Ian Todd
M.A. Candidate
20th century British Literature; Film Studies
Office: Ellis 008
Office Phone: 593-2743
Email: it201006@ohio.edu
Degrees
B.A., SUNY Geneseo, 2006
Publications
“Hitchcock’s ‘Good-Looking Blondes’: First Glimpses and Second Looks,” Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Post-World War II Cinema, ed. Marcelline Block. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 [forthcoming].
“Film Adaptations of Stage Plays and Musicals,” Encyclopedia of Broadway and American Culture, ed. Thomas Greenfield (2009) [forthcoming].
Rev. of when Patti would fall asleep, by Michael Estabrook. Quarter After Eight 14 (2008) [forthcoming].
Rev. of Marie Antoinette, by Sofia Coppola. Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies 7 (2007).
“Loss in Translation: Postmodern Romantic Comedy and the Reimagination of Remarriage,” SUNY Geneseo English Annual (2006): 71-75.
“A New Kind of Fairy Tale: Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves,” SUNY Geneseo English Annual (2005): 63-66.
Curriculum Vitae
Presentations:
“‘Good-Looking Blondes’: Reflections on a Hitchcock Boyhood.” The Image of Women in the Films of Hitchcock and Fellini. Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Baltimore, March 2007.
“Words Fail Me: Language and Postmodern Remarriage Comedy,” SUNY Geneseo Honors Thesis Presentation, May 2006.
“Humor as Relief and Accessibility Device in Piers Plowman and the Chester Play of Noah’s Flood,” Humanities Undergraduate Paper Symposium, SUNY Geneseo, March 2004.
Honors and Organizations:
Graduated summa cum laude, SUNY Geneseo, 2006
Patricia Conrad Lindsay Memorial Award, SUNY Geneseo English Department, 2006
John H. Parry Award in Literary Criticism, SUNY Geneseo English Department, May 2005; May 2006
Natalie Selser Freed Scholarship, SUNY Geneseo English Department, May 2005
Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Chapter, 2006
Member, Northeast Modern Language Association, 2006
Member, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2007
Member, Sigma Tau Delta, Iota Lambda Chapter, 2005
Courses
ENGL 151 Writing and Rhetoric
ENGL 153 Writing and Reading (Myths of the American West)
ENGL 153 Writing and Reading (Fairy Tales Told and Retold)
T.A. for ENGL 252 British Literature 1688-present