PROFESSOR DAVID A. GERSTNER


Professor Gerstner received his Ph. D. in the Department of Film and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles and is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at City University of New York, College of Staten Island.  At the Graduate Center, he is a member of Ph.D. Program in Theatre faculty.

He is author of Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema (Duke University Press, 2006); editor of The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture, Routledge, 2006, (which was selected as Best of Reference for 2007 by the New York Public Library) and co-editor with Janet Staiger of Authorship and Film (Routledge, 2003).

He has published widely on, and continues to research in, the areas of film studies, queer theory, and modes of aesthetic production as it relates to cultural identity. His current research project studies the queer cinematics of Richard Bruce Nugent, James Baldwin, and Marlon Riggs.

In July and September 2006, Professor Gerstner organized and was co-curator of “Another Wave: Global Queer Cinema Parts 1 and 2” at the Museum of Modern Art.

Professor Gerstner's website: http://davidgerstner.blogspot.com

Contact:

Telephone: 781/982-2546 (Staten Island)
E-Mail: gerstner@mail.csi.cuny.edu