Homay King

Assistant Professor of History of Art
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Telephone: 610-526-5397
Email: hking@brynmawr.edu
Thomas Hall - Room 249
Office hours: Monday 11am-1pm and by appointment

Curriculum vitae

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.