Biography
Karla Rae Fuller is a Professor in the School of Film and Television 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 in 2010. Hollywood Goes Oriental won an Honorable Mention for the Peter C. Rollins Book Award in American Culture/Popular Culture.
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 in Mainland China.
Her book Do the Right Thing: Five Screenplays That Embrace Diversity was released by Michael Wiese Productions in 2022.
Her forthcoming screenwriting textbook entitled, Mastering the Craft of Diverse and Inclusive Screenwriting: Find Your Screenwriting Superpower to be published by Routledge and scheduled to be released in Deccember 2024.
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