Homay King
Associate Professor of History of Art
Director of Program in Film Studies and Center for Visual Culture
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Telephone: 610-526-5397
Email: hking@brynmawr.edu
Thomas Hall - Room 249
On leave 2012 - 2013
Homay King teaches Film Studies in the Department of History of Art. Her fields of speciality include American cinema, film theory, psychoanalytic theory, and feminist film theory and criticism. She received her doctorate from the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley in 2002, with a dissertation entitled "Effaced Figures: Authorship and the American Cinema." She has published articles on the films of John Cassavetes (Camera Obscura 56), Valie Export (Discourse 22.2), and Michelangelo Antonioni (Fort Da 6.2), and on the photography of Jeff Wall in relation to film theory (Jeff Wall: Photographs, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2003).
Her book Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Projection, and the Enigmatic Signifier is forthcoming from Duke University Press.