Pomona IMS Faculty
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Associate Professor of Media Studies
Office: Crookshank 110
(909) 607-1496
Kathleen_Fitzpatrick@pomona.edu
Academic History
B.A., M.F.A, Louisiana State University; Ph.D., New York University
Expertise Areas
Cultural Studies; Media Studies; Television; Postmodernism; Media Theory; Contemporary Fiction
Current Courses
- ENGL 170J Special Topics in American Literature
- MS 149 Topics in Media Theory
Research Interests
My research interests lie in the conjunction of contemporary fiction and other media forms, including film, television and the computer. This includes both the fictional representation of these media and the media adaptation of fictional texts.
Selected Publications
- "The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television." Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006. Co-editor, Pearson Custom Library: Introduction to Literature. Boston: Pearson, 2006. Revised edition, 2008.
- "CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts." Journal of Electronic Publishing 10.3. Fall 2007.(http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.305)
- "CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts." MediaCommons (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/). 15 October 2007.
- "MediaCommons: Scholarly Publishing in the Age of the Internet." MediaCommons (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/scholarlypublishing/). 29 March 2007.
- "The Literary Machine: Blogging the Literature Course." Forthcoming in Teaching Literature and Language Online. MLA Options for Teaching series.
- "Tune In, Turn On: The Novel, the Family, and the Plug-In Drug." Forthcoming in an online casebook on Curtis White’s Memories of My Father Watching TV. Dalkey Archive Press.
- "Introducing MediaCommons." If:book (http://www.futureofthebook.org/ blog). 17 July 2006.
- "On the Future of Peer Review in Electronic Scholarly Publishing." If:book (http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog). 28 June 2006.
- "On the Importance of the Collective in Electronic Publishing." The Valve (http://www.thevalve.org/go). 30 March 2006.
- "On the Future of Academic Publishing, Peer Review, and Tenure Requirements (Or, Remaking the Academy, One Electronic Text at a Time)." The Valve (http://www.thevalve.org/go). 6 January 2006.
- "Performing Don DeLillo: Theatricality, Subjectivity, and the Borders of Genre." Profils américains 16. Special issue: Don DeLillo. 2005.
- "The Exhaustion of Literature: Novels, Computers, and the Threat of Obsolescence." Contemporary Literature 43.3. Fall 2002.
- "The Unmaking of History: Baseball, Cold War, Underworld." In UnderWords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo’s Underworld, ed. Joseph Dewey and Steven Kellman. University of Delaware Press/Associated University Presses, 2002.
- "The Clockwork Eye: Technology, Woman, and the Decay of the Modern in Thomas Pynchon’s V." Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins, ed. Niran Abbas, Burhan Tufail, and Pedro Garcia-Caro. Fairleigh- Dickinson University Press/Associated University Presses, 2002.
Work in Progress
- Unbecoming Narratives: Death and Abjection in New Media" (book-length study of the disruptions in traditional narrative structure produced by contemporary media forms).
Awards and Honors
Graves Award in the Humanities, 2002
Pomona College, Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in
Teaching, 2001
Jennifer Friedlander
Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies and Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Office: LeBus 214
(909) 607-9196
Jennifer.Friedlander@pomona.edu
Education
B.A., Binghamton University; M.A. and Ph.D, University of Pittsburgh
Expertise Areas
Contemporary art controversies; Cultural Studies; film theory; psychoanalytic theory
Current Courses
- MS 49 Introduction to Media Studies: Print Media, Television and Popular Culture
- MS 147 Topics in Media Theory I
- MS 191 Media Studies Senior Seminar
- ARHI 148 Theories of the Visual
Research Interests
My work explores ways in which media and cultural products not only create and embody social and economic practices, but also precipitate viewer anxieties and pleasures. In this sense, I seek to bring together the basic premises of cultural studies with Lacanian psychoanalysis in order to bridge the cultural with the psychic. Specifically, I aim to develop a psychoanalytically-based feminist theory of the visual.
Selected Publications
- "How Should a Woman Look? Scopic Strategies for Sexuated Subjects," Journal for Psychoanalysis of Society and Culture, Spring 2003, vol. 8.1
- "The Accident that Will Have Happened: Barthes, Kertesz, and the Punctum," Octogon, Winter 2002
- "Sensations: Art Controversies and the Politics of Rearticulation" in The Images of the Twentieth Century: in Literature, Media and Society (W. Wright and S. Kaplan, eds., University of Colorado, 2000)
- "Presumed Innocence: Conflating the Real with the Represented," Caffeine, Issue 3, 1997
- "Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion."; Forthcoming with SUNY Press. Dec. 2007.
- "No Business Like Schmo Business: Reality TV and the Fetishistic Inversion." International Journal of Žižek Studies . Issue 1.3, Fall 2007
- "Affecting Art: Barthes, Kertèsz, and Lacan." Forthcoming in (Re)-turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies
- "The Deportation Installation: Staging Exile in Schlingensief’s ‘Please Love Austria’"forthcoming in edited book, Performing Places. Bucharest: Paideia Publishing House
Awards and Honors
- Austrian Room Committee Scholarship, 2000
Sheila Pinkel
Professor of Art, Pomona College
Rembrandt Hall 203
(909) 607-2685
Sheila_Pinkel@pomona.edu
Academic History
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Expertise Areas
Photography; War and Representation; Computer Graphics; History of
Photography
Current Courses
- ART 20 Introductory Photography
- ART 122 Intermediate Photography
- ART 123 Documentary Photography
- ART 199 Independent Study: Studio Art
Research Interests
Indochina; Hmong; War and Representation, Photography; Computer Graphics; History of Photography
Selected Publications
- Exhibit, 2007 Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca., "Then and Now," group ex.
- Exhibit, 2006 Lanitis Foundation, Cyprus, "In Transition" featured artist
- Exhibit, 2004 Hanoi University of the Arts, "Moving Ahead, Moving Foreward"
- Exhibit, 2003 Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca., "The Anti-War Show," group ex.
- Exhibit, 2002, Buenos Aires, Argentina, "Second Annual Art Biennial-Buenos Aires"
- Photo inclusion in Photographic Possibilities (Robert Hirsh, John Valentino; Focal Press; 2001)
- Exhibit, 2000 Silpacorn University, two-person exhibit, Bangkok, Thailand
- Photo inclusion, Naked to the Bone (Betty Ann Kevlis, 1997)
- Photo inclusion, Other Voices, Other Visions (Paul Von Blum, 1995)
- Photo inclusion, Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists, (Sylvia Moore, Mid-March Arts Press, 1989)
Awards and Honors
- Sherman Oaks Library Mural Commission, "Journey to Green Meadows Park Gate Commission," Department of Cultural Affairs Grant, 2003
- Sherman Oaks Library Mural Commission, "Journey to Tovangar, The World of the Tongva," 2001, unveiled 2003
- Hammer Award, Center for The Study of Political Graphics, 1996
- L.A. County Metropolitan Transit Authority station grant, 1994
- Artist of the Year, City of Santa Monica, Board of Education, 1988
- Sloan Foundation Grant, 1987, 1988 and 1990
- National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, 1979 and 1982