Phillip Sipiora
Professor
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Office: CPR 358-A
Phone: 813-974-2421
Cell Phone: 813-494-8877
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BIO
Phillip Sipiora has taught at USF since receiving his doctorate in English from the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Modern American literature and Film. He has won four major teaching awards, including the Jerome Krivanek Award for Outstanding Teacher (2009). He is the founding editor of , co-sponsored by the 麻豆视频 and The Norman Mailer Society. He actively participates in the USF English graduate program, having directed a number of MA theses and approximately five dozen dissertations.
PUBLICATION
Ida Lupino, Filmmaker, edited by Phillip Sipiora. Published in August, 1921
EDUCATION
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Area of SPecialty
Prof. Sipiora鈥檚 teaching and research focuses on grammar and rhetoric in literature and in film. He also has an interest in Phenomenology and its relationship to the interpretation of film and literature. He is the author or editor of four books, approximately three dozen scholarly articles, and has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film.
Selected articles and books include: 鈥淣ietzsche鈥檚 Fingerprints on The Hands of Orlac,鈥� in Expressionism in the Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2016); Mind of An Outlaw, Editor (Random House, 2013); 鈥淓thos and Ethics: Reconsidering Gun Crazy,鈥� in The Films of Joseph H. Lewis. (Wayne State UP 2012); 鈥淧henomenological Masking: Complications of Identity in Double Indemnity,鈥� in Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker (McFarland Press (2011); 鈥淎ll Wrong Turns: Tracking Subjectivity in Edgar Ulmer鈥檚 Detour,鈥� in Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row (Lexington Books (2008); 鈥淭he Phenomenological Quest of Stanley Kubrick,鈥� in Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy (McFarland Press 2008); Reading and Writing About Literature (Prentice-Hall, 2002); Kairos and Rhetoric, Co-editor (SUNY UP, 2002).
Forthcoming works: Ida Lupino, Filmmaker (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021); 鈥淣orman Mailer鈥檚 Literary Criticism鈥� in Norman Mailer in Context. Ed. Maggie McKinley (Cambridge UP, 2021); 鈥�Bathos in the Bowery鈥� in Wallace Fox and Social Protest (Edinburgh UP, 2021).
In Progress: The Neglected Work of Martin Scorsese (Co-edited with Gary D. Rhodes).