Faculty Profile for Dr. Rebecca Bell-Metereau

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Dr. Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Professor — English
Flowers Hall 335
phone: (512) 245-3725

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Rebecca Bell-Metereau teaches film at Texas State University and directs the interdisciplinary Media Studies Program. With a PhD from Indiana University, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Chad, a Fulbright scholar in Senegal (1999-2000). She has published Transgender Cinema, Hollywood Androgyny (2nd ed., Columbia Press), Transgender Cinema, and co-authored and edited Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering, co-authored Simone Weil on Politics Religion and Society (Sage Publication), chapters and articles in Close Up: Great Cinematic Performances, The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz, Critical Insights: Stanley Kubrick; A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film, Stars of the 80s, Acting for America, Authorship in Film Adaptation, Cinema and Modernity, American Cinema of the 1950s, Film and Television after 9/11, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls (SUNY Press), Writing With, Cultural Conflicts in Twentieth Century Literature, Deciding Our Future: Technological Imperatives, Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy, College English, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Cinema Journal and the forthcoming anthology, Post-9/11 Cinema. She has also served as Special Assistant to the President at Southwest Texas State University and campus director for -ISM, a nationwide Ford Foundation grant to incorporate diversity and media literacy in the curriculum. She serves on the Texas State Board of Education, representing District 5 in Central Texas.

Teaching Interests

Introduction to film, politics in film, film adaptation, gender and film, documentary and biopic films, celebrity and reception studies, literary criticism, pedagogy, environmental films

Research Interests

Gender roles, film, reception theory, celebrity studies, pedagogy, politics and film, bio-pics, documentary, transgender, disability studies

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Bell-Metereau, R. L. (n.d.). “Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun and Being Progressive, Black, and Probably Gay.” In Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun. Amenia, New York, United States: Grey House Publishing.
  • Bell-Metereau, R. L. (2022). J.D. Salinger Meets the Wrath of Manic Pixie Dream Girls. In Critical Insights: J.D. Salinger (pp. 146–161). Amenia, New York, United States: Grey House Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.salempress.com/critical-insights-jd-salinger
  • Bell-Metereau, R. L. (2022). Life, Animated: Adapting a Book about a Hero with Autism. In M. Pomerance & B. Palmer (Eds.), On the Island: Film, Television, and Autism (pp. 47–58). Austin, Texas, United States: University of Texas Press. https://doi.org/doi:10.7560/324912
  • Bell-Metereau, R. L. (2021). Albert Brooks Channeling the Feminine. In Refocus Films of Albert Brooks (pp. 151–177). Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/Ebook (PDF): 9781474434263
  • Bell-Metereau, R. L. (2020). “Corporations as Villains in Postwar Conspiracy Films.” In J. Plath (Ed.), Critical Insights: Conspiracy (pp. 21–39). Amenia, New York, U.S.: Greyhouse Publishers. Retrieved from https://salempress.com/book/critical-insights-conspiracies

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Choice's Outstanding Academic Title award., Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. October 1, 2019 - December 2, 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Faculty Research Award: 2020-21, Texas State University. 2020 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Marquis Who's Who of American Women. 2008 - 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Nominee for Liberal Arts Award for Service, English Department, Texas State University. January 10, 2017 - March 22, 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Faculty Research Award 2013-2014. 2013 - 2014

Selected Grants

  • Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L. Department of Health and Human Services, Video for Case Management, Children and Pregnant Women. (Funded: 2006). Grant.
  • Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L. San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District, Why Wait? Sex education video grant. (Funded: 2005). Grant.
  • Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L. ISM Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, Ford Foundation, Diversity Video. (Funded: 1996). Grant.
  • Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L. National Endowment for the Humanities, $3000. (Funded: 1984). Grant.
  • Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L. Summer Faculty Research Grant (summer salary). (Funded: 1983). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Presidential Award for Excellence in Service Committee
2003-2022
Organizer
Developed, Authored and Directed, Media Studies Minor, English Department, Texas S. U.,
1998-December 31, 2022
Undergraduate Advisor
Developed, Authored and Directed, Media Studies Minor, English Department, Texas S. U., 1998-2016
September 1, 1998-December 31, 2022
Faculty Senator
Faculty Senate
May 2017-May 2022
Member
Texas State Board of Education
January 1, 2020-December 31, 2021