News:
For 2009-2010, I will serve as Director of
the College Scholars Program (CSP) at Case.
http://www.case.edu/artsci/scholars/2009redesign/index.html
In June (2010), I’ll spend one month
at the Can Serrat writing center near Barcelona,
thanks to a partial stipend
http://www.canserrat.org
Also, I will serve as co-coordinator/instructor
of a Bioethics and Film study-tour to Barcelona
and San Sebastián, Spain,in May (2010),
in conjunction with the Dept. of Bioethics
in the Medical School
“Perspectives on the Art of Healing
in Spanish Cinema”
http://www.case.edu/med/bioethics/international-2.htm
Forthcoming:
“Kore-eda's Ocean Views" in POST
SCRIPT (special issue on Kore-eda Hirokazu,
forthcoming)
“Kagemusha/The Shadow Warrior”
and “In Xanadu” in Puppetry International special issue on shadow theatre
Recent Events:
- "Spanish Filmmakers Link with Japan,"
Orientalismos conference, Florida International University,
Miami (April 2009)
- Conference presentation: "Searching
for the Absent Voice: Wandering through Silence
in the Films of Lacuesta and Guerín,
Catalan Documentary Film Series and Conference,
Stanford Humanities Institute (November 2008)
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- Conference presentation: "Erice's
Songs" at the Third International Conference
on Latin American and Iberian Cinema, University
of Hawaii (October 2008)
Recently published:
“A Buñuel Scrapbook: The Last
Script, Remembering Luis Buñuel and Calanda: 40 Years Later”” in Senses of Cinema (51, online, 2009)
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/09/51/last-script-bunuel-calanda.html
“Notes of a Zahorí,” Proteus (April 2009)
- Prose poem "Buster Keaton Takes a Walk"
in The Bitter Oleander 15:1 (2009): 28-31.
- (Firma Invitada) "Narrow Margins at
Play [Estrechos márgines en juego],"
in Cahiers du Cinema España : 19 (Jan.
2009, in Spanish): 69.
- Sansho the Bailiff (Criterion DVD); The Willow
Tree (Iranian film) in Asian Cinema 19:2
(Fall/Winter 2008): 317-322.
- A new edition of Cinematic Landscapes appeared in September!
- Online article, "Three Contemporary
Spanish Films: Landscape, Recollection, Voice,"
in Senses of Cinema. (Issue No. 46, 2008).
- Chapter, "Tampopo and Transformation,"
in Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Alistair Phillips and Julian Stringer.
Routledge (2007): 262-273.