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Ramona Curry is an Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Illinois, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Specializing in cinema and media studies, she focuses on gender, race, and class in media, cross-cultural adaptations, and the historiography of cinema. Her research emphasizes challenging stereotypes through trans-Pacific film flows, particularly Chinese cinema's impact in America. She taught at Hong Kong Baptist University (2004 Fulbright Award) and Uppsala University (2015 Fulbright Distinguished Chair).
Education: B.A. from University of Chicago; M.A. from University of Tübingen, Germany; Ph.D. in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University. Her monograph Trading in Cultural Spaces: How Chinese Film Came to America, funded by NEH grants (2008, 2011), re-examines American cinema history through Chinese film's trans-Pacific influence.
Research interests include sociocultural impacts of media institutions, German cinema history, and international film distribution. She has published widely on figures like Mae West and Benjamin Brodsky, with articles in Cinema Journal, Journal of Women’s History, and others.
Awards include NEH grants, a Mid-Career Faculty Release Time Award, and Fulbright recognitions. Her teaching spans film theory, popular culture, and writing about cinema, including courses on gender in film, documentary approaches, and transmedia adaptations.
Her current work continues archival research on underrepresented cultural narratives in cinema history, aiming to diversify film historiography.
