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James Tweedie
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Areas of Study: film analysis and theory, globalization and film, post-WWII film history, and modernist cinema
James Tweedie is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the Cinema Studies faculty at the University of Washington. He was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, where he coordinated the Crossing Borders Initiative, an interdisciplinary program designed to facilitate the study of globalization in the humanities and social sciences. He has published essays in Cinema Journal, Screen, SubStance, and Twentieth Century Literature, and is currently completing a book on European cinema in the 1980s. He is also working on a comparative study of cinematic new waves from the late 1950s to the 1990s. At UW he teaches introductory courses on film analysis and theory, as well as upper-level and graduate courses on globalization and film, post-WWII film history, and modernist cinema. He received an A.B. with honors from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.