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 20th 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, 2nd 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
