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Sean Metzger
- Assistant Professor of English and Theater Studies
- Theater Studies
- 321 Allen Building
- Campus Box 90015
- Phone: (919) 684-3132
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Specialties
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Dramatic Literature
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Film
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Literary & Cultural Criticism
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Theater History
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Research Description
Sean Metzger teaches broadly in (and out of) the Western dramatic canon as well as late 19th-21st century American, Francophone and “Sinophone” cinema, literature, and performance. He is working on a monograph entitled Looks Chinese: Fashioning Asian/American Spectatorship and has co-edited three volumes: Embodying Asian/American Sexualities (Lexington Books, 2009); Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (Intellect, 2009); and Race, Space, Place: the Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World (under review).
In 2008, Metzger was the inaugural Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at Concordia University in Montreal. He has also been adjunct faculty at Antioch University, Loyola Marymount University and the USC School of Theatre. In addition to his academic work, he spent three years in social services at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center and as an independent consultant to school districts and other non-profit institutions.
A closeted actor and director, Metzger occasionally creeps on or behind stage.
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Teaching
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ENGLISH 158.01
- ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE
- Social Sciences 107
- MW 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
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ENGLISH 271ES.03
- SP TOP SEMINAR IV
- Languages 312
- W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
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Education
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- PhD,
- Theatre,
- University of California at Davis,
- 2005
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- MA,
- Literature,
- University of Southern California,
- 1998
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- BA,
- Humanities and Psychology,
- University of Colorado at Boulder,
- 1995
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Selected Publications
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- Olivia Khoo.
- (2009).
- Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures
- Other
- Intellect.
- 2009
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- Gina Masequesmay.
- (2007).
- Embodying Asian/American Sexualities
- Other
- Lexington Books.
- 2009
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- (2008).
- Ripples in the Seascape: The Cuba Commission Report and the Idea of Freedom
- Papers/Articles/Chapters in Books
- Afro-Hispanic Review
- 27
- 1
- 105-121
- Spring, 2008
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- S. Metzger.
- Andrew David Jackson, Michael Gibb, and Dave White.
- (2007).
- The Little (Chinese) Mermaid: Importing "Western" Femininity in Lou Ye's Suzhou he (Suzhou River)
- Papers/Articles/Chapters in Books
- How East Asian Films Are Reshaping National Identities: Essays on the Cinemas of China, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong
- 135-154
- The Edwin Mellen Press.
- 2007
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- (2006).
- Patterns of Resistance?: Anna May Wong and the Fabrication of China in American Cinema of the late 30s
- Papers/Articles/Chapters in Books
- Quarterly Review of Film and Video
- 23
- 1
- 1-11
- 2006