Service and Consulting
Administration
Associate Chair, Department of Film Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2014-2016.
Chair, Department of Film Studies, UNCW 2002-2005. Founding chairman of UNCW's Film Studies department; proposed and oversaw the department’s formation, curriculum, and initial development.
Filmmaking and Film-Series Programming
Member, Programming Committee, Cinematique, Wilmington, NC, 1997-present; film selection and programming for weekly art and independent film series.
Programmer and Host, “The Forgotten and Underrated Film Series,” dedicated to films that never achieved proper recognition or popularity. Conceptualized the series, selected 15 films, wrote copy, and introduced. Hanoi Cinematheque, Vietnam, 5-14 June 2006.
Co-programmer, Documentary Film Series. Series screened 19 recent documentary films. Hanoi Cinematheque, Vietnam, 10-28 Feb 2006.
Associate Producer, “Snapshot,” a short film by Andrew Lund, 2005.
Host and Programmer, Fabulous Fifty-Cent Fantail Film Festival, Battleship North Carolina. Oct 2003 (Hollywood Films of 1939 Series), Oct 2002 (Hitchcock Series), and Oct 2001 (Screwball Comedy Series). Programmed three annual series, introduced films.
Co-founder and Co-Organizer, Cape Fear International Film Series; Wilmington, N.C., 1998; devised, planned, and obtained funding for the first annual International Film Series in North Carolina’s Cape Fear area; organized publicity; selected, scheduled and introduced films.
Professional Service, Consulting, and Certifications (Selected)
Associate Editor, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, July 2014-present.
Officer (Secretary/Treasurer), Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, 2010-present.
Grant Reviewer, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center. Reviewed grants in film and media category, Jan 2017, Jan 2015, May 2014, January 2014, May 2013, Jan 2013, May 2012, Jan 2012, May 2011, Jan 2011, May 2010, Jan 2010, Feb 2009, Aug 2008, Jan 2008.
Reviewer, Promotion Dossier, University of Queensland, 2016.
Academic Program Reviewer, Department of Film Studies, Denison College, Granville, OH, December 2014.
Grant Reviewer, Romanian-American Fulbright Commission, Dec 2014. Reviewed Hungarian applicants in film studies for Fulbright scholarships to the United States.
Grant Reviewer, Hungarian-American Fulbright Commission, Jun 2013. Reviewed Hungarian applicants in film studies for Fulbright scholarships to the United States.
Grant Reviewer and Interviewer, Hungarian Fulbright Commission. Reviewed applications and interviewed 10 Hungarian applicants for Fulbright Grants to the United States. Budapest, 28 Jun 2012.
Manuscript Reviewer
Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind,
2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2013
Candian Journal of Film Studies, 2013
Scope: An Online Journal of Film & Television Studies, 2010
Columbia University Press, 2009
McGraw-Hill, 2004
W.W. Norton & Company, 2003
Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2003
Cinema Journal, 2002
Member, Programming Committee, Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image Conference. Reviewed and selected papers for presentation at the 2014 and 2012 conferences.
Member, Graduate Council, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2008-2011.
Fellow, Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, elected 2010.
Expert Witness for a legal case concerning mainstream and independent-art-film exhibition practices. Regal Cinemas, 2008.
Tenure Dossier Reviewer, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York, 2010 and 2008.
Grant Reviewer, City University of New York Research Awards, 2009.
Member, Ford Foundation Ad Hoc Foreign Advisory Committee of the Film Studies Program of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006-.
Academic Program Reviewer, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York, 2007.
Member, Grant Review Panel, Fulbright Vietnamese Visiting Scholars Program, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, 2005. Selected Vietnamese scholars applying for Fulbright grants to conduct research in the U.S.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) Training for Human Subject Researchers, certified 2005.