Office Location: 321 Allen
Office Phone: (919) 684-3132
Email Address: smetzger@duke.edu

Teaching (Fall, 2009):

• English 158.01, Asian american theatre Synopsis

  Social sciences 107, MW 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

• English 271es.03, Sp top seminar iv Synopsis

  Languages 312, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

Office Hours:

Mondays 1:15 - 3:15pm

Education and Interests:

PhD, University of California at Davis

Asian/American studies; Chinese diaspora studies; film theory; queer theory; race, migration, sexuality; theatre and performance

Sean Metzger teaches broadly in (and out of) the Western dramatic canon as well as late 19th-21st century American, Francophone and “Sinophone” cinema, literature, and performance. He is working on a monograph entitled Looks Chinese: Fashioning Asian/American Spectatorship and has co-edited three volumes: Embodying Asian/American Sexualities (Lexington Books, 2009); Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (Intellect, 2009); and Race, Space, Place: the Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World (under review). In 2008, Metzger was the inaugural Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at Concordia University in Montreal. He has also been adjunct faculty at Antioch University, Loyola Marymount University and the USC School of Theatre. In addition to his academic work, he spent three years in social services at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center and as an independent consultant to school districts and other non-profit institutions. A closeted actor and director, Metzger occasionally creeps on or behind stage.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. with Olivia Khoo. Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures.  Intellect, 2009 [available here]
2. with Gina Masequesmay. Embodying Asian/American Sexualities.  Lexington Books, 2009 [CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739129031]
3. "Ripples in the Seascape: The Cuba Commission Report and the Idea of Freedom." Afro-Hispanic Review 27.1 (Spring, 2008): 105-121.
4. S. Metzger. "The Little (Chinese) Mermaid: Importing "Western" Femininity in Lou Ye's Suzhou he (Suzhou River)." How East Asian Films Are Reshaping National Identities: Essays on the Cinemas of China, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong. Ed. Andrew David Jackson, Michael Gibb, and Dave White. The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. 135-154.
5. "Patterns of Resistance?: Anna May Wong and the Fabrication of China in American Cinema of the late 30s." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 23.1 (2006): 1-11.

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