"Perhaps Garbo speaks to us through the years as modernity's 'new woman'--in her confounding gender and sexual identities, in her refusal to be exploited, and in her disinterest in domesticity as a woman's destiny," the professor of film and media studies writes in "The Washington Post."

The Hood Museum of Art's new photo collection "allows the historian-teacher to chart the history of 20th-century American culture through the fantasies of and ideals created out of Hollywood films and their stars," says the professor of film and media studies in a Hyperallergic story about the museum's acquisition of more than 6,000 photographs from the John Kobal Foundation.

If ever people were longing for entertainment, now is the time. With Valentine's Day approaching, we asked faculty about their favorite romantic films which range from sweet to tragic, and span the globe, several genres, and eight decades.