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Rebecca Romanow

Department:
English
Title:
Senior Lecturer II
Location:
Wheatley Hall Floor 06

Degrees

PhD, University of Rhode Island

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • The Postcolonial Body in Queer Space and Time. Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, England, August, 2006. (Paperback release, Fall, 2008).
  • “Refusing Migrant Subjectivity: Alternative Time and Space in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia.” Indiscretions: At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory. Ed. Murat Aydemir. Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex, and 'Race'. Series Ed. Ernst van Alphen. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. (July, 2011).
  • “Turtles Can Fly: Invasion, Influence and Inevitability Along the Frontier.” Projecting Words, Writing Images: Intersections of the Literary and the Visual in American Cultural Practice. Ed. Mark Paryz and John R. Leo. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. (forthcoming, October, 2011).
  • “But...Can the Subaltern Sing?” republished by invitation in Subaltern Studies, April, 2008.
  • But...Can the Subaltern Sing?” Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture. CLC Webjournal. July, 2005.
  • “Kielen poispyyhkiminen rockmusiikin globalisoitumisessa Sigur Rós ja hopelandicin poliittisuus” (“The Erasure of Language in the Globalization of Rock Music: Sigur Ros and the Politics of Hopelandic”). Trans. Mikko Jakonen. Megafoni (Finland). 19 Nov 2003.
  • “The Erasure of Language in the Globalization of Rock Music: Sigur Ros and the Politics of Hopelandic.” Politics and Culture (2003). Vol. 3 July, 2003.

Additional Information

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Twenty-first century World film; Low-tech film; The Middle-Eastern Youth film

Recent Conference Presentations & Guest Lectures

  • March, 2013: “Participatory Culture and Fan Fiction: Literature From iPhones and Twitter.”
  • 2013:  “Facebook Fiction, Twitter Literature, and the Cellphone Novel Roundtable." Northeastern MLA, Boston, MA. 
  • September, 2011: Projecting Words, Writing Images.  Read/Write Series.  University of Rhode Island. (Invited)
  • April, 2011: “The End of the Bush Years and the Films of 2007: Powerlessness, Plague, and Politics.”  Cinema and Demos.  Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA
  • October, 2010: “History of Indian Film.” Guest Lecture. University of Rhode Island.
  • September, 2010: “Turtles Can Fly: Invasion, Influence and Inevitability Along the Frontier.”  Guest Lecture (twice).  University of Rhode Island.

Courses Taught

  • ENGL 101: Composition I
  • ENGL 102: Composition II
  • ENGL 181G: 21st Century Youth in Novels and Film
  • ENGL 200: Understanding Literature
  • ENGL 201: Five British Authors
  • ENGL 258: World Cinema
  • ENGL 262G: Art of Literature
  • ENGL 324: The Short Story
  • ENGL 329: Narrative Forms in Novels and Film
  • HON 101: 21st Century Writing