Sean Griffin
Chair and Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts
Education
Ph.D. and M.A. in Cinema-Television/Critical Studies, University of Southern California
B.A. English, Loyola University, Chicago
Research
20th Century-Fox musicals; gay/lesbian film/media/culture; soap operas
Teaching
CTV 1301 (Film/Media Aesthetics); CTV 1302 (Media and Culture); CTV 2344 (History of Animated Film); CTV 2351 (International Film History); CTV 2352 (American Film History); CTV 2353 (American Broadcast History); CTV 2362 (Diversity and American Film); CTV 3300 (Film/TV Genres--Musical); CTV 3300 (Film/TV Genres--Soap Opera); CTV 3375 (Postwar European Cinema, 1945-Present); CTV 4353 (Film/Media Theory); CTV 6313 (Introduction to Research Methods); CTV 6353 (Seminar in Media Theory I); CTV 6354 (Seminar in Media Theory II)
Publications
America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, 2nd edition, co-authored with Harry M. Benshoff (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2009); Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America, co-authored with Harry M. Benshoff (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006); Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out (New York: New York University Press, 2000); Hetero: Queering Representations of Straightness, ed. Sean Griffin (New York: SUNY Press, 2009); In Focus: Queer Theory, The Film Reader, co-edited with Harry M. Benshoff (London and New York: Routledge, 2004); numerous articles on musicals, soap operas, Disney