So Here’s the Lowdown on Stone Cold
Jeff Netto, Ph.D.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English
University of California, Santa Barbara
1998
Master's degree in English
University of California, Santa Barbara
1990
Bachelor's degree in English/Creative Writing
University of California, Los Angeles
1988
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Intertextuality and the Chess Motif: Shakespeare, Middleton, Greenaway.” Shakespeare, Italy and Intertextuality. Ed. Michele Marrapodi. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2005. 216 – 226.
“Chaplin and Méliès en abyme.” Imaginaires 9 (2003): 365 – 375.
“Sensuous Games: The Iconography of Chess in The Tempest.” Shakespeare and Intertextuality. Ed. Michele Marrapodi. Rome: Bulzoni, 2000. 281-91.
“Dickens with Kant and Sade.” Style 29 (Fall 1995): 441- 458.
Special issue on Psychoanalysis: Theory and Practice.
“Violence and the Scene of Writing: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and Technologies of Inscription.” The Image of Violence. Ed. Will Wright and Stephen Kaplan. Colorado Springs: University of Southern Colorado, 1995. 351-6.
"still no writ(h)ing figure": Writing, Allegory and the Object of Fantasy in The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Dickens World 8 (Summer 1992): 98-121.
“Chaplin and Méliès en abyme.” Conference on Repetition in the Arts. University of Reims, France—2002
“Sensuous Games: The Iconography of Chess in The Tempest.” Conference on Shakespeare and Intertextuality. Universitý di Palermo, Sicily—1999
“‘Let us not speak’: Derrida, Lacan, Beckett.”
South Central Regional Conference of
the Modern
Language Association. Memphis, Tennessee—1999
“Alienated Reading and the Politics of the Victorian Serial.” National Convention of the Modern Language Association. San Francisco, California—1998
“What’s Fair is Square: The Game of Reading in Nabokov’s Defense.” National Convention of the Modern Language Association. San Francisco, California—1998
“Brecht, Imperialism, and the Poetics of Subalternity.” South Central Regional Conference of the Modern Language Association. New Orleans, Louisiana—1998
“A Strategy for Reading and the Chances of Literature in Bleak House.” Conference on Game-Theory and 19th C. Literature (sponsored by UCSB’s Victorian Studies Group). University of California, Santa Barbara—1998
“Murder by Numbers: Charles Dickens, Jack the Ripper, and the Serial’s Signature.” South Central Regional Conference of the Modern Language Association. Dallas, Texas—1997
“Edward Scissorhands and the Art of Visual Design.” Fall 2004
“Post-Neorealism and the World of Fellini.” Fall 2003
“Hong Kong Action Cinema: The Wuxia Pian.” Spring 2003
“Unpacking Caligari’s Cabinet.” Fall 2002
“Cutting to the Chase with Run Lola Run.” Fall 2002
“Stripping the Light Fantastic: Hollywood Musicals and the Story of Sound.” Spring 2002
CURRENT TEACHING POSITION
Professor of English at Modesto Jr. College (since 1999).
Courses taught include
· English Composition
· Film Appreciation
· History of Cinema
PRIOR TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS
1996 - 1999 — Adjunct Professor of English
Orange Coast College
1994 – 1999 — Adjunct Professor of English
Saddleback College
1994 — Adjunct Professor of English
Fullerton College
1993 — Adjunct Professor of English
Palomar College
1990 – 1994 — Teaching Assistant / Teaching Associate
UCSB English Department
GRANTS AND AWARDS
California Virtual Campus Grant for Online Curriculum Development, 2002
Adjunct Faculty Member of the Year — Orange Coast College, 1999
Student Services Grant for Service Learning Program Development
— Orange Coast College, 1999