New York University

Nina Cornyetz's teaching and research interests include critical, literary, and filmic theory; intellectual history; studies of gender and sexuality; and cultural studies, with a specialization in Japan. She has been the recipient of research fellowships from the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University (1997-1998); the Japan Foundation (1995-1996); and the Now Foundation, Tokyo, Japan (1990). Among her publications are The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire; Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers; "Fetishized Blackness: Hip Hop and Racial Desire in Contemporary Japan" in Social Text; and "Gazing Disinterestedly: Politicized Poetics in Double Suicide" in Differences. Her Gallatin courses include a culturally comparative inquiry into Japanese aesthetics and fascism in "Aesthetics, Fascism, and Japanese Culture" and a study of ethics and cinematography in Hong Kong gangster films and their Japanese and American counterparts in "Beyond Good and Evil: Gangsters, Violence, and the Urban Landscape."