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Alexandra Keller
Associate Professor of Film Studies
B.A. Harvard University, Ph.D. New York University
Director of Film Studies Program
Alexandra Keller is the associate professor of
Film Studies. She received her B.A. in Art History from Harvard and her Ph.D. in Cinema
Studies from NYU. She specializes in the American Western, cinema and the postmodern,
avant-garde and experimental film, and the relationship between cinema and other forms
of artistic and cultural production, and has published work on all of these topics.
She is the author of James Cameron (Routledge). Her next book is The Endless Frontier:
Westerns and American Identity from Reagan to Bush II. She is also working on projects
about consumer culture and cinema in 1950s America and the connections and disconnections
between experimental moving image practices in the context of galleries and museums
and more traditional exhibition sites. She annually teaches the Introduction to Film
class and the Seminar in Film Theory, and also teaches classes on Global Cinema, Women
and Cinema, the avant-garde and visual culture, the Western, and a series of classes
on American film and culture from the invention of cinema to the present.
Anna Botta
Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Language and Literature
Anna Botta teaches literary theory, modern and postmodern literatures, and Italian literature and cinema. At present, she is investigating new forms of social space in contemporary environments and the changing conceptions of European citizenship and Mediterranean identity. She has written on the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ferzan Ozpetek and recent Italian films representing the condition of illegal immigrants. Her Italian cinema course “Style Matters: The Power of the Aesthetic in Italian Cinema” analyzes the cinematic dialogue between neorealism and stylized aetheticism which has characterized Italian cinema from Rossellini’s Open City to today’s portrayal of immigrants.
Baba Hillman
Hampshire/Five College Assistant Professor of Film and Video
B.A. Duke University, M.F.A University of California, San Diego
Baba Hillman's films and videos have screened in festivals and museums including Rencontres Paris/Berlin, Anthology Film Archives, MIX, European Media Festival 2000 (Osnabruck), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington Project for the Arts, Ocularis and L.A. Freewaves.
Her performance/media work has been presented internationally. She was director of Teatro Movimento, a multi-media performance group based in Florence, Italy and has worked as a performer and choreographer with Etienne Decroux, Eleanor Antin and Sledgehammer Theater. She has recently completed "Passage du Désir", a feature length experimental narrative film shot in Paris and Madrid.
Home Page: http://helios.hampshire.edu/~bhhCS
Barbara Kellum
Professor of Art, Director
A.B., A.M. University of Southern California, A.M. University of Michigan, Ph.D. Harvard University
Advisor
Dawn Fulton
Assistant Professor of French Language and Literature
B.A. Yale University, Ph.D. Duke University
Advisor
Dawn Fulton is an assistant professor in the department of French. Her primary research area is the literature of Francophone Caribbean, with particular emphasis on novelists from French Overseas Departments. In addition to courses on French language and Francophone literature, she regularly teaches courses on French and Francophone cinema, including Africa and Europe on Screen and Cities of Light: Urban Spaces in Francophone Film.
Frazer Ward
B.A., M.A. University of Sydney, Australia, Ph.D. Cornell University
Frazer Ward teaches courses on the history of contemporary art and architecture. Current research interests, reflected in recent publications, include performance art of the 1960s and 1970s, the implications of new imaging technologies, and the status of art in contemporary public spheres.
Jefferson Hunter
Professor of English Language and Literature
B.A. Pomona College, B.A. University of Bristol, Ph.D. Yale University
Jefferson Hunter, Professor of English, has been on the Smith faculty since 1980. He teaches courses in twentieth-century British literature and, in the area of film, British Film and Television, Screen Comedy, and a new First Year Seminar on Adaptation. He has just completed a book about relations between British writing and British filming.
Jenny Perlin
Five College Visiting Artist in Film Studies, Mount Holyoke College
Joel Westerdale
Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies
B.A. University of Michigan, Ph.D. Harvard University
Joel Westerdale teaches courses on German film, including Nazi Film and Weimar Cinema. In addition, films play a significant role in many of the literature, culture and language courses he teaches in the German Studies Department, including All About Evil and Sex, Lies and Coffeehouses. Particular interests include early horror, the cinema of attractions, and mass culture
Lucretia Knapp
Lecturer in Film Studies
M.F.A. University of Michigan
M.A. and Master of Liberal Studies, Ohio State University
Lucretia Knapp is a film, video and new media artist. Her most recent work is Swim Suit, an experimental documentary short (distributed in the US and Canada by Frameline of San Francisco) that is part of a larger work on transgender identities. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in film and video festivals in Hong Kong, Paris, Torino and Melbourne. Her writing has been published in Out In Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays On Popular Culture, Cinema Journal and most recently, in the second edition of A Hitchcock Reader. She teaches in the Film Studies Department at Smith College and at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Margaret Bruzelius
Lecturer in Film Studies
Margaret Bruzelius teaches courses in Comparative Literature and the English Department on adventure fiction, the Victorian novel, and pre-twentieth century theories of language. The course on Screwball Comedy reflects her own love of screwball, which she discovered in "revival house" double bills during her college years. The sparkling virtuosity of these films -- their physical humor, verbal dexterity, and imaginative re-staging of romantic conventions remain a source of abiding pleasure. Their ability to admit and celebrate female sexual desire remains unequaled. |
