Dear CSWAC members,

 

Our winter general meeting will be on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 from 3:30 – 5 pm via Zoom. The agenda is below and attached. We're thrilled to welcome Professor Amy Villarejo, who will share her research.

 

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99177390457

 

3:30 pm – Welcome (Chair Trice)

3:35 pm – Director’s Updates (Director Hong)

4:00 pm – Presentation and Q&A by:

 

Dr. Amy Villarejo

Professor of Film, Television, and Digital Media

 

"Briggs, Family, Queer."  The presentation is drawn from an essay Villarejo co-wrote with Melissa Hardie (University of Sydney) on the 1970s television serial Family.  Interested folks can click here to watch the episode at the center of our analysis.

 

Amy Villarejo joined UCLA’s Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media in 2020.  Previously, she taught at Cornell University (from 1997 to 2020), where she was the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Humanities in the Department of Performing and Media Arts and Department of Comparative Literature.  Her research focuses on queer cinema and media, critical theory, and television; most recently, she has published the 3^rd edition of Film Studies:  The Basics (Routledge 2021) and the Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema (with Ron Gregg, Oxford UP, 2021).  She has published more than fifty essays in journals and scholarly anthologies, and she serves on the editorial boards of both the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS) and Film Quarterly.  She is currently at work on a study of 1980s television in Britain and the US.

 

If you have any questions, please let me know. Hope to see you on February 8^th!

 

All the best,

 

Jasmine