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1 Umayyah Cable Education Department of American Studies & Ethnicity University of Southern California Kaprielian Hall South Vermont Ave Los Angeles, CA cell: University of Southern California MA, American Studies & Ethnicity March Graduate Certificate, Visual Studies expected May 2016 PhD, American Studies & Ethnicity expected May 2016 Dissertation: Cinematic Activism: Palestinian Cultural Politics in the United States Committee: Sarah Gualtieri (director), Evelyn Alsultany, Kara Keeling, Judith Jack Halberstam, Olivia Harrison Smith College BA, American Studies June 2005 Research & Teaching Fields Arab American identity politics gender & sexuality queer theory Palestinian cinema transnationalism postcolonial theories of representation diaspora studies visual, cinema, & media studies political activism Fellowships, Grants, & Awards USC Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship Emerging Diversity Scholar Citation, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan ASE Summer Dissertation Writing Grant USC Dornsife College Graduate Merit Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship Visual Studies Research Institute Summer Grant ASE Summer Dissertation Research Grant Cable / Curriculum Vitae 1

2 Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Conference Travel Grant, Arab American Studies Association Conference, Dearborn, MI ASE Top-Off Grant, "Cinematic Activism: Palestinian Cultural Politics in the United States" USC Graduate Student Government Conference Travel Grant, Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL Ninfa Sanchez Memorial Award, I ve been here all my life: Palestinian- American Identity Politics and Transnational Landscapes ASE Summer Research Grant, fieldwork on media representations of Palestinian cinema, Boston, MA 2012 USC Graduate Student Government Conference Travel Grant, ASA Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2012 ASE Travel Grant, ASA Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2011 USC Middle East Studies Program Grant for Arabic language study at UCLA 2011 ASE Summer Grant for Arabic language study at UCLA 2011 EDGE Travel Grant, Contemporary Research in Arab American Studies Conference, Dearborn, MI 2011 ASE Travel Grant, ASA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD EDGE Travel Grant, ASA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX ASE Travel Grant, ASA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX 2009 EDGE Summer Fellowship. Sponsored by National Science Foundation, USC Graduate School, and Department of American Studies & Ethnicity Special Recognition. The Palestinian Women Research & Documentation Center at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Academic Publications Cable, Umayyah. "New Wave Arab American Studies: Ethnic Studies and the Critical Turn." American Quarterly, V. 65, 1, March Cable / Curriculum Vitae 2

3 Cable, Umayyah. "Susan J. Douglas: Enlightened Sexism (Book Review)." International Journal of Communication. Vol 5, Invited Speaking Engagements 2011 Women Without Men: Islamic Feminism as Resistance to Patriarchal Norms. Women Bought and Sold: Short Film Salon, Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA Cinematic Activism: Palestinian Film, Queer Imaginaries, and Feminist Praxis. Departments of American Culture and Women s Studies. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. The Politics of Cultural Authenticity in Cherein Dabis film Amreeka. Exploring Ethnicity Through Film. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA Nationalism and Genocide: Zionism, Palestine, and the Afterlife of the Holocaust. The Holocaust: Politics of Representation. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA Replacing Genocide with Displaced Nationalism: Zionism, Palestine, and the Afterlife of the Holocaust. Issues of Gender and Sexuality in the Holocaust. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA Conference Presentations The Televisual Intifada: Palestinian Cinema, Resistance, and Censorship. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada "The Queerness of Palestinian-American Cinematic Activism." Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC "Cinematic Activism: Palestinian Cultural Politics in the United States." American Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA "Cinematic Activism: Feminist Praxis at the Boston Palestine Film Festival." World Congress of Middle East Studies, Ankara, Turkey "Near, Far, Wherever You Are: Reconciling the Compartmentalization of 'Asian' in Asian American Studies." Association of Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA "Polycentric Palestine: Diasporic Identity Politics at the Boston Palestine Film Festival." Arab American Studies Association, Dearborn, MI Cable / Curriculum Vitae 3

4 Arab American Studies: Ethnic Studies, Decolonization, and the Critical Turn. Critical Ethnic Studies Association, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 2012 "Polycentric Palestinianism: National Consciousness in Diasporic Palestinian Cinema." American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2011 "White-Hot Desire: Whiteness, Sexuality and Orientalist Representations of Queerness." Contemporary Research in Arab American Studies: New Trends and Critical Perspectives, Dearborn, MI 2011 "Manufactured Democracy: Israeli Homonationalism and the Propaganda of Public Relations." American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD 2011 "The Gray Zone." Critical Ethnic Studies Association, University of California, Riverside, CA Teaching Assistantships 2012 Undergraduate Research Methods, Professor Richard Andalon Exploring Ethnicity Through Film, Professor Kara Keeling Race and Class in Los Angeles, Professor Sarah Gualtieri Peoples and Cultures of the Americas, Professor Juan de Lara 2012 Introduction to Islam, Professor Sherman Jackson 2011 Issues of Gender and Sexuality in the Holocaust, Professor Judith Halberstam Research Assistantships Professor Sarah Gualtieri, University of Southern California 2003 Professor Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Smith College Academic Service - Present Peer Reviewer, Journal of Transnational American Studies Web Coordinator, Board of Directors, Arab American Studies Association Chair, Call for Papers Committee. Crossing Borders: Politics, Cultural Contest, and the Urgency of Space Graduate Student Conference. University of Southern California Graduate Student Representative, ASE Graduate Studies Committee, University of Southern California Cable / Curriculum Vitae 4

5 Senator, Graduate Student Government, University of Southern California Additional Training and Research Institutes Summer Intensive Modern Standard Arabic Course, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Summer Institute Language Proficiency Beginning level modern standard Arabic Professional Membership American Studies Association Arab American Studies Association Critical Ethnic Studies Association Middle East Studies Association Nation Women s Studies Association Society for Cinema and Media Studies Non-Academic Publications Cable, Umayyah. "Cover artwork (photography)." American Quarterly, V. 62, 4, December Cable, Umayyah. Palestine & Palestinians: Cultural Survival Amidst a Ravaged Geography. Yellow Medicine Review, Fall Cable, Umayyah. Surviving Palestine: Life Under Israeli Occupation, Photo Essay. Aorta Magazine, June Cable, Umayyah. Palestine & Palestinians: A Culture of Survival Amidst a Ravaged Geography, a Photo Essay. Electronic Intifada.. July 2008 Cable, Umayyah. Women of Palestine: Photo Essay International Museum of Women, March Visual Art Exhibitions "The Queer Southwest Asian and North African Visibility Project." Stockholm Pride Festival, The Headquarter Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. June 11- July 11, Cable / Curriculum Vitae 5

6 "The New, New Pornographers: Queer Sex Workers of San Francisco." Cardiac Unrest: Aorta Magazine Release Show, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 15-May 26, Surviving Palestine. Expression of Nakba, Harvard University CGIS Knafel Bldg, Cambridge, MA, Oct 3-12, 2008 Surviving Palestine. Expressions of Nakba, Josephine Butler Parks Center, Washington, DC, May 13-15, 2008 Non-Academic Work Experience Customer Support Representative, Blurb Inc., San Francisco, CA Provided customer support via for digital self-publishing company. Helped customers with shipping and billing inquiries and troubleshooting technical issues with Blurb bookmaking software. Photographer/Production Assistant Pink & White Inc., San Francisco, CA Cast and crew portraits, production stills, and promotional photos for independent LGBT film company. Assisted director and videographers with lighting and set design. Master Photographic Printmaker, Ets-Hokin Studios, San Francisco, CA Silver-gelatin and digital inkjet photographic printmaker for Ets-Hokin Studio photographers. Operated and managed both traditional darkroom and digital lab. Cable / Curriculum Vitae 6