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Stony Brook University
Humanities Bldg.
Stony Brook, NY
11794-5350
Phone: 631.632.7400
E. Ann Kaplan
In 2007, I will celebrate (with the Humanities Institute I founded in 1987) my twentieth year at Stony Brook. Before coming to the United States for graduate work in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, I taught film at Kingsway Day College, London, and organized courses for The British Film Institute. After teaching literature and initiating Film Studies at Rutgers University, I joined Stony Brook's English Department and began organizing The Humanities Institute. In 2004, I was offered (and accepted) a joint appointment with Stony Brook's Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Department whose Cultural Studies programs I helped to establish.

I have two current book projects, namely a study of affect in European and American postcolonial cinema, and a volume on The Unconscious of Age: Screening Older Women.

E. Ann Kaplan


Distinguished Professor. PhD., Rutgers, The State University 1970. Director, The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook. Film and Media Studies, Twentieth Century European and American Literature, Literary and Cultural Theory (Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Ethnicity, Post-Colonialism)
1013 Humanities; By appointment
eakaplan@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Courses:

Spring 2008
  • Theorizing the Archive (co-taught with Susan Scheckel)
Fall 2008
  • Archives and Affects: Memory, Trauma and Visual Culture

Selected Publications

Selected Authored Volumes:
  • Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
  • Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
  • Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama. London and New York: Routledge, Inc. 1992. Reprinted 2002. Translated into Japanese.
  • Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera. London and New York: Metheun, Inc., 1983. Reprinted 1990. Translated into five languages.
Selected Edited volumes:
  • Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations. Co-edited with Ban Wang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.
  • Feminism and Film. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Playing with Dolly: Technologies and Fantasies of Assisted Reproduction. Co-edited with Susan Squier. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
  • Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue. Co-edited with Devoney Looser.
    Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Selected Articles 2001-07:
  • "Melodrama, Cinema and Trauma." Screen 42:2 (Summer 2001):201-205.
  • "Psychoanalysis and Ideology as Signified in the Staircase: Meckler's Sister, My Sister and Tracey Moffatt's Laudanum, in Special Issue of Communication Review 6, edited by Nancy Blake (2003): 1-12.
  • "Global Feminisms and the State of Feminist Film Theory," in Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture, Vol. 30. No. 1 (Autumn 2004): 1236-1247.
  • "Politics, Psyche and Feminine Time." In Feminist Time Against Nation Time. Eds. Victoria Hesford and Lisa Diedrich. Lanham, MD. Lexington Books, 2007.
  • "A History of Gender Theory in Cinema Studies." In Genders: An Anthology. Eds. Krin Gabbard and Peter Lehman. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 2007. 
  • "Unfixings: Archiving the Future." Camera Obscura. 2007.
  • "Global Trauma, Empathy and Images of Catastrophe."  Consumption, Markets, Culture. Spring 2008.