Curriculum Vitae
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Degrees Awarded
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine: Visual Studies, 2007.
M.A. University of California, Irvine: Visual Studies, 2003.
B.A. University of California, San Diego: Visual Arts/Media, 1994
Research and Teaching Interests
Visual studies with a focus on cinematic arts and technologies; cultural criticism, critical theory; film theory;
philosophy of time; time travel; early popular/visual culture, pre-cinema, and early film; sound studies;
avant-garde & experimental film.
Work Experience
• Associate Dean of Liberal Arts & Chair of General Education, Columbia College Hollywood, October 2018 - present.
- Oversee continual integration of liberal arts into the college's academic (BFA and AFA) degree programs
- Serve on the Academic Leadership Team
- Chair of the Teaching & Learning subcommittee of the college's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Taskforce
- Chair the Faculty Development Program
- Act as a resource and leader for the General Education faculty and curriculum
- Teach courses in Cinema & Media Studies
• Full-time Faculty & GE Curriculum Coordinator, Columbia College Hollywood, November 2016 - October 2018.
- Taught courses Cinema & Media Studies courses
- Led the review and redesign of the college's General Education curriculum and assessment process
- Coordinated curriculum and staffing for the college's General Education Program
- Co-chaired Faculty Development Program
• Adjunct Instructor, Columbia College Hollywood, Fall 2013 - Fall 2016.
Courses:
- Visual Design
- History of Critical Analysis in Cinema 1
• Adjunct Instructor, Division of Critical Studies, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts,
Fall 2011 - present.
Courses:
- History of Cinema through WWII (various terms; graduate and undergraduate versions)
- Film Style Analysis: "Seven Deadly Directors" (Spring 2016)
- Film Style Analysis: "Time Machines" (Fall 2015)
- Film Style Analysis: "Battle of the Stylists: Tim Burton vs. Wes Anderson" (Spring 2015)
- Film Style Analysis: "Ultimate Directors Challenge: Peter Jackson vs. Sam Raimi" (Spring 2014)
- Film and Television Genres: "The School of Cinematic Martial Arts" (Fall 2013)
- Advanced Critical Studies Seminar: "Cinematic Time Travels" (Spring 2013)
- Advanced Critical Studies Seminar: "Unforgettable Film" (Spring 2012)
• Adjunct Instructor, Cinema Department, College of the Canyons, Fall 2013 - present.
Course:
- Film Aesthetics
- History of American Cinema
- International History of Cinema
• Adjunct Instructor, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Winter 2013.
Course:
- Advanced Topics in Analysis: "Cinematic Time Travels"
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Screen Studies Program, Department of English, Oklahoma State University,
Fall 2010 – Spring 2011.
Courses:
- Graduate Seminar in Film & Society: “Timing: Bergson, Deleuze, Cinema”
- Screen Theory
- Contemporary International Cinema: “Chinese History, Kung Fu Style”
- Studies in Film Genre: “Special Effects”
- History of International Film
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Division of Critical Studies, University of Southern California School of Cinematic
Arts, Fall 2008 - Spring 2010.
Courses:
- History of International Cinema through WWII (graduate & undergraduate versions)
- Film Style Analysis: “Unforgettable Film
- Film Style Analysis: “Cinema in the Wild”
- Graduate Seminar in Film Genres: “Cinematic Time Travels”
- Film, Television, and Cultural Studies: “Visual Culture”
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Critical Studies, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts,
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008.
Courses:
- Senior Seminar: “Cinematic Time Travels”
- Senior Seminar: “Chinese History According to Martial Arts Films”
• Visiting Lecturer, Cinema Department, Binghamton University (State University of New York), Fall 2005 -
Spring 2007.
Courses:
- Experience, History, and Analysis of Film
- Film Theory
- Studies in Cinema and Art: “Running Time: Temporalities of Cinema”
- Advanced Studies in Cinema Art: “Invention: Art, Technology, Creative Process”
- Studies in Cinema and Society: “Fantasy and Film”
• Coordinator, Multiple Exposures Interdisciplinary Film Workshop, Binghamton University, 2006-07.
- Planned and directed program of meetings, lectures, screenings, and related events designed
to promote dialogue between media scholars across the campus.
• Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University, School of Film & Television, Spring 2005.
Course: Survey of Mass Comm. Media: “From the Printing Press to the Digital Age”
• Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Film & Media Studies, UC Irvine, Summer 2004.
Course: Writing about Film: “Fantasy and Film”
• Graduate Student Researcher, Film & Media Studies, UC Irvine, Winter/Spring 2004.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Bliss Cua Lim.
• Teaching Assistant, Film & Media Studies, UC Irvine, Fall 2000 - Fall 2003.
Courses:
- Introduction to Visual Media and Contemporary Culture
- History of Broadcasting
- New Media Studies
- History of Film series: Silent Era; Sound Era I (1930-60); Sound Era II (since 1960)
- Hong Kong Action Film
• Manager and Projectionist, Captain Blood’s Village Theater, April - August, 2003.
- Supervised day-to-day operations, hiring, scheduling, and projection for independently owned
movie theater in Orange, CA.
• Production Manager, Picture Book Movies, June - August 2002.
- Supervised all U.S.-based aspects of production for the feature film, Invisible Light, a
Korean/American co-production directed by Gina Kim, released in 2003.
• Co-coordinator, The Color of Money conference, UC Irvine, April 2002.
- Organized three-day conference hosted by UCI Visual Studies Graduate Program.
• Associate Art Director, Gavin Magazine, August 1995 - August 2000.
- Led design and production staff for a weekly trade magazine (print and web formats) serving
the radio and recording industries.
• Freelance Illustrator, Art Director, and Design Consultant, 1994 – 2000.
• Graphics Editor, UCSD Guardian twice-weekly newspaper, 1992-94.
Publications
• "'Why did you have to turn on the machine?' The Spirals of Time Travel Romance."
Cinema Journal 54.2 (Winter 2015).
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/cinema_journal/v054/54.2.bruckner.html
• "Bad Sync: Spectral Sound and Retro-effects in Portrait of Jennie."
Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era,
ed. Murray Leeder (New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015)
• “Wild Sound: Tarzan’s Sonic Palindrome.”
Autopsia #1 (Fall 2010).
http://autopsia.weebly.com/current-issue.html
• “Introduction: Cinema and Accident,” with James Leo Cahill and Greg Siegel.
Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 30.3 (Fall 2008).
• “Lost Time: Blunt Head Trauma and Accident-Driven Cinema.”
Discourse 30.3 (Fall 2008).
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dis/summary/v030/30.3.bruckner01.html
• “Introduction: No Time Like the Present.”
Spectator v. 28.2 (Fall 2008).
• “Travels in Flicker-Time (Madre!).”
Spectator v. 28.2 (Fall 2008).
http://cinema.usc.edu/archivedassets/096/15634.pdf
• “The Instant and the Dark: Cinema’s Momentum.”
Octopus: A Journal of Visual Studies vol. 2 (Fall 2006).
http://yoda.hnet.uci.edu/fvc/vsgsa/octopus/octo_archive/vol-02-f2006/pdf/4_Bruckner.pdf
[Also published in translation as, “El instante y la oscuridad: el momentum del cine.”
Estudios Visuales 6 (December 2008).]
Journal Guest Editorships
• Co-Editor, “Cinema and Accident,” a special issue of Discourse 30, vol. 3 (Fall 2008).
• Editor, “The Instant,” a special issue of Spectator, vol. 28, no. 2 (Fall 2008).
Invited Lectures
• “The Instant and the Moment.” Suspension Points: International Art Experts Forum, ARCO Contemporary
Art Fair, Madrid, February 13, 2009.
• “A History of Brief Time: Instantaneity, Duration, and Cinema.” Binghamton University Visiting Lecturer
Series, November 15, 2005.
Conference Presentations
• “Rarebit Surrealism: Winsor McCay's Gastro-Dream Machine” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
(SCMS), Chicago, March 7, 2012.
• “Cannonball-Time: Muybridge’s Improper Pictures.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
(SCMS), New Orleans, March 11, 2011.
• “The New Prehistoric: Extinction and the Cinematic Cutting Edge.” 2011 Rendering the Visible conference,
Georgia State University, Atlanta, February 11, 2011.
• “Re-presence: Spirals of Time.” World Picture Conference, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK,
October 30, 2010.
• Panel organizer, chair, and presenter: “Approaching the Past/Present/Future: Cinematic Time Travels.”
SCMS, Los Angeles, March 17, 2010.
Paper presented: “Stillness and Historical Objects (Portrait of Jennie, La Jetée, 2046)"
• “The Time Machine, The Flicker, and the Mystic Writing Pad.” SCMS, Philadelphia, March 6, 2008.
• “Three Blunt Traumas: The Accident and the New in Cinema’s Narratives.” SCMS, Chicago, March 11, 2007.
• “A Brief History of Brief Time: The Appearance of the Instant and the Disappearance of Duration.” Out of Time:
Theorizations of Culture and the Political, organized by the Collective for Critical Practices, University of
Minnesota, October 2005.
• “The Disappearance of Time: Bergsonian Duration and the Interval Between.” Visible Evidence XI, Bristol, UK,
December 2003.
• “Bergson’s Duration and the Disappearance of Ordinary Thought.” Visual Knowledges conference, University
of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, September 2003.
Awards, Honors, and Grants
• Dean’s Interdisciplinary Workshops Grant, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton
University, 2006.
• University of California Regents’ Dissertation Fellowships, Summer and Fall 2004.
• Victor and Barbara Klein Award in Visual Studies, 2004.
• Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, UC Irvine Program in Visual Studies, 2002-2003.
• Second Place, 2003 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Student Writing Awards, for Master’s
paper, “The Disappearance of Now: Bergson’s Duration and the Conception of Cinema.”
• Graduate Student Essay Award, Program in Visual Studies, 2002, for Master’s paper.
References available upon request.