Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Associate Professor, Film, TV and Theatre

Senior Fellow, Gender Studies

My teaching and research interests are in the areas of film in relation to gender, space, performance, popular music, sound, stardom, and camp. I work primarily on 20^th century American film but also have an interest in Australian cinema. I have taught at the University of Notre Dame since 1998, and have also taught at the University of Newcastle in Australia and the University of Chicago.

Degrees: BA, English, Wellesley College, 1986

MA, English Literature, University of Chicago, 1988

PhD, English Literature, University of Chicago, 1993

Books: Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna (Duke University Press, 1996)

Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music (Duke University Press, 2001), as co-editor

Movie Acting, The Film Reader (Routledge, 2004), as editor

Forthcoming: The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975

Star Decades: The Sixties (Rutgers UP), as editor

Select Articles: “The Sound of Acting.” The Journal of Film and Video, Special Issue on Acting, 58.1/2 (Spring 2006): 71-83.

“Typecasting.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, 45.2 (Spring 2003): 223-250.

"Spectatorship and Audience Research." In The Cinema Book, 2^nd ed, ed. Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink, 366-373. London: British Film Institute, 1999.

"Mae West's Maids: Race, ‘Authenticity,’ and the Discourse of Camp." In Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject, A Reader, ed. Fabio Cleto, 393-408. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1999.

“A Star is Born Again, or How Streisand Recycles Garland.” In Falling for You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, ed. Lesley Stern and George Kouvaros, 177-208. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Power Institute, 1999.

“Home and Away: Friends of Dorothy on the Road in Oz." In The Road Movie Book, ed. Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark, 271-286. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Forthcoming

“Judy Holliday: Hungry Star” in Star Decades: The Fifties, edited by R. Barton Palmer. Rutgers University Press.

“The Author of this Claptrap: Cornell Woolrich, Alfred Hitchcock and Rear Window.” In Hitchcock and His Sources, ed. David Boyd and R. Barton Palmer. University of Texas Press.

Courses: Basics of Film and TV; Film Theory; Film and Popular Music; Film Acting; Sex and Gender in Cinema; Film Comedy; Australian Cinema; Cinema, Gender and Space; Honors Seminar: Hitchcock