Contact: dseid@hawaii.edu
Office hours:Tuesdays 3-5 (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 and Taiwan. As a teenager, she scoured the video store for every art house and queer film she could find; 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, queer and trans media, and racial representations.
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: Teaching Trans Media Across U.S. Empire.” JCMS: Teaching Media. Winter 2022.
“Television is Burning: Revolutionary Queer and Trans Representation on TV.” 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
- Feminist and Queer Media Studies
- Videographic Criticism (Video Essays)
- Popular Culture
- Celebrity
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Autobiographical Studies
- Transgender Studies
Awards
Most recently, in 2023, Danielle Seid was awarded a fellowship from the NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) for her research on Asian/American women and U.S. television.
Press release on NEH website: https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-announces-281-million-204-humanities-projects-nationwide?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
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
Spring Semester 2025
- ENG-369: Film History
- ENG-440: Single Author: Wong Kar-Wai
Fall Semester 2024
- ENG-363: Film
- ENG-763: Seminar in Film Theory & Criticism: Sex on Screen
Spring Semester 2023
- ENG-372: Asian American Literature
- ENG-463: Studies: Film: Women in Film
Summer Semester 2023
- ENG-271: Introduction to Literature: Genre (Popular Film Genre)