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 Christina Klein Department of English College of Arts and Sciences
kleinc@bc.edu
Office Location Carney Hall Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617.552.3708 Fax: 617.552.4220
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EDUCATION
B.A., Wesleyan University, 1986 Ph.D., Yale University, 1997 ACADEMIC PROFILE
Academic specializations: American studies, film studies, American literature, the literature and culture of America’s encounters with Asia. Prof. Klein is currently writing a book about the globalization of U.S. and Asian film industries.
COURSES
EN082 - Literature and Society
EN133 - Narrative and Interpretation
EN383.01 - Asian American Film
EN495.01 - Asian Cinema
EN626.01 - Studies in American Culture
EN782.01 - Issues and Methods in American Studies
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
• Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 (2003) • "Martial Arts and the Globalization of U.S. and Asian Film Industries," Comparative American Studies (2004) • “Crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon: A Diasporic Reading,” Cinema Journal (2004) • "Family Ties and Political Obligation: The Discourse of Adoption and the Cold War Commitment to Asia," in Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1964, ed. Christian Appy (2000) • “Transnational Conversations: A Web Pedagogy,” with Jeffrey Partridge, Academic Exchange Quarterly (2003) • Articles on contemporary Asian and American film in the Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, YaleGlobal, South China Morning Post, Singapore Straits Times, Korea Herald, and Outlook India. .
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