Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1997
M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1988
B.A., LaSalle University, 1986

Professor Ciecko is an international cinema educator and academic researcher, critic and arts/culture writer, and curator. She has received a 2008 Fulbright Research Scholar award in Film Studies in Jordan. She is editor of Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame (Berg, 2006). As an accredited journalist, she has covered the Fukuoka, Pusan, Dubai, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, and Cairo international film festivals, and has published interviews with Asian and Arab filmmakers. She curates the annual fall film series, New Asia Cinema and Arab Cinema Panorama, on alternate years. An experienced arts administrator, she is dedicated to bridging the classroom and the community with multicultural public programming, community arts, and related service-learning initiatives. Her writing has appeared in the following academic journals and arts publications: Afterimage, Asian Cinema, Asian Journal of Communication, Cinema Journal, Cinemaya, Film Quarterly, History, Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, Literature/Film, Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Spectator: Journal of Film and Television Criticism, Tamkang Review, Velvet Light Trap, and others; and she has given invited talks and workshops on Asian and Asian diaspora cinema and participated in numerous academic conferences and symposia in the U.S. and abroad. Her current and ongoing research interests include global cinema (especially popular Asian cinema, pan-Arab film culture and national cinemas in Arab countries, African cinema and Afropop music, international co-productions, diasporic audiences); international transmedia stardom and celebrity; intercultural film/video and multimedia installations by women; and international film festivals.