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Carter Soles, Ph.D

Associate Professor

(585) 395-5825
csoles@brockport.edu
Office: Liberal Arts 224

Education

• PhD, University of Oregon, 2008
  • Dissertation: “Falling Out of the Closet: Kevin Smith, Queerness, and Independent Film”
    Chair: Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, Department of English, University of Oregon
    Committee: Michael Aronson, Department of English, Mary Wood, Department of English, Janet Wasko, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, Jon Lewis, Department of English, Oregon State University.
• MA, University of Oregon, 2004
• BA, University of Southern California, 1993

Courses Taught

SUNY Brockport (SUNY)

• Film 401: American Independent Cinema, Fall 2010, Spring 2015
• Film 491/591: Contemporary Global Film Directors, Summer 2011
• Film 403: Hollywood Renaissance 1967-80, Spring 2012, Spring 2016
• Film 490: Film Comedy, Spring 2012, Spring 2018
• Film 490: Film Melodrama, Fall 2012
• Film 457: Women and Film, Spring 2011, Fall 2013, Sum 2014, Summer 2016, Spring 2018
• Film 360: Film Horror, Spring 2017, Fall 2018
• Film 360: Film Noir, Summer 2011, Fall 2014
• Film 360: The Western, Fall 2013
• Film 303: Ecocinema, Spring 2014, Fall 2016, Fall 2018
• Film 301: Film Theory and Criticism, every term 2010-2018
• Film 250: Film History Part 1, Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Summer 2017 (online)
• Film 251: Film History Part 2, Spring 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2017

Research Interests

• Film Studies
• Gender and Sexuality
• Globalization and Cyberculture
• Geek Studies
• Ecocritical Media Studies

• Awards/Recognitions
  • SUNY Pre-Tenure Grant Development Award, Spring 2014
• Recent Publications
  • “Mad Max: Beyond Petroleum?” Gender in Science Fiction Ecomedia. Ed. Christy Tidwell and Bridgitte Barclay. Lexington Books, 2018.
  • “The Walking Dead’s Hyperreal Hillbilly: Horror, Melodrama, and Backwoods White Protagonists.” Co-authored with Kom Kunyosying. Race, Gender, and Sexuality in The Walking Dead. Ed. Dawn Keetley and Elizabeth Erwin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.
  • “‘This is great, we’re like slave buddies!’: Cross-Racial Appropriation in ‘Post-Racial’ TV Comedies.” Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour. Ed. Chiara Bucaria and Luca Barra. London: Palgrave, 2016.
  • “I Am Legend, U.S. Imperialism, and the Liminal Animality of ‘The Last Man.’” Screening the Non/Human: Animal Representations in Visual Media. Ed. Joe L. Schatz and Amber George. New York: Lexington Books, 2016.
  • “”And No Birds Sing”: Discourses of Environmental Apocalypse in The Birds and Night of the Living Dead.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 21.3 (Summer 2014).
  • “Team Apatow and the ropes of Geek-Centered Romatic Comedy.” Bright Lights Film Journal
  • “Sympathy for the Devil: The Cannibalistic Hillbilly in 1970s Rural Slasher Films.” Ecocinema: Theory and Practice. (Routledge, 2013)
  • “Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity.” Co-authored with Kom Kumyosying. Jump Cut 54, Fall 2012 <http://www.ejumpcut.org/home.html>
  • “A Stalker’s Odyssey: Arrested Development, Gay Desire, and Queer Comedy in Chuck&Buck.” Jump Cut 49, Spring 2007 (39pps in ms). <http://www.ejumpcut.org/home.html>
• Presentations
  • “Steven Spielberg’s Duel, the 1973 OPEC Oil Crisis, and the End of America’s Energy Empire.” the 2014 Film and History Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, November 1, 2014
  • “The Origins of Seattle Slacker Culture in Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything … and Singles.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 21. 2014.
  • “The Nature of Environmental Apocalypse in The Birds and Night of the Living Dead.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) biennial conference, Lawrence, Kansas, May 30, 2013
  • “Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight as Neoconservative War Propaganda.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Los Angelese, CA, March 17 2010.
  • “Kevin Smith as ‘Straight Queer’ Industrial Auteur.” What is Film? Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 7, 2009.
  • “Sympathy for the Devil: urbanoia, Horror, and the Anti-Heroic Hillbilly.” Association for the Study fo Literature and the Environment (ASLE) biennial conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 6, 2009.

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor of Film Studies, English Department, SUNY Brockport, 2011-2015
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies, English Dept., SUNY Brockport, 2010-2011
• Postdoctoral teaching Fellow, English Department, University of Oregon, 2008-2010

Professional Service