Sean Metzger, Assistant Professor of English and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Assistant Professor of Theater Studies
Office Location:
321 Allen
Office Phone:
(919) 684-3132
Email Address:
Office Hours:
T 6pm-8pm or by appointment
Education:
PhD
University of California at Davis
2005
MA
University of Southern California
1998
BA Summa Cum Laude
University of Colorado at Boulder
1995
Specialties:
American Literature Dramatic Literature Gender & Sexuality Studies Film Postcolonial Literature Literary & Cultural Criticism Modern to Contemporary Theater History
Representative Publications
with Olivia Khoo, Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures
(2009), Intellect [available here]
with Michaeline Crichlow, Race, Space, Place: Making and Unmaking Freedoms in the Atlantic World,
Cultural Dynamics, vol. 21 no. 3
(2009)
S. Metzger, At the Vanishing Point: Theatre and Asian/American Critique,
American Quarterly, vol. 63 no. 2
(2011),
pp. 277-300
S. Metzger, Le Rugissement du Lion: Mapping and Memory in Montreal’s Chinese/Canadian Street Theater,
in New Essays in Canadian Theatre Vol. 1: Asian Canadian Theatre, edited by Nina Lee Aquino and Ric Knowles
(2011), Playwrights Canada Press [html]
Ripples in the Seascape: The Cuba Commission Report and the Idea of Freedom,
Afro-Hispanic Review, vol. 27 no. 1
(Spring, 2008),
pp. 105-121
S. Metzger, The Little (Chinese) Mermaid: Importing "Western" Femininity in Lou Ye's Suzhou he (Suzhou River),
in How East Asian Films Are Reshaping National Identities: Essays on the Cinemas of China, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong, edited by Andrew David Jackson, Michael Gibb, and Dave White
(2007),
pp. 135-154, The Edwin Mellen Press
Patterns of Resistance?: Anna May Wong and the Fabrication of China in American Cinema of the late 30s,
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 23 no. 1
(2006),
pp. 1-11
