Contact:
dseid@hawaii.edu
Office hours:
Thurs 1-3 (email for Zoom appointment)
Danielle Seid grew up (or sideways?) in southern California in the 80s and 90s. She spent her weekends at a movie theater where her grandfather screened films, mostly wu xia and melodramas, imported from Hong Kong. Like so many others who came of age in the 80s and 90s, she watched copious amounts of television, including music videos, sitcoms, and talk shows. Today, she is a scholar and educator with strong interests in popular culture, celebrity, Asian cinema, and racial representation.
Publications
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“To Eat and Be Eaten: A Productively Perverse Reading of Li Pik-Wah’s Dumplings.” MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture Forthcoming, Spring 2024.
“We’re Still Here.” JCMS: Teaching Media. Winter 2022.
“Television is Burning.” Flow. 26.1, Fall 2019.
“Try to Remember: The Kim Sisters and Other Traces of a Forgotten War on U.S. Television.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 5.2, Fall 2019, pp. 156-181.
“Forever Her Chinatown: Where Is My Grandmother in Chinese American Feminist Film History?” Feminist Media Histories 5.1, Winter 2019, pp. 141-167.
Areas of Interest
- U.S. Film & Television History
- Film Theory
- Videographic Criticism (Video Essays)
- Popular Culture
- Celebrity
- Life Writing
Awards
Most recently, in 2023, Danielle Seid was awarded a fellowship from the NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) for her research on AsianAmerican women and U.S. television.
Hawai'i Public Radio announcement: https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2023-01-11/national-endowment-for-the-humanities-announces-grants-for-2-hawaii-projects
Education
- PhD, English, University of Oregon (2017)
- MA, English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2012)
- BA, Humanities, San Diego State University (2010)
Courses
Summer Semester 2025
- ENG-271: Introduction to Literature: Genre
Spring Semester 2025
- ENG-369: Film History
- ENG-440: Single Author: Wong Kar-Wai
Fall Semester 2025
- ENG-271: Introduction to Literature: Genre
- ENG-763: Seminar in Film Theory & Criticism
Fall Semester 2024
- ENG-363: Film
- ENG-763: Seminar in Film Theory & Criticism: Sex on Screen