Peter Limbrick

Mon, 2008-12-22 15:23 — ijbloom

Peter Limbrick

Assistant Professor, Film & Digital Media
Postcolonial and transnational cinemas, race, gender, sexuality, queer theory.
Office: 831-459-1239
Fax: 831-459-1341
Education and Training: 
PhD, La Trobe University, Australia
MA (Distinction), University of Otago, New Zealand
BA (Honors), University of Otago, New Zealand
Research Interests: 

Peter Limbrick’s research focuses on the ways in which imperial histories have configured national cinemas and their gendered and racialized representations of history. He is particularly interested in the films of the British empire and its former “settler colonies” (especially Australia, New Zealand, and the US) and his work explores the way in which their cinematic modes of production and representation construct transnational colonial forms of identity that are articulated around the politics of colonial space.

A related area of interest is in the relationship between discourses of globalization and sexuality, especially the ways in which queer or non-normative representations of gender and sexuality in transnational and global cinema and media are translated within Anglo-American discourses of identity politics. Recently, Prof. Limbrick has been researching and curating in the area of Arab film and video, especially Lebanese and Syrian work, and in 2010 he will begin a project on the films and writing of Moroccan director Moumen Smihi.

Selected Publications: 

Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; "Looking Round The Seekers: Film History and Film Culture," Historical Review 56.1 (2008); "The stallion that became a gelding that became a mayor: Georgie Girl," Camera Obscura 67 (2008); "The Flotsam and Jetsam of Film History: Hei Tiki and Postcolonial Translations," Journal of Visual Culture, 6.2 (2007); "The Australian Western, or, a Settler Colonial Cinema par excellence," Cinema Journal 46.4 (2007); "(De)Colonising the Casbah: Masculinity and the Colonialist Imaginary in Pépé le Moko," New Literatures Review 30 (1995): 17-29.

Teaching Interests: 

International cinemas; intersections of postcolonial, queer, and transnational theories; Middle Eastern and Arab film and video; introduction to film and video analysis.