Since 2003, I have taught a wide variety of courses in the department of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.

My regular teaching schedule includes undergraduate courses on the history of international cinema and on national cinemas (and histories of film and media in relation to questions of the national, a slightly different angle) as well as undergraduate senior seminars on special topics related to my research areas. I remain passionate about teaching our introduction to film studies course in rotation with a colleague.

My graduate courses have included core courses for the program as well as special topics in my research areas.

I have also taught two undergraduate seminars in Porter College, with undergraduates from a range of majors. The first seminar was in conjunction with the symposium I co-curated, “Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from Arab Worlds.” The second, in conjunction with my three-year term as Pavel Machotka Chair of Creative Studies in Porter, was on film curation and programming. Students programmed an event on Arab cinema on our campus.

I’ve enjoyed opportunities for class visits with colleagues, most recently a special class on Moroccan cinema with Dartmouth study abroad students in Rabat in 2019, and I will be taking a group of students from UCSC to Morocco in 2023 (rescheduled from 2020, and coronavirus willing. This course will be open to students from other universities, too; contact me for more details).

Before taking up the position of assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz in 2003, I taught courses as an adjunct professor at UCSC (2002-03), UC Berkeley (2002), Stanford University (2001-02), and Duke University (2001).

Courses taught:

Undergraduate:

Film 20A: Introduction to Film Studies

Film 132A: International Cinema 1930-1960

Film 132B: International Cinema 1960-present

Film 168: National Cinema and Culture

• Syrian and Lebanese cinema
• Arab Cinema
• Australian and New Zealand Cinema
• New Zealand Cinema
• Francophone African Cinema

Film 194A: Senior Seminar in Film Theory

• “Modernity and Modernism.”

Film 194E: Senior Seminar in International Cinema

• “Colonial/Postcolonial Cinemas”
• “Globalization, Gender, and Sexuality in Cinema.”
• “Postcolonial Theory in Cinema.”
• “After Orientalism.”
• “Critical Resistance in Arab Film and Video.”

Porter College:

• Porter 33: “Film and Visual Culture from Arab Worlds.”
• Porter 135M: “New Directions in Arab and Middle Eastern Film and Video.”

Graduate:

Film 200A: Introduction to Graduate Study

Film 200B: Introduction to Graduate Theory and Praxis I

Film 226: Queer Theory and Global Film and Media

Film 231: Topics in Postcolonial Theories, Film, and Media

• “Visualizing Arab Modernities.”
• “Modernisms and Modernities.”