Karla Rae Fuller

Karla Rae Fuller, MFA, PhD is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Cinema and Television Arts at Columbia College Chicago. She teaches in the Cinema Studies and Screenwriting areas in the undergraduate and MFA graduate programs. She received her PhD from Northwestern University, MFA from Columbia University in New York City and BA from Amherst College.

Prior to teaching at Columbia College, 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 also 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 and media conferences both nationally and internationally and also published in numerous film journals.

Her book, Hollywood goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film, was released by Wayne State University Press in 2010. Ang Lee: Interviews, a compilation of interviews by award winning director, Ang Lee, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2016 was edited and introduced by Fuller with translations published in South Korea and forthcoming in Mainland China in 2023. Another forthcoming book Do The Right Thing: Five Screenplays That Embrace Diversity has a release date of September 6, 2022. It is available for pre-order now.