Associate Professor
B.A., Wesleyan University, 1986
Ph.D., Yale University, 1997
Carney Hall
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617.552.3708
Fax: 617.552.4220A
kleinc@bc.edu
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
EN081 - Literary Themes
EN373 - Korean Cinema
EN383 - Asian American Film
EN782 - 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.