Rebecca Romanow
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