Biography

Rebecca Fine Romanow is the Chair of the Department of Film/Media at the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Rhode Island in 2006, with an emphasis on postcolonial literature and film. Her dissertation was published by Cambridge Scholar’s Press (Cambridge, England) in 2006, with a paperback edition published in 2008.

Her interests include 21st-century film and streaming television, global and transnational cinemas, film history and film theory. She has developed and taught numerous courses including topics on International Independent Film, Netflix, HBO, International Television, Longform TV, US and International Animation, Chaos Cinema, iPhone and Gorilla Film, YouTube film, New Wave Film Theory, Punk Cinema and the Underground Aesthetic, Films of the British Empire, The Theory of Film Excess, Films of Terrorism, The Rock ‘n’ Roll Film, British Comedy Film, and Quentin Tarantino.

Romanow’s articles have been published in Politics and Culture, Megafoni (Finland), and The Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture, as well as chapter contributions to several scholarly anthologies. Most recently, her chapter “Is London Real? The Actual/Virtual/Fantastic City from Blow-up to Bandersnatch” was published in Screen Gateway (Routledge, London, 2023). She has delivered numerous papers and chaired panels at academic conferences, including Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies (London), MLA, NeMLA, and the Cultural Studies Association.