Gender and Women's Studies

Sarah Projansky

Sarah Projansky is an Associate Professor in the Gender & Women's Studies Program and the Unit for Cinema Studies. She studies gender and race in the media, feminist film studies, girls and popular culture, cultural studies, and film theory and history.

Education

1995     Ph.D., University of Iowa, Communication Studies/Film Studies                                                

1990     M.A., University of Iowa, Communication Studies/Film Studies                                                

1987     B.A., Wesleyan University, Film, Psychology-Sociology                                                                     

 

Academic Employment      

 

2002-         University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Cinema Studies

2001-2002  University of California, Davis, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies

1995-2001  University of California, Davis, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies

                                                          

Selected Publications

Books

Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture.  2001. New York: New York University Press.

Harrison, Taylor, Sarah Projansky, Kent A. Ono, and Elyce Rae Helford.  Eds.  1996.  Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

 Articles

"Teaching through Feelings and Personal Beliefs: 9/11 As Case Study."  Cinema Journal.  43.2 (2004): 105-109.

"The Elusive/Ubiquitous Representation of Rape: An Historical Survey of Rape in U.S. Film, 1903-1972."  Cinema Journal 41.1 (2001): 63-90.

"Girls Who Act like Women Who Fly: Jessica Dubroff as Cultural Troublemaker."  Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 23.3 (1998): 771-807.

 

Anthology Essays

Projansky, Sarah.  In press.  "Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism's Daughters."  In Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture.  Ed. Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Projansky, Sarah.  In press.  "Gender, Race, Feminism, and the International Girl Hero: The Unremarkable U.S. Popular Press Reception of Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider."  In Youth Culture in Global Cinema.  Ed. Timothy Sharry and Alexandra Seibel.  Austin: University of Texas Press.

Valdivia, Angharad and Sarah Projansky.  2006.  "Feminism and/in the Media."  In The Gender and Communication Handbook.  Ed. Bonnie J. Dow and Julia Wood.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.  273-296.

Vande Berg, Leah R. and Sarah Projansky.  2003.  "Hoop Games: Narrativizing Identity in Televised Coverage of U.S. Professional Women's and Men's Basketball."  In Case Studies in Sports Communication.  Ed. R. S. Brown and D. J. O'Rourke.  Westport, CT: Greenwood.  27-49.

Projansky, Sarah and Kent A. Ono.  2003.  "Making Films Asian American: Shopping for Fangs and the Discursive Auteur."  In Authorship and Film.  Ed. David A. Gerstner and Janet Staiger.  New York: Routledge.  263-280.

Projansky, Sarah and Leah R. Vande Berg.  2000.  "Sabrina, the Teenage . . . ?: Girls, Witches, Mortals, and the Limitations of Prime-Time Feminism."  In Fantasy Girls: Navigating the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television.  Ed. Elyce Rae Helford.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.  13-40.

Projansky, Sarah and Kent A. Ono.  1999.  "Strategic Whiteness as Cinematic Racial Politics."  In Whiteness: The Communication of Social Identity.  Ed. Thomas K. Nakayama and Judith Martin.  Newbury Park, CA: Sage.  149-174.

Works in Progress

Multi-Media Spectacles and Background Figures: Contemporary Disruptions in Girlhood (book manuscript)

Courses Taught

Gender and Women's Studies Senior Seminar; Feminist Methods of Inquiry; Seminar: Senior Honors Theses in Women's Studies; Feminist Film Theory and Criticism; Rhetoric of Feminism; Girls and Popular Culture; Film Theory and Criticism; Post-9.11 Cinema: A Cultural History of the Present; Introduction to Women's Studies in the Social Sciences; Introduction to Women's Studies; Women and Film; Gender and Film Genres; Cinema Studies Senior Seminar: Gender, Race, and Television; Cultural Histories of U.S. Film; Media Criticism; U.S. Popular Culture; Television Culture; Cultural History of Mass Media; Independent Video/Television Production (directed group study); Rhetorical Criticism; Cultural Representations of Gender; Gender and Popular U.S. Media; Introduction to Film Studies; Film and Television Stars

Graduate Courses

Feminist Theory and Methodology in the Humanities; Feminist Film Studies and the Material Body; Feminist Cultural Studies; Cinema Historiography; Theories of Cinema; Graduate Instructor Training Seminar