swls@mail.rochester.edu

517 Morey Hall
(585) 273-5621

Interests: feminist theory, film theory and visual analysis, cultural studies, modern French literature and literary theory.

Publications
Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body (1986)
Male Trouble, co-editor, with Constance Penley (1993)
High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Cinema
Current book project is "Islands in the Sun: The Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacies in Film 1949-2003".
Recent articles in Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies; Reinventing Film Theory; The Road Movie; Boys: Masculinities in Contemporary Culture; "Alterity and Marginality in New European Cinemas," with Randall Halle in Camera Obscura special issues #44 and #46.
Articles forthcoming in The Norton Film Reader and Camera Obscura, #54; an article "Dead Zones: Geometrics of Space and Place in Monster's Ball" is also in progress.
Co-Editor, Camera Obscura.