American Studies, film and media history, media criticism, cultural history, and the history of popular entertainment, comparative (US/Australian)cultural history, globalization and American culture
Relevant Experience:
Co-organizer: American Studies Symposium, National Univ. of Singapore (2004); Visiting Prof., Univ. of Sydney (1999); Sr. Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Sydney (Aug.-Sept. 1996); Visiting Prof. Film and Media Studies, Univ. of Amsterdam (October 1993); Visiting Prof. of Media, Univ. of Bergen (Summer 1992), Visiting Prof. of Film, Middlesex Univ. London (Spring 1982); Watson Fellow (1972)
Distinctions:
Advisory Board, International Forum for United State Studies (Univ. of Iowa); Assoc. Dean for Honors at UNC (1987-1999), set up study abroad programs in London, Australia, Czech Republic, developed Burch Field Research Seminar Program and Burch Fellows Program; keynoted American Studies conferences in Finland, Germany, Australia; Honorary Professor of History, University of Sydney
Relevant Courses Taught:
Comparative Cultural History of US and Australia, American Popular Culture Here and There: the Local and the Global
Recent Publications:
• 2008 Robert C. Allen, ed., Channels of Discourse, Reassembled (Peking: Peking University Press, 2008). English Language Edition with new preface.
• 2007 Richard Maltby, Melvyn Stokes, and Robert C. Allen, eds., Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema (Exeter: Univ. of Exeter Press), 2007.
• 2006 Robert C. Alen,“Relocating American Film History: The ‘Problem’ of the Empirical.” Cultural Studies 20:1 (February 2006): 48-88.
• 2004 The Television Studies Reader, (co-editor with Annette Hill),
Routledge (London) 2004
• 2004 Robert C. Allen and Annette Hill, THE TELEVISION STUDIES READER (London: Routledge), 2004. 667 pages.
• 1999 Allen, Robert (co-author). "Film History: Theory and Practice" (Korean Translation). McGraw-Hill Asia, 1999.
• 1995 To Be Continued:Soap Operas Around the World, (editor) Routledge:London, 1995.
• 1992 Channels of Discourse: Television and Contemporary Criticism and Channels of Discourse Reassembled (Revised Edition), University of North Carolina Press and Routledge (U.K.), 1987/1992.
• 1991 Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
• 1985 Film History: Theory and Practice, co-authored with Douglas Gomery, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985).
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