Faculty

Leo Zonn
Professor

• Office: GRG 334-A
• Phone: 512-232-1586
• Office Hours: 12:30-1:30 TTH, or by appointment. If I„m in my office and the visit is to be brief, I basically have an open door policy.
• E-mail: zonn@mail.utexas.edu
• Curriculum Vita (PDF)





• Education: Ph.D. , Leo Zonn received a B.A. in from California State University, Northridge in 1969, an M.A. in Geography from the same university in 1972, and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1975 (Harold Rose, adviser). He has been on the faculty of Arizona State University (1975-1986), East Carolina University (1986-1997), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997-2004) and the University of Texas at Austin (2004-present). He is currently in his 17th year as department chair, having served eleven years at ECU and five at UNC, before taking on the task here at UT in the summer of 2006.


• Courses Taught:
  Zonn regularly teaches courses in social-cultural geography. His primary courses at UT are Frontiers in Geography (the senior capstone course), Cinematic Geographies, and Contemporary Cultural Geography, plus an occasional seminar.


• Research Interests:
  Zonn is interested in issues of geographic representation as they occur within a variety of sites, from landscapes to popular media, but his special interest is in terms of cinema. This curiosity has usually been within some of the more classic frames of textual analysis, although more recently he has also become interested in cinematic exhibition. As such he is concerned with the complex network that frames the integration of technology, production, audience, text, and the site of exposition into a place-based filmic experience. This means that the drive-in, home screening room, traveling film theater, portable DVD player, and the many standard forms of the movie theater, as examples, provide geographic experiences worthy of consideration. His work is not informed by any one conceptual structure, but instead draws from a rich and varied set of mostly social-theoretical views, although even humanist influences can be found blended into the mix.


• Selected Publications:
  

  Dixon, D., L. Zonn, and J. Bascom. 2008. “Post-ing the Cinema: Reassessing Analytical Stances Toward a Geography of Film”, in The Geography of Cinema: A Cinematic World, edited by C. Lukinbeal and S. Zimmermann. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 25-47.

  Zonn, L. 2007. “Going to the Movies: The Filmic Site as Geographic Endeavor”, Aether: The Journal of Media Geography, Vol. 1, pp. 63-67.

  Dixon, D., and L. Zonn. 2005. Confronting the Geopolitical Aesthetic: Frederic Jameson, The Perfumed Nightmare and the Perilous Place of Third Cinema, Geopolitics, Vol. 10, pp. 290-315. Reprinted 2007, in Cinema and Popular Geo-Politics , Edited by M. Power and A. Crampton, London and New York: Routledge, 95-120

  Lukinbeal, C., and L. Zonn, Guest Editors. 2004. Cinematic Geographies, GeoJournal , Vol. 59. Holmes, G., Zonn, L., and A. Cravey. 2004. Placing Man in the West: Masculinities of The Last Picture Show, GeoJournal, Vol. 59, pp. 277- 288.

  Dixon, D., and L. Zonn. 2004. Film Networks and the Place(s) of Technology, in Geography and Technology, edited by S. Brunn, S. Cutter, and J.W. Harrington. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 243-266.

  Zonn, L. and D. Winchell. 2002. Smoke Signals: Locating Sherman Alexie's Narratives of American Indian Identity, in Engaging Film: Geographies of Mobility and Identity , edited by T. Cresswell and D. Dixon. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 140-158.

  Aitken, S., and L. Zonn. Editors. 1994. Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle: A Geography of Film . Savage, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers.

  Zonn, L ., and S. Aitken. 1994. Of Pelicans and Men: Symbolic Landscapes, Gender, and Australia's Storm Boy, in Place, Power, Situation, and Spectacle: A Geography of Film (see edited volume above), pp. 137-159.

  Aitken, S., and L. Zonn. 1994. Re-Presenting the Place Pastiche, in Place, Power, Situation, and Spectacle (see edited volume above), pp. 3-25. Aitken, S., and L. Zonn. 1993. Weir(d) Sex: Representation of Gender- Environment Relations in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli , Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 11, pp. 191-212.

  Zonn, L . Editor. 1990. Place Images in Media: Portrayal, Meaning, and Experience (ed.). Savage, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers.