CURRICULUM VITAE
Kristi M. Wilson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Rhetoric
Director of the Writing Program
Soka University of America, 1 University Drive, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
(949) 480-4326
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (Department of Literature, Awarded, 1999)
M.A., San Francisco State University (Department of Classics, Awarded 1994)
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz (Department of Theater, Awarded 1991)
DISSERTATION TITLE
Euripides, Orientalism and the Dislocation of the Western Self
RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS
Composition and Rhetoric; Comparative Literature; Philosophy; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies; Classics; Film Studies; Gender Studies
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming
Documental: teorías, praxis, tecnologías, Edited by Javier Campo, Clara Garavelli, Pablo Piedras, Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli and Kristi Wilson, Editorial Prometeo, Buenos Aires (forthcoming, 2018).
“The Global Impact of Italian Neorealism.” Co-written with Laura E. Ruberto. Forthcoming in 2018 from Continuum Press in a volume on Italian Film edited by Joseph Luzzi.
“‘The Hour of the Furnaces’,May 1968, and the Pesaro International Film Festival,” co-written with Laura E. Ruberto. Forthcoming in The Hour of the Furnaces, edited by Javier Campo and Humberto Perez-Blanco (University of Chicago Press/Intellect, 2018).
Issue Editor: “Gender, Sexuality, Film and Media in Latin America:
Challenging Representation and Structures” (with Dr. Clara Garavelli); Latin American Perspectives(forthcoming in 2018).
Issue Editor: “Politics, Society and Culture in Post-Conflict Peru”; Latin American Perspectives(forthcoming in 2018).
Book Publications
Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America: Concepts, Histories, Experiences. Antonio Traverso and Kristi M. Wilson, editors. Routledge. (2014)
Film and Genocide, Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, Eds. The University of Wisconsin Press (London and Madison, 2012).
Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema. Kristi M. Wilson and Laura Ruberto, Eds. Wayne State University Press. (Detroit, 2007).
Special Issue Guest Editor (2 volumes)
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. Vol. 19. Nos. 3 – 4 (2013). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. “Special Issue: Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America: concepts, histories, experiences.”
Articles & Book Chapters
“Trans-identity: Theory, Politics and Identity in the Pacific Basin,” co-written with Dr. Ryan Ashley Caldwell in The Pacific Basin: an Introduction. Shane Barter and Michael Weiner, Eds. Routledge (2017).
“ITVS (Independent Film and Video Service) Community-Cinema: state-sponsored documentary film festivals, community engagement and pedagogy,” co-authored with Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli, in Activist Film Festivals: Toward a Political Subject, Edited by Sonia M. Tascon and Tyson Wils(Intellect Press/University of Chicago Press, 2017).
“Italian Neorealism, Quotidian Storytelling and Transnational Horizons” Co-written with Laura Ruberto. Wiley Blackwell Press (2017)
“Building Memory: Museums, Trauma, and the Aesthetics of Confrontation in Argentina.” Essay. Latin American Perspectives. Vol. 43 .No. 5 (SAGE Publications, September, 2016).
“Narración disociada y final abierto: el género de la Resistencia en Los Rubiosde Albertina Carri.” El documental politico en Argentina, Chile, y Uruguay: de los anos cincuenta a la decada del dos mil. Antonio Traverso and Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli, eds. Santiago de Chile: LOM ediciones, 2015.
Introduction to “Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America: Concepts, Histories, Experiences.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. Vol. 19. Nos. 3 – 4 (May – July, 2013). Antonio Traverso and Kristi M. Wilson, Eds. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
“Ecce Homo Novus: snapshots, the ‘new man,’ and iconic montage in the work of Santiago Alvarez.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. Vol. 19. Nos. 3 – 4 (2013). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. “Special Issue: Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America: concepts, histories, experiences.”
“The Split-Person Narrative: Resisting Closure, Resistant Genre in Albertina Carri’s Los Rubios.” Essay. Latin American Perspectives(SAGE Publications, January, 2013).
“The Specter of Genocide in Errol Morris’s The Fog of War.” Film and Genocide. Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, Eds. The University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, London, 2012).
Introduction to Film and Genocide. Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, Eds. The University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, London, 2012).
“Demagogues in Death and Notes from Way Underground: the American cult pop culture icon.” Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, Vol. 1 (2012) Praeger Publications. Bob Batchelor, editor
“Hero Trouble: Blood, Politics and Kinship in Pasolini’s Medea.” Critical Explorations of the Sword and Sandal Film. (2011) McFarland Press. Michael Cornelius, editor.
“Beyond Rossellini.” Co-written with Laura Ruberto. Quaderni di Cinemasud. (2007).
“La Medea Di Pasolini: Un Classico In Anticipo Sui Tempi.” Quaderni di Cinemasud. (2006).
“Introduction” to The Satyricon of Petronius. Barnes and Noble, 2006.
“From pensioner to teenager: everyday violence in De Sica’s Umberto D and Gaviria’s Rodrigo D: No Future.”Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema. Kristi M. Wilson and Laura Ruberto, editors. Wayne State University Press, 2007.
“Introduction” to Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema. Kristi M. Wilson and Laura Ruberto, editors. Wayne State University Press, 2007.
“Nietzsche, Euripides, Philology and Philosophy in the Age of Graecomania.” Yearbook of Comparative and General LiteratureVol. 48, 2000.
“Time, Space and Vision: Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now.” Screen. Autumn, 1999.
“Cross-Cultural Othering through Metamorphosis.” Paroles Gelees. University of California, Los Angeles, French Department, Vol. 14.2, 1999.
“Euripides and Orientalism.” TROPOS: a publication of Michigan State University, Department of Romance and Classical Languages. Vol. 23, Spring, 1997.
“Eva Peron,” “Domingo F. Sarmiento and Juan Bautista Alberdi,” “Jose Enrique Rodo.” Short essays. Encyclopedia of Nationalism. Ed. Alexander J. Motyl, Academic Press, 2000.
“Casablanca,” “Saturday Night Fever,” “Taxi Driver,” “Performance Art.” Entries. The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. 5 Vols., Eds. Tom and Sarah Pendergast, St. James Press, 1999.
“Tadmor: Palmyra, Syria.” Roman Topography: Site Reports. Department of Classics, San Francisco State University. Fall, 1992.
Reviews
“The Black Frost: environment, community, and survival.” Film Review. Latin American Perspectives. (SAGE publications, 2017).
“Solutions From Below: pedagogical documentaries and praxis.” Film Review. Latin American Perspectives. (SAGE publications, 2015).
“You Never Know What you Are Filmming: art, mentorship, and states of siege.” Film Review. Latin American Perspectives. (SAGE publications, 2015).
“Resonance and the ‘echo chamber’ of the Argentine State.” Book review essay. Latin American Perspectives. (SAGE publications, 2015).
“Force and Meaning: Political Hauntings in Two Contemporary Brazilian Films” Latin American Perspectives. (September, 2014).
“Disappearing into the Distance: two Latin American city symphonies.” Film review of Andrea Prates & Cleisson Vidal’s Dino Cazzola: a filmography of Brasília(2012) and Heddy Honigmann’s Oblivion [El Olvido] (2008). Latin American Perspectives. (August, 2013).
“On the Decay of the Art of Going to the Movies” Film Review of Federcio Veiroj’s La Vida Útil” (2010). Latin American Perspectives, May, 2013 (SAGE Publications).
“Latin American Dreaming: A Neoliberal Vision for Retirement.” Film Review of Anayansi Prado’s Paraíso for Sale. Co-authored with Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli. Latin American Perspectives(SAGE Publications, January, 2013).
“Female Acts in Greek Tragedyby Helene Foley, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Loreby Jennifer Larson and Making Silence Speak: Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Societyby Andre Lardinois and Laura McClure.” Book review. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. University of Chicago Press. Vol. 30, Winter 2005: no. 2.
“Courtesans and Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus.” Book Review. Cloelia. Vol. 32, Fall 2004: no. 2
“The Cinematic City by David B. Clarke.” Book review. Literature/Film Quarterly. Vol. 27, 1999: issue 4.
Instructor’s Manual
Envision: Persuasive Writing in a Visual World, 2ndEdition (Longman 2007). Co-written with Christine Alfano and Alyssa O’Brien.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Soka University of America
Director, The Writing Program, 2009 – 2012; 2018 to present
Director, The Writing Center, 2009 – 2012; 2018 to present
Latin American Perspectives
Editorial Collective Member: Book and Film Review Editor
Latin American Perspectives(SAGE Publications). 2010 to present.
Manuscript Referee
Critical Arts(UNISA Press/Routledge) 2015
Stanford University
Founder/Director, The Stanford Film Lab, 2006-2008
Assistant Director, The Hume Writing Center, 2007-2008
Faculty Director, Project W.R.I.T.E., 2007-2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Soka University of America
Associate Professor, 2008 to present
Courses taught: WRIT 101 and 301, Writing About Film (WRIT/HUM 355), Core 1 (great books), Introduction to Classical Rhetoric
Stanford University
Lecturer, 2005 – 2008
Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Courses taught: PWR1,The Rhetoric of U.S. Teen Culture(Spring 2005, Spring 2006); PWR2, Reel Life: the Rhetoric of Documentary Film(Fall 2005, Winter 2006)
Lecturer, Fall 2000 – 2005
Introduction to the Humanities Program. Course taught: Tradition and Revolution (a survey of classical Greek and Roman drama and epic poetry and their influence on renaissance literary and dramatic forms), Serious Laughter (a two-quarter survey of ancient Greek and Roman comedy, rhetoric and satire), Roots and Routes (a two-quarter Latin American Literature course), Literature of Crisis (Introduction to Literature Survey course), The Art of Survival (Race, Gender and Strategies for Survival in Literature).
Lecturer, 2000 – 2005Continuing Studies Program. Courses taught: Introduction to Ancient Rome (Fall 2002), Plato’s Republic (Winter 2002), Nietzsche in the 21stCentury (Spring, 2001, Spring 2003, Spring 2005), Ancient and Modern Metamorphosis in Literature (Fall 2001), Introduction to Roman Literature (Summer 2003)
Guest Lecturer, 2005, 2006, Spring quarter. SLE Program, Keynote lecture on Nietzsche
Writing Consultant,2004-2005. English Department; Writing in the Majors Program
Lecturer, Winter 2004. Human Biology, Writing for Human Biology Majors
Lecturer,Summer 2003. Educated Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY). Course taught: Introduction to Utopian Literature
University of San Francisco
Lecturer, 2004 – 2008. College of Professional Studies. Online courses taught: Introduction to Plato (Fall 2004, Spring 2009), The Philosophy of Western Civilization (Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Winter 2008)
San Francisco Art Institute
Lecturer,Spring 2005. Courses taught: High Drama: an Introduction to Ancient Drama; Performative Rhetorics: Performance Theory and Writing.
University of California, San Diego
Lecturer, 2000. Literature Department. Course taught: Urban Legends: the Role of the City in NarrativeU (a self-designed upper-division course on the role of urban space in film and literature from the nineteenth-century to the present), Italian Neorealism and its Latin American Legacy (a self-designed lower-division course on the role of the genre of Italian neorealism on Latin American film and literature).
Lecturer, Fall – Spring 1999 – 2000. Eleanor Roosevelt College Writing Program. Courses taught: The Making of the Modern World Writing Program (a six-quarter lower-division writing and humanities course, emphasizing cross-currents of thought between East and West from antiquity to the present); The Classical Tradition, The Medieval Heritage, Renaissance to Enlightenment.
Instructor/Teaching Assistant, 1996-1997. Courses taught: Film, Literature and History Series (a lower-division three-quarter survey of French, German and Italian national film and literary traditions), La Frontera/The Border (a freshmen writing course designed around texts on the U.S./Mexico border), First-Year Composition and Rhetoric (Warren Writing Program).
TA Consultant 1997-1999,
Center for Teaching Development. Duties: taught public teaching skills, led orientations on teaching sections for new graduate student teachers. Provided peer-review and counseling services.
San Francisco State University
Lecturer, Fall 2001. Humanities Department and Women Studies Program. Courses taught: Women and Media (upper-division undergraduate course), Rome: an Urban Biography (upper-division undergraduate course).
Teaching Assistant, 1993 – 1994. Department of Classics and Comparative Literature. Course: World Myth (lower-division mythology survey course).
Tutor, 1994, Department of Classics and Comparative Literature. First-year Attic Greek, Latin.
HONORS/RESEARCH AWARDS
Ford Foundation Grant for Visible Evidence Buenos Aires(August 2 – 6) 2017. Grant co-recipient, Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli.
Pacific Basin Research Center, Research Grant for Visible Evidence Buenos Aires(August 2 – 6) 2017.
Pacific Basin Research Center, Research Grant for Justice and the Disappearing Archive: the Archive of the Military Junta Trial (April 1985), 2011.
Pacific Basin Research Center, Research Grant for The Condor Years and Documentarybook project, 2009.
Stanford Institute for Creativity in the Arts (SICA), Curricular Innovation Grant. The Stanford Multimedia Literacy Project(Kristi Wilson, Andrea Lunsford, Alyssa O’Brien, Christine Alfano) 2008.
Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SICA), The Stanford Storytelling Project(Jonah Willihnganz, Andrea Lunsford, Kristi Wilson, Doree Allen, Eric Puchner) 2007-2008.
Katherine S. Kovács book award nomination from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2007-2008) for Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema.
Fellowship in the Humanities. Stanford University, Introduction to the Humanities Program, 2000-2003.
University of California Humanities Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. Theme: “Race in Early-Modern and Ancient Contexts.” Led by Margo Hendricks. UC Irvine, Winter quarter, 2000-2001.
UC Berkeley Summer Research Institute Fellowship. Theme: “Antigone, Gender and Kinship.” Led by Judith Butler. July 1999.
Horst Frenz Prizefor best graduate student paper. American Comparative Literature Association. Montreal, April, 1999. Paper given: “Nietzsche, Euripides, Philology and Philosophy in the Age of Graecomania.”
Stanford University Research Support Travel Grant. 2001.
Humanities Center Graduate Fellowship. UC San Diego, 1999.
Finalist Fulbright Fellowship to France, 1998.
Dissertation Fellowship. UC San Diego, 1998.
Research Fellow. Topic: German Orientalisms. Department of Literature, 1998-1999.
Graduate Student Association Grant. UC San Diego. (For the organization of Intersections: a conference on interdisciplinarity), 1997.
Players’ Club Choice Awardfor Tanguedia. San Francisco State University, Drama Department, 1997.
CONCERENCE PAPERS
Visible Evidence XXV, August 8 – 12, 2018, in Bloomington, Indiana. “La hora de los hornos (F. Solanas y O. Getino, 1968) cinecuenta años depués. Parte II.” Paper presented: “‘The Hour of the Furnaces,’ May 1968 and the Pesaro International Film Festival.”
Latin American Studies Association, 36thInternational Congress, May 23 – 26, Barcelona, Spain, 2018. Panel: “La hora de los hornos (F. Solanas y O. Getino, 1968) cinecuenta años depués. Parte II.” Paper presented: “‘The Hour of the Furnaces,’ May 1968 and the Pesaro International Film Festival.”
Latin American Studies Association, 36thInternational Congress, May 23 – 26, Barcelona, Spain, 2018.
Workshop Organizer: “Gender, Sexuality, Film and Media in Latin America: challenging representation and Global Structures.”
The Legacy of 1968 in Latin America, Symposium,University of Leicester, UK, May 18, 2018. Panel: Argentina 1968. Paper presented: “‘The Hour of the Furnaces,’ May 1968 and the Pesaro International Film Festival.”
SCA, Simposio Sobre Cine y Audiovisual, Faculty of Art, UNICEN, Tandil Argentina, August 8 – 9, 2017. Panel: “Women Made by Latin American Women: memory, dissidence, subjectivity.”
Visible Evidence Conference XXIII, Bozeman, Montana, August 11 – 14, 2016. Panel: “Argentine Documentary Film: on National Identity Construction and the Politics of Representation.” Paper presented: “Archiving Terror in 2015: Truth, Visuality, and the Use of Film and Video in the Ex-ESMA Center of Torture and Detention.
Visible Evidence Conference XXI, New Delhi, India, December 11 – 14, 2014. Panel Chair and presenter. Panel: “Communities and Trauma in South American Documentary Films about Political Militancy and State Terrorism.” Paper presented: “Force and Meaning: Political Hauntings in Three Contemporary Brazilian Films.”
International Sociological Association, Yokohama, Japan, July 16 – 20, 2014. Panel: “Post-Conflict Visual Imaginations.” Paper distributed: “A Walk through Memory: Urban Interventions and the Sensual Battle Against Oblivion” (co-authored with Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli).
Teachers Teaching & the Media. St. Mary’s College of California. October 16 – 18, 2014.
Panel: “Alternative Communities, Alternative Stories: Experimenting with Moocs, Community TV, and Cinema.”
Paper presented: “Transmedia Projects, Pedagogy, and Civic Engagement.”
CCCCConference on College Composition and Communication.Las Vegas, Nevada,March 13 – 17, 2013. Panel: “Objectivity?” Paper presented: “The Wider Implications: Cultural Hegemony or Assessment?”
The Center for Latin American Studies. Stanford University.
Invited panelist for: “Political Documentary Film and Video in the Southern Cone (1950s – 2000s).” October 25, 2013. Bolivar House.
“Symposium on Latin American Cinema Studies Today.” University of California, Los Angeles. October 24th, 2013.
Young Research Conference Center. Invited Panelist.
International Sociological Association: Forum of Sociology, Social Justice and Democratization. Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1-4, 2012. Panel: Memory’s Futures: Human Rights and Transitional Justice. Paper given: “Memory Complex: Rhetorics of Remembrance Then and Now.”
Tenth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, March 28-April 1, 2012, San Diego, California. Paper given: “Touring Sites of Traumatic Memory”
Italian Neorealism and its impact on Global Cinema, Distinguished Speaker Series, Saddleback College, Laguna Woods, CA, February 10, 2012.
Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies Conference, California State University, Los Angeles, October 28-29, 2011. Panel: “Social Movements, Human Rights, and Struggles for Justice” Paper given: “Memory Complex: Public, Private and Judicial Spaces of Traumatic Memory.”
Stanford University, Introduction to the Humanities Program, Fellowship Alumni Colloquium. Invited Speaker: “Continuing the Conversation: Teaching Humanities for the 21stCentury.” Stanford University, Huang Engineering Center, September, 16, 2011.
9thBiennal Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Universidad de Tres Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 19-22, 2011
Panel: “Film and Genocide”. Paper given: “The Spector of Genocide in Errol Morris’s The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.”
CCCCConference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, April 6-11, 2011. Panel: Whole-class Workshops: Reconceptualizing Relations in the Composition Classroom. Paper given: “Workshopping with a Mission.”
Soka University of America, Women’s History Month Celebration. March 9, 2011.
Presentation: “Pre- and Post-code Hollywood: the Politics of Representing Women in the Film Industry.”
7thAnnual Soka Education Conference, Soka University of America, February 19-21, 2011.
Special Interest Group presentation: “Soka Education and Pedagogical Practices at Soka University of America.”
Latin American Studies Association 29thInternational Congress, October 6-9, 2010, Toronto, Canada. Panel: “Documenting Neoliberalism: Documentary Film in the Age of Disaster Capitalism in Chile and Argentina.” Paper given: “Cross-cultural Understanding of Globalization: The Take, The Argentine Economic Crisis and Cyber Classroom Pedagogy.”
Eighth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, March 18-20, 2010, Berkeley, California. Paper given: “Film as Archive: Lourdes Portillo, Albertina Carri, activism and disappearance.”
Latin American Studies Association 28thInternational Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Panel: “Belonging to the Dead: Narrating Trauma in Film and Popular Culture” (Paper given: “The Split Person Narrative: Resisting Closure, Resistant Genre in Albertina Carri’sLos Rubios.” June 11-16, 2009.
CCCCConference on College Composition and Communication,San Francisco, CA, March 11-14, 2009. Panel: “Identity Politics and Embodied Rhetorics in the Writing and Rhetoric Classroom” (Paper given: “From Paper to Screen: Embodied Rhetoric and the Disembodied Lens”). March 13, 2009.
CCCCConference on College Composition and Communication,San Francisco, CA, March 11-14, 2009. International Writing Centers Collaborative @ CCCCs. “Sustaining Currents of Communication: Project W.R.I.T.E. and the Writing Center.” March 11, 2009.
Soka Education Conference, February 7-8, 2009. Soka University of America. Workshop Presentation. “Ikeda’s Vision of Democracy in Education.”
The San Francisco Italian Cultural Institute’s Festival of Literature. Bird and Becket Bookstore.Invited Guest Speaker, June 1, 2008. “Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema.”
Northern California Writing Centers Association 15thAnnual Conference, Santa Rosa, California, March 1, 2008. “Tutoring Specific Populations.”
Second International Meeting: Analysis of the Social Practices of Genocide, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 20-23, 2007. “Civil Rights, Genocide, and the Role of Visual Art: the U.S.-based films of Santiago Alvarez.”
The San Diego Photographic Arts Museum, Invited Speaker, October 19, 2007. “Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema.”
Italian Cultural Institute, “Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema,” San Francisco, May 1, 2007. (Book Presentation)
The Second International Persuasive Technology Conference, Stanford University, April 26-27, 2007. “Re-imagining CourseWork and Web-based classroom technologies” (poster session).
American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Puebla, Mexico from April 19-22, 2007. “Third Cinema and the agit-propdocumentary.”
The Stanford Film Lab, guest lecturer. Nov. 6, 2006.“Documenting Race in the Short Films of Santiago Alvarez.”
Film and History Conference, Nov 10, 2006, Dallas, Texas.“Civil Rights Rhetoric and the micro-documentary.”
Latin American Studies Association, “Oral and Filmic Language in the Cuban Post-revolutionary Documentary: Santiago Álvarez and the “documentalurgia” of the Revolutionary Message.” March 14-18, 2006, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Invited Speaker, SLE Plenary Series, “Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy Through the Spirit of Music.” April 11, 2006, Stanford University.
Invited Speaker, PEC Instructor Colloquium Series, February 10, 2006. “The Trouble With Aristotle.” Stanford University. Stanford, CA.
SAMLA (Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association), November 5-6, 2005. Atlanta, Georgia. “Visual Rhetorics and Tradition?”
CCCC, Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 16-19, 2005. San Francisco, CA. “Adaptive Rhetorics: Moving Figures Across Lyric, Film and Video Art.”
Crossing Borders: U.S. Latin American Relations in the Early 21stCentury,March 2-4, 2005, University of San Francisco. “Film, Memory and Justice.”
Meet the Artists Panel, 2ndYear Anniversary Festival, Soka University, Aliso Viejo, CA, May 1, 2004. “Art, Labor and Social Justice: the El Pital Women’s Quilt Collective.”
Italian Section Club at UC Berkeley, April 8, 2004. “Il Neorealismo Italiano Ed Il Cinema Globale.”
Imagining Rome: 38thAnnual Comparative Literature Conference, Long Beach State University, March 13-14, 2003. “From Augustus to Rita Hayworth: Image, Empire and the Urban Iconography of Neorealist Rome.”
Cine-Lit V: An International Conference on Hispanic Literature and Cinematographies, Portland Oregon, March 1-3, 2003. “From Pensioner to Teenager: Everyday Violence in De Sica’s Umberto Dand Gaviria’s Rodrigo D: No Future.”
The Renaissance Conference of Southern California, The Huntington Library, May 17-18, 2002. “George Buchanan’s Jeptheand Taxonomic Strategies for Understanding Difference in 16thCentury Biblical Tragedy.”
Visiting Lecturer. Bates College, March 4, 2002
The Other in Latin American Literature, Taught by Professor Felicia Fahey. “The Ancient Mediterranean and the Other.”
Visiting Lecturer. University of California, Davis, January 28, 2002
Feminist Cultural Studies Seminar, Taught by Professor Laura Ruberto. “Myths of Cleopatra: Antiquity, Orientalism and Popular Culture.”
Modern Language Association. Washington D.C., December 27-30, 2000.“Pasolini’s Medea: an Untimely Classic.”
American Comparative Literature Association. Montreal, Quebec. April 9-11, 1999. “Nietzsche, Euripides, Philology and Philosophy in the Age of Graecomania.”
UC San Diego Literature Department Colloquium. May 18, 1999. “The Humanities in the new Millennium.”
Screen Studies Conference. University of Glasgow, July 3-5, 1998. “Negotiating Feminist Film Theory: a Geographical Approach.”
International Working Women’s Film/Lecture Series. UC San Diego Women’s Center, November 11, 1998. “Film, Literature and Urban Realism in Brazil: Susana Amaral’s Hour of the Star.”
Women and Society Conference. Marist College, June 7, 1997. “Thoughts on Euripides, Orientalism and Gender.”
Framing Time Conference. Department of English, SUNY Buffalo, April 5, 1997. “Time, Space and Vision: Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now.”
Risk & Resolution. Department of French, UC Los Angeles, April 19-21, 1996. “Cross-cultural Othering Through Metamorphosis.”
31stAnnual Classics/Comparative Literature Conference. California State University, Long Beach, March 1-2, 1996. “Cross-cultural Othering Through Metamorphosis.”
RELATED CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE
Visible Evidence Conference XXIV, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August, 2017. Conference Organizing Committee Member. Workshop participant: “Teaching Activism, Ethics, and Community.”
Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, University of California, San Diego, October 21-22, 2016. Panel Chair & Respondent: “Queer Borders/Border Queers.”
Soka Education Conference (SESRP), February, 2016. Conference Selection Committee Member.
Soka Education Conference (SESRP), February, 2015. Workshop participant: “Gender Neutral Language”
Soka Education Conference (SESRP), February, 2015. Conference Proposal Review Committee, Faculty Representative
Soka Education Conference (SESRP), February, 2014. Workshop participant: “Banned Books and the Social Control of Knowledge.”
The Second Annual Southern California Rhetoric & Composition Meeting. May 3, 2013. University of California, Irvine. Participant.
The Inaugural Annual Southern California Rhetoric & Composition Meeting. May 4, 2012. University of California, Irvine. Participant.
Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco California, 2011. Invited participant: Film roundtable.
Invited Speaker (Grand Reading Room) Soka University of America. Panel for National Hispanic Heritage Month. Paper given: “Memory Complex: Public, Private and Judicial Spaces of Traumatic Memory.” October 5, 2011.
Invited Speaker(Horizon Hall, Women’s History Month), Soka University of America. “Feminism and Female Oppression: College Women and Body Image.” March 31, 2009.
Invited Speaker, Soka University of America. “Herstory Event,” Women’s History Month. March 9, 2009.
Conference organizer: Intersections: an Interdisciplinary Conference. University of California, San Diego, May 17 – 18, 1997. Co-sponsored by the UCSD Literature Department, the UCSD Cross-cultural Center, and the UCSD Women’s Center.
Invited Guest Lecturer
Stanford Program in Structured Liberal Education, 2005 & 2006. Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals.
Member
Stanford Humanities Center/Department of Classics Workshop on Ancient Performance, 2002-2003. Led by Professors Richard Martin, Joy Connolly and Andromakhe Karanika.
Invited Speaker
Stanford University, Introduction to the Humanities, Fellows Workshop, August, 2002.
“The Boothe Writing Prize and Freshman Writing.”
Founder/Organizer
Cine Campesino Film Festival, a three-day Latin American film festival in El Pital, Honduras, in conjunction with the University of San Francisco Modern Languages department and Un Mundo. October 16-19, 2002
Invited Speaker
Stanford University, Introduction to the Humanities, Fellows Workshop, August, 21, 2001.
“Teaching a Text from Different Disciplinary Perspectives.”
Founder/Organizer
The Making of the Modern World Film Series, Eleanor Roosevelt College, UC San Diego, 1999.
Invited Guest Lecturer
“German Orientalisms,” a graduate seminar taught by Professor Todd Kontje, Department of Literature, UC San Diego, October 6, 1998.
Invited Speaker
Office of Graduate Studies and Research, UC San Diego, September 1998.
“Academic Area Panel Discussion: Arts and Humanities.”
Invited Panelist
“Teaching What You’re Not: a Workshop on Gender, Race and Class as TA’s, Professors and Students.” UC San Diego, April 13, 1998.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
External Review Committee Member: California State University, Los Angeles, 2018, Latin American Studies Program
Academic Student Advisor, 2004 – 2008: Stanford Undergraduate Advising Program
Co-Founder, Director: The Stanford Film Lab, 2005-2008
Faculty Academic Advisor: Project Write, Stanford University and the community of Palo Alto
Board of Advisors: The Stanford Storytelling Project, 2007-present
Founding Member: Cine Campesino Film Collective, 2001-2003
Board of Advisors: Un Mundo Organization (Organization that provides humanitarian aid to Honduras), www.weareunmundo.org, 2002-2004.
Judge
Stanford University, Introduction to the Humanities Boothe Writing Prize Selection Committee, 2001-2002.
Editor/Member
Stanford University Program for Writing and Rhetoric Publications Committee, 2001- 2004
Editor
Warren Writing Program Literary Arts Magazine. UC San Diego, 1995-1996.
Founder
The UCSD Women’s Center Graduate Student Forum. A yearlong series of graduate student presentations sponsored by the UCSD Women’s Center, 1997-1998.
Graduate Literature Student Representative
Executive Committee, UC San Diego Literature Department, 1998-1999.
Graduate Student Representative
UC San Diego Women’s Center Advisory Board, 1997-1999.
President and Founding Member
Association of Graduate Literature Students, UC San Diego, 1996-1997.
Literature Department Representative
UC San Diego Graduate Student Association, 1996-1997.
Comparative Literature Representative
UC San Diego Graduate Student Committee, Literature Department, 1996-1997.
Graduate Program Review Board, UC San Diego Literature department, 1996.
LANGUAGES
Greek (excellent)
Latin (excellent)
Spanish (near-native fluency in speaking, reading and writing)
French (reading, some speaking)
FILM/TELEVISION EXPERIENCE
International Film Series, University of San Francisco. April 23,2005.Cine Campesino. Documentary screening.
Latin EyesTelevision Show, KRON, Producer: Naturalezas en Conflicto(shown in 2 segments) (7, 2004), The Delta(6, 2005), Tango Argentino (upcoming 2005). Short television segment screenings.
Naturalezas en Conflicto(May 1- August 30, 2004), Soka University Main Gallery, Founders Hall, Aliso Viejo, CA. Video installation.
Naturalezas en Conflicto, documentary on digital video produced by Cine Campesinoand the University of San Francisco (co-director, assistant producer), 2004.
Cine Campesino, documentary on digital video produced by Cine Campesinoand the University of San Francisco (assistant producer), 2003.
Kristi Michelle Wilson, PhD 