William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication

E-mail: jstaiger@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.128
Phone: 512-471-6653
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981
Curriculum Vita

Author and editor of 12 books and over 50 essays, her book publications include:

• Political Emotions co-ed. with Ann Cvetkovich, and Ann Reynolds. (Routledge, 2010)
• Convergence Media History co-ed. with Sabine Hake.  (Routledge, 2008)
• Media Reception Studies (New York University, 2005)
• Authorship and Film co-ed. with David Gerstner (Routledge, 2003)
• Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception (New York University Press, 2000)
• Blockbuster TV: Must-See Sitcoms in the Network Era (New York University Press, 2000)
• Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 1995)
• The Studio System (ed.) (Rutgers University Press, 1995)
• Interpreting Films: Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema (Princeton University Press, 1992)
• The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960, co-author with David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson (Routledge & Kegan Paul/Columbia University Press, 1985)

She has served on various national committees including the National Film Preservation Board and is past president of the Society for Cinema Studies. She also served as Director of Women's and Gender Studies for the University of Texas at Austin, 2001-04.

As a theoretician and historian of American film and television, she has published on the Hollywood mode of production, the economic history and dynamics of the industry and its technology, poststructural and postfeminist/queer approaches to authorial studies, the historical reception of cinema and television programs, and cultural issues involving gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity.

Current work includes historiographical practices in media studies, problems in the representation of gender (masculinity and queer studies) and sexuality and violence (slasher and sexually explicit films), and theorization of emotions and genres as well as continuing interests in her traditional areas of research.