Ph.D., University of Southern California, School of Cinema-TV
Associate Professor of Film Studies
Dietrich Icon, co-edited with Gerd Gemunden (Duke University Press, 2007).
Recycled Stars: Female Stardom in the Age of Television and Video (forthcoming, Duke University Press).
“Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday Practices: Feminism, Materiality, and
Temporality,” Camera Obscura 61 21:1 (2006), pp. 32-37.
“The Objects of Our Affection: Material Practices, Material Culture, and (a) Film
History,” Vectors: A Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
(2006) http: //www.vectorsjournal.org/issues/03_issue/ObjectofMediaStudies).
"The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case of Karen Carpenter," Camera
Obscura 57 19:3 (December 2004), pp. 22-54.
"Ephemeral Culture/eBay Culture: Film Collectables and Fan Investments," Everyday
eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire eds. Ken Hillis et al (Routledge, 2006), pp. 31-43.
"Are You Lonesome Tonight? Gendered Discourse in The Lonesome Gal and The
Continental" (co-written with Mark Williams), Communities of the Air: Radio Century,
Radio Culture, ed. Susan Squier (Duke Univ. Press, 2003), pp. 251-274.
"Lucy and Desi: Sexuality, Ethnicity and T.V's First Family" Television, History and American Culture:
Feminist Critical Essays. Editors, Mary Beth Haralovich and Lauren Rabinovitz (Duke University
Press 1999).
"'Marion Never Looked Lovelier': Hedda Hopper's Hollywood and the Renegotiation of Glamour in Postwar Hollywood" Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Summer 1999).
"Meeting Two Queens: Feminist Filmmaking, Identity Politics, and the Melodramatic Fantasy," Film Quarterly (Spring 1995)
Feminist Theory
Gender and the Media
Feminist Filmmaking
Women in Film and TV
he Female Star
Melodrama and Gender
American Women Directors, 1920-1990
Feminist Theory and Methodology
Television and Histories of Gender
Women in the Film Industry
