Talk on TV, ethnicity, masculinity set Oct. 13

4:15 p.m., Oct. 7, 2005--Peter Feng, UD associate professor of English, will give a lecture, “Television, Ethnicity and Masculinity: The Business of Syndication,” at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 13, in 202 Old College.

Part of the Department of Art History’s 2005-06 lecture series, “Passages across Time, Space and Media,” Feng’s talk will focus on television’s role in creating racial and gender-based stereotypes and its portrayal through the decades of Asian Americans.

Feng, who appeared on the Fox Movie Channel two years ago in a roundtable discussion about racial stereotypes and race relations in America, also authored Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video by Peter X Feng, a 2003 book that analyzes Asian American films within the context of Asian American culture.

Feng is a graduate of Yale University and received his master’s and doctoral degrees in film studies from the University of Iowa. He joined the UD faculty in 1996 and organizes UD’s fall and spring International Film Series. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Asian American Studies and is chairperson of the Asian Pacific American Caucus of the Society for Cinema Studies.

The free evening lecture is open to the public. For more information, call (302) 831-8415.

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