Delia Konzett

Delia Konzett

Professor
Office: Hamilton Smith Hall, Durham, NH 03824
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Courses Taught

  • ENGL 401: First-Year Writing
  • ENGL 533: Intro to Film Studies
  • ENGL 616A: Studies in Film/Genre
  • ENGL 616B: Studies in Film/Indie Film
  • ENGL 778: Race and Gender in Film
  • ENGL 788: Senior Honors

Education

  • Ph.D., English Language&Literature, University of Chicago
  • M.A., English Language&Literature, University of Chicago
  • B.A., Georgia State University

Research Interests

  • Asia-Pacific Studies; modernism
  • Asian/Pacific Islanders
  • Cinema studies
  • Colonialism
  • Film history
  • Film theory
  • Media studies
  • Modernism
  • Orientalism
  • US imperialism
  • Visual culture
  • War

Selected Publications

  • Konzett, D. M. (2025). Peripheral Centers: Hawaiʻi’s Asian Diaspora Cultures. Comparative American Studies An International Journal, 1-18. doi:10.1080/14775700.2025.2607819

  • Konzett, D. (2025). Peripheral Centers: Hawaiʻi’s Asian Diaspora Cultures. Comparative American Studies An International Journal, 1-18. doi:10.1080/14775700.2025.2607819

  • Konzett, D. (2025). HOLLYWOOD'S HAWAII: THREE ESSAYS ON C!NEMAT!C REPRESENTAT!ONS OF HAWA!‘! AND THE PAC!F!C FROM THE 1950S TO THE 2010S. Flux, 49, 54-71.

  • Konzett, D. M. (2025). The Dysmorphic Masculine Body of Hollywood: Tarzan, Rocky, and Creed. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 42(5), 1301-1329. doi:10.1080/10509208.2023.2261358

  • Konzett, D. M. (2024). Kubrick’s Red Room: Architecture, Race, and Nationhood in The Shining. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 41(2), 151-174. doi:10.1080/10509208.2022.2101341

  • Konzett, D. M. (2022). Black and Blue in Florida: Moonlight’s Poetics of Space and Identity. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 39(7), 1515-1535. doi:10.1080/10509208.2021.1946258

  • Yu, G., Singer, E., Gyenge, A., Tucker, A., Hristova, S., Cortez, I., . . . Bode, L. (2022). "Black Faces Matter: Close-ups in Selma, Fruitvale Station, and Moonlight". In A. Maurice (Ed.), Faces on Screen: New Approaches. Edinburgh UK: Edinburgh University Press. Retrieved from https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-faces-on-screen.html

  • KONZETT, D. (2004). War and Orientalism in Hollywood Combat Film. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 21(4), 327-338. doi:10.1080/10509200490461414

  • Konzett, D. C. (2002). Ethnic Modernisms, Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation. doi:10.1057/9780230107533

  • Konzett, D. C. (1997). Administered identities and linguistic assimilation: The politics of immigrant English in Anzia Yezierska's 'Hungry Hearts'. AMERICAN LITERATURE, 69(3), 595-619. doi:10.2307/2928216

  • Most Cited Publications