Women’s Studies

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster teaches at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln as a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies, specializing in film, class, race and gender studies, as well as eco-critical approaches to film and popular culture. Gender Studies Her many books include A Short History of Film (Rutgers University Press, second edition 2013); Class-Passing: Social Mobility in Film and Popular Culture (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005); Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions (State University of New York Press, 2003); Identity and Memory: The Films of Chantal Akerman (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003); Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader (Routledge, 2002); Troping the Body: Etiquette, Conduct and Dialogic Performance (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000) and Captive Bodies: Postcolonialism in the Cinema (State University of New York Press, 1999).