Columbia University, 1992). Bernardi's research and teaching interests draw on her background in photography, film and media, and East Asian studies: Japanese popular culture; Japanese and Asian cinema; animation; visual culture and its relation to media of the past; film history, culture, and historiography; film and media archiving and preservation, early and silent cinema; orphan and "lost" film; nuclear history and the visual image. Some of her recent courses include: Atomic Creatures: Godzilla; Tourist Japan; History of Japanese Cinema; Film as Object; Anime: Japanese Animation; as well as Mobsters, Monsters, and Swords.