Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
| Gwendolyn Audrey Foster | |
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| Born |
November 4, 1960 United States |
| Residence | Lincoln, Nebraska |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education |
Rutgers BA English 1983 University of Nebraska MA, 1992 University of Nebraska PhD 1995 |
| Alma mater | Douglass College, Rutgers University |
| Occupation | Willa Cather Professor of English |
| Employer | University of Nebraska |
| Spouse(s) | Wheeler Winston Dixon |
| Awards |
AAUW Emerging Scholar (1998) College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2004) |
| Website | Gwendolyn Audrey Foster |
AAUW Emerging Scholar (1998)
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is a prolific film scholar and filmmaker with a focus on numerous areas related to cinema, often with an emphasis on gender, race, eco-feminism, lgbtq sexuality, eco-theory, and class studies - in film studies and cultural studies. From 1999 through the end of 2014, she was co-editor along with Wheeler Winston Dixon of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. In 2016, she was named Willa Cather Endowed Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Foster received a B.A. Degree in English from Rutgers University in 1983, and earned a master's degree in 1992 and her doctorate (in English) at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, in 1995. Foster has written about film-related topics such as eco-feminism,underground film,avant garde film,cultural studies, feminist and Marxist critical theory, and women directors. Foster has made films including the 1991 documentary Women Who Made The Movies as well as the 1994 feature film Squatters, and more recently, a number of short films including the Gaia Triptych (2016) a series of short eco-horror and eco-feminist experimental films including Waste, Not, and Want Not. Foster's other short films include such Earth TV, Echo and Narcissus, Tenderness, Eros and Psyche, Pre-Raphaelite Falls, The Passenger, Pop. 1280 For Jim Thompson, Mirror, Amphitrite, and many other titles. Her films have been screened internationally.
Foster and Dixon are the coauthors of the popular film history textbook, A Short History of Film. Foster and Dixon are Series Editors of "Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture," a series of books offering fresh perspectives on film and popular culture published by Rutgers University Press. Dixon and Foster are also Series Editors of "New Perspectives on World Cinema Series" a collection of monographs on global studies in international cinema published by Anthem in the UK. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster publishes in many journals such as Choice, Senses of Cinema, Film International, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. She writes and publishes extensively on film studies and cultural studies, along with her filmmaking and installation art projects.
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