Ph.D. in 1991 from Indiana University, M.A and B.A in 1985 and 1982 respectively, from the University of Florida. Contemporary critical and feminist theory; film and visual culture; industrial media feminism; prose and visual autobiography and self-narration American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama (Oxford, 1999); co-editor (with Nancy Abelmann) South Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre and National Cinema (2005); co-editor (with Vivian Sobchack) Film Feminisms, a special issue of SIGNS; and published articles on domesticity, feminism, melodrama, the avant-garde, and autobiography in such journals as Cultural Studies, Jump Cut, Screen, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Velvet Light Trap.