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Department of English
Dr. Rashna Wadia Richards
Department of English
Office: Hartwell 201B
Phone: (585) 395-5830
Email: rrichard@brockport.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Film and Media Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2006
M.A., English, West Virginia University, Morgantown, 2001
M.A., English, University of Mumbai, India, 1999
B.Com., Business, Narsee Monjee College, Mumbai, India, 1997
Research and Teaching Interests:
• Film History, especially Classical and Contemporary Hollywood
• Film Theory and Aesthetics
• Cinephilia
• Indian Diasporic Cinema
• Bollywood Cinema and Postcolonial Studies
• Critical Theory
• American Literature and Culture, 20th and 21st Century
Publications:
“Nothingness, Spectacle, Cinema.” Film Quarterly (forthcoming).
Review of Mira Nair's The Namesake. Scope (forthcoming).
“Loose Ends: The Stuff That Movies Are Made of.” Arizona Quarterly (forthcoming).
“Show-Stoppers: 1937 and the Chance Encounter with Chiffons.” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 48.2 (2007): 84-110.
“Re-Viewing Cinephilia: The Movement and the Moment.” Politics and Culture 1 (2006). Available online at: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/.
“So Many Fragments, So Many Beginnings, So Many Pleasures: The Neglected Detail(s) in Film Theory.” Criticism 45.2 (2003): 173-95.
“Humphrey Bogart.” Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. Eds. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. 95-96.
Review of Thomas Cartelli’s Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations. SRASP 24 (2001): 77-79.
Awards and Honors:
Alumni Fellowship, The University of Florida 2001-2005
Outstanding Academic Accomplishment, the University of Florida International Center, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Stephen F. Crocker Scholarship, West Virginia University, 1999-2001
Silver Medal, Rare Achievements Category, Zoroastrian Student-Teacher Association (ZOSTA), 2000
A. S. Dalal Research Fund Prize, K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 1999
Outstanding Research Award, Department of English, University of Mumbai, 1999
Courses Taught:
American Film Noir
Classical Hollywood is Dead. Long Live Classical Hollywood!
Hollywood Outsiders: Allen and Scorsese
The Poetics of Exile: Cinema and the Indian Diaspora
Women and Film
Film Theory and Criticism
Documentary Film and Video
Critical Approaches to Literature
College Composition: Writing in the Visual Age
