rrushing@illinois.edu

Rank: Associate Professor

Ph.D.: U.C. Berkeley (1998)

M.A.: U. of Michigan (1994)

B.A.: U.C. Santa Cruz (1991)

Current Project:

1. •Mondo Jane: Gender, New Media and the Rise of a Global Austen Culture is the first book-length work to address the world of contemporary Jane Austen fan culture, analyzing the most important and surprising features of contemporary Austen fandom: its strongly post-feminist and anti-feminist stance, its role in both emblematizing and problematizing certain theories of new media and its surprisingly de-territorialized global reach.
   

Affiliate Faculty in:

1. •Italian
   

2. •Unit for Cinema Studies
   

3. •Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
   

Honors:

1. •2008, Humanities Council Teaching Excellence Award
   

2. •2008, Resisting Arrest nominated for the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Gradiva Award: Best Theoretical Book
   

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3. •Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture (New York: Other Press, 2007)
   

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7. •“Sirens without Us: The Future after Humanity,” California Italian Studies, 2(1).
   

8. •“Blink: The Material Real in Caché, Mulholland Dr. and Dr. Who,” PostScript 29.3 (2010): 21-34.
   

9. •“De Sica’s The Children Are Watching Us: Neorealist Cinema and Sexual Difference,” Studies in European Cinema 6.2-3 (2009): 97-112.
   

10. •“Gentlemen Prefer Hercules: Desire | Identification | Beefcake” in Camera Obscura 23.2, 69 (2008): 158-91.
    

11. •“‘Tutto è zuppa!’ Making the Superego Enjoy in Calvino’s Il cavaliere inesistente” in Romanic Review 101.3 (2010): 561-77.
    

12. •“Italo Svevo and Charlie Chaplin: Dramatic Irony and the Psychoanalytic Stance” in American Imago 63.2 (2006): 183-200.
    

13. •“What We Desire, We Shall Never Have: Calvino, Žižek, Ovid” in Comparative Literature 58.1 (2006): 44-58.
    

14. •“Traveling Detectives: The ‘Logic of Arrest’ in Verne and Christie,” in Yale French Studies 108 (2005): 89-101.
    

15. •Articles on the television show Monk, the film 300, and Umberto Eco, Calvino, Gadda, Foscolo, Hitchcock and Antonioni, and Baricco.