Alexander Ian Olney, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, August 2003. M.A., English, University of South Carolina-Columbia, August 1997. B.A., English, Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), May 1995.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor of English, York College of Pennsylvania, 2011-present. Assistant Professor of English, York College of Pennsylvania, 2003-2011.
PUBLICATIONS
Book Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture. Indiana University Press: Forthcoming 2012.
Book Chapters (All Refereed) “Spanish Horror Cinema.” A Companion to the Horror Film. Ed. Harry M. Benshoff. Wiley-Blackwell: Forthcoming. “The Whip and the Body: Sex, Violence, and Performative Spectatorship in Euro-Horror S&M Cinema” Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro- Horror to American Cinema. Ed. Karen Randell and Karen Ritzenhoff. Palgrave: Forthcoming. “A la recherche d’une femme perdue: Proust through the Lens of Chantal Akerman’s La Captive.” In/Fidelity: Essays on Film Adaptation. Ed. David Kranz and Nancy Mellerski. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008: 155-171.
Articles (All Refereed)
“Unmanning
The Exorcist:
Sex, Gender and Excess in the 1970s Euro-Horror Possession Film.” “Toward an Historical Poetics of Digital Cinema.” Humanities and Technology Review 28 (2009): 85-103. “The Problem Body Politic, or ‘These Hands Have a Mind All Their Own!’: Figuring Disability in the Horror Film Adaptations of Renard’s Les mains d’Orlac.” Literature/Film Quarterly 34:4 (2006): 294-302. “Confronting the ‘Gaze of Nothingness’: History, Spectacle, and Counter-Cinema in Jean-Luc Godard’s In Praise of Love." Humanities and Technology Review 24 (2005): 31-45. “Repetition (with difference) and Ludic Deferral in the Later Films of Luis Buñuel.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 18:1 (2001): 71-82.
Editorial Introduction
“Texts,
Technologies, and Intertextualities: Film Adaptation in a Postmodern
World.”
Review Review of Guy Debord by Anselm Jappe, Quarterly Review of Film and Video 18:1 (2001): 111-116.
PRESENTATIONS (ALL REFEREED)
“Unmanning the Exorcist: Gender, Spectatorship, and the Mid-1970s Euro-Horror Possession Film.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Boston. 21 Mar. 2012. “A Trick of Visioning: Cinema as Form and Metaphor in Jack London’s Martin Eden.” Literature/Film Association Conference. Central Connecticut State University. 13 Oct. 2011.
“The Whip and the Body: Sex, Violence, and Performative Spectatorship in
Euro-Horror S&M Cinema.”
“On Exactitude in Art: Adaptation, Postmodernity, and Synecdoche, New York.” Literature/Film Association Conference. Dickinson College. 16 Oct. 2009. “‘We Are Going to Eat You!’ or, Zombies, Italian Style: Thoughts on the Thirtieth Anniversary of a Euro-Trash Horror Classic.” Southwest Texas PopularCulture and American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque. 27 Feb. 2009. “‘It’s Just Like the Sixties, Only With Less Hope’: Unsimulated Sex in Contemporary American Independent Cinema.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Philadelphia. 7 Mar. 2008. “Which Digital Cinema?: Notes on an Emerging Poetics of Digital Film Style.” Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago. 27 Dec. 2007. “Making Trouble Every Day: From Euro-Trash to a Cinema of Abjection.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Chicago. 9 Mar. 2007. “Weaving a Tangled Web of Death: Anti-Detective Fiction and the Giallo Film.” Literature/Film Association Conference. Towson University (Towson, MD). 4 Nov. 2006. “The Sincerest Form of Flattery?: Imitation in the Films of Elaine May.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Vancouver. 4 Mar. 2006. “A la recherche d’une femme perdue: Proust through the 'Post-Feminist' Lens of Chantal Akerman’s La Captive.” Literature/Film Association Conference. Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA). 15 Oct. 2005. “Cat People, Zombies, and Leopard Men: Hybridity in the Wartime Horror Films of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. San Diego. 25 Mar. 2005. “Christ and the Living Dead: Notes on Religion, Technology, and Genre Occasioned by The Passion of the Christ and Dawn of the Dead.” Humanities and Technology Association Conference on Religion and Technology. York, PA. 15 Oct. 2004. “Confronting the ‘Gaze of Nothingness’: History, Spectacle, and Counter-Cinema in Godard’s Eloge de l’amour.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Atlanta. 7 Mar. 2004. “The Problem Body Politic, or ‘These Hands Have a Mind All Their Own!’: Figuring Disability in the Horror Film Adaptations of Renard’s Les mains d’Orlac.” Literature/Film Association Conference. Towson University (Towson, MD). 15 Nov. 2003. “Hammer in Drag: Spectatorship, Performance, and Transgendered Horror in Frankenstein Created Woman and Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Minneapolis. 8 Mar. 2003. “Locating That Obscure Object of Desire: ‘Race,’ ‘Identity,’ and Post-Colonial Subjectivity in the Late Cinema of Luis Buñuel.” Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee. 1 Feb. 2003. “East Eats West: The Postcolonial Horror Films of H. Tjut Djalil.” Modern Language Association Conference. New York. 30 Dec. 2002. “The Act of ‘Speaking Nearby’: Ang Lee’s Representation of (Asian-) American History in Ride with the Devil.” Modern Language Association Conference. New York. 29 Dec. 2002. “‘What is the sound of one hand clapping?’: Reading Images of the Body in Revolt in Horror Literature and Cinema.” Association of English Graduate Students Conference. University of Southern California. 24 Mar. 2000. “The Politics of (Dis)Embodiment: Virtuality and Pre-Millennial Anxiety in the Cyber-Noir Film, 1999.” Society for Cinema Studies Conference. Chicago. 9 Mar. 2000.
INVITED SPEAKER
Faculty Panel Discussion.
“Art
Beyond Tragedy: How Artists, Musicians, Writers, and Filmmakers
Responded to 9/11.”
York College of Pennsylvania. 27 Oct. 2011. “The King in Exile: Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 2 May 2010. “From The Birth of a Nation to Precious: Race in American Cinema.” Honors Program Seminar. York College of Pennsylvania. 26 Apr. 2010. “Back to the Future: Duncan Jones’s Moon.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 6 Dec. 2009. “Tying the Room Together: The Big Lebowski and the Definition of the Cult Film.” Humanities Film Series. York College of Pennsylvania. 29 Oct. 2009. “True Lies: A Look at Documentary Film.” Key-Note Address. IRIS Film Festival (Huntingdon, PA). 19 Sept. 2009. Roundtable Discussion of Cannibal Holocaust. Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque. 26 Feb. 2009. “Look for the Silver Lining: Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 18 Jan. 2009. “Heart in a Vice: Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 21 Dec. 2008. “How to Spot a Hitchcock Movie in Ten Easy Steps.” Alumni Film Series. York College. 6 Nov. 2008.
“Quintessential Hitchcock: Thoughts on the Fiftieth Anniversary of
Vertigo.” “How Citizen Kane Saved the Horror Movie: Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People.” York Emporium (York, PA). 31 May 2008. “Back to Neverland: Tamara Jenkins’s The Savages.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 6 Apr. 2008. “Listening to The Red Violin: The Importance of Sound in Film.” Honors Program Screening. York College of Pennsylvania. 27 Mar. 2008. “Alternate Realities: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep and the African-American Experience.” Humanities Film Series. York College of Pennsylvania. 14 Feb. 2008. “Following a Train of Thought: Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 20 Jan. 2008. “Eavesdropping on History: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 9 Dec. 2007. “A Neorealist Musical: John Carney’s Once.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 4 Nov. 2007. “Reclaiming Suburban Angst: Todd Field’s Little Children.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 22 Apr. 2007. “Eternal Return: Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 18 Mar. 2007. “Elegy for a Master: Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 1 Oct. 2006. “Towards a Palestinian Cinema: Hany Abu-Assad’s Paradise Now.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 7 May 2006. “Personal Filmmaking in the Age of ‘Indiewood’ Cinema: Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale. Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 19 Feb. 2006. “Anti-Detective Cinema: Jim Jarmusch and Broken Flowers.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 15 Jan. 2006. “Future Tense: The Intersection of the Personal and the Political in Wong Kar-Wai's 2046.” Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA). 2 Oct. 2005. “A Very Expensive Movie: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement and the Current State of European Cinema.” Humanities Film Series. York College of Pennsylvania. 22 Sep. 2005. Faculty Panel Discussion of Fahrenheit 9/11. York College of Pennsylvania. 21 Oct. 2004. “Fires Were Started: Censorship, Memory, and Resistance in François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451.” Banned Books Week Series. York College of Pennsylvania. 25 Sep. 2003.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
York College of Pennsylvania Courses Designed and Taught: Special Topics in Film History and Analysis: The Cult Film, FLM 365: Spring 2012. Special Topics in Film Directors: Alfred Hitchcock, FLM 282: Fall 2011. Special Topics in Film Period: Film in the 1960s, FLM 322: Fall 2009. Special Topics in National Cinemas: French Cinema, FLM 342: Spring 2009. Independent Study: Deformity and Disability in Film, FLM 498: Spring 2009. Special Topics in Film Directors: World Directors, FLM 280: Fall 2008. Special Topics in Film History and Analysis: American Independent Film, FLM 364: Spring 2008. Literature and Film, LIT 393: Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011. Special Topics in Film Genre: Documentary Film, FLM 261: Fall 2007. Independent Study: African-American Cinema, FLM 498: Fall 2007. Honors Introduction to Film, FLM 216H: Fall 2007. Film Theory & Criticism, FLM 380: Spring 2007, Spring 2010. Independent Study: Horror Film Theory & Criticism, FLM 498: Spring 2007. Special Topics in Film Period: Classical Hollywood Cinema, FLM 321: Fall 2006. Screenwriting, WRT 377: Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2012. Special Topics in Film Directors: Women Filmmakers, FLM 281: Spring 2006. Independent Study: American Independent Cinema, FLM 498: Spring 2006. Special Topics in National Cinemas: European Cinemas, FLM 341: Fall 2005. Independent Study: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, LIT 498: Fall 2005. Film History, FLM 220: Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012. Special Topics in Film Genre: The Horror Film, FLM 260: Fall 2004, Fall 2010. Independent Study: Film Theory and Criticism, LIT 498: Fall 2004. Introduction to Film, FLM 216: Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Summer 2005, Fall 2005, Summer 2007, Fall 2007, Summer 2008, Fall 2008, Summer 2009, Fall 2009, Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Summer 2011, Fall 2011. Special Topics in Film History and Analysis: New Hollywood Cinema, FLM 363: Spring 2004. Independent Study: Gangster Cinema, LIT 498: Spring 2004. Novels Into Film, LIT 393: Fall 2003. Introduction to Film, FLM 316: Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Summer 2004. Introduction to Theatre, THE 254: Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007. Writing About Literature, WRT 200: Spring 2004. English Composition, WRT 101: Fall 2003.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Film History, Criticism, and Theory Dramatic Literature Film and Literature Critical Theory
RESEARCH INTERESTS
European Cinema The Horror Film American Independent Film Cinema in the Twentieth-Century American Literary Imagination
AWARDS AND HONORS
Summer Research Fellowship, York College of Pennsylvania, 2012. Travel Grant, York College of Pennsylvania, 2012. Sabbatical Leave, York College of Pennsylvania, Spring 2011. Summer Research Fellowship, York College of Pennsylvania, 2005.
ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Member, English Literary Studies Committee, English & Humanities Department, York College of Pennsylvania, 2011-present. Vice President, Literature/Film Association, 2009-present. Member, College-Wide Cultural Programs Committee, York College of Pennsylvania, 2007-present. Faculty Advisor, York College of Pennsylvania Film Society, York College of Pennsylvania, 2004-present. Chair, Panel 111. Literature/Film Association Conference. Central Connecticut State University. 13 Oct. 2011. Member, Theatre & Film Committee, English & Humanities Department, York College of Pennsylvania, 2007-11. Participant, Pilot ADR Assessment Study, York College of Pennsylvania, Fall 2010. Co-Editor, Special Issue of Literature/Film Quarterly (38:3), 2010. Chair, Projects & Resources Subcommittee, Faculty Development Committee, York College of Pennsylvania, 2007-10. Member, Faculty Development Committee, York College of Pennsylvania, 2005-10. Member, Film Advisory Committee, Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (York, PA), 2004-10. Member, Ad-Hoc Tenure & Promotion Process Committee, English & Humanities Department, York College of Pennsylvania, Spring 2010. Member, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Position in Performance and Dramatic Literature, York College of Pennsylvania, 2009-10. Chair, “Postmodernism on Film.” Literature/Film Association Conference. Dickinson College. 16 Oct. 2009. Member, Program Committee. Literature/Film Association Conference. Dickinson College. 15-18 Oct. 2009. Chair, “WARNING: Adult Content.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Philadelphia. 7 Mar. 2008. Member, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Position in Non-Western Theatre, York College of Pennsylvania, 2007-08. Member, Search Committee for Instructor Position in Technical Theatre, York College of Pennsylvania, 2007-08. Member, Freshman Summer Reading Program Committee, York College of Pennsylvania, 2007-08. Member, Humanities Committee, English & Humanities Department, York College of Pennsylvania, 2003-07. Chair, “European Art and Popular Cinema.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Chicago. 9 Mar. 2007. Department Representative, Spring Orientation, York College of Pennsylvania, 21 Apr. 2007. Judge, Student Film Festival, York College of Pennsylvania, 24 Apr. 2006. Member, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Position in Ethics, York College of Pennsylvania, 2005-06. Judge, Hoffman Creative Writing Contest: Short Fiction, 2005. Department Representative, Spring Orientation, York College of Pennsylvania, 6 May 2005. Member, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Position in Ethics, York College of Pennsylvania, 2004-05. Judge, Student Film Festival, York College of Pennsylvania, 26 Apr. 2004. Chair, “Issues in National Cinemas: France.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Atlanta. 7 Mar. 2004. Department Representative, Open House, York College of Pennsylvania, 8 Nov. 2003. Faculty Representative, Fall Forum, York College of Pennsylvania, 30 Oct. 2003.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association Society for Cinema and Media Studies Literature/Film Association Popular Culture Association
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