Pedagogy

Intergenerational ties and ruptures are the focus of Kathleen Rowe Karlyn’s Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers, and she has favored pedagogies that strengthen those ties by encouraging teachers and students to teach and learn from each other.  In mentoring students and junior colleagues, she has advised them to follow their own interests, as she has done in her own scholarship, while also striving to meet the highest standards of critical thinking and writing. 

Feminism in the Classroom: Teaching Towards the Third Wave

“By decentring my presence in the classroom, I clear a space for students to work more independently, to develop skills in collaboration and to take more responsibility for their own learning. Ideally, students will eventually engage with feminism as an academic subject and political movement in its own right…”

Feminism in Popular Culture | BERG, 2006

Mentorship

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY FORMER STUDENTS

 Mike Arnzen

The Return of the Uncanny | DELTA PRODUCTIONS, 1999

Grave Markings |RAW DOG SCREAMING PRESS, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2014 (originally published 1994)

Roberta DiCarmine

Italy Meets Africa: Colonial Discourses in Italian Cinema | PETER LANG, 2011

Cultural Metamorphoses in Contemporary Italian Cinema | PETER LANG, 2018

Mark Gallagher

 Action Figures | PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2006

Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, 2013

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai  | BLOOMSBURY, 2013

East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue | I.B.TAURUS, 2015

Russell Meeuf

John Wayne’s World: Transnational Masculinity in the Fifties | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, 2013

Rebellious Bodies: Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, 2017

Russell Meeuf and Raphael Raphael

Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture | PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2013

 Anne Helen Petersen

Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema | PLUME, 2014

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman | PLUME, 2017

Petersen’s work for BuzzFeed

 Elaine Roth

Motherhood Misconceived: Representing the Maternal in U.S. Films | SUNY PRESS, 2009