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Akira Mizuta LippitProfessor of Cinematic Arts, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and CulturesContact Information E-mail: lippit@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-8508 Office: THH 376 LINKS Curriculum Vitae Course Information Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife |
Education |
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 Ph.D. Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University, 1993
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M.A. English, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
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B.A. English and Film Studies, Univeristy of California, Berkeley, 1986
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Tenure Track Appointments |
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Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Division of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, 07/15/2005-
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Professor and Chair, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine, 09/01/2004-05/31/2005
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Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine, 09/01/2000-08/31/2004
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Associate Professor, Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University, 09/01/1999-08/31/2000
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Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University, 09/01/1995-08/31/1999
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Assistant Professor, Program in Film Studies, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 09/01/1993-08/31/1995
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Non-Tenure Track Appointments |
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Acting Director, Critical Theory Institute, University of California, Irvine, 2004-2005
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Visiting and Temporary Appointments |
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Visiting Researcher, Department of Representation and Culture, University of Tokyo, 2007-2008
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| Akira Mizuta Lippit teaches in the Departments of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures in the USC Dornsife College, and in the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he has served since 2009 as Chair of Critical Studies. His interests are in world cinemas, critical theory, Japanese film and culture, experimental film and video, and visual studies. Lippit's published work reflects these areas and includes three books, Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005) and Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (2000), and a forthcoming book on contemporary avant-garde media, Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video (2012). At present, Lippit is completing one book on contemporary Japanese cinema, which looks at the relationship of late-twentieth and early twenty-first century Japanese culture to the concept of the world, and another on David Lynch’s baroque alphabetics. | |
Research Specialties |
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| History and theory of cinema, Japanese film and culture, experimental film and video, critical and literary theory, visual culture | |
Funded Research |
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Contracts and Grants Awarded |
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At The Center Of The Outside: Contemporary Japanese Cinema In The World (Department of Education), Speer, Kathleen, Lippit, Akira Mizuta, $0, 06/01/2007-11/01/2008
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At The Center Of The Outside: Contemporary Japanese Cinema In The World (Award declined) (The Japan Foundation), Akira Mizuta Lippit, $0, 2006-2007
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The Atomic Phenomenon in Postwar Japanese Cinema, 1945-1995 (The Japan Foundation), Akira Mizuta Lippit, $0, 1997-1998
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Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions |
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Department of Literature and Theater, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Visiting Researcher, 1997-08
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The Department of Culture and Representation, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Japan, Visiting Researcher, 2007-08
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Conferences and Other Presentations |
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Conference Presentations |
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"At the Center of the Outside: Japanese Cinema Nowhere", Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed Chicago, IL, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2006-2007
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"Introduction and discussion of Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Nobody Knows (2004)", NA, Introduction and discussion , Los Angeles, CA, Directors Guild of America, Invited, 2006-2007
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Other Presentations |
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""(Therefore)"", Keynote lecture, "Dialogues on Animality" , University of Pennsylvania and the Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 2009-2010
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""(Therefore)"", Invited lecture, Davis Humanities Institute, Davis, CA, 2009-2010
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""Reflections on Spectral Life" ", the Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2009-2010
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""The Inside Image Out, Japan" ", Keynote lecture, "Spaces of Asian Cinema: Film Festival and Symposium", University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 2009-2010
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""Animated Language and Minority Animals: The Case of Animation" ", Invited lecture, Department of English, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 2008-2009
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""Letters from Iwo Jima" ", "The Pacific War Revisited" , UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies, Berkeley, CA, 2008-2009
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""Spectral Life: Derrida, Autobiography, Experimental Film"", Invited lecture, The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2008-2009
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""Subjects and Subjection in Hara Kazuo’s Cinema" ", "Kazuo Hara: Documentary Filmmaking", UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies, Berkeley, CA, 2008-2009
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""The Image of Japan (in Hollywood) and the Return to War"", Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2008-2009
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""The Parable of Animals: Animated Language" ", Invited seminar, The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2008-2009
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""The Image of Japan: Cinema and Identification in a Time War"", Invited lecture, Department of English, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, 2007-2008
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""The Parable of Animals: Animated Language"", Invited lecture, The Institute of Media Arts, Yonsei University , Seoul, South Korea, 2007-2008
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"Becoming-Japanese, Becoming-Imperceptible: Cinema and Identification in a Time of War", Invited lecture, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2007-2008
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"In Japanese: "David Lynch, eigaron, han-seishinbunseki ("David Lynch, film theory, anti-psychoanalysis")", Invited lecture, College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ristumeikan, Kyoto, Japan, 2007-2008
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"In Japanese: "Gaikoku kara mita nihoneiga" (Japanese cinema seen from abroad)", Invited lecture, Josai International University, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008
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"In Japanese: Roundtable on D’ailleurs, Derrida and Tourner les mots,", Invited roundtable presentation, L’Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo et Yokohama, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008
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"In Japanese: Symposium, "Kyôchô suru humanity, yudô suru hyôshô" (An expanding humanity, swaying representation)", Invited symposium presentation, Department of Culture and Representation, Tokyo University, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008
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"The Other Materialities of Film, with Tom Cohen", Public seminar, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008
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"At the Center of the Outside: Japanese Cinema Nowhere", Invited lecture, Mama: Multimedia Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, 2006-2007
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"At the Center of the Outside: Japanese Cinema Nowhere", Invited lecture, Pasadena Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 2006-2007
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"Spectral Life and the Image of Biography", Invited lecture, "‘Who?’ or ‘What’—Jacques Derrida" , University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2006-2007
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"The Extraordinary Cinema of Matthias Müller", Invited lecture, "Matthias Müller: Multimedia Poet" , Boston University, Boston, MA, 2006-2007
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"The Parable of Animals: Animated Language", Keynote lecture, "Tiere im Film - eine Menschheitsgeschichte" (Animals in Film: A History of Humankind), The University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 2006-2007
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"The Returns of Hiroshima: Between Languages, Literatures, and Incommensurate Phenomena", Invited lecture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2006-2007
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"The World Archive and Universal Research", Invited lecture, "What Is Research in the Visual Arts?: Obsession, Archive, Encounter", The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2006-2007
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"Universality and Ultra-Universality in Forty Years of Ultraman", Invited presentation, "Fortieth Anniversary of the Ultraman Series" , The University of Tokyo, Komaba and The University of Southern California, Tokyo, Japan and Los Angeles, CA, 2006-2007
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Publications |
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Book |
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Lippit, A. M.
(2005).
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2000).
Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
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Book Chapter |
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Lippit, A. M.
(2008).
"Digesture: Gesture and Inscription in Experimental Cinema," in Migrations of Gesture. pp. 113-131. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2008).
"The World Archive and Universal Research," in What Is Research in the Visual Arts? Obsession, Archive, Encounter. pp. 183-95. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2008).
In German translation: "Der Tod eines Tieres," in Ich das Tier: Tiere als Persönlichkeiten in der Kulturgeschichte. pp. 47-64. Berlin: Reimer.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2007).
"Ultra-Universality". pp. 55-63. Berlin: Glamour.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2007).
"The Only Other Apparatus of Film (A Few Fantasies About Différance, Démontage, and Revision in Experimental Film and Video)," in Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis. pp. 171-91. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2007).
In Croatian translation: "U središtu izvanjskog: japanska kinematografija nigdge" (In the Center of the Outside: Japanese Cinema Nowhere), in Vizualni Kolegij: Zbornik/Reader. pp. 184-207. Zagreb: Multimedijalni institute.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2006).
"One Two Three: The Psychic Economy of Multiplicity," in Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood. pp. 174-188. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
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Journal Article |
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Lippit, A. M.
(2009).
Roundtable, in Japanese: "Bôchô suru eizô, sono kanôsei" ("Emerging images and their possibility"). Ecce.
Vol. 1
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Lippit, A. M.
(2009).
In Japanese translation: "Ekushtimashî: Kuronogurafî to haipâ riarizumu eiga" ("Extimacy: Chronography and Hyper-realist Film"). Ecce.
Vol. 1
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Lippit, A. M.
(2009).
In Polish translation: "Projekt powierzchni kina" (excerpt from Atomic Light [Shadow Optics]). Kwartalnik Filmowy.
Vol. 65
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Lippit, A. M.
(2008).
In Japanese, Roundtable: "Posutohumanizumu no yohaku ni: ridandanshî, habitosu, gûhatsusei" (On the Margins of Posthumanism: Redundancy, Habitus, Contingency). Hyosho: Journal of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation. (2), pp. 53-79.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2008).
"At the Center of the Outside: Japanese Cinema Nowhere". Situations.
Vol. 2 (Fall 2008), pp. 1-19.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2008).
"Aftereffects of the End of World ("I Love NY")". Differences.
Vol. 19 (2), pp. 127-45.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2007).
In Japanese: "Heisoku suru jinbungaku wo koete—ima geijitsu wo tou" (Overcoming an obstructive humanities—questioning art now). Hyosho/University of Tokyo.
Vol. 1 (2007), pp. 34-69.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2005).
"Oectopus". Octopus.
Vol. One, pp. 9-13.
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Lippit, A. M.
(2005).
"The Derrida that I Love". Grey Room.
Vol. 20, pp. 84-9.
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Service to the Profession |
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Conferences Organized |
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Programming Chair, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, Organizing planning, host, and programming committees; interacting with host site; establishing hotel and travel protocols, and working with Japanese travel companies; contacting Japanese scholars and filmmakers to solicit participation., 2008-2009
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Editorships and Editorial Boards |
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Co-editor, with James Leo Cahill, Discourse (28.2 & 3), "Transvauation", 2008-2009
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General Editor (since 2005); Editorial Board (since 1999), Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 2008-2009
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Founding Co-Editor, Ecce, 2008-2009
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Editorial Board (since 2000), Film Quarterly, 2008-2009
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Advisory Board (since 2005), Journal of Visual Culture, 2008-2009
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Editorial Board (since 2005), Postmodern Culture, 2008-2009
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Advisory Board (since 2007), TransAsia: Screen Cultures, book series, University Press of Hong Kong, 2008-2009
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Co-editor, with James Leo Cahill, Discourse (28.1), "Scenes Elsewhere", 2007-2008
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Professional Offices |
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Board of Directors (2005-08), Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2007-2008
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Professional Memberships |
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2008-2009
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Modern Language Association (MLA), 2007-2008
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Reviewer for Publication |
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Film studies, Columbia University Press, Book manuscript, 2009-2010
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Cultural Critique, University of Minnesota Press, Article Review, 2008-2009
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East Asian cinema, University of Illinois Press, Book manuscript, 2008-2009
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Film studies, Columbia University Press, Book manuscript, 2008-2009
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Film studies, Duke University Press, Book manuscript, 2008-2009
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Japanese film studies, Oxford University Press, Book manuscript, 2008-2009
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Japanese literary studies, University of Minnesota Press, Book manuscript, 2008-2009
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Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Duke University Press, Article review, 2007-2008
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Film and literature, Columbia University Press, Book manuscript, 2007-2008
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Postmodern Culture, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Article review, 2007-2008
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Translation, German philosophy, University of Minnesota Press, Book manuscript, 2007-2008
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Translation, Japanese critcism, University of Minnesota Press, Book manuscript, 2007-2008
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ECHO, Article review, 2006-2007
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Journal of Visual Culture, Sage, Article review 1, 2006-2007
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Journal of Visual Culture, Sage, Article review 2, 2006-2007
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New book series, University of Minnesota Press, Proposal for new series, 2006-2007
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Postmodern Culture, Article review, 2006-2007
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Media, Alumni, and Community Relations |
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Conversation with Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang, 2009-2010
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Conversation with Austrian filmmaker Martin Arnold, 2008-2009
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Conversation with Japanese filmmaker Iwai Shunji, 2008-2009
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Conversation with Japanese filmmaker Takita Yojiro, 2008-2009
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Conversation with filmmaker and scholar Fatimah Tobing Rony, 2008-2009
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Interviewed for an article on film schools in the United States, Japan Economic Times (Nihon Keizai Shimbun), 2007-2008
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Radio Interview, "Electric Animal: Interview with Akira Lippit" on "Animal Voices," CIUT 89.5 FM, Toronto, Canada, 12 February 2008, 2007-2008
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Interviewed for an article on Clint Eastwood's "Letters From Iwo Jima," USA Today, 2006-2007
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Interviewed for an article on representations of Godzilla, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust, The Jewish Journal, 2006-2007
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Juror and commentator, "Picture Battle," Japanese-language TV program, United Television Broadcasting Systems (Channel 18, Los Angeles), 2006-2007
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Other Service to the Profession |
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Programming committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, annual conference, 2008-2009
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Fulbright Commission, Interviewer, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008
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Programming committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, annual conference, 2005-2006
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