Sharon Willis

PhD. (French Literature), Cornell University, 1984
Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies
swls@mail.rochester.edu

Department of Art & Art History
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
"Dead Zones: Geometrics of Space and Place in Monster's Ball" in progress, Co-Editor, Camera Obscura
Courses:
AH 211/411 The Films of Jean-Luc Godard
AH 253 Film History: 1929-1959