Jenelle Troxell recently received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at Texas A&M University. She is a co-editor of the journal Convolution, and is presently at work on a book manuscript ’What Does She See When She Shuts Her Eyes’: Transnationalism, Feminism, and the Cinematic Avant-garde, which focuses on the film journal Close Up.