Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

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, the Gaia Triptych (2016) a series of short eco-horror and eco-feminist experimental films including "Waste," "Not," and "Want Not."

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.

Foster teaches a broad variety of courses that reflect her diverse interests: Experimental Filmmakers, Queer theory and lgbtq film, Apoco-tainment, Eco-Horror and Environmentalism in TV and Film, Italian Postwar Cinema, Challenging, Difficult and Disruptive Films, Spectators as co-authors, Women Filmmakers in Film History, the films of Luis Buñuel, Chantal Akerman, Lucrecia Martel, and Kelly Reichardt, Gender and Film Censorship, Feminist and Marxist Approaches to Film, "Woman's Pictures" and Melodrama, Female Spectatorship, Queer Spectatorship, Race & Post/colonialism in Film, Social Class and Social Mobility in Film, Moms, Maids, & Sex Workers - Redefining Female Heroes in Film, Masculinity in Media, Ozu, Bresson and Dreyer, Japanese and Asian Cinema, Latin American cinema, French Film Directors, Atomic anti-communist hysteria films, screenwriting, and many other courses.

• Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies in Film (Palgrave Pivot, 2016)
• Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse (Palgrave Pivot, 2014)
• 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation, co-written with Wheeler Winston Dixon, Rutgers University Press, 2011
• A Short History of Film co-written with Wheeler Winston Dixon (Rutgers, 2008)
• Class-Passing: Performing Social Mobility in Film and Popular Culture (Southern Illinois, 2005)
• Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions (SUNY, 2003)
• Experimental Cinema: the Film Reader, London: Routledge, 2002
• Troping the Body: Etiquette, Conduct and Dialogic Performance (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000)
• Captive Bodies: Postcolonialism in the Cinema (State University of New York Press, 1999)
• Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity" (Southern Illinois University Press, 1997)
• Women Film Directors: An International Bio-Critical Dictionary. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995
• Identity and Memory: The Films of Chantal Akerman (Southern Illinois UP, 20013)

• Wheeler Winston Dixon, July 2012, Screening the Past (film magazine), The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, "... 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (co-written with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Rutgers University Press, 2011);..."
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• Film Journal, 2013, Underground Resources: Index, Underground Film Bookshelf, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, "...Below is a list of books written about the history of underground film. ...Dixon, Wheeler Winston, and Gwendolyn Audrey. Foster. Experimental Cinema: the Film Reader, London: Routledge, 2002. ..."
• 2012-2013 Graduate reading list, ACS List, University of New Mexico, American Studies, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, "...Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Captive Bodies: Postcolonial Subjectivity in Cinema (SUNY Press, 1999) ..."
• MICHAEL ROWIN, 2003, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, BOOK REVIEW: IDENTITY AND MEMORY: THE FILMS OF CHANTAL AKERMAN, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013,