Gender and Women's Studies

Pat Gill

Pat Gill is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Gender & Women's Studies Program. She studies gender and film, popular culture, interpretive theories, and psychoanalytic theories. 

 

   Education

1987                   PhD, Cornell University, English

1982                   MA, Cornell University, English

1980                   BA, SUNY at Buffalo, summa cum laude

   Academic Employment

1999  -        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Associate Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program

1995 - 99     Western Michigan University, Associate Professor, Department of English

1994 - 95     Western Michigan University, Assistant Professor, Department of English

1987 - 94     University of Virginia, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Women's Studies Program 

Selected Publications

 Books

Interpreting Ladies: Women, Wit, and Morality in the Restoration Comedy of Manners (University of Georgia Press, 1994)

Illicit Sex: Identity Politics in Early Modern Culture, co-edited with Thomas DiPiero (University of Georgia Press, 1996)

 Articles

 “Taking it Personally: Male Suffering in 8MM” Camera Obscura 52 ( 2003) 157-187

 “Apprehending Criminals: Genre and Interpretation in Seven” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical   Methodologies 2 (2002) 47-68

 “The Monstrous Years: Teens, Slasher Films, and the Family” Journal of Popular Film and Video 54 (2002)

"Gender, Sexuality, Marriage," in The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, ed., Deborah Payne Fisk (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) 191-208

"Technostalgia: Making the Future Past Perfect" Camera Obscura 40-41, (Fall 1999) 163-79

"Pathetic Passions: Incestuous Yearnings in Plays by Otway and Lee." Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 39 (Fall 1998) 192-208

"The Way of the Word: Telling Differences in Congreve's The Way of the World," in Broken        Boundaries: The Feminist Critique in Restoration Drama, ed. Katherine Quinsey (University of  Kentucky Press, 1996) 164-181

Works In Progress                            

- “Perry Mason and the Law of the Father”

- “Violence Under Class: CSI, Forensic Files, and Medical Detectives”

- Anguished Male Cinema (book-length manuscript)

 

Courses Taught

Blaxploitation Films; American SciFi: Homeland Security; The Media’s War on Drugs: Gender, Race, and Nation; American Gangster Films; Anguished Male Cinema; Teen Slasher Films; American Hitchcock: Gender, Culture, Power; Film Culture: Film Noir; Film Melodrama: Gender and Genre; Masculinities on Film; Re-conceiving Film Heroes; Film Genre: Crime, Horror, and Sentiment; Film Noir and the Detective Genre; Race and Cinema; Film Theory; Introduction to Women’s Studies in the Humanities; Feminist Film Theories; Feminist Theory and Methods; Popular Culture; Women's History and the Politics of Sexuality; Psychoanalytic Criticism; Contemporary Cultural Theory; Film Interpretation; 18th-Century survey courses; Restoration Drama; Women Writers of the 18th Century; Augustan Age; Age of Johnson;  British Literature I Survey; Literary Interpretation

Graduate Courses

The Media’s War on Drugs: Gender, Race, and Nation; Anguished Male Cinema; Alfred Hitchcock: Gender, Culture, Power; Film Melodrama: Gender and Genre; Masculinities on Film; Psychoanalysis and Marxism; Cultural Studies; Contemporary Critical Theory; Film Theory; Postmodernisms; Gay and Lesbian Theory; Politics of Cultural Aesthetics; French Freud; Women's History and the Politics of Sexuality; Literary Criticism and Theory; Restora­tion Drama; 18th-Century Prose Fiction; Age of Johnson; Enlightenment Thought; Women Writers of the 18th Century; 18th-Century Literature and Culture; Age of Satire; 18th-Century survey courses