Michael Joshua Rowin—Curriculum Vitae mjrowin@ufl.edu
414 NE 5th Ave., Apt. #2 4008 Turlington Hall Gainesville, FL 32601 P.O. Box 117310 914-275-1058 Gainesville, FL 32611
Education
University of Florida, Department of English, Film and Media Studies
PhD Expected 5/2016
Dissertation: Aural Assault: Noise, Perception, and Politics in the Cinema
Committee: Barbara Mennel (chair), Maureen Turim, Anastasia Ulanowicz, and Eric Kligerman
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, M.A., Cinema Studies 5/2004
University of Rochester, B.A. (with Highest Honors), Film Studies 5/2002
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
Graduate School Fellowship, Department of English, University of Florida 8/2011 - 5/2016
Travel Grant, Graduate Student Council, University of Florida 3/2015
Conference Grant, Society for Cinema & Media Studies 3/2013
Barbara J. Rubin Award for Excellence in Film Studies, University of Rochester 5/2002
Selected Publications and Articles
Articles
“Stella! The Anarchic Peak of the Wet Hot American Summer Gang.” Brooklyn Magazine. August 3, 2015. Online.
“Everyone’s Everyone: Michael Joshua Rowin on Synecdoche, New York.” Reverse Shot. July 4, 2010. Online.
“Flashes of Brilliance: A Brief History of the Flicker Film.” Moving Image Source. June 11, 2009. Online.
“Caught on Camera: The Photographic Investigations of Blow-Up and (nostalgia).” Moving Image Source.
April 21, 2009. Online.
“The White Negro (After Norman Mailer): 2008 Remix.” The L Magazine. September 17, 2008. Online.
“Game Theory: How We Turn Sports Into Stories.” The L Magazine. July 2, 2008. Online.
“This Magic Moment: Michael Joshua Rowin on Mulholland Drive.” Reverse Shot. July 27, 2006. Online.
Book Reviews
Brakhage’s Childhood. Jane (Brakhage) Wodening. Film Comment. Forthcoming.
Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema. Lilya Kaganovsky and Masha Salazkina, eds. Cineaste 40.2 (Spring 2015): 78-79. Print.
Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities. Geraldine Pratt and Rose Marie San Juan. Film Comment 50.5 (September/October 2014): 79. Print.
Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins. Noah Isenberg. Film Comment 50.2 (March/April 2014): 79. Print.
Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush. David Greven. Cineaste 35.4 (Fall 2010): 66-67. Print.
Reviews of Films, DVDs, Retrospectives, and Film Festivals
Taxi. Jafar Panahi. Brooklyn Magazine. October 1, 2015. Online.
The Clowns. Federico Fellini. Cineaste 36.3 (Summer 2011): 56-57. Print.
“The Films of Alain Tanner.” Artforum. April 12, 2010. Online.
New York Film Festival 2008 Dispatch. Stop Smiling. October 9, 2008. Online.
“Godard’s 60s” and “1968: An International Perspective” retrospectives. The L Magazine. May 7, 2008. Print.
Inland Empire. David Lynch. Reverse Shot. October 9, 2006. Online.
Interviews
“Crossing Lines: Barbara Kopple.” Barbara Kopple Interviews. Gregory Brown, ed. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1995. Print.
“Pulp Fictions and Hypertexts with Robert Coover.” The L Magazine. April 1, 2010. Online.
“Tom, Tom, All Grown Up: An Interview with Ken Jacobs.” The L Magazine. May 15, 2009. Online.
“Toy Cameras: An Interview with David Lynch.” Reverse Shot. December 8, 2006. Online.
DVD Liner Notes
“Apocalypse Now” essay, Dillinger is Dead DVD. March 16, 2010.
Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films Box Set. October 24, 2006.
Conferences
“Fassbinder, Noise, and Politics,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 3-4/2016
“Noise and Trash in the Work of David Lynch,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 3/2015
“The Cinema of Duplicitous Self-Reflexivity,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 3/2013
“Evocation and Provocation: Norman Mailer’s Revolutionary Subjectivization,” Norman Mailer Society Conference 10/2012
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 8/2011-present
Film Analysis, Writing About Modern Sound, Writing Through Media, Rhetoric and Academic Research
Adjunct Professor, Hunter College, New York, NY 1/2005-5/2011
Film History I, Film History II, Practical Film Analysis, Introduction to Film
Adjunct Professor, Westchester Community College, Westchester, New York 1/2010-5/2011
Intro to Early Film, Intro to Modern Film
Professional Service
President, Graduate Film Studies Group 8/2013-present
Co-organized 2015 GFSG Conference “Teaching 24 Times Per Second: Film and Pedagogy” 2/2015
Member, Graduate Film Studies Group
Moderated panels, organized 2013 GFSG Conference “Film & Philosophy: Corpus/Bodies” 2/2013
Research and Teaching Interests
Film Analysis; Film History; Media Theory; Cinematic Sound Aesthetics & Technology; Experimental & Avant-garde Cinema; Self-reflexivity in the Cinema; Politics & Cinema; Rhetoric & Composition
Professional Affiliations
Society for Cinema & Media Studies; Sound Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SCMS); Norman Mailer Society