Karla Fuller - Columbia College Chicago

Karla Fuller

Associate Professor

kfuller@colum.edu

Biography

Karla Rae Fuller is an Associate Professor in the Cinema and Television Arts department at Columbia College Chicago. She teaches in the Cinema Studies and Screenwriting areas.

Prior to teaching at Columbia College Chicago, Ms. Fuller held the position of Director of Feature Film Evaluation at Vestron Inc. which produced the hit movie Dirty Dancing among others. She was a freelance script reader for New Line Cinema, Miramax and various other production companies.

Her research interests include racial and ethnic representation in Hollywood films, postwar Japanese cinema and authorship studies. She has presented her work at film conferences both nationally and internationally. She has also published in numerous film journals and has published an essay in the anthology, Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness, on the representation of the Japanese in Hollywood films during World War II. Her book, Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film, was released by Wayne State University Press. Her second book, Interviews with Ang Lee, was released by University Press of Mississippi with subsequent translations in South Korea and Mainland China. Do The Right Thing: Five Screenplays That Embrace Diversity her most recent book from Michael Wiese Productions was released in 2022.Professor Fuller received her PhD from Northwestern University, MFA from Columbia University in the City of New York, and BA from Amherst College.

Instructional Areas

Cinema Studies and Screenwriting

Creative Practice and Research Interests

Racial and Ethnic Representation in Hollywood Films, Authorship, Postwar Japanese Cinema

Degrees

B.A., History Amherst College 1980
M.F.A., Film Columbia University 1983
Ph.D., Northwestern University 1997