• Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, December 1991. Department of Radio, Television and Film. Dissertation: "Stereotyped images of United States citizens in Mexican cinema, 1930-1990"
  
• M.L.S., University of Maryland, College Park, May 1985. College of Library and Information Services.
  
• M.A., University of Maryland, College Park, December 1980. Department of Communication Arts and Theatre. Thesis: "Driving the Rough Road : the Outlaw Couple in American Film"
  
• B.A., University of Maryland, College Park, May 1977. Department of Speech and Dramatic Art. With Honors.

• Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Films, 1939-1945 (1987) with Michael Shull
• Hard Boiled in Hollywood: Five "Black Mask" Writers and the Movies (1991)
• Hollywood War Films 1937-1945 (1996) with Michael Shull [paperback edition, summer 2006]
• Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences and Engineering Information Sources (1996) co-editor
• Mondo Macabro (Titan Books, 1997 [U.K.], published by St. Martin's Press in U.S., 1998)--contributor
• Mexican Horror Cinema (Agrasánchez Film Archive, 1999)--contributor.
• The Columbia Encyclopedia of American History on Film (Columbia University Press, 2004)--contributor.
• The Mexican Filmography, 1916-2001 (McFarland and Company, 2004).
• Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Films, 1939-1945 (revised and updated second edition, 2004, McFarland & Co.)
• "El Santo: the Case of a Mexican Multi-media Idol." in Film and Comics (University Press of Mississippi, 2007).
• "Based on a True Story: Reality-Based Mexican Exploitation Movies" in Latsploitation, Latin America, and Exploitation Cinema (published by Routledge, April 2009).

Conference Papers and Presentations:

• "The OCIAA and the Mexican Film Industry." Literature/Film Association Conference, June 1991.
• "Hunters and the Hunted: Images of the U.S. Military and the Japanese Foe in Hollywood Film." Conference of Army Historians, June 1994. with Michael Shull.
• "Popular Music and World War Two." World War Two Association Conference, May 1995.
• "When the War is Over: Images of the Postwar World in Hollywood Films, 1942-45." Siena World War Two Conference, May 1995. with Michael Shull.
• "Brown, Black and White: The Issue of Race in Mexican Cinema." Fifth Conference on Latin American Popular Culture, October 1996.
• "Uncle Joe Joins the Family: Images of Soviet Russia in Hollywood Cinema during WWII." IAMHIST International Conference, July 1997.
• "All We Want is the Oil: Rosa Blanca and Mexican Cinema Images of Foreign Oil Exploitation." 4th International Congress of the Americas, September 1999.
• "How to Make a Monster: Indigenous Themes and Motifs in Mexican Fantasy Films." Society for Cinema Studies Conference, May 2001.
• "Who Was That Masked Man?" Presentation at Albright College, 28 October 2003 as part of the "Mexico Illuminated" series.
• "Mexico de mis horrores." Presentation at the "Futuro + Acá" conference, Mexico City, 26 November 2003.
• Presenter, "A Series of Mexican Vintage Sci-Fi and Horror Films," part of "Viva Mexico Washington DC Celebrates" Series, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, July 2004.
• Presenter, "Pest Fest" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June-July 2006.
• "Stay on the Farm! Perils of Migration in Mexican Cinema." Memories of Modernity: an International Conference on Hispanic Cinemas, Stony Brook Manhattan, November 2006.
• "Based on A True Story: Mexican Cinema and Real Life." Latsploitation Workshop, University of Alberta, June 2007.
• Presenter, "Summer Camp" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 2007.
• Research and Program Assistance, PAF (Animation Festival) Olomouc, Czech Republic, December 2007.
• Presenter, "Summer Camp" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 2008.
• Presenter, "Summer Camp" Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 2009.

• "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" (retrospective review) Screem #18 (2009)
• "Drawing the Line" (book review) Labor History 50/1 (February, 2009)
• "Mexican Fantasy Films: The Best of the Rest" Screem #17 (2008).
• "The Dracula Saga." Screem #16 (2008).
• "The World of the Vampires." Screem #15 (2007).
• "El Diablo Made Me Do It." Screem #14 (2007).
• "Mexican Biker-Punk Films." Screem #13 (2006).
• "The Other Salazar: Film Career of Alfredo Salazar." Screem #12 (2006)
• "Hades--Vida después de la muerte." Screem #11 (2005)
• "Contemporary Cinema" (book review) H-Film (March 1999) (originally published in Film & History)
• "Poet of Civic Courage: the films of Franceso Rosi" (book review) H-Film (June 1998).
• "Mexican Fantasy Films." Cinefantastique (May 1996).
• "The Baron of Terror: Abel Salazar" Filmfax (Spring 1996)
• "Los Vampiros." Imagi-Movies (Winter 1994)
• "Cantinflas: Unknown Idol." The Big Reel (March 1994)
• "The Western in Mexico." The Big Reel (September 1992)
• "Beyond Infinity at Empire Pictures."Cinefantastique (March 1989)
• "Earl Owensby, America's 3-D King." Cinefantastique (September 1983)

• DVD liner notes for CasaNegra Entertainment DVDs (2007): El hombre y el monstruo, El grito de la muerte and (2006): El espejo de la bruja, El barón del terror, La maldición de la Llorona, Chabelo y Pepito contra los monstruos, Chabelo y Pepito detectives, Pepito y la lámpara maravillosa, El vampiro/El ataúd del vampiro, Misterios de ultratumba
• DVD liner notes for BCI DVDs: Ladrones de tumbas, Cementerio del terror, Muñecos infernales, Horripilante bestia humana (2006).
• DVD liner notes for The Santo Collection (2003).
• Editor and publisher, THE MEXICAN FILM BULLETIN (1994-present)
• Contributor or former contributor to: SCREEM, CINEFANTASTIQUE, FILM & HISTORY, LABOR HISTORY, FILMFAX, IMAGI-MOVIES, THE BIG REEL, SANTO STREET, SANTO SCENE and THE WASHINGTON POST

Websites:

• Nuyorican Films
• The Films of El Santo
• The Christa Linder-Elizabeth Campbell-Amadee Chabot Page
• Juan López Moctezuma, Director, etc.

All accessible from The Mexican Film Resource Page.

Films and Television Shows

• "The Wonder World of K. Gordon Murray in Colorscope" (2009): interviewee in documentary film. Official website.
• "Mondo Macabro"--Mexican Horror Films episode (2002): talking head (can also be seen on the British DVD releases of "Alucarda" and "El vampiro"). A somewhat revised version of my interview can be seen on the USA release (on DVD) of "Alucarda."
• "Cartoons Go to War" TV special (shown on A&E cable network, August 1995): consultant and talking head

Employment:

• Head of Circulation & Serials, Engineering & Physical Sciences Library, University of Maryland Libraries : 1986--present. [Acting Head of EPSL, September 2005-October 2006]
• Professorial Lecturer in Film Studies, George Washington University: 2008-present.

Previous positions:

• Circulation Desk Supervisor, McKeldin Library, UMCP
• Public Information Specialist, Food Safety & Quality Service, USDA
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept of Communication Arts and Theatre, Univ of MD
• WMUC Radio: Sports Director, Special Programs Producer, Record Librarian, Disk Jockey, Sports Reporter/Play-by-play announcer, 1973-1980

Photos.

Updated 24 June 2009.