PROFESSOR JOYCE RHEUBAN

Joyce Rheuban (Professor, The Graduate Center and LaGuardia Community College/CUNY) has taught at The Graduate Center since 1987. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Cinema Studies at New York University, and her Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts. Her areas of specialization are Weimar Cinema, New German Cinema, and American Film History and Historiography.

She has published essays on film studies and translations from German of critical texts on photography and film in October, Persistence of Vision, Millennium Film Journal, and Sight and Sound. She is the author of Harry Langdon: The Comedian as Metteur-en-Scène.

She has translated two screenplays by R.W. Fassbinder. "In a Year of Thirteen Moons," published in October, and "The Marriage of Maria Braun" published in Rutgers University Press's "Films in Print" series as The Marriage of Maria Braun: R. W. Fassbinder, Director. She is also editor of this volume, which includes her introductory essay and related texts. She contributed the entry on Arthur Ripley for the Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Screenwriters.

She has presented papers on American and German film at annual conferences of the Society for Cinema Studies, Mid-Hudson MLA, North-East MLA, and at Anthology Film Archives. She has guest lectured at The Brooklyn Museum, Tyler School of Art of Temple University, and Kommunales Kino sites in Hamburg and Berlin, and XSCREEN in Cologne, Germany. She is a founding co-editor of Persistence of Vision, the Film Journal of the City University of New York.

She has also taught film studies in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University and the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University.

She studied screenwriting with Robert McKee and with the faculty of the American Screenwriters Association, including Richard Walter and Linda Seger. Her screenplay, Twelve Days, was a 1997 "Slamdance" quarterfinalist; and her screenplay, Ladies' Man, was a 1999 semifinalist in the Motion Picture Academy's Nicholl Fellowships competition, a top five finalist in the Heathcote Fellowships competition at the Independent Feature Film Market, and finalist or quarterfinalist in three other national screenplay competitions.

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Telephone: 718/482-5706 (LaGuardia)