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Janet S Robinson
Associate Teaching Professor
Denver, CO 80221
CONTACT INFORMATION
E:ad08u1@r.postjobfree.com
August 2023
EDUCATION
Education: Ph.D. Candidate, ABD
Dissertation Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Angela Krewani
Dissertation Committee Member: Dr. Karen Randall
Title: Kathryn Bigelow’s Historical Films: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), The Hurt Locker (2008), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and Detroit (2017) Institute for Media Studies
Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany
Fall 2019- defense scheduled for December 2023.
M.A. in English Literature
University of Colorado Denver, 1995
B.A. in English Literature
University of Colorado Boulder, 1989
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Associate Teaching Professor
Creative Minds@Libby Residential Academic Program (RAP) I am rostered faculty, includes teaching five film classes per AY and faculty service, including co-curricular events. University of Colorado Boulder
Fall 2005- present.
Associate Teaching Professor
College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI) Rostered teaching for Critical Media Practices Department (CMPD) Janet *2023 S. Robinson
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CMPD 3510: Telluride Film Festival Forum
Fall 2021-present.
Associate Teaching Professor
Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts
Libby Residential Academic Program
Four-year contract includes teaching and service.
University of Colorado Boulder
2015-present
Intern Mentor for CMPD 3510: Telluride Film Festival Forum: Experiential Media Practices
Internship Mentor for Ph.D. candidate hired as assistant for CMPD: 3510 Hired in fall 2021, internship begins spring 2022. Associate Director—Libby Residential Academic Program Responsibilities include attending University meetings, supervising student coordinators, editing Student Newsletter, planning 2010 RAP Dialogue Day and planning LRAP co-curricular events.
University of Colorado Boulder
Fall 2018- Fall 2019
Senior Instructor, Cinema Studies—Libby Residential Academic Program Four-year contract includes teaching and service.
University of Colorado Boulder
2009-2015
Senior Instructor, Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts Department Introduction to Film Studies
Summer Session A, 2013
Associate Director—Libby Residential Academic Program Responsibilities include attending University meetings, supervising student coordinators, editing Student Newsletter, planning 2010 RAP Dialogue Day and planning LRAP co-curricular events.
University of Colorado Boulder
2010-2012
Summer Faculty Director—Libby Residential Academic Program Facilitated student Orientation and Registration for incoming LRAP students. University of Colorado Boulder; Summer: 2009-2012
Instructor—University of Colorado at Denver English Dept. 2008 – 2009
Instructor, part-time—Libby Residential Academic Program University of Colorado, Boulder
2005 – 2008
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Graduate Program, Adjunct Instructor—University of Denver Mass Communication and Journalism Department
Winter 2007
Undergraduate Program, Adjunct Instructor—University of Denver Mass Communication and Journalism Department 2006 – 2007
Lecturer – University of Colorado at Denver
English Department
1995 –2008
Adjunct Instructor– The Women’s College
University of Denver
Spring 2007
Adjunct Instructor –University of Colorado at Boulder Film Studies Department
Spring 2002 – Spring 2005
Instructor, part-time—University of Colorado at Denver English Department
Fall 2000 – Spring 2001
Adjunct Faculty – Community College of Denver
English Department
Fall 1999 – Spring 2000
Teaching Assistant – University of Colorado at Denver English Dept. Fall 1993 – Spring 1995
*ACADEMIC SERIVICE: HIGHLIGHTS
LRAP Associate Director (TWO TERMS) 2006-2010; 2016-2018: While serving two terms as the Associate Director of LibbyRAP, I also did extensive academic and co-curricular programming: I planned, recruiter, marketed, and attended co-curricular student events, such as The Denver International Film Festival, The Boulder Film Festival, The Jewish Film Festival, and many sports documentaries, including a Filmmaker screenings class at Starz Film Center Denver.
In addition to the dorm events, I also plan programming just for my classes; including annual special events screenings, such as: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dogtooth, and The Joker and monthly “Dinner and a Movie with Janet: dinner and a film still playing in the theaters discussion after the film. Alumni from Libby and Telluride invited,, etc. I also created a trip to the Telluride Film Festival that was originally designed to bring 1st year students back for their 2nd year, and Janet *2023 S. Robinson
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since Telluride Film Festival is always in the fall, I recruited in the spring, and enrolled the class and then closed in by the end of spring semester. Then, the first or second week of fall semester, we would go to Telluride as a co-curricular trip, but not as a class. NOTE: See more about the evolution of my Telluride Program below: Recent Courses: Created and Taught
Recent Courses Created, Recruited, Developed, and Taught Fall 2022
Critical Media Practices Department
CMPD 3510: Telluride Film Festival Forum: Experiential Media Practices College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI) University of Colorado Boulder
Spring 2023
Film and the Quest For Truth:
Film Genre: “Teen Flicks”
Libby RAP
*(One semester, my courses made up 30% of all courses being taught in Libby) Courses I created that Libby granted to other faculty to teach when they could not fill their schedules to comply with the number of classes taught mandated by their contracts.*Gender and Film; *Gender and Culture through ALL COURSES: CREATED and TAUGHT
Telluride Film Festival Seminar
Film; *Horror Films and American Culture ;*Film and the Quest For Truth; *Cult Cinema; and *Film Genres: “Teen Flicks.”
Introduction to Film Studies
Horror Films and American Culture
Gender and Culture Through Film
Recent International Film
Gender and Film
Film Topics: Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Film Topics: Cult Cinema
Film Topics: Visual Culture
Film Topics: Film Trilogies
Film Genres: Horror
Film Genres: Teen Flicks
Film Topics: Alfred Hitchcock
Women and Film
History of Silent Film
Film History II, 1945-present
Film and the Quest for Truth
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War and Cinema
Cinema of the 1970s
Queer Cinema
Film Criticism
Film Topics: Sexual Politics in American Film
Film Topics: Steven Spielberg
Film Topics: Coen Brothers
Telling Tales: Narrative Art in Literature and Film Ethnic Diversity in American Literature
Introduction to Literary Studies
Core Composition I and II
Writing Workshop II; CCD
*Critical Studies: Film, TV and Popular Culture; (*graduate-level) Telluride Film Finalization of Ph.D.: Media Studies Department
University of Marburg, Germany
Dissertation Defense schedule for fall 2023
International committee
Dr. Prof. Angela Krewani
Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany, Fall 2023
And Dr. Karan Randall, Professor Emeritus at University of Bedfordshire, UK
*SPECIAL EVENT PROGRAMMING: The Telluride Film Festival & Course C0-curricular Event Programming:
Plan and facilitate annual LRAP student program to the Telluride Film Festival. Organize 5-day student trip and supervise all aspects of the event, including transportation, lodging, food, passes, and special programming, which I organized with the educational director and collaborated with another University group from UCSB and after one year became an official part of the festival in 2011: The Telluride Film Festival “University Seminar.” Guest Speakers: Laura Linney, Ken Burns, Peter Sellars, B. Ruby Rich, and Michael Barker (Founder of Sony Pictures)
September 2010 - September 2022
Telluride Film Festival Seminar (CINE 2004)
NOTE: I developed my annual LRAP trip to the Telluride Film Festival into a 3- credit hour course offered through the Film Studies Department. The course will address film scholarship’s recent attention on the film festival circuit, offering a first-hand experience of attending the Telluride Film Festival and a full semester course devoted to the topic. Additionally, students will benefit from the Roger Ebert TFF University Seminar, which is special programming that I founded. Janet *2023 S. Robinson
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NOTE: in 2014, Chaz Ebert, Roger Ebert’s widow, formally endowed our annual special programming at the Telluride Film Festival. Our program included a screening of Steve James’ film Life Itself, a film about Roger Ebert’s life, and a Q & A with Chaz Ebert, Steve James, and Ken Burns after the film. Chaz announced. her commitment to endow the now titled, “Roger Ebert University Seminar” into the future. My program is a permanent part of all Telluride printed programming. Founder and Faculty Leader
Telluride Film Festival Forum: Experiential Media Practices NOTE: I moved my Telluride Film Festival course from the Cinema Studies department to CMPD, which is a part of CMCI. Collaboration began August 2021-May 202
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October 2008
PTSA Member
East High School, Denver
August 2012
Volunteer Coordinator
Micah Community Conversations
April 2011
PTSA Treasurer
Smiley Middle School, Denver
2008-2010
Presenter, post-screening discussion, Denver Jewish Film Festival February 2009
SeriesFest: Sie Film Center
In collaboration for future programming for first year students. ACADEMIC SERVICE, continued
Libby Residential Academic Program
Tiel Lundy, Ph.D. Reappointment
Faculty Peer Review
Fall 2021
Marty Babicz Reappointment and Promotion
(PUEC) Committee Member
Fall 2020
Committee worked toward piloting a Peer Observation Protocol, Teaching Teaching Quality Framework Initiative (TQF)
Committee Member
Fall 2020- present.
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Statement Guidelines, and supporting RAP faculty and leadership. Faculty Learning Committee (FLC):
Mission of the Residential Academic Programs (RAPs) Committee Member
Fall 2017-Spring 2020
One outcome of the meeting with the Provost is to clarify and document the role and the mission of the RAPs on CU-Boulder campus. There are seven members of the committee, each representing their RAP; I went to represent LibbyRAP. Update from the Provost: Russell Moore
Meeting concerning future first year experience: Residential Academic Programs
(RAPs); First Year Seminars; and Freshmen Interest Groups (FIGS)
*Many of my current and former students attended the meeting to ensure the continuance of the RAPs on Boulder campus, including former student Will Jones who graduated 2014 and spoke in meeting of how integral LibbyRAP had been to his college experience.
Committee Memberships:
Faculty committee member for Mattie McGary honor’s thesis, Dance Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Spring 2018 Faculty committee member for Ian Smith’s honor’s thesis, Film Studies Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Spring 2016 Faculty committee member for Naomi Weingast’s honor’s thesis, Film Studies Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Spring 2016 Faculty committee member for Jamie Konitzer honor’s thesis, Film Studies Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Spring 2014 Faculty committee member for Nathan Zackroff honor’s thesis, English Student consultation with Ian Smith on his paper, which was accepted, titled
“Blue is the New Black” for the 2013 PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Associate) Conference in Chicago, IL. Faculty Sponsor
Tess Arbogast, Internship
High Noon Entertainment
Summer 2013
Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Spring 2012 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
Faculty sponsor for Jared Norman and Alexandra Hopkins Film Project: “Sexting: The Musical”
Project received $2400 in team grant funding 2012-2013 Faculty committee member for Richard Montoya’s honor’s thesis, English Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Fall 2012 Janet *2023 S. Robinson
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Dialogues Project Steering Committee Member
Program received funding in 2012
Summer 2011- Fall 2012
*Founder of RAP Faculty Forum Workshops; still ongoing In collaboration with Karen Ramirez, Sewell RAP
Planned, facilitated, and Attended workshops for RAP faculty Fall 2010-Spring 2013
University of Colorado Boulder
Guest Speaker,
Introduction to Painting; Introduction to Drawing (Instructor Tyler Alpern) Mini lectures: Film Art and the Image
Fall 2010 and 2011
Faculty Advisor: The University of Colorado at Denver Film Club 2008-2023
PUBLICATIONS: Book Chapters
Selling Sex on Screen
Editors Karen Ritzenhoff and Catriona McAvoy
Chapter: “Cha Ching!: Getting Paid in Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and Showtime’s Gigolos
Rowman and Littlefield Spring 2015
Gendered Warriors: Myth on Film
Editors Karen Ritzenhoff and Jakub Kazecki
Chapter 9: The Gendered Geometry of War in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker
Palgrave McMillan August 2014
Dracula’s Daughter’s: The Female Vampire on Film
Editor, Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka
Chapter 8: “Your Tale Merely Confirms that Women are Mad and Vain”: The Uncanny Rendering of Countess Elizabeth Bathory’s Life as Vampire Legend Scarecrow Press, December 2013
The Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema Eds., Karen Ritzenhoff and Karen Randell
Chapter Two: “Re-Imagining Censorship as ‘Reel” Mutilation: Why Not ` Release a G-Rated Version of David Cronenberg’s CRASH” Palgrave Macmillan, October 2011
CITATIONS FROM MY BOOK CHAPTERS IN OTHER PUBLICATIONS Topic: Re-Imagining Censorship as “Reel” Mutilation: Why not release a G-rated version of David Cronenberg’s Crash?
Milwaukee, November 2010
“The Gendered Geometry of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker” cited in: Rancourt, Michael A. "Shaping mnemonic opportunity: Remembering Iraq in American Sniper." Memory Studies 13, no. 2 (September 2017): 223–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698017730868.
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SAGE Journals
Listed as “Recommended Reading.”
Robinson, JS (2014) The Gendered Geometry of War in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008) In: Ritzenhoff, K.A., Kazecki, J, (eds)
Heroism and Gender in War Films
New York: Springer, pp.153-171
Cross-listed on Google.com
Film, Media & Journalism Industry Experience
Short Film: Detours
Written by Janet Robinson and Stephen Kuhn
Collaborated with 10 former students to film the screenplay. Film was never completed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Telluride Film Festival
Instructor CINE 2004; facilitator/founder of University Telluride Seminar September 2009-2019
On-the-set Experience: Lions for Lambs, D: Robert Redford Starring Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise February 2007
The Denver Post
Contributing Expert/Analysis of Super Bowl Commercials Joanne Ostrow article/Arts and Culture Section
February 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016
The Denver Post
Contributing Writer
1993-1996
Royal Publications
Desktop Publisher
Designed all print advertising
1996-2001
Research, International Conferences, and International Teaching Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference Recruitment Committee Member
Graduate Student Mentor
Host of Committee Event
Panel Chair: Adolescent Sexuality Workshop
March 2020 (CANCELLED)
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International Conference: The Construction of Media-Authorships: History Presence – Future Tagungsprogramm
Paper Title: Screening and Streaming: New Models of Transgressive Female Authorship in HBO’s True Blood, FX’s American Horror Story, and Netflix’s Orange is the New Black
Philipps Universität
Marburg, Germany, June 2016
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Workshop Panel: Pedagogies of Film and Media Theory: Historical and Contextual Classroom Practices
Topic Title: Embodying Film and Media Theory: The Intercourse of Theory, Gender, and Sex in the Classroom
Atlanta, March 2016
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference Panel Moderator
University of Colorado Boulder
April 2016
Film and History Conference
Panel: War Films
Paper Title: Submersion and Subversion in Kathryn Bigelow’s K19: The Widowmaker
Madison, WI November 2015
Austrian Historical Institute International Film Conference Hosted by Sheffield Hellam University, UK
“The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardth and the Giallo”
Paper Title: Pedagogical Concerns of Popular Genre Film Cycles June 2015 Rome, Italy
Film and History Conference
Panel: Women in the Film Industry
Paper Title: Making “Maya:” Disassembling the Composite Hero of Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty
Madison, WI October 2014
French Association of American Studies Conference
Paris 3 University Sorbonne
Paper Title: “Analyzing Cable Television’s Counter-Models: True Blood, American Horror Story, and Orange is the New Black.”
Paris, France May 2014
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Paper Title: “From Fleming’s Pussy Galore to Hollywood’s Pussy NoMore: Finding Female Pleasure in Early James Bond”
Panel: James Bond’s 50th Anniversary
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Boulder Film Studies Department
Chicago, March 2013
Film and History Conference
Paper Title: Cha Ching! Getting Paid in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Showtime’s Gigolos” Panel: Sex Sells
Madison, WI, November 2013
Film and History Conference
Paper Title: The Gendered Geometry of War in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker
Milwaukee, September 2012
President’s Teaching Scholars Program
Spring Conference on Learning and Teaching
“Thumbs Up vs. Thumbs Down” Just Doesn't Cut It: Learning Critical Thinking in a Residential Academic Program Film Studies Class”
Presenting with Carol Conzelman, March 2012
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference Chair of Panel: Horror/Nation
Topic: “I want to do real bad things with you”: Abject Pleasure and Border- Crossing in HBO’s TRUE BLOOD
New Orleans, March 2011
Film and History Conference
International Public Speaking and Teaching
International Speaking
Course Title: Authorship of Kathryn Bigelow
Team-Taught five-day course with Dr. Prof. Angela Krewani Universität Marburg, Germany, May 2015
International Teaching
Course Title: Digital Media and the Landscape of War Team-Taught five-day course with Dr. Prof. Angela Krewani Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany, May 2014
International Speaking
Seminar Series: Media Studies Department
Subject: The Gendered Geometry of War in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker
University of Bedfordshire, Luton, England, May 2014 International Speaking
University of Vienna’s International Symposium on Mark of the Devil Paper Title: “The Influence of Michael Armstrong’s Mark of the Devil on American Television—American Horror Story’s, Season 3, Coven” Salzburg, Austria, April 2014
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Seminar Series: The Contemporary Wound Culture in Cinema Subject: The Gendered Geometry of War in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker
University of Mannheim, Germany, March 2014
Melancholia: Imaging the End of the World
Paper Title: Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days: “Disabling and Enabling the Politics of Vision”
Phillips University of Marburg
Marburg, Germany June 2013
Honors, Awards, Distinctions & Memberships
National “Best Education Program for the month of December 2020” LRAP Celebration of the Arts
I created and run the Student Film Festival, which is a one aspect of the overall program.
December 2020
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, current member, 2001-present Attended SCMS conference May 2002 and presented in March 2011, March 2013, and will present March 2016 and will attend Spring 2020. Member: SIE FILMCENTER Denver
2015-present
Awarded “differentiated workload” as a Senior Instructor two-course releases for fall 2018
Project: Ph.D. Dissertation; Kathryn Bigelow
Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence Award Recipient For my participation in the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
(SCMS)
March 2016
RAP Instructor Fellowship Award
For my participation in the Film and History Conference Fall 2015
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, current member, 2001-present Attended SCMS conference May 2002 and presented in March 2011, March 2013, 2016
Nominated
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Boulder Faculty Assembly Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Announced April 2014
Faculty nominated award, College of Arts and Sciences University of Colorado Boulder
Faculty of the Year 2013, nomination
University of Colorado Student Affairs
Student nominated, campus-wide award
University of Colorado Boulder
National “Best Education Program for the month of December 2019” LRAP Celebration of the Arts
I created and run the Student Film Festival, which is held during the Celebration of the Arts: . December 2019
Dean’s Fund for Excellence Award Recipient
For my participation in the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Film and History Conferences, and International Conferences. March 2010-2016
Flagged as Instructor with high FCQs relative to my peers. FCQ results for lower division courses from 2009-present. Boulder Weekly newspaper
“Best Residence Life Faculty for the Month”
National Residence Hall Honorary “of the month” Award Libby RAP,
LRAP Celebration of the Arts
National “Best Education Program for the month of December 2011” I created and run the Student Film Festival, which is a central piece of the overall program.
December 2011
Judge, Student Films
Cinema Studies and Moving Image Department
University of Colorado
December 2011
Guest of Honor
Chi Omega’s Professor and Faculty Appreciation Dinner University of Colorado, Boulder, October 25, 2011
Front Range Film Seminar, participant, 2005-2007
Nominated “Outstanding Graduate Student” of the year by the University of Colorado at Denver English Department, 1995
Earned three Graduate Fellowships from the University of Colorado at Janet *2023 S. Robinson
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Denver English Department, 1992-1995
Vice President, NCTE, adjunct faculty, 1992
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