Writing — ϲ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:58:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Steven Cohan /faculty-experts/steven-cohan/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:27:03 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=155526 Steven Cohan is a Dean’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the English Department in the College of Arts and Sciences at ϲ. Professor Cohan taught courses and supervised graduate research in film studies, popular culture, gender and sexualities, and cultural studies. His writing focuses primarily on queer theory, narrative theory, films and musicals, and the history of Hollywood.

Cohan is a highly regarded writer, having written many books including books include  (1988, co-authored with Linda M. Shires),  (1993, co-edited with Ina Rae Hark),  (1997, co-edited with Ina Rae Hark), (1997),(2001),(2005),(2008)(2010),Hollywood by Hollywood (2018), and Routledge Film Guidebooks: Hollywood Musicals(2019).

His essays have appeared in Camera Obscura, Screen, and Cinema Journal as well as many anthologies. Since retiring he has written essays on Danny Kaye’s queer persona, The Boys in the Band, Billy Wilder’s apartment plots, Marilyn Monroe biopics, the cold war cycle of musicals set in Paris, Bob Hope’s comedian musicals, Judy Garland as a cult star, Esther Williams’s Latin lovers, Queer Hollywood Musicals of the 1940s, the 1937 A Star Is Born, and Fosse/Verdon. At present he is starting a new book that examines the connections between film noir and the woman’s film of the 1940s and 1950s. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean.

He was awarded the Chancellor’s Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement in 2006 and the Graduate School’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education in 2014. He was President of the Society of Cinema Studies from 2015-2017.

]]> Brice Nordquist /faculty-experts/brice-nordquist/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 19:13:23 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=156145 Brice Nordquist is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition and Dean’s Professor of Community Engagement in the College of Arts and Sciences at ϲ. Professor Nordquist is interested in how students see themselves as makers of the communities and identities that constitute the educational, occupational, civic, and social organizations in which they participate.

Broadly speaking, Professor Nordquist’s research investigates relations among language and literacy practices across media, educational and occupational institutions, material and digital spaces, and cultural and geopolitical borders. His current research focus examines global proliferations and local implementations of concurrent enrollment writing courses. Currently Norquidst is engaged in a multi-sited ethnography that traces representations and enactments of concurrent enrollment courses within and across schools in the US and abroad.

Professor Nordquist has written a number of highly regarded books, including (Routledge 2017), which follows eleven students from different tracks of English in a “failing” public high school through their first years at research universities, colleges, and full-time jobs. Nordquist has also coedited the collection  (Utah State 2017) with Bruce Horner and Susan Ryan.

 

 

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