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CURRICULUM VITAE
BRUCE WILLIAMS

Associate Professor
Languages and Cultures
William Paterson University
300 Pompton Road
Wayne, NJ 07470
(973)720-3654
williamsb@wpunj.edu
 
EDUCATION
Postdoctoral research,  University of California at Davis, Winter-
Spring,  1992.  
Ph.D.,  UCLA,  1986, Hispanic Languages and Literataures.
M.A. (with distinction),  UCLA 1980.  Luso-Brazilian Studies. 
M.A.,  The University of Pennsylvania,  1977,  Germanic Languages and Literatures.

COURSES TAUGHT

French 370, French Cinema.
French 371, Francophone Cinema.
French 470, Film Theory
MAJOR PUBLISHED ARTICLES IN REFEREED BOOKS AND JOURNALS
“Frysky Business: Micro-regionalism in the Era of Post-nationalism.” Film History 14.1 (2002): 100-112.
 
“A Mirror of Desire: Looking Lesbian in María Luisa Bemberg’s I, the Worst of All.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 19.2 (April-June, 2002): 133-143.
 
“I Am the Eye that Penetrates: Cinema and the Nostalgic Gaze of Murilo Mendes’s Poemas.” Chasqui 30.2 (November 2001): 35-45.
 
“Straight from Brazil? National and Sexual Disawowal in Mário Peixoto’s Limite. Luso-Brazilian Review 38.1 (Summer 2001): 31-40.
 
“Playgrounds of Desire: Almodóvar, Fetishism, and the Male Ideal Ego. Journal of Film and Video 52.2 (Summer 2000): 28-40.
 
“I Lost It at the Movies: Parodic Spectatorship in Héctor Babenco’s Kiss of the Spider Woman.” Cinéma(s) (L’Université de Montréal) 10.1 (Fall 1999): 79-94.
 
“Dwarfing Difference: Deformity at the Threshold of the Visible in Bemberg’s I Don’t Want to Talk About It.”  Canadian Journal of Film Studies 8.2 (Fall 1999): 44-55.
 
“To Serve Godard: Anthropophogical Processes Processes in Brazilian Cinema.” Literature/Film Quarterly 27.3 (summer, 1999): 202-209.
 
"Memory in Drag:  Historical and Sexual Strategies in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment."  Cinéma(s) (L’Université de Montréal) 8.3 (spring, 1998): 105-120.
 
"'Life Is Very Precious: Even Right Now: (Un)Happy Camping in the  New German Cinema." Post Script 16.3 (summer, 1997): 71-84.
 
"Madrid au naturel or the Reassment of Genre in the Post-Franco Cinema." Excavatio IX, Fall, 1997: 212-219.
 
"In the Realm of the Feminine:  María Luisa Bemberg's Camila at the Edge of the Gaze."  Chasqui 25.1 (1996): 62-71.
 
"Slippery When Wet: En-sexualized Transgression in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar."  Post Script 14.3 (summer,  1995): 3-13.
 
"A Transit to Significance:  Poetic Discourse in Chantal Akerman's Toute une nuit."  Literature/Film Quarterly 23.3 (1995): 216-222.
 
"Peep-show Windows on the Economic Miracle: Robert van Ackeren's  Erotic Melodramas." Film Criticism 19.3 (Spring 1995): 30-43.
 
"A Mirror of the Cinema:  Poetic Discourse and Autotelic Aesthetics in Dovzhenko's Earth."  Journal of Ukranian Studies 19.1 (Summer,  1994): 67-83.
 
"Splintered Perspectives:  Counterpoint and Subjectivity in the Modernist Film Narrative."  Film Criticism 15.2 (Winter 1991): 2-12.
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