1991-present:

Columbia College Chicago , Film and Video Department
1991-1996: Part-time Instructor
1997-1998: Artist in Residence
1999-present: Permanent Full-time Faculty, tenure track

Key Course:

• Directing I (21 undergraduate/5 graduate sections as of Fall, 2003)

Critical Studies Courses:

• History of Cinema
• Studies in National Cinema: Japanese Cinema (3 sections as of Fall, 2002)
• Studies in Genre: The American Musical (2 sections as of Fall 2002)
• Studies in Genre: The Suspense Thriller
• The Comic Visions of Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder (3 sections as of Summer 2003)
• American Mavericks: John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, Alan Rudolph
• Studies in Film History: Propaganda and War Films (2 sections as of Fall, 2003)
• Studies in Genre: Road Movies and the American Dream (2 sections as of Summer, 2003)
• American Cinema: Censorship and the Movies
• Studies in Film History: American Politics on Film
• World Cinema: Coming of Age Films
• Studies in Film History: The American Studio System (2 sections as of Fall, 2002)
• Studies in Film History: Films of the 1940s
• Studies in Genre: The Action Adventure Film
• Studies in Film History: Satire and the American Dream
• Studies in Genre: The Police Film
• Two Visions: John Frankenheimer and Sidney Lumet
• Studies in Genre: The Prison Film
• Two Visions: David Lean and Michael Powell

Screenwriting Courses:

• Screenwriting I
• Genres in Screenwriting: The Historical/Period Film
• Genres in Screenwriting: The Romantic Comedy
• Topics in Screenwriting: Historical/Period Research
• Idea Development (later retitled Development and Preproduction) (3 sections as of Fall 2002)

Additional Courses:

• Film Techniques I (later retitled Production I)
• Aesthetics of Television
• Creativity: Vision and Process



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