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1970 Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University. Dissertation: "Hawthorne and Romanticism: A Study of Hawthorne in the Context of the American and European Romantic Movements."

1959 Postgraduate Diploma in English, University of London.

1958 B.A. (Honours) in English Language and Literature, University of Birmingham, England.

1987- Professor of English and Comparative Literature SUNY--Stony Brook; and Founding Director, The Humanities Institute

1979-87 Associate Professor in English, Rutgers, The State University

1974-79 Assistant Professor in English, Rutgers

1970-74 Assistant Professor in English, Monmouth College

1960-63 Assistant Lecturer in English and General Studies, Kingsway Day College, London

1960-62 Lecturer in Film, the British Film Institute, London

I omit here my numerous academic initiatives, including creating and teaching many innovative courses, and my many administrative positions over the length of my academic career.
 

VISITING APPOINTMENTS:

1987 Visiting Film Scholar, China Film Association, Beijing, Mainland China (one month)

1989 Visiting Research Fellow, Humanities Institute, Australian National Univeristy (Fall Semester)

1993 Visiting Research Fellow, Humanities Research Insititute, UC Irvine (six weeks)

1994-7 Visiting Scholar, Josai International University, Togane-Shi, Gumyo, Japan

1999 Distinguished Feaver-McGinn Visitor, University of Oklahoma: Week-long series of lectures

2000 Visiting Research Fellow, Humanities Institute, Australian National University, Spring Semester

2001 Visting Resident Fellow, Green College, University of British Columbia, Spring Semester

2003 Visiting Scholar, Humanities Research Center, UC Irvine, Spring Semester

ACADEMIC HONORS:

2001 Elected President-Elect of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

2001 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Creativity

2002 Rockefeller Bellagio Site Resident Conference (collaborative Institute Award)
 

1984-87 Organized and was the first  Chair, Interdisciplinary Film Minor Program, Rutgers

1982-84 Associate Chair, English Department, Rutgers

1980-82 Chair, University College English Department, Rutgers

1979-80 Acting Director, Women's Studies Research Institute, Rutgers

A. Books

1. Talking About the Cinema. London: The British Film Institute, 1963. Rev. Ed., with new introduction, 1974 (With Jim Kitses).

2. Fritz Lang: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981.

3. Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera. London and New York: Metheun, Inc., 1983. Reprinted 1990.

Translated into Japanese by Noriko Mizuta Lippet and published by Tabata Shoten, Tokyo, 1985.

Translated into Portuguese by Helen Marcia Potter Pessoa, for Rocco Press, Rio de Janeiro, 1995.

Translated into Chinese by Yuan-Liou Publishing Co of Taipei, Taiwan in Process.

Selections translated and published in mainland China, 1989.

5. Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama. London and New York: Routledge, Inc. 1992. New Edition 2002.

        Selections reprinted as "Pyschoanalytic Mothering Theories," in Cultural Studies Reader, ed. Stuart Hall. Milton Keynes: The Open University, 2000.
        Translated into Japanese by Kiseko Manuguchi for Keiso Shobo Publishing.

6. Travelling Cultures, Sex, Race and Cinema. Monograph published by The American Center in Paris, France, 1995.

7. Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.

B. Edited Books

1. Women in Film Noir: An Anthology. London: The British Film Institute, 1978. New edition, 1984.

Translated into Japanese by Noriko Mizuta Lippet and published by Tabata Shoten, Tokyo, 1988.

3. Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories/Practices. London: Verso, 1988.

Translated into Portugese by Vera Ribeiro and published by Jorge Zahar Editor Ltda, Rio de Janeiro, 1993.

5. Cross-Currents: Recent Trends in Humanities Research. Co-edited with Michael Sprinker. London: Verso, 1990

6. The Althusserian Legacy. Co-edited with Michael Sprinker. London: Verso, 1993.

7. Late Imperial Culture. Co-eds. Michael Sprinker and Román de la Campa. London: Verso, 1995.

8. The Politics of Research. Co-edited with George Levine. Rutgers University Press. In Press.

9. Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue. Co-edited with Devoney Looser. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

10. Women in Film Noir. Revised and Expanded Version. London: The British Film Institute, 1998. With new instroduction, authored essay.

11. Playing with Dolly: Technologies and Fantasies of Assisted Reproduction. Co-edited with Susan Squier. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999. With co-authored Introduction and authored essay.

12. Feminism and Film: An Anthology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Introduction and Notes to Sections.

13. Trauma, Cinema and Modernity: Histories in Transnational Cinema, Co-edited with Ban Wang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. In Press. Co-authored Introduction; authored essay.
 

C: Articles Published:

"Aspects of British Feminist Criticism," Jump Cut, Nos. 12-13 (December 1976), pp. 9-11.

"Harlan County U.S.A.: The Problem of the Documentary," Jump Cut, No. 15 (Summer 1977), pp. 11-12.

        Revised and reprinted under the title "Theory and Practice of the Realist Documentary Form in Harlan County, U.S.A.," in Thomas Waugh, ed. "Show Us Life": Toward a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary.  Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984, pp. 212-222.

"The Avant-garde Feminist Cinema: Mulvey/Wollen’s Riddles of the Sphinx," Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 1979), pp. 135-144.

"Integrating Marxist and Psychoanalytical Approaches in Ici et Ailleurs and Comment Ça Va." Millennium Film Journal, No. 6 (Spring 1980) pp. 98-102.  (With Jeff Halley)

"Patterns of Violence Toward Women in Fritz Lang’s While the City Sleeps," Wide Angle, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Spring 1980), pp. 55-60.

"Feminism, Psychoanalysis and History in Sigmund Freud’s Dora," Millennium Film Journal, Nos. 7/8/9 (Fall/Winter 1980-1981), pp. 173-185.

"Investigating the Heroine: Sally Potter’s Thriller," Millennium Film Journal, No. 10/11 (Fall/Winter 1981-1982), pp. 115-122.

"Theories and Strategies of the Feminist Documentary," Millennium Film Journal, No. 12 (Fall/Winter 1982-1983), pp. 44-67.

        Reprinted in Alan Rosenthal, ed. The Documentary Challenge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

"Appropriating the Heroine: Mulvey/Wollen's Amy," Millenmium Film Journal, No. 12 (Fall/Winter 1982-1983), pp. 87-96.

"Cinematic Form and Ideology in Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street and Jean Renoir's La Chienne," Wide Angle, Vol. 5, No. 3 (1983), pp. 32-43.

"The Case of the Missing Mother: Patriarchy and the Maternal in Vidor's Stella Dallas," Heresies, Vol. 4, No. 4 (1983), pp. 81-85.

         Reprinted in Issues in Feminist Film Criticism, ed. Patricia Erens Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1990, pp. 126-136.

"Forms of Phallic Domination in Brooks’ Looking for Mr. Goodbar," Persistence of Vision, Vol.1, No. 1 (Summer 1983), pp. 47-55.

"Theories of Melodrama: A Feminist Perspective," Women and Performance, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 1983), pp. 40-48.

"Dialogue:" E. Ann Kaplan Replies to Linda Williams' "'Something Else Besides a Mother': Stella Dallas and the Maternal Melodrama." Cinema Journal, Vol 24, No. 2  (Winter 1985), pp. 40-43.

"Hemingway, Hollywood and Female Representation: The MacComber Affair." Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring 1985), pp. 22-43.

"Discourses of Terrorism, Feminism and the Family in Von Trotta’s Marianne and Juliane." Persistence of Vision, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1985), pp. 61-68.

        Reprinted in Janet Todd, ed. Women and Film: Women and Literature, New Series, Vol. 4. (New York and London: Holmes and Meier, 1988), pp. 258-271.

"The Hidden Agenda: A Review Essay" (Discussion of Revision; Essays in Feminist Criticism. Eds. Mary Ann Doane, Pat Mellencamp and Linda Williams.  Los Angeles: The American Film Institute, 1984.) Camera Obscura, Nos. 13/14 (1985), pp. 235-250.

"Dialogue:" E. Ann Kaplan Replies to Petro and Flinn (continuing Stella Dallas debate). Cinema Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Fall 1985), pp. 51-54.

"Sexual Difference, Pleasure and the Construction of the Spectator in Music Television." Oxford Literary Review, Vol. 8, Nos. 1-2 (1986), pp. 113-122.

"History and Spectatorship in Music Television." Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Winter 1986), pp. 3-14.

"Feminist Film Criticism: Current Issues and Future Directions." Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring 1986) pp. 7-20.

        Reprinted in Robert Palmer, ed. The Cinematic Text: Contemporary Methods and Practice. Atlanta, Georgia: Georgia State University Press, 1988, pp. 155-171.

 "Dialogue: Thoughts on Melodrama." Reply to Christine Gledhill (continuing Stella Dallas debate), Cinema Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Summer, 1986), pp. 49-53.

"Pornography And/As Representation," in Enclitic, Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2 (1987), pp. 8-18.

"Problematizing Cross-Cultural Analysis:  The Case of Women in the Recent Chinese Cinema." Wide Angle, Vol. 2, No. 11 (Spring 1989), pp.  40-50.

        Reprinted in Chris Berry, ed. Perspectives on Chinese Cinema.  London: The British Film Institute, 1990.
        Translated into Chinese and reprinted in Dangdai Dianying (Contemporary   Film),  No.1 (1991):33-41.

"Postmodernism and (Post) Feminism: An Interview with E. Ann Kaplan." Lahikkuva, Nos. 4 (1989) and 1 (1990), pp. 4-50.  Special Video Issue.

"Discourses of the Mother in Postmodern Film and Culture," Westerly: A Quarterly Review (Australia), Vol. 34, No. 4 (December 1989), pp. 24-34.

"Sex, Work and Motherhood: The Impossible Triangle (With Reference to Post 1960s USA Film and Fiction)." Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 27, No. 3 (August 1990), pp. 409-425.

"Female Spectatorship," Camera Obscura (special eds. Janet Bergstrom and Mary Ann Doane), Nos. 21-22 (Spring 1990), pp. 194-198.

"Melodrama/Subjectivity/Ideology:  Western Melodrama Theories and Their Relevance to Recent Chinese Cinema,"  East-West Film Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 1991), pp. 6-27.

        Reprinted in Melodrama and Asian Cinema, ed. Wimal Dissanayeke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993:9-28.

"Sex, Work and Motherhood: Recent United States Representations." Metro: Education and Media (Australia), No.85 (Autumn. 1991): 3-13.

"Women and Film: Theories and Practice in International Perspective;" and "Madonna,  Octavia Butler and Postmodernism."  Review of Japanese Culture and Society 4  (December 1991):37-45 and 65-67.

        Translated into Japanese and Reprinted in proceedings of the Second Pacific Rim Conference. Tokyo:Tabata Shoten, 1993.

 "Feminism(s)/Postmodernism(s): MTV and Alternate Women's Videos." Special Feature, Women and Performance 6 (2) (Summer 1993):55-76.

        Translated and Reprinted in C. Hausheer and A. Schonholzer, eds: Visueller Sound. Luzern: Verlag  Zyklop, 1994, pp.113-128.
        Reprinted in Patrick Campbell, ed. Analyzing Performance: A Critical Reader: Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1995:82-104.

"The Couch Affair: Gender and Race in the Hollywood Transference." American Imago 50 (1)  (Winter 1993):481-514.

        Translated into Spanish, 2000.

"Disorderly Disciplines." Film Criticism 17 (2-3) (Winter/Spring 1993): 48-52.

"Instituting Cultural Studies." Interviewed by Mike Hill for Minnesota Review, nos. 43-44 (1995):74-83.

        Reprint in Process in volume edited by Jeffrey Williams

"Melodrama, Psychoanalysis and Feminism Revisited: Stanley Cavell’s Contesting Tears: A Review Essay."  Film Quarterly 52 (1) (Fall 1998): 77-81.

"Performing Traumatic Dialogue: On the Border of Fiction and Autobiography."  In Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. Nos. 19-20 (April 1999):33-55.

"An Interview with Pratibha Parmar," in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vol.17 (2) (2000):85-105.

"Melodrama, Cinema and Trauma," in Screen 42:2 (Summer 2001):201-205.

D:  CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

1.  "Interview with British Cine-Feminists," in Women and the Cinema: A Critical Anthology, eds. Karen Kay and Gerald Peary, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977, pp. 393-406.

2.  "Hawthorne’s ‘Fancy Pictures’ on Film" (The House of the Seven Gables), in The Classic American Novel and the Movies, eds. R. Shatzkin and G. Peary. New York: Ungar, 1977, pp. 30-41.

3.  "The Place of Women in Fritz Lang’s The Blue Gardenia," in E. Ann Kaplan, ed. Women in Film Noir. London: the British Film Institute, 1978, pp. 83-90.

 4.  "Jane Eyre: Feminism in Bronte’s Novel and its Film Versions," in The English Novel and the Movie, eds. M. Klein and G. Parker. New York: Ungar, 1981, pp. 83-94. (With Kate Ellis)

        Reprinted with a new Postscript by E. Ann Kaplan:. In Barbara Lupack, ed. Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies: Adapting Classic Women’s Fiction to Film. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State U Press, 2000: 192-206.

5.  "Fritz Lang and German Expressionism: the Flight from Family in Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler," in Stephen Bonner and Douglas Kellner, eds. Passion and Rebellion: The Legacy of Expressionism.  New York: Bergin Press, 1983, pp. 398-408.

6.  "Is the Gaze Male?" in The Powers of Desire eds. A. Snitow, C. Stansell and S. Thompson. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983, pp. 309-327.

        Reprinted and Translated in Frauen und Film, No. 36 (1984), pp. 45-60.
        Reprinted in Marilyn Pearsall, ed. Women and Values. California: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1985, pp. 229-242.
        Reprinted in E. Ann Kaplan, ed. Feminism and Film. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000:119-138.

7.  "The Search for the Mother/Land in Helma Sanders-Brahms' Germany, Pale Mother (1979)." In German Film and Literature: Adaptations and Transformations, ed. Eric Rentschler.  London: Methuen, 1985, pp. 289-303.

8.  "A Postmodern Play of the Signifier? Advertising, Pastiche and Schizophrenia in Music Television." In Television in Transition, eds. Phillip Drummond and Richard Paterson.  London: The British Film Institute, 1985, pp. 146-143.

9.  "Mothering, Feminism and Representation: The Maternal in Melodrama and The Women’s Film From 1920 to 1940." In Home is Where the Heart is: Studies in Melodrama and Film, ed. Christine Gledhill. London: The British Film Institute, 1987, pp. 113-137.

10. "Feminist Criticism & Television," in Robert C. Allen, ed. Channels of Discourse: Television and Contemporary Criticism. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987, pp. 211-253.

        Revised in new edition of Channels of Discourse: Television and Contemporary Criticism, New ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).
        Reprinted in Medie Kultur (Copenhagen) No. 4 (November 1988), pp. 155-197.
         Translated and reprinted as "Televisionsforskning och feministisk kritik" in Kvinno-vetenskaplig tidskrift No. 3 (1988), pp. 4-15.

12. "The Political Unconscious in the Maternal Melodrama: Ellen Wood’s East Lynne (1861)." In Popular Fictions: Genre, Gender, and Narrative Pleasures, ed. Derek Longhurst. Hemel Hempstead, U.K.: Unwin Hyman, 1988, pp. 31-50.

13.  "Whose Imaginary? Text, Body and Narrative in Select Rock Videos." In Deidre Pribram, ed. Cinematic Pleasures and the Female Spectator. London: Verso, 1988, pp. 132-156.

        Reprinted in Feminisms: An Oxford Reader. Eds. Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997:400-423.

13. "Women and Morality in Historical Perspective," in Social and Moral Values: Individual and Societal Perspectives, eds. Nancy Eisenberg, J. Reykowski and E. Staub. New York: Erlbaum, 1988, pp. 347-361.

14. "The Sacred Image of the Same: Madonna/The ‘Look Alike’/Resistence," in What A Wonderful World!: Music Videos in Architecture. Groninger Museum. Dienst Ruimteliijke, Ordening Gemeente: Groningen, 1990, pp. 42-46.

15. "‘Consuming Images’: The Image and Its Rhetoric in USA Culture and Cultural Studies." In Screen and Monitor: A Critical Investigation of Image Culture Taipei, Taiwan: Fu Jen University Press, 1990, pp. 41-67.

16. "Popular Culture and the Canon: Cultural Literacy in the Postmodern Age." In Cultural Power, Cultural Literacy, ed. Bonnie Braendlin.  University Presses of Florida: Gainseville, FL., 1991, pp. 12-31.

17. "Madonna Politics: Masks And/Or Mastery?", in Cathy Schwichtenberg, ed. The Madonna Connection: Representational Politics, Subcultural Identities and Cultural Theory.  Boulder: Colorado: Westview Press, 1993, pp. 149-164.

        Reprinted and translated as Postmodernismo, feminismo y subjectividad femenina. Centro de Semiotica y Teoria del espectaculo, Universitat de Valencia   & Asociacion Vasca de Semiotica, vol. 40 (1994):1-24.

18.  "Feminism/Oedipus/Postmodernism: The Case of MTV." In E. Ann Kaplan, ed. Postmodernism and Its Discontents. London: Verso, 1983, pp.30-44. Op.Cit.

         Reprinted in Postmodernism After Images: A Reader  in Film, TV and Video, eds. Peter Brooker and Will Brooker. London and New York: Arnold Publishing, 1997: 233-247.
          Reprinted in Die Postmoderne im Kino: Ein internationaler Reader, eds. Jurgen Felix and Norbert Grob. Marburg, Germany: Schuren-Verlag. In Press.

19. "Sex, Work and Motherhood: Recent Cultural Images," in Representing Mothers, eds. Donna Bassin, Maureen Honey and Meryl Kaplan. London and New York: Routledge, 1994, pp.256-271.

20. "Look Who’s Talking, Indeed! Fetal images in Recent North American Visual Culture," in Mothering: Ideology, Experience, Agency, eds. E. Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang, and Linda Rennie Forcey.  New York and London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 121-138.

21. "The Politics of Surrogacy Narratives." Feminist Nightmares, eds. Susan Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner. New York: New York University Press, 1994, pp. 189-209.

        Revised version in Martha A. Fineman amd Martha T. McClusky, eds. Feminism, Media and the Law. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997: 193-  202.
        Further Revised and updated in E. Ann Kaplan and Susan Squier, eds. Playing Dolly, Op. Cit., pp.116-133.

22. "Film and History: Spectatorship, Transference and Race." History And...., ed. Michael Roth. Charlottsville, VA.: U.Virginia Press, 1995, pp. 179-208.

23. "MTV and American Adolescents," in Josai International Universtiy International Guest Lecture Series (8) (1996): 101-111.

24.  "MTV, Adolescence and Madonna: A Discourse Analysis." In Sam Kirschner and Diane Adile Kirschner, eds. Perspectives on Psychology and the Media. Washington, D.C.: American Psychology Association Press, 1997: 95-120.

25. "Resisting Pathologies of Age and Race: Menopause and Cosmetic Surgery in Films by Rainer and Tom." In Paul Komesaroff, Philipa Rothfield and Jeanne Daly, eds. Reinterpretring the Menopause: Cultural and Philosophical Issues. New York and  London: Routledge, 1997:100-126.

26. "The ‘Look’ Returned: Knowledge Production and Constructions of ‘Whiteness’ in Humanities Scholarship and Independent Film." In Whiteness: A Critical Reader, ed. Mike Hill. New York: New York University Press, 1997: 316-328.

27. "Who’s Reading What Signs and Why? Revisiting Cross-Cultural Research on Chinese Film, with focus on Farewell My Concubine." In Sheldon Lu, ed. Rethinking Chinese  Cinema. Hawaii: The University of Hawaii Press, 1997: 265-276.

28. "Feminism, Aging and Changing Paradigms,"  in Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue, eds. Devoney Looser and E. Ann Kaplan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997: 13-29.

29. "Transnationality, Transformation and Transference (with reference to Pam Tom's Two Lies)." Translated in Japanese and revised for American Studies and Gender, ed. Kazuko Watanabe. Kyoto: Sekaishiso- Sha, Inc., 1997:71-85.

30. "Women, Film, History: Feminist Analyses," In Josai International University International Guest Lecture Series (9) (1997):9-13.

31. "Classical Hollywood Film and Melodrama," in The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, eds. John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson. London; Oxford University Press, 1998: 272-288.

32. "Freud and Popular Culture." In Freud: Conflict and Culture (catalogue for "The Sigmund  Freud Exhibit"), edited by Michael Roth and sponsored by The Library of Congress. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1998: 152-164.

33. "Trauma and Aging: Marlene Dietrich, Melanie Klein and Marguerite Duras."  In Kathleen Woodward, ed. Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1999: 171-194.

34. "Fanon, Trauma and Cinema," in Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives, ed. Anthony Alessandrini. London and New York: Routledge, 1999: 146-158.

35. "Women’s Studies and Postmodernism," in Encyclopedia for Postmodernism, eds. Victor Taylor and Charles Edsvik. New York and London: Routledge,  2000: 428-436.

36. "Aborigines, Film, and Moffatt’s Night Cries--A Rural Tragedy: An Outsider’s Perspectives," reprinted in Julie Marcus, ed. Picturing the ‘Primitif:’ Images of Race in Daily Life NSW Australia: LHR Press, 2000:61-73.

37. "Trauma, Aging and Melodrama (With Reference to Tracey Moffatt’s Night Cries)." In Marianne DeKoven, ed. Feminist Locations. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001: 304-328.

38. "Trauma, Cinema, Witnessing: Freud’s Moses and Moffatt’s Night Cries." In Kelly Oliver and Steve Edwin, eds. Between the Psyche and the Social. New York and Oxford: Rowan and Littlefield, 2001:99-121.

39. "Postmodernism, Feminism and Postcolonialism (with reference to Trinh T. Minh-ha." In Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli, eds. Keywords in Postmodernism. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002: 249-253.

40. "The Politics of Feminism, Postmodernism and Rock: Revisited, with Reference to Pratibha Parmar’s Righteous Blues." In Music and Postmodernism, Joe Auner and Judy Lochhead, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2002:323-334.

41.  "Mary Edelson: Trickster and Gunslinger," in Mary Edelson, ed. Edelson: Critical Approaches. New York, 2002:120-123.

42.  "Women, Film and Resistance: Changing Paradigms Over 100 Years and the Future," In Valerie Raoul, ed. Women and Film: Refocussing. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press, 2003.

43. New Interview with Pratibha Parmar: In Valerie Raoul, ed.  Women and Film: Refocussing. Op.Cit., 2003.

44. "Traumatic Contact- Zones and Embodied Translators." Forthcoming in Trauma and Cinema: Contemporary Cross-cultural Histories. Eds. E. Ann Kaplan and Ban Wang.. Hong Kong: Hong University Press, 2003.

45. "Wicked Old Ladies on the Screen: Marlene Dietrich and Jeanne Moreau." Forthcoming in Murray Pomerance, ed. Bad. Albany: State University of New York Press. In Press.

46. "Feminist Futures: Trauma, 9:11 and a Fourth Feminism?" Journal of International Women's Studies. In Press.

E:  SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS

"Analyzing the Fantasy." Review of Marjorie Rosen’s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream. New York: Coward McCann and Georghagen, 1973.  In Jump Cut, No. 3 (September-October 1974), pp. 11-21.

"Lubitsch Reconsidered," Reviews of L. Poague, The Cinema of Ernest Lubitsch, and Carringer/Sabath, Ernest Lubitsch: A Research and Reference Guide. In Quarterly Review of Film Studies. Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer 1981), pp. 305-312.

"Beyond the Patriarchy." A review of Annis Pratt’s  Archetypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press. In Review of Psychoanalytic Books (1983), pp. 401-408.

Review of Dudley Andrew, Concepts in Film Theory (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983). In Wide Angle, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1984), pp. 72-75.

Reply (to Dudley Andrew’s reply to my review) in Wide Angle, Vol. 6, No. 3 (1984), p. 90.

"From Different Sites: Rethinking Postmodernism." (Review of books by Lance Olsen, Brian McHale and M.D. Fletcher).  Modern Fiction Studies (October, 1988).  pp. 733-735.

"Contingency and the Canon." A Review of Barbara Herrnstein Smith’s Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory." In ADE Bulletin, No. 96 (Fall 1990), pp. 50-53.

Review of "Modern Allegory and Fantasy: Rhetorical Stances of Contemporary Writing" by Lynnette Hunter.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.  In Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Summer 1991), pp. 340-342.

 Review of "Gender Politics and MTV: Voicing the Difference" by Lisa A. Lewis.  Philadelphia: Temple University, 1990.  In Journal of Communication, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 136-139.

Reviews of Gender Politics and MTV: Voicing the Difference, by Lisa A. Lewis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990; Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler.  New York and London: Routledge, 1990; and Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics and the Avant-Garde Susan Suleiman.  Cambridge, Mass. And London: Harvard University Press, 1990.  In Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture, (Summer 1992), pp. 843-849.

Reviews of The Wages of Sin, by Lea Jacobs; All that Heaven Allows: Re-Reading Gender in 1950's Melodrama, by Jackie Byars; and Women Watching Television, by Andrea L. Press. Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture 19:2 (Winter 1994): 550-555.

Review Essay of Suzette Henke’s Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women’s Life Writing. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. In Biography: An Interdisiplinary Quarterly, Vol.223 (1) (Winter 2000): 222-231.

"The Changers and the Changed." Review of Ellen Messer Davidow’s Disciplining Feminism: From Social Action to Academic Discourse. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. In The Women’s Review of Books Vol. XlX, No.12 (September 2002).
 
 

I have been invited to give lectures on topics related to my various books and articles at numerous universities and conferences nationally and internationally since the mid-70s. I have been Two- and Four-Day Distinguished Visiting Scholar at several universities in the past decade. I note here only my most recent invited lectures and those that have to do with my new book, Looking for the Other: Feminism and the Imperial Gaze:

1. A series of lectures on Hollywood Melodrama for the China Film Association, Beijing. June, 1987.

2. An annual series of lectures on "Gender and Visual Culture" for Josai International University: April 1993; June 1994; July 1996; April 1997 (1998 upcoming)

3. Lectures in Australia on Women in Chinese Film, during Resident Fellowship at the Humanities Research Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, for theme on "Film and Ethnography." September-December, 1989.

4. "Melodrama/Subjectivity/Ideology: USA Melodrama Theories and Their Relevance (or not) to Recent Chinese Cinema." East-West Center, Hawaii, November 1989.

5. "Who's Reading What Signs and Why: Revisiting Problems of Cross-Cultural Research on Chinese Cinema." Key-note address, Conference on Re-Thinking Chinese Cinema, University of Pittsburgh, September 1994.

Forthcoming in Sheldon Lu, ed. Op. Cit. In press.

7. "Feminism, Aging and Changing Paradigms," presented at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, at a conference Feminism Beside Itself, March 24, 1995.

Forthcoming in Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue, eds. Devoney Looser and E. Ann Kaplan. Op. Cit. In press.

9. "Travelling Cultures, Sex, Race and Cinema." Organized, Chaired and Lead Seminars, and Film Festival at The American Center in Paris, June 4-15, 1995.

10. "The Politics of Authenticity, Cosmetic Surgery and USA Race Relations."Keynote Address, North American Studies Conference, Helsinki, Finland, May 3, 1996.

11. "Women in Film: New Theories, New Practices," Keynote Address, Feminist Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain, May 10, 1996.

12."Images of Women and Aging: Hollywood and Independent Film." Yokohama Women's Forum, Japan, July 7 1996.

13. "Multiculturalism and Women's Film." Kyoto Women's Center, Japan, July 15, 1996.

14. Organizer and Chair, Modern Language Association Panel on "Postmodernism and Pedagogy." Washington, D.C., December 29, 1996.

15. "In the Realm of Alterity: Postcolonialism and Women's Films." University of Compulsense, Madrid, March 12, 1997.

16. "Women, Cinema and History: Feminist Analyses." Kyoto Sangyo University, April 23, 1997.
 
17. "Body Politics in Ngozi Onwurah’s Body Beautiful," University of California, Santa Barbara, Multicultural Center,  November 6, 1997.

18.  "Looking for the Other: Women, Diaspora and Cinema." Distinguished Feaver-McMinn  Lecturer: University of Oklahoma, February 25 to March 1, 1998.

 19. "Changing Media and the Subject," in panel discussion on "Words--Pictures--Pictograms:  The Development of Media Technology", "Medienforum," Cologne, Germany June 17, 1998.

20. "The Dark Continent of Film Noir," lecture at The University of Cologne, Germany, June 16, 1998.

21. "Postmodernism and Its Discontents Re-Visited on the Way to the Millennium." Lecture at  Trent University, Canada, September 24, 1998.

22. "Women, Film, Resistance: Historical Perspectives on Women in Film." Keynote addresses   at the University of São Paulo, October 19, 1998, at the University of Brasilia, October   21, 1998; and at the University of Rio, October 23, 1998.

23. Lecture series as Distinguished Scholar, Green College, University of British Columbia,  Vancouver, March 1999.

24. "Melodrama and Trauma," presented at conference on "The Frontiers of Memory," Institute of Education, London, September 1999.

25. "Why Trauma Now? Cultural Studies, Trauma and Cinema," Association for Psychoanalysis and Culture Conference, New York, October 29 1999.

26. "Imag(in)ing Death in America: Popular Funerals," presented at the HISB Conference "Transforming the Cultures of Death and Dying in America," November 1999.

27. "Melodrama, Trauma and Cinema," for Columbia Film Seminar, December 9, 1999.

29. "Trauma, Cinema, Witnessing," for University of Melbourne English Department, March 15, 2000. Also presented at The Humanities Research Center, Australian National University, Canberra, March 28, 2000.

30. "Tracey Moffatt’s Night Cries­A Rural Tragedy: Traumas of Loss and Aging," for Victoria Arts College, March 15, 2000

31. "Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Aging," for the Institute for Postcolonial Studies, University of Melbourne, March 16, 2000.

32. "Hitchcock, Trauma and Spellbound," Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, April 1, 2000.

33. "Gender, Trauma and Nation in Moffatt’s Night Cries," at the College International de Philosophie, Paris, October 26, 2000.

34. "Age-Discourses in North American Culture," Center for Research on Women, University of British Columbia, February 14, 2001.

35. "Trauma, Cinema, Witnessing: Freud’s Moses and Moffatt’s Night Cries." Walter Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, March 15, 2001.

36. "Trauma, Gender and the Politics of National Filiation: Australia and Moffatt’s Night Cries." Joan Carlisle Lecture, Art History, University of British Columbia, March 22, 2001.

37. "Diaspora, Trauma and Cinema," Simon Fraser University, April 5, 2001.

38. "Genealogies and Psychoanalysis: Mothers and Daughters." Politique et Filiation 2: Open Seminar, SUNY Stony Brook, April 25, 2001.

39. "Sisterhood and ‘Disorderly Sisters’ (With Reference to Nancy Meckler’s Sister, My Sister (1994)." Politique et Filiation 3: Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, October 12, 2001.

40: "Traumatic Contact Zones: Imag(in)ing Indigenous Subjectivities in Transcultural and Intra-cultural Contexts." Lecture at the University of British Columbia, February 2002.

41. "Psychoanalysis and Ideology as Signified in the Staircase: Meckler’s Sister My Sister and Tracey Moffatt’s Laudanum." Conference on "Psychoanalysis and Ideology," University of Illinois, April 21, 2002.

42. "Wicked Old Ladies: Jeanne Moreau in La Vieille Dame qui Marchait au bord de la Mer." Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, Denver, May 24, 2002.

43.Keynote Lecture: "Feminist Futures: Trauma, the Post-9:11 World, and a Fourth   Feminism?" Conference on "Third Wave Feminisms," University of Exeter, UK, July 24 2002.

A: New Authored Book:

My new book project, Shared Trauma: Performance, Memory and Witnessing contributes to the growing interest in Trauma as a concept and social concern in American culture. While the reasons for this vary (and will be dealt with in the book), the fact is that "trauma" has suddenly become a household word in an unprecedented (and very American) way. Psychoanalysts, psychologists and medical doctors have long been treating trauma victims and discussing trauma theories, but it is only in the wake of the early 90s much publicized sex abuse cases, and the renewed attention to Holocaust and Vietnam War victims, that humanists began to study trauma.

My book builds on the now well-known work of Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub, Cathy Caruth and Dominick LaCapra. who have written so eloquently about catastrophes such as the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Chinese Revolution and Vietnam. I will however focus on select "family traumas"--that is traumas of abandonment, loss, exile, and cross-cultural clash registered in the family. In addition, I will make the case for aging as trauma--something often contested.  I will explore the complex interrelationship of culture and the unconscious around issues of family trauma through analysis of varied texts--film, video, photography, painting. I am interested in the potentially pro-social role of the "witness" in trauma, but also in the impact on the "witness" of listening to the victim's story--something that clinicians and psychologists turned to in the early 1990s.

I began to see the connection between the research by clinicians and literary theorists, and my work on cinema spectatorship. I realized that spectators of so-called "trauma films" may become active "witnesses" of the traumas shown, especially when films deliberately leave such traumas as open wounds. But viewers may also suffer from "vicarious traumatization"--a negative result. I will explore analogies between the impact on therapists of listening to trauma victims’ testimonies, and the impact of trauma films on spectators, using empirical clinical research.

As a method for my investigation of trauma, I will argue that trauma is uniquely "performative": For a culture, trauma’s performance can be seen in certain repeated popular genres, such as the melodrama, which at once reveals and seeks to cover over, historical events too disturbing to confront; secondly, certain texts perform trauma in their very aesthetic techniques, as I hope to show. Finally trauma is performative in relation to its impact on others who see a traumatic event happening to others, or watch a film or other artistic production about trauma.

I am, then, interested in exploring not if, but how traumas of loss, abandonment, and cross-cultural clash are approached via art, and what the potentially pro-social role of the "witness" might be. I aim to explore, first, the relationship between the psychic suffering of individuals and the responsibility the larger national and local communities might assume for this suffering through trauma’s performativity. And second how understanding trauma’s cultural performance through popular genres might make it possible for cultures to work its traumas through--something essential if history is to be made use of rather than endlessly repeated.
Finally, on this point, my book will investigate the tricky problem raised by Joan Copjec, S;avoj Zizek and others, namely the degree to which it is utopian to think that constituting witnesses of this kind might help to build communities across national borders. Can such experiences begin to transform the unconscious? Or must we agree that it is utopian to think we can change the unconscious or mitigate its aggression, violence and hostility--that there is an unbridgeable gap between the unconscious and society?

B. Co-Edited Volume in Progress:

1. Cultures of Death and Dying, with Helen Cooper. Submitted to Rutgers University Press.

2. Filiation and Its Discontents, with Robert Harvey.
 

C. Articles In Progress:

1. "Trauma, Vicarious Traumatization and Cultural Studies." Forthcoming in Australian Journal Mattoid.

2. "Whatever Happened to Postmodern Theory? Reflections on MTV, Select Critical Discourses and Debates." Forthcoming in Roger Beebe, ed. Music Video/Music Television/MTV, Duke University Press.

2. "La Femme et la Politique de la Filiation Nationale." In progress for publication in French
            Anthology edited by François Noudelmann.
 

D. Upcoming conference Papers, Lectures and Residency:

Forthcoming Resident Lecture Series on Gender and Visual Culture, Josai International University, Togane-Shi, Japan, Summer 2003.

Lecture for Dept of Film Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2003

Visiting Professorship at UC Irvine, Spring 2003.

1. Overall Editor, Millennial Shifts Book Series, Rutgers University Press (Publication for  Research at The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook Research).

2. Editorial Board, Consumption, Markets, and Culture

3. Advisor for Popular Culture, JPCS: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society

4. Editorial Board, American Biography of Film.

5. Advisory Board, Project on Representing Narrative, The University of British Columbia.

6. Editorial Board, Humanities Research. Journal for the Humanities Research Center, Australian National University.
 
 

I was a member and then Chair of The Fulbright "Media Arts Grants Committee," 1992- 1994) and have reviewed grants for the ACLS, The Woodrow Wilson Newcombe Fellowships, and Rutgers' Institute for Research on Women (Rockefeller Fellows).

I regularly review tenure and promotion packets and numerous book manuscripts for various publishers.

1. Cinema Then, Cinema Now: CUNY TV Film Discussions: His Girl Friday, June 1990; The Winslow Boy, October 1993.

2. Center for Visual History, New York. American Cinema Series Interview about Scarlet Street, Fritz Lang. Shown on PBS January 1995, and available as a teaching video.

4. Arts and Entertainment Network, Biography Series: Interview about the female rock star, Madonna, June 1993, Los Angeles (regularly aired on A&E).

5. Many other TV interviews regarding my book Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television, Postmodernism and Consumer Culture; radio and newspaper interviews about my Motherhood and Representation book.

6. The Powers of Ideas: Interview Series iwth Robert Con Davis, University of Oklahoma, on :"Women, Aging, and Beauty Culture," February 1998.

A: DIVISIONAL AND UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES

   a)  SUNY STONY BROOK

     1994-95 Member, Search Committee for Provost
     1993-1994  President's Advisory Committee
     1990-93 Inaugural Chair, Provost's Committee on Academic Standards. Continuing Member through 1996.
     1990-95 Chair, Cultural Studies Planning Committee
     1990-1993 Graduate Council
     1990-92   Humanities Research Council
     1990-95   Senate Research Council
     1988-89   Search Committee for  Provost
     1987-88   Four faculty search committees: three for the  French Department, one for Comparative Literature
     1987-95   Bi-monthly Humanities Chairs' meetings
     1987-88   Inter-divisional Conference Planning Committee
     1987-     Executive Board, Fine Arts Center
     1987-90   Planning Committee, Interdisciplinary Film Minor
     1987-     Chair, Fine Arts Film Series

   b)  RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

   1984-85   Executive Committee, Rutgers University Senate
   1984-85   Senate Equal Opportunity Committee (Executive Committee Liaison)
   1983-84   Chair, Senate Equal Opportunity Committee
   1983-84   Advisory Planning Committee, Institute for Research  on Women
   1983-84   Executive Committee, Women's Studies
   1983-86   FAS Appointments and Promotions Committee
   1983-84   FAS Fellows Council
   1982-84   Chair, Personnel Committee, University College
   1982-86   Rutgers University Senate
   1982-83   Rutgers University Senate Research Committee
   1982-89   Board, Institute for Research on Women
   1981-82   Admissions Policy Committee, University College
   1980-81   Planning Committee for Reorganizating Disciplines
   1979-80   College Planning Committee for Reorganization of Rutgers University
    1978-81   Executive Committee, University College
   1976-81   Chair, Interdisciplinary Film Studies Program
   1976-77   Student Review Committee, University College
   1975-81   Executive Committee, Women's Studies

B: ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES

   a) SUNY STONY BROOK

   1987-89   Contemporary Literature Committee
   1987-present     Theory Committee
   1989-90   Advising Committee
   1993-98   Graduate Admissions
   1994-present American Studies Area Committee
   1999 Merit Committee
   1999 Search Committee for Chair
   2000 Search Committee for British Modernism
   2001 Search Committee for Postcolonialism

   b) RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

   1984-87   Chair, three Search Committees and member of ten faculty searches (women in  literature, drama, film, African-American literature, Modern British literature, 18thc. Studies, Renaissance literature, English composition, etc.)
   1984-85   Graduate Admissions Committee
   1983-87   Chair, Film Committee
   1983      Women in Literature Committee
   1979-82   Executive Committee
   1979-81   Affirmative Action Committee
   1977-81   Reading and Writing Skills Committee
   1976      Curriculum Committee

 C: GRANT EVALUATING AND TENURE COMMITTEES:
I was a member and then Chair of the Fulbright "Media Arts Grants Committee," 1992-1994) and have reviewed for ACLS grants, The Woodrow Wilson Newcombe Fellowships, and Rutgers' Institute for Research on Women’s Rockefeller Fellows.
I regularly review tenure and promotion packets nationally and internationally, as well as numerous book manuscripts for various publishers.

D: TEACHING:

 I have directed or co-directed ten doctoral dissertations and am currently directing four more. I have been a member of at least fifteen dissertation committees, and am currently serving on four more. I regularly Chair General Orals exams or examine students in one area. I serve several departments in these capacities, including English, Comparative Literature, Art History, Hispanic Literatures and Languages, and Philosophy.

At Stony Brook, I have designed and (mainly) co-taught twelve inter-disciplinary graduate courses, as part of the Humanities Institute's new programming. They are: Postmodernism and Perception (1987) with Don Ihde; Psychoanalysis and the Arts (1988) with Donald Kuspit; Cinema, Race and Contemporary Theory (1990); Post-Colonial British Literature and Film (1991) with Tim Brennan; Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Cinema (1992); Performance, Cultural Difference and Subversive Bodies (1994) with John Lutterbie; Introduction to Cultural Studies (1996) with Jane Sugarman; Trauma, Memory and Cultural Politics: The Case of China (1997), with Ban Wang; Postmodernism and Science: Imaging in the Millennium (1998), with Don Ihde, "Aging and Trauma" (1999); "Trauma, Cinema and Witnessing" (2000); "Film History, Theory and Criticism" (2001), with Krin Gabbard. "Transmission of Cultures," Fall 2002.

I regularly teach an HISB Faculty and Graduate Seminar on my research topics.
 
At Rutgers University, I taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in literature, film, Women's Studies, Popular Culture and Cultural Studies. Among the literature courses were, for example, Seminar in American Women Writers, Psychoanalysis and Art, Motherhood in Literature, The World Novel, Introduction to American Literature, Modern British Fiction, Introduction to English Studies.

Among Women's Studies courses at Rutgers were the ones I designed and taught, Women and Film, Research Methods in Women's Studies, and Theories of Female Creativity. I taught Topics in Women's Studies and the Senior Seminar in Women and Literature.

Among Film and Popular Culture Courses at Rutgers, were those I designed and taught, Introduction to Film, The Art of the Film, World Cinema, Popular Culture, Seminar in Film Theory, History and Criticism of Film, Women in Film, Travelling Cultures: Film, Race and Nation, Cinema and Psychoanalysis, "Race, Representation and Immigration."

E:. CONFERENCES ORGANIZED (PRIOR TO CURRENT STONY BROOK POSITION)
   (Please see Humanities Institute materials for information regarding the many lectures, symposia  and conferences organized at Stony Brook.)

   1971 Organizing Committee for the First National Women's Studies Confernce, New York
   1977 Director, First Barnard College Women's Film Festival
    1981 Director, First Rutgers University Conference on  "Perspectives on Television and Video Art."

I have worked with community groups in the Stony Brook area over the ten years or so that I have been director of The Humanities Institute. I organized community film series with The Port Jefferson Arts Cinema; I have also co-sponsored grants and events with The Museums at Stony Brook. I have talked to the Senior Citizens group at Bretton Woods, Long Island. I welcome community people at HISB events and in my own courses.

1. Professor Manthia Diawara, Director, Africana Studies, New York University.

2. Michele Wallace, Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, CUNY Graduate School.

3. Bill Nichols, Professor of Film, University of San Francisco.

4. Teresa de Lauretis, Professor, History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz.

5. George Levine, Kenneth Burke Professor of English, Rutgers University, and Director, The Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture.

6. Ralph Cohen, Keenan Professor of English, and Director, The Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Exchange, University of Virginia.

7. Vivian Sobchack, Film Studies and Dean of the Humanities, UCLA.

(Revised May 24, 1997)

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