Biography
Associate Professor Colleen Kennedy-Karpat has taught in the Department of Communication and Design since receiving her PhD from Rutgers University in 2011, teaching courses and advising graduate and undergraduate research projects related to film theory, film form, and media adaptations.
Her monograph Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s (2013) won the Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award. She has edited a number of scholarly projects, including special issues of the journals Adaptation on Adaptation and Nostalgia (2020) and Open Screens on Teaching Women’s Filmmaking (2022). She has also co-edited the volumes Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige (2017, with Eric Sandberg) and The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda (2022, with Feride Çiçekoğlu). Other publications have appeared in the Journal of Popular Film and Television, MAI, Camera Obscura, French Screen Studies, Short Film Studies, and a number of edited volumes, including Global Literary Adaptation in the 21st Century (2023), A Companion to the Biopic (2020), and The Films of Wes Anderson (2014).
She is an active member and current co-chair of the Association of Adaptation Studies; a member of the International Media Nostalgia Network; former Associate Editor of Adaptation; and the current Video Essay Editor for the undergraduate film journal Film Matters. She also co-hosts the podcast You Made Me Watch That?!, a co-production of Bilkent COMD and Bilkent Cinema Society. Her videographic work is available on Vimeo @cbkenkar.
Research Interests: Adaptation, French Cinema, Film Genre, Nostalgia and Media, Stardom, and Director Studies.
Courses Taught
- COMD 321 // Analysis of Moving Image
- COMD 322 // Film Theory and Criticism
- COMD 438-538 // Adaptation in Media
- COMD 513 // Film and Genre
Selected Publications
- (2025) “Relational Geometries in Our Grand Despair (2011) and Jules et Jim (1962)” in Adaptation in Turkish Literature, Cinema, and Media, eds. T. Can and S. Öz https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-74446-4.pdf
- (2023) “Regarding Violence: Du côté de la côte (1958) and Varda’s politics of disregard,” MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, no. 12 (Re)Framing Varda, ed. Erica Sheen and Nicole Fayard https://maifeminism.com/regarding-violence-du-cote-de-la-cote-and-vardas-politics-of-disregard/
- (2022) The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda, co-edited with Feride Çiçekoğlu. Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/sustainable-legacy-of-agnès-varda-9781350240902/
- (2022) “Teaching Women’s Filmmaking: Dossier Introduction” Open Screens vol. 5, no. 2 https://www.openscreensjournal.com/article/id/9109/
- (2020) “Adaptation and Nostalgia.” Adaptation vol. 13 no. 3 pp. 283-294. Special issue. https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apaa025
- (2017) Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige, co-edited with Eric Sandberg. Palgrave, Adaptation and Visual Culture series, eds. Julie Grossman and R. Barton Palmer. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319528533
- (2013) Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press / Bloomsbury Academic. Paperback edition, 2015. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/rogues-romance-and-exoticism-in-french-cinema-of-the-1930s-9781611476132/
Ongoing Projects
- Book, Agnès Varda 1958: Three Short Films, under contract for the Timecodes series with Bloomsbury Academic, edited by Nadine Boljkovac and Nicholas Rombes.
- Edited volume, Handbook of 21st Century Adaptation Studies, co-edited by Christina Wilkins and John Sanders. Proposal under review.
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