association.

Victoria, B.C., Fall 2010. Seminar.

“The Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War and U.S. Left Film Culture.” Modernist Studies

Association. Victoria, B.C., Fall  2010. Panel Chair.

“Is Anybody Watching?: The Legacy of Indymedia and the Failure of the Academy.”

Union for Democratic Communications. State College, PA, Fall 2010.

“Towards a Radical Film Theory: The Transnational Origins of U.S. Left Film Theory

and Criticism.” Union for Democratic Communications. Buffalo, NY, Summer 2009.

“Towards a Radical Film Theory: The Transnational Origins of U.S. Left Film Theory

and Criticism.” Modernist Studies Association. Nashville, TN, Fall 2008. Panel Co-Chair.

                                “Screening Race: The Anti-Lynching Film, the Black Press, and U.S. Popular Front Film

Criticism.” Cultural Studies Association. NYU, New York, NY, Summer 2008.

                                “Screening Race: U.S. Popular Front Film Criticism, State Terror, and the Anti-Lynching

Film.” The Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Philadelphia, PA, Spring 2008. Panel Co-Chair.

“Gendered Histories: The Historical Costume Drama, the Bio-Pic, and Depression-Era U.S. Left Film Criticism.” The Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, IL, Spring 2007.

“An Esthetic of Spaghetti: Third Cinema and the Italian Western.” Popular Culture/American Culture Association. Boston, MA, Spring 2007.

“Out of the Ashes and Into the Academy: Visiting Assistant Professors, Academic Labor, and the Myth of Tenure.” Popular Culture/ American Culture Association. Boston, MA, Spring 2007. Roundtable Moderator.

“Bullets and Babies: The Role of Gender in Sergei Eisenstein’s Que Viva Mexico! and American Depression-Era Left Film Criticism.” The Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Vancouver, British Columbia, Spring 2006.

“‘Because I Hate Fathers, and I Never Wanted to Be One: Wes Anderson, Damaged Men, and the ‘Crisis’ of the Patriarch.” Popular Culture/American Culture Association. Atlanta, GA, Spring 2006. Panel Chair.

“Exploring Narrative Violence: Images of Columbine in Bowling For Columbine and Elephant.” Popular Culture/American Culture Association. New Orleans, LA, Fall 2004.

“Hollywood Modernism: The Promises and Threats of Mass Culture.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Pittsburgh, PA, Spring 2004. Panel Chair.

"Thunder Over Hollywood: Film Theory, Politics, and Mass Culture." Popular Culture/American Culture Association. New Orleans, LA, Spring 2003.

"The Silent Majority: Encouraging Graduate Students to Speak Out." Why We Write: The Politics and History of Writing for Social Change. Columbia University, NY, Spring 2003.

INVITED LECTURES

“Beneath the Cobblestones, The Beach: Reimagining a Radical and Relevant

Humanities.” The Wayne McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Distinguished Speakers Series. Monmouth University, West Long Branch , NJ, Spring 2011.

UNIVERSITY RELATED

Director’s Spotlight. Franklin López Screening and Discussion of END:CIV, Florida

Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Spring 2011.

Screening and Discussion of Lorna’s Silence, The Tournées Festival, Dept. of

Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Florida Atlantic University,

Boca Raton, Spring 2011

Screening and Discussion of Eat, For This Is My Body, Haitian Film Series,

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fall 2010.

Session Chair. “Films of Eastern and Central Europe: A New School?,” 1989 Revisited: Lessons from Two Decades of Democratic Transition in Eastern and Central Europe, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fall 2009.

Screening and Discussion of Good Bye, Lenin, 1989 Revisited: Lessons from Two Decades of Democratic Transition in Eastern and Central Europe, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fall 2009.

“The Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War and U.S. Left Film Culture,” Contentious Politics and Society Seminar, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fall 2009.

Screening and Discussion of Salt of the Earth, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Sociocinema, Spring 2009.

Screening and Discussion of Michael Moore’s Slacker Uprising, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fall 2008. Organizer.

“Screening Race: The Anti-Lynching Film, the Black Press, and U.S. Popular Front Film Criticism,” School of Communication and Multimedia Studies Colloquium, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fall 2008.

“Popular Culture,” The Second Annual South Florida Undergraduate Communication Honors Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Spring 2008. Session Chair.

“Embedded Cinema: The Limits of Commercial Film in a Terrorized World,” Teach-In

                On the Iraq War, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fall 2007.

“‘Because I Hate Fathers, and I Never Wanted to Be One’: Wes Anderson, Entitled Masculinity, and the ‘Crisis”of the Patriarch.” Post-Trauma: Violence, Trauma, and Moral Repair, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Spring 2006.

“‘Recovering’ Mass Culture: A Historical Materialist Approach to Interdisciplinary Studies.” Inter/disciplinarity: Interrogating Indentity in the 21^st Century, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Spring 2005.