A Single Man directed by Tom Ford  The Weinstein Company, 2009,  99 min. A Serious Man directed by Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen  Focus Features, 2009,  106 min.

Professor of Film and Literature, Director of Film Studies, and Chair of English at the University of the Pacific. She has published books, chapters, and journal articles on cinema and psychoanalysis and given papers and workshops at professional conferences in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. She conducts study groups on film and psychoanalysis in San Francisco and the South Bay and has been guest faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.