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Associate Professor of English; Chair of Gender, Race, and Identity
Katherine Fusco
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Summary

Katherine Fusco holds a PhD from Vanderbilt University. At the University of Nevada, Reno, she teaches U.S. film and literature. She also launched the popular cinema and media studies minor and has served as Director of Core Humanities. She's written two academic books and over a dozen articles, some of which have won the most prestigious awards in her field. She has also published in popular outlets such as The Atlantic and Harper&w88 slot;s Bazaar.At present, Katherine is writing a biography about Anita Loos: screenwriter, author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and woman you&w88 slot;d want to sit next to you at a dinner party.

Research interests

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  • U.S. modernist w88 slot
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Courses taught

  • Problems in Later American w88 slot: Affect Theory and Modernism's Media Experiments (Graduate Seminar)
  • Introduction to Graduate Study
  • w88 slot Analysis and Interpretation
  • American w88 slot and Culture: Minority Cinemas
  • American Novel II: The Modern Novel w88 slot Problem of Ethics
  • Transatlantic Survey: 1800 to Present
  • Major Authors in American w88 slot: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hughes
  • American w88 slot: Mobs, Masses, and Monsters
  • Introduction to Criticism and w88 slot
  • w88 slot Humanities: American Experiences and Constitutional Change

Publications

Books

  • Hollywood&w88 slot;s Others: The Babies, The Nobodies, The Unhappy. Under review.
  • With Nicole Seymour. Kelly Reichardt: Emergency and the Everyday. Urbana: w88 slot Illinois Press, 2017.
  • Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist w88 slot: Time, Narrative, and Modernity. New York: Routledge, 2016.

Scholarly Articles and Essays

  • &w88 slot;Neither Typist nor Genius: Hollywood as Workplace in the John Emerson and Anita Loos How-to Guides.” Feminist Modernist Studies. 2023.https://doi.org/10.1080/24692921.2023.2293628
  • &w88 slot;Girls Who Can’t Say No: Marilyn’s Playboy, Digital Resurrections, and the Matter of Posthumous Consent.” Accepted to Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of Unfinished Film, Eds. Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon. Oakland: University of California Press, 300-321.
  • With Lynda Olman, &w88 slot;Techniques of Justice: W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Visualizations and the Problem of Representing the Race.” MELUS 46.3 (2021): 1-29.
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  • &w88 slot;Photoplay’s Fan Nation.” Circulating American Magazines. 22 June 2020.http://sites.jmu.edu/circulating/.
    &w88 slot;Feminist (Dis)Pleasure and Anita Loos’s Whisper Networks.” Feminist Modernist Studies 2.3 (October 2019): 340-347.
  • &w88 slot;Speculative Archives and Subjunctive Moods,” invited response to Modernism/Modernity’s special issue on Weak Theory, ed. Debra Rae Cohen, PrintPlus, Modernism/Modernity Vol 4. 1(10 March 2019).
  • &w88 slot;Placing Du Bois’s Ophelia: Multi-Scalar Black Modernity.” PrintPlus cluster on the Scale of the Literary Object, ed Rebecca Walkowitz, PrintPlus, Modernism/Modernity Vol 3.4 (1 February 2019).
  • &w88 slot;Sexing Farina: Racial Fantasies of Episodic Gender in the Hal Roach Our Gang Comedies.” PMLA Vol 133. 3 (May 2018): 526-541.

Winner w88 slot William Riley Parker Prize

  • &w88 slot;‘Feast your eyes, glut your soul: Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, Disfigurement, and the Limits of Redemptive Affects.” Cinema Journal 57.4 (Summer 2018): 47-70.
  • "Better Travel through Brand Names: The Couture Grand Tour in Paris is a Woman&w88 slot;s Town and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 62.1 (Spring 2016): 1-24.
  • &w88 slot;Squashing the Bookworm: Manly Attention and Representations of Male Reading in Silent Film.” Modernism/Modernity 22.4 (November 2015): 627-650.
  • &w88 slot;Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupac’s Live Performance at Coachella.” Camera Obscura 30.2 (2015): 29-53.
  • &w88 slot;The Actress Experience: Cruel Knowing and the Death of the Picture Personality in Black Swan and The Girlfriend Experience.” Camera Obscura 28.1 (2013): 1-35.
  • &w88 slot;Love and Citation in Midnight in Paris: Remembering Modernism, Remembering Woody.” The Blackwell Companion to Woody Allen. Eds. Peter Bailey and Sam Girgus. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013: 294-317.
  • &w88 slot;Taking Naturalism to the Moving Picture Show: Frank Norris’s Influence on D.W. Griffith’s Narrative Development from A Corner in Wheat to The Birth of a Nation.” Adaptation. 3.2 (September 2010): 132-154.
  • &w88 slot;Systems Not Men: Producing People in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland.” Studies in the Novel. 41.4 (Winter 2009): 418-434.
  • &w88 slot;Brute Time: Temporal Representation in Vandover and the Brute and the Actuality Film” Studies in American Naturalism. 4.1 (Summer 2009): 22-40.

Education

  • Ph.D., English, Vanderbilt w88 slot, 2008
  • B.A., The State w88 slot New York at Geneseo, 2003