The Program in Sexuality Studies at Duke

Education:
PhD, University of California at Davis, 2005
MA, University of Southern California, 1998
BA Summa Cum Laude, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1995

Expertise:
American Literature
Dramatic Literature
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Film
Postcolonial Literature
Literary & Cultural Criticism
Modern to Contemporary
Theater History

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. with Olivia Khoo, Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (2009), Intellect [available here] .
2. with Michaeline Crichlow, Race, Space, Place: Making and Unmaking Freedoms in the Atlantic World, Cultural Dynamics, vol. 21 no. 3 (2009) .
3. with Gina Masequesmay, Embodying Asian/American Sexualities (2009), Lexington Books [CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739129031] .
4. S. Metzger, At the Vanishing Point: Theatre and Asian/American Critique, American Quarterly, vol. 63 no. 2 (2011), pp. 277-300 .
5. 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] .
6. 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 .
7. 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 .
8. 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 .

Research Description: Sean Metzger is interested in the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and national belonging as constructed through film, theatre and performance. Trained as a comparatist before moving his doctoral studies to a theatre department, Metzger continues to teach broadly in (and out of) the Western dramatic canon as well as late 19th-21st century American and Francophone literature and cinema. His writing focuses on Asian/American cultural production, with an emphasis on US-China relations and the Chinese diaspora. At Duke, Metzger is affiliated with the Asian/ Pacific Studies Institute, the Institute for Critical US Studies, the program in Film/Video/ Digital and the program in Women’s Studies as well as the departments of English and Theatre Studies. He is currently planning with Michaeline Crichlow a symposium called “Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World And Beyond—Interdisciplinary Conversations,” to be held in the spring of 2007. Prior to his arrival in the South, Metzger served as adjunct faculty at Antioch University (BA program), Loyola Marymount University (departments of American Cultures and Theatre) and the USC School of Theatre. He also spent three years working 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.