Greta Aiyu Niu

Assistant Professor of English

PhD  Duke University
Cinema and media studies, 20th-century American literature, gender studies, Asian American studies

Research/Writing interests

Greta Niu's research investigates networks of film, media, and technology, with an interest in material cultural productions. Her book manuscript Chinese Diasporic Cinemas: Migration, Culture and Globalization analyzes constructions of Chinese diasporas and, by extension, questions the phenomenon called globalization. The book analyzes migrations within films and the migrations produced by and travels required of the cultures surrounding those film texts. Her next manuscript project, Techno-Orientalism, Cyberculture and Science Parks, is a comparative study that includes research and interviews in Taiwan and research at various U.S. Archives. She has an ongoing interest in Asian American literature and film, and in gender theory.

Selected publications

• Identity Through Art: Six Rochester Asian American Artists, DVD, produced by APA-HiP 2005 (production assistant and interviewer)
• “Performing White Triangles: Joan Riviere's 'Womanliness as a Masquerade' and Imitation of Life (1959),” in Quarterly Review of Film and Video 22.2 (2005)
• “‘Easy Money in Male Prostitution’: An Imperialist Apocalypse Now in the Philippines,” in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 13.1 (2000)
• “Wives, Widows, and Workers: Corazon Aquino, Imelda Marcos and the Filipina ‘Other’,” in National Women’s Studies Association Journal 11.2 (1999), 88-102
• “Consuming Asian Women: The Fluid Body of Josie Packard (Joan Chen) in Twin Peaks,” in Engaging Texts: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature and Culture, ed. Yingjin Zhang, Stanford 1998
• Fetish: "All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun," 16mm film, 1995 (cinematographer, writer, producer, director, actor, and editor)
  

Teaching

Courses in film and media studies, world cinema, 20th-century American literature, gender and sexuality theory, critical theory

Recent undergraduate courses

Recent graduate courses

Honors and activities

• Executive Committee Member, Asian American Literature Division of Modern Language Association
  
• Founding Board Member, Vice President, Asian/Pacific Islander/American History Project of Greater Rochester
  
• Honors Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sweet Briar College
  
• Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowship, University of California at Santa Barbara
  

greta.niu@rochester.edu
(585) 275-4094
416 Morey Hall