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Curriculum Vitae
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42012 elizabeth.alsop@wku.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of Comparative Literature (2012)
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Certificate in Film Studies
M.A. Department of Comparative Literature (2008)
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
B.A. Department of Comparative Literature (2001)
Brown University
Magna cum laude with Honors
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
206 Myrtle Street
Nashville, TN 37206
718-755-8512
ealsop@gmail.com
2012– Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies
Western Kentucky University
2011-2012 Instructional Technology Fellow
New York City College of Technology, City University of New York
2010-2011 Writing Fellow, Writing Across the Curriculum Program
York College, City University of New York
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
2015 “Neorealism in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Restoring the Aura in Olmi’s Il posto .” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 32.2
: 179-191.
2014 “The Imaginary Crowd: Neorealism and the Uses of
74: 27-41.
Coralità.
” The Velvet Light Trap
“Femmes Fatales: Elena Ferrante’s L’amore molesto and I giorni dell’abbandono .” Italica
91.3: 466-485.
“The Mercurial Quality of Being’: Sudden Moves in Beau Travail and Billy Budd .”
Adaptation 7.1: 14-24.
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2012 “Refusal to Tell: Withholding Heroines in Hawthorne, Wharton, and Coetzee.”
College Literature 39.3: 84-105.
Essays and Reviews
2015 “The Unbearable Darkness of Prestige Television.” The Atlantic. 8 July.
2014 “The Grandmother as Godfather: Justified’s Mags Bennett.” In Media Res. 29 April.
“The Show Must Go On: Why Don’t We Want Our TV Shows to End?” The
Los Angeles Review of Books. 17 April.
“Not So Hot for Teacher.” The New York Times Magazine. 16 September: 74-75. 2012
2011
2009
“Harun Mehmedinovic’s
“Rebecca Messbarger’s
In the Name of the Son.
The Lady Anatomist
“Not Your Mother’s Literary Classics.”
” (Review)
.” (Review)
Kinokultura.
Bookforum.
The Chronicle Review.
July/August.
February/March.
25 October: B16.
Translations
2011 Antonio Costa’s "Impossible Voyages and Extraordinary Adventures in Early
Science Fiction Cinema” and Viva Paci’s “No One-Way Ticket to the Moon.” Méliès'
A Trip to the Moon: Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination . Ed. Matthew Solomon.
(SUNY Press)
Manuscripts in Submission
“‘It’s no longer your film’: Fictions of Authorship in Mulholland Drive.” Revise and resubmit to Journal of Film and Video .
Manuscripts in Preparation
Making Conversation: The Poetics of Talk in Modernist Fiction. Book manuscript prepared for submission. (70,000 words)
“The short story and adaptation.” The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story.
Edinburgh University Press (2016). Book chapter under contract.
‘The Voice Beyond Speech’: Vocal Aesthetics in Art Cinema . Book prospectus in development.
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHPS
2015 Fellow, Project Narrative Summer Institute, The Ohio State University, June 8-19
Faculty Research Grant, Western Kentucky University
2014 Research and Creative Activity Program Award, Western Kentucky University
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2014 Faculty Undergraduate Student Engagement Grant, Western Kentucky University
2012 International Society for the Study of Narrative Award for Best Graduate Student Essay
2012 Research Fellow, The Wertheim Study, New York Public Library, Jan-June
2011 Mellon THATCamp Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
2010 Sue Rosenberg Zalk Travel Award, CUNY Graduate Center
2009 NeMLA Graduate Student Travel Grant, Northeast Modern Language Association
2009 Doctoral Research Grant, CUNY Graduate Center
2007 Doctoral Research Grant, CUNY Graduate Center
2005 University Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center
2005 Chancellor's Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized
2015 “Quiet Innovations in the Modernist Novel,” with Dora Zhang. Modernist Studies
Association Conference. Boston, MA. November 6-9.
2013 “Vocal Positioning: Mapping the Fictional Voice,” with Leah Anderst. American
Comparative Literature Association Conference. Toronto, CA. April 4-6.
2011 “Wandering Women: Female Itinerancy on Film.” Northeast Modern Language
Association Conference. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. April 7-10.
Selected Papers
2015 “Modernism and the Poetics of Talk.” Modernist Studies Association Conference.
Boston, MA. November 6-9.
(Invited Talk) “Serial Pretensions: The Problem of Tone in Prestige TV Drama.”
Thinking Serially Conference. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. April 23-24.
2014
“Missing Words: The Withheld Subtitle in Contemporary American Cinema.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Montreal, CA. March 25-29.
“Towards a Theory of Dialogue in Modernist Fiction.” International Conference on
Narrative. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. March 27-29.
“Emphasis Added: Theorizing Dialogue in European Art Cinema.” Society for
Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Seattle, WA. March 19-23, 2014.
2013 “The Paradoxical Voice: Woolf and Faulkner’s Implausible Speech” (Presenter).
American Comparative Literature Association Conference. Toronto, CA. April 4-6.
“The Imaginary Crowd: Neorealism and the Uses of Coralità .” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Chicago, IL. March 6-10.
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2012
“Fellini and the Aesthetic of the Fotoromanzo .” Modern Language Association
Conference. Boston, MA. January 3-6.
“‘Was that a Sentence?’: The WB and the Rise of Meta-Speak.” Flow Media
Conference. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. November 1-3.
“Consensual Speaking in James’s The Ambassadors.
” International Conference on
Narrative. Las Vegas, NV. March 15-17.
2011 “The Emotional Life of Modernism” (Seminar Participant). Modernist Studies
Association Conference. Buffalo, NY. October 6-9.
2010
“Sudden Moves in Melville’s Billy Budd and Claire Denis’s Beau Travail.” Modern
Language Association Conference. Los Angeles, CA. January 6-9.
“‘Now It Begins to Say It’: Thinking in Pronouns in As I Lay Dying .” American
Comparative Literature Association Conference. New Orleans, LA. April 4-5.
“‘Back Answers’: The Dialogic Imperative in Joyce’s The Dead .” College English
2009
Association (CEA) Conference. San Antonio, TX. March 25-27.
“Neorealism in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Restoring the Aura in Olmi’s Il
Posto .” American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Conference. St. John’s
College, New York, NY. May 2-4.
"‘It's No Longer Your Film’: Fictions of Authorship in David Lynch's Mulholland
Drive ." American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference. Harvard
University, Boston, MA. March 26-29.
2008 "The Problem of History in Antonioni's Blow-Up ." Framed: Delimiting the Film Image ,
Graduate Conference in Film Studies. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.
April 10-11.
"Body Language: The Performance of Writing in Chantal Akerman's Je tu il elle ." Play:
Towards a Critical Concept , Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature. University of California, Irvine, CA. April 4-5.
2006
November 16-17.
CAMPUS TALKS
2014
“Figures of Descent in Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la Maison Usher.” Graduate Student
Conference in Comparative Literature. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.
“Gender Identity in Lena Dunham’s Girls.
” Gender and Women’s Studies Film
Series Roundtable. Western Kentucky University, September 10.
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2013 “From Standing and Delivering to Breaking Bad: The Fate of the Teacher in
Popular Culture.” Thoughts on Pop Colloquia Series. Western Kentucky University,
March 26.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Western Kentucky University, Assistant Professor, English and Film
Introduction to College Writing (Spring 2013, Spring 2014)
Introduction to Literature (Fall 2012, 2013, 2014)
Introduction to English Studies (Spring 2014)
Writing in the Disciplines (Fall 2012)
British Literature II (Spring 2013, Spring 2014)
World Literature (Fall 2013, Fall 2015)
The Modernist Novel (Graduate) (Spring 2016)
Film Adaptation (Fall 2013)
Film Genres (Film Noir) (Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
World Cinema (Fall 2015)
Italian Cinema (Spring 2014)
Hunter College (CUNY), Adjunct Instructor, Film and Media Studies
Practical Film Analysis (Fall 2008)
Italian Cinema (Fall 2009)
Women and Cinema (Fall 2009, Spring 2010)
Film Genres (Film Noir) (Spring 2010)
Queens College (CUNY), Graduate Teaching Fellow, Comparative Literature
Global Literature I (Fall 2006, Spring 2007)
Global Literature II (Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008)
Modern Poetry (Summer 2007)
Literature and Film (Fall 2008)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Faculty Development Committee, Western Kentucky University, 2014-present
Cultural Enhancement Committee, Western Kentucky University, 2013-present
Popular Culture Curriculum Committee, Western Kentucky University, 2013-present
Film Curriculum Committee, Western Kentucky University, 2012-present
Western Kentucky Film Festival Planning Committee, Western Kentucky University, 2012-present
Co-Organizer, Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture, Department of
English, Western Kentucky University, 2012, 2013, 2015
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Departmental Exam Committee, Western Kentucky University, 2015
University Senate (Alternate), Western Kentucky University, 2013-2014
American Ethnic Literatures Search Committee, Department of English, Western Kentucky
University, 2013-2014
Program Assessment Committee, Department of English, Western Kentucky University, 2013-2014
Graduate Advisory Committee, Department of English, Western Kentucky University, 2012-2014
Co-Chair and Co-Founder, Cinema Studies Group (CSG), CUNY Graduate Center, 2007-2012
Student Representative, Film Studies Advisory Committee, CUNY Graduate Center, 2006-2010
Student Representative, Comparative Literature Executive Committee, CUNY Graduate Center,
2007-2010
Co-Organizer, Cinematic Desire, Graduate Conference in Film Studies. CUNY Graduate Center, New
York, NY. March 4-5, 2010
Graduate Student Council Representative, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008-2009
Co-Organizer, Framed: Delimiting the Film Image , Graduate Conference in Film Studies. CUNY
Graduate Center, New York, NY. April 10-11, 2008
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Film Programming Experience
2010-2012 Film Programmer and Host, Brooklyn Public Library
Editorial Experience
2004-2005 Assistant Editor, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, New York, NY
2002-2004 Research Assistant, Vogue Magazine, New York, NY
2001-2002 Editorial Assistant, Bedford/St. Martin’s, New York, NY
LANGUAGES
Italian: High proficiency in reading; proficiency in speaking and writing
French: Proficiency in reading
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
International Society for the Study of Narrative
REFERENCES
André Aciman, Distinguished Professor
Department of Comparative Literature
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY, 10016
( 212) 817-8170 aaciman@gc.cuny.edu
John Brenkman, Distinguished Professor
Department of English
Baruch College, CUNY
55 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10010
(646) 312-3921 john.brenkman@baruch.cuny.edu
Amy Herzog, Associate Professor
Department of Media Studies
Queens College, CUNY
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367
(718) 997-2956 amy.herzog@qc.cuny.edu
Joseph McElhaney, Professor (Teaching Reference)
Department of Film and Media Studies
Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
(212) 650-3606 joemcel@aol.com
James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor
Department of English
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-6065 phelan.1@osu.edu
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