Rashna Richards joined the English department as Assistant Professor and Director of Film Studies in 2008. Her teaching and research interests include American film history, critical theory, transnational cultural studies, and visual culture. Her work on film history and theory has appeared in Framework, Criticism, Film Criticism, and Arizona Quarterly. She is currently completing a book on rethinking cinephilia as a critical approach to classical Hollywood cinema. Vita (PDF) September 2009
Ph.D., English (Film and Media Studies), University of Florida, 2006
M.A., English, West Virginia University, 2001
M.A., English, University of Mumbai, India, 1999
B.S., Business, Narsee Monjee College, India, 1997
English 202 - Introduction to Cinema
English 241 - History and Criticism of American Cinema
English 381 - Tough Guys, Dangerous Dames, and Streets with No Name: American Film Noir
English 381 - The Good Old Days: Fifties American Cinema
English 381 - From Hollywood to Bollywood and Halfway Back Again: Cross-Cultural Remakes and Transnational Media Flows
Articles
"Unsynched: The Contrapuntal Sounds of Luis Buñuel′s L′Age d′Or." Film Criticism 33.2 (2008-09): 23-43.
"Loose Ends: The Stuff That Movies Are Made of." Arizona Quarterly 63.4 (2007): 83-118.
"Show-Stoppers: 1937 and the Chance Encounter with Chiffons." Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 48.2 (2007): 84-110.
"So Many Fragments, So Many Beginnings, So Many Pleasures: The Neglected Detail(s) in Film Theory." Criticism 45.2 (2003): 173-95.
Short Essays and Reviews
"Nothingness, Spectacle, Cinema." Film Quarterly 61.4 (2008): 92-93.
Review of Mira Nair′s The Namesake. Scope 10 (2008).
"Re-Viewing Cinephilia: The Movement and the Moment." Politics and Culture 1 (2006).
"Humphrey Bogart." Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. Eds. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. 95-96.