Eva Rueschmann

Biography
Eva Rueschmann, professor of cultural studies, received her B.A. in English and French languages and literatures from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She teaches courses in world literature and film, psychoanalytic theory and criticism, cross-cultural readings of the short story, introductions to cultural studies and criticism, modernism in literature and film, and migration, exile, and identity. She has published articles on Senegalese novelist Mariama Ba, African-American writers Jessie Fauset and Dorothy West, filmmakers Alan Rudolph and Margarethe von Trotta, and psychoanalytic and cultural readings of sister relationships in contemporary world cinema. Her book, Sisters on Screen: Siblings in Contemporary Cinema was published by Temple University Press in spring 2000. She also edited a book on exile and migration in cinema, Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities (University Press of Mississippi, 2003). More recently, Eva published essays on director Jane Campion in a special issue of Post-Script (2005) and in the book, New Zealand Filmmakers (Wayne State University Press, 2007). Her essay, "Coming of Age at the Edge of the World: Female Adolescents in Vigil (1984), Rain (2001), Whale Rider (2002) and In My Father's Den (2004)," appeared in the inaugural 2008 issue of the CNZS Bulletin of New Zealand Studies, published by the Centre for New Zealand Studies at Birkbeck College, University London. This essay was also translated into Polish and published in Kino Nowej Zelandii (The Cinema of New Zealand), edited by Ian Conrich (Krakow: Ha!art, 2009).

Education

 * B.A. in English and French Literatures and Languages, Ruprecht-Karls University at Heidelberg, Germany, 1984
 * M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988
 * Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994

Office Hours
I will be on sabbatical during 2011-2012.

Courses
HACU-277 Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Cinema (spring 2011)

Advised: 2009 Division IIIs
Vincent Nero, Division III: "White Zombie" remake

Nick Francomano, Division III: "Heredity in Latin American Literature"[]

Lucy Randall-Knipe, Divsion III: "Alcoholism in American Literature"

Kerey Viswanathan, Division III: Film project "Going Nowhere"

Advised: 2011 Division IIIs
Sam Berman, "Last Night" (screenplay), chair

Ilienne Kleint, chair

Arielle Soutar, member

Research
I am currently conducting research and writing for a book-length study of coming-of-age stories and postcolonial identity in Australian and New Zealand cinema.

Community Involvement
Board member and treasurer of the American Association of Australian Literary Studies []