José B. Capino
Nicholson Associate Director

Office 250 English
Office Phone: 333-0983

 

J.B. Capino is associate professor of English and Helen Corley Petit Scholar for 2011-2012. He is affiliated with the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Asian American Studies Department, and the Program in Gender and Women’s Studies. Capino obtained his master’s degree in filmmaking and the doctorate in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University. A scholar of American and Philippine cinemas, he writes on transnational imaginaries, the imperial gaze, erotica, comedy, and television. The Society for Cinema Studies awarded him the dissertation prize in 2002. His work has been supported by fellowships from Fulbright-Hays, the Asian Cultural Council, and the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs.

Capino is the author of Dream Factories of a Former Colony: American Fantasies, Philippine Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). His articles have appeared in various anthologies as well as in Film Comment, Cinema Journal, Animation Journal, and Jump Cut. He is currently working on two books: a history of U.S. documentary cinema and empire; and a study of film melodrama during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.