Karla Rae Fuller

Karla Rae Fuller, MFA, PhD is 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. Karla 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 Chicago, 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. Ms. Fuller published an essay in the anthology, Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness, on the representation of the Japanese in Hollywood films during World War II. She also wrote the book, "Hollywood goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film", (Wayne State University Press, 2010). The book "Ang Lee: Interviews, Conversations with Filmmakers Series" (University Press of Mississippi, 2016) was edited and introduced by Fuller.