Kristi Wilson, PhD Faculty - Full-Time Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition Phone: 949-480-4326 Fax: 949-480-4243 Email: kwilson@soka.edu

• Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 1999 (Comparative Literature)
• M.A .,San Francisco State University, 1994 (Classics)
• B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz 1991 (Theater Arts)

• At SUA since 2008 
• 2007 - 2008 Assistant Director Hume Writing Center, Stanford University
• 2005 - 2008 Founder, Director The Stanford Film Lab
• 2005 - 2008 Lecturer Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University
• 2000 -2004 Fellow in the Humanities Stanford University (IHUM Program) 

• Comparative Literature (Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Film Theory, Philosophy, Orientalism)
• Classics ( Rhetoric, Old Comedy, Euripedean Tragedy, Roman Satire, Plato, 2nd Sophistic period)
• Gender Studies

• Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema (co-edited anthology), Wayne State University Press, 2007
• "Beyond Rossillini," Quaderni di Cinemasud, (Italy), 2007
• Envision: Persuasive Writing in A Visual World, 2nd Ed. (instructor's manual), Longman Press, 2007
• "La Medea di Pasolini: un classico anticipio sui tempi", Quaderni di Cinemasud (Italy), 2006
• Introduction to Petronius' Satyricon, Barnes and Nobel, 2006
• "Nietzsche, Euripides, Philology and Philosophy in the Age of Graecomania", Yearbook of Comarative and General Literature, 2000 
• "Time, Space and Vision: Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now", Screen, 1999 

• The Rhetoric of U.S. Teen Culture
• The Rhetoric of Documentary Film
• The Art of Survival (race, gender and strategies for survival in literature)
• Introduction to Ancient Rome
• Introduction to Plato
• Serious Laughter (ancient Greek and Roman Satire)
• Performance Rhetorics: Performance Theory and Writing
• High Drama: Intorduction to Ancient Drama
• Urban Legends: The Role of the City in Narrative
• Women and Media

• Stanford Institute for Creative Arts (SiCa) Curricular Innovation Grant for "The Multimedia Literacies Project," 2008
• Stanford Institute for Creative Arts (SiCa) Grant for "The Storytelling Project," 2007
• Fellowship in the Humanities, Stanford University, 2000-2004
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, Humanities Research Institute. Theme: "Race in Early - modern and Ancient Contexts" 2000
• Summer Research Institute Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley. Theme: "Antigone, Gender and Kinship" (led by Judith Butler)
• Horst Fenz Prize. Best Graduate Student Paper. The American Comparative Literature Association. (1999)
• Player's Club Choice Award for "Tanguedia" (a musical adaptation of Euripides" Phoenicae). San Francisco State University Drama Department 1997

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