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INEZ KATHLEEN HEDGES ADDRESSES

Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115 Phone: (617) 373-3654 [email protected]

EDUCATION

Radcliffe and Harvard Colleges, 1964-68. A.B., Classics and Allied Fields (Greek and German), 1968 Freie Universität Berlin, 1968-69 (DAAD fellow) University of Wisconsin, 1973-76 (E. B. Fred fellow). Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 1976.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Recipient of a provost grant to run the Advanced Academic Learning Community on the Middle East and the lecture/film series “The Middle East: Focus on Israel and Palestine,” fall 2008 Recipient of a provost grant to run the Advanced Academic Learning Community on the Holocaust in conjunction with my new play “Children of Drancy,” fall 2007 Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies, 2006-9 DAAD Faculty Study Visit to Berlin, 1991 Fulbright Research Scholar, Verviers, Belgium, 1982-83 NEH Summer Stipend, 1980 Knapp Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975-76 E.B. Fred Fellow, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973-75 DAAD (German Government) Fellowship, 1968-69

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Northeastern University: Professor of French, German, and Cinema Studies, 1991- present; Associate Prof., 1989-91; Assistant Prof., 1983-89; Director, Program in Cinema Studies, 1983- present Duke University: Assistant Prof. French, 1976-82 Faculty, 1987 International Honors Program in “Film, Politics, and Social Change” (Berlin, Rome, Paris, and London)

TEACHING

Undergraduate: Film Theory; French Film and Society; Authorship in the Cinema: Buñuel; Modern German Literature and Film; Film and Psychoanalysis; Modernism/Modernity and Film; 20th Century Experimental French Literature; Surrealism; Israel/Palestine Film; French Film and the German Occupation of France, 1940-44 Graduate: Film Theory; Topics in Comparative Literature: Faust; Introduction to Cultural Studies; Theory and Practice of Translation Film Noir; Film, Narrative, and Memory; Topics in Film: Surrealism

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BOOKS Framing Faust: Twentieth Century Cultural Struggles (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). Reviewed in Comparative Literature Studies, Socialism and Democracy, Das Argument, Goethe Yearbook Review, and others Breaking the Frame: Film Language and the Experience of Limits. Indiana University Press, 1991. Reviewed in Choice, The French Review, Womanspeak, Feminist Bookstore News, Signs, and others Languages of Revolt: Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film. Duke University Press, 1983. Reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, University of Hartford Studies in Modern Literature, Film Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, The Centennial Review, World Literature Today, The French Review, Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, and others DRAMATIC WORKS Children of Drancy: a Montage of Voices, Performed by the Northeastern Univ. Department of Theatre in October-November 2007. Children of Drancy DVD, distributed worldwide to Holocaust Museums and Memorials, 2009 ARTICLES/CHAPTERS IN BOOKS "The Cinematic Writing of Maurice Roche." Visible Language 12 (1978): 341-80. "Translation and the Creative Process." Pacific Quarterly 5.1 (1980): 87-93. "Oedipus in the Labyrinth: Urban Myths in Kafka, Donoso, and Robbe-Grillet." Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the ICLA. Innsbruck: 20-24 August 1980. "Dada and Surrealist Literary Frames." Science, Technology and the Humanities 3.1 (1980): 62-67. "Surrealist Metaphor: Frame Theory and Componential Analysis," Poetics Today 4.2 (1983): 275-95. "The Radio Plays of Franz Mon: Concrete Sound." Dada/Surrealism 12 (1983): 60-69. "History, Style, Authorship: The Question of Origins in the New German Cinema." Journal of Contemporary History 19.1 (1984): 171-87 (with co-author John Bernstein) "The Surrealist Inheritance of Franz Mon and Maurice Roche." Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. New York: 20-24 August 1982. "Raymond Queneau mytholomane" (The Myth Maker Raymond Queneau), Temps mêlés (Belgium) 2528 (1985): 145-55. "Form and Meaning in the French Film, I: Time and Space." The French Review 54 (1980): 27-36. "Form and Meaning in the French Film, II: Point of View." The French Review 54 (1980): 288-98. "Form and Meaning in the French Film, III: Identification." The French Review 55 (1982): 207-17. "Form and Meaning in the French Film, IV: Language." The French Review 58 (1984): 223-35. "The Myth of the Perfect Woman: Cinema as machine célibataire." L'Esprit créateur 26.4 (l986):26-37. "Constellated Visions: Man Ray's L'Étoile de mer" in Rudi Kuenzli, ed. Dada and Surrealist Film (New York: Willis Locker & Owens, 1987): 99-109. “Afterword,” Pierrot mon ami, trans. Barbara Wright (Elmwood Park, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1987). "L'Étoile de mer: Notes on the Manuscript" in Rudi Kuenzli, ed. Dada and Surrealist Film, 207-19. "Film Writing and the Experience of Limits," in The Senses of Stanley Cavell, ed. Richard Fleming and Michael Payne (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press, 1989). "Raymond Queneau et la peinture" in Raymond Queneau encyclopédiste?, ed. Mary-Lise Billot (Paris: Editions du Limon, 1990): 195-212.

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"The Insurgent Writing of Gisèle Prassinos," in Dada/Surrealism 18 (1990): 27-31; this issue was reprinted in book form (MIT Press) and also appeared in Chinese translation in 1996. My translations of Prassinos appeared in the same issue. "Méliès the Magician," in A Trip to the Movies: Georges Méliès Filmmaker and Magician (1861-1938), ed. Paolo Cherchi Usai (Rochester: International Museum of Photography George Eastman House, 1991). “Jean Luc Godard’s Hail Mary: Cinema’s Virgin Birth,” in Maryel Locke and Charles Warren,eds., Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1993). "Always Just Over the Horizon: The East German Intellectual and the Elusive Public Sphere." Socialism and Democracy 16/17 (1993): 59-75. Reprinted in Marxism in the Postmodern Age (NY: Guilford Books, 1994). "Identity and Politics: Berlin Film Festival '93." Jump Cut 38 (1993): 123-26. “Transnational Corporate Culture and Cultural Resistance.” Socialism and Democracy 18 (Spring 1995): 151-64. “Black Independent Film: an interview with Haile Gerima.”Socialism and Democracy 20 (Summer 1996): 119-27. “Quelques réflexions à la fois comiques et sérieuses sur Raymond Queneau et le cinéma.” Pleurire avec Queneau: Temps mêlés (Belgium), No. 150 + 65-68 (1997): 249-56. “Surrealistische Aesthetik im Film—Charlie Chaplin, Sergeij Eisenstein und Louis Aragon.” [Cinematic Aspects of Surrealist Aesthetics] Weg und Ziel (Austria), 55.2 (May 1997): 25-31. “Fotomontage,” in Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, ed. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Vol. 4 (Berlin: Argument Verlag, 1999) 745-53. “Faustische Pakte: Bilder des Fortschritts in der Popularkultur des USA.” [Faustian Bargains: Images of Progress in US Popular Culture] Das Argument. Zeitschift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 230, Vol. 41.2/3 (1999) 396-404. “Faust and Utopia: Socialist Visions.” Socialism and Democracy 25, 1999: 47-72. Review article for Science and Society of Film and the American Left: a Research Guide, by M. Keith Booker.Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999 Review article for Socialism and Democracy of Selling Hollywood to the World, by John Trumpbour (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002) Review article for Science and Society of The Cineaste Interviews 2 by Gary Crowdus and Dan Georgakas (Chicago: Lake View Press, 2002) “Illusion,” Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, ed. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Vol. 6/I (Berlin: Argument Verlag, 2004) 780-88. “Karikatur,” Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, ed. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Vol. 6/I (Berlin: Argument Verlag, 2006) [with co-author Peter Jehle], 388-96. “The Aesthetics of Resistance: Thoughts on Peter Weiss,” Socialism and Democracy 41, 2006: 69-78. “Signifiyin’ and Intertextuality: Killer of Sheep and Black Independent Film,” Socialism and Democracy 42, 2007: 133-143. “Stan Brakhage’s Film Testament: The Four Faust Films,” in Alexander Graf, ed., Avant-Garde Film (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007) Review article of Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch, Das Argument 271 (2007), 464-66. Review article on Boston Palestine Film Festival, Socialism and Democracy 48 (2009), 208-11. Review article of Michael Löwy, Morning Star, in Das Argument 282 (2009) 673-75. “Drancy: History, Memory, Representation.” In Témoigner. Entre Histoire et Mémoire, Auschwitz Foundation (forthcoming) SELECTED RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES

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[Complete list of over 50 titles, since 1974, available on request; includes talks given at the Society for Cinema Studies (SCS), the Society for Critical Exchange, the Modern Language Association (MLA), the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics; and guest lectures at Harvard, Brown, NYU, the University of Minnesota, Indiana University at Bloomington, Tel Aviv University, the University of Konstanz, the Universidad de los Andes, etc.] "Art conceptuel et humour noir," International Symposium on Humour and Surrealism at Cérisy-la-Salle, 1989 "Dada Film and Photomontage," Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Fall 1991 "Always Just Over the Horizon: the East German Intellectual and the Public Sphere," Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst, Mass., 1992 Keynote address, Lehigh University Conference on (Re)Fusing the Frame, February 1992 "Signifyin' and Intertextuality in Black Independent Cinema," ACLA, Bloomington, 1993 "Raymond Queneau et le cinéma comique muet,” International Conference on Raymond Queneau, Thionville, 1994 "Film Metaphor Reconsidered," MLA 1994 “What Does a Woman (Faust) Want?” ICLA, Amsterdam, 1997 “Faust in Hollywood Film Noir,” SCS, Ottawa, 1997 “Benütze Foto als Waffe: Dada Fotomontage,” MLA, Toronto, 1997 “Que Diable! Le Démoniaque dans l’oeuvre d’André Blavier et de Raymond Queneau,” International Colloquium on André Blavier in Liège, Belgium 1997 “Faust in America,” International Conference on Progress, Institute for Critical Theory, Berlin, Germany, 1998 “U.S. Independent Cinema,” University of Athens, 1999 “The Enchanted Hand: Faust in the Art Cinema,” ACLA, Yale University, 2000 “Mnemonic Cinema”: Occupied France in Le Chagrin et la pitié (Ophuls) and Le Dernier métro (Truffaut),” American Comparative Literature Association, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, 2001 “Utopian Dialectics,” Modernist Studies Association, Houston, 2002 “Famous Last Films,” Radical Philosphy Conference, Providence, 2002 “Faust and the Avant-Garde,” American Comparative Literature Association, Austin, 2003 “Irony, ” Respondent at the International Conference on Critical Theory, Berlin, 2003 “Holocaust, ” Respondent at the International Conference on Critical Theory, Berlin, 2003 “Stan Brakhage’s Visionary Faust Films,” International Conference on Avant-Garde Cinema, Edinburgh, 2004 “James Ensor and Michel de Ghelderode’s La Mort du docteur Faust,” American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton Univeristy, 2006 “Peter Weiss and the Depiction of Silence,” International Conference on Critical Theory, Esslingen, Germany, 2007 “Cultural Revolution,” Respondent on a panel at the International Conference on Critical Theory, Esslingen, Germany, 2007 “Classicism,” Respondent on a panel at the International Conference on Critical Theory, Esslingen, Germany, 2007 “Children of Drancy,” keynote address at President’s Holocaust Memorial Lecture, January 2008 “Else Lasker-Schüler and Faust,” German Studies Association, Minneapolis, 2008

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“Faust and Film Labyrinths,” invited keynote speaker at the International Faust conference at Notre Dame, 2008. “The Paris Commune,” Left Forum, New York City, 2009 “Performative memory—the Nakba in Film and the Imagining of Palestinian Nationhood,” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, 2009. “No innocent bystanders: video surveillance in Haneke’s Caché and Caffi’s Auf der Strecke,” German Studies Association, Washington DC, 2009. “Palestinian film,” Invited panelist, Boston Palestine Film Festival, November 2009 EDITING/CONSULTANCIES Science and Society (reader for submitted articles) Socialism and Democracy (Advisory Board) Das Argument (Advisory Board) [published by the Institute for Critical Theory, Berlin] Reader for book manuscript submissions: Blackwell, Princeton University Press MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, German Studies Association, Institut für Kritische Theorie (Berlin) FILM EXHIBITION SERIES/CONFERENCES ORGANIZED 1985. Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Film and Intertextuality lecture series (with Dudley Andrew, Stanley Cavell, Stephen Heath, Eric Rentschler, and others) 1986. Northeastern: Film and Culture Symposium (with E. Ann Kaplan, Tania Modleski, Robin Wood, and others) 1988. MIT and Northeastern: Conference on Cognitive Theory and the Humanities (with Jerome Bruner, Dan Dennett, Marvin Minsky, David Bordwell, Mary Ann Caws, and others; partially funded by a grant from the Mass. Council on the Arts and Humanities; co-hosted with MIT’s Joseph Weizenbaum) 1991. Northeastern: Conference on "A Different Image: Black Women Independent Filmmakers" 1992. Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Northeastern: Film Series and Symposium on "Identities in Latin-American Film" 1993. Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Egyptian Film Series and discussion panels 1994. Goethe-Institut Boston and Northeastern: Jutta Brückner (film director) workshop and film series 1995. Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Film and Labor series (showing of Belgium film Daens and panel discussion) 1996. Northeastern: Jewish Film Festival panel discussion on East German Cinema and Nazism 1997. Northeastern: Jewish Film Festival panel discussion on Swiss film and the Holocaust 1998-2002 Silent Films with live piano accompaniment by Yakov Gubanov (2 times a year) 2001-2002 Post 9/11 film series, lectures, and discussions on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan 2001-2002 Faculty Symposium lecture series in Cinema Studies 2002 Guest lecture and screening of “This is Not Living” by Alia Arasoughly 2003 Guest lecture and screening of “Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land” by Bathsheba Ratzkoff 2004 Organized visit by Big Noise Film Productions (Rcik Rowley) and “The Fourth World War” 2005 Co-organizer (with Jewish Studies) of a conference on France, America, and the Holocaust

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2006-7 Organizer of the Stotsky Lecture and Performance Series (Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies): lecture by Omer Bartov (Brown University) and Sara Rubin, Executive Director, Boston Jewish Film Festival 2007-8 Organizer of the Stotsky Lecture and Performance Series: lecture by Susan R. Suleiman (Harvard University) and performance of Children of Drancy: a montage of voices, Fall 2008 2008-9 Organizer of the Stotsky Film/Lecture Series on Palestine and Israel

Revised: 11/15/09