Biography: Virginia Wright

Wexman

Title: Professor Emerita of English and Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Books:

A History of Film. ^7th Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2009.

http://www.amazon.com/History-Film/dp/020544976X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217611586&sr=8-1

Film and Authorship. Rutgers University Press, 2002.

http://www.amazon.com/Authorship-Depth-Virginia-Wright-Wexman/dp/0813531934/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217611586&sr=8-4

Women and Experimental Filmmaking. Co-edited with Jean Petrolle, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

http://www.amazon.com/Women-Experimental-Filmmaking-Jean-Petrolle/dp/0252072510/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217611586&sr=8-11

Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Couple-Marriage-Hollywood-Performance/dp/0691069697/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217611586&sr=8-2

Roman Polanski. Boston: Twayne 1985.

http://www.amazon.com/Polanski-Twaynes-Filmmakers-Virginia-Wright/dp/0805792961/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217611586&sr=8-7

Current Research:

“Compromised Positions: Hollywood Directors and the Cultural Construction of the Artist.”

Other Activities:

President , Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 1993-95.

Associate Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UIC, 1997-1999.

Editor, Cinema Journal, 1991-94.
Executive Committee, Modern Language Association, 1998-2002.

Visiting Appointments:

University of Chicago, Visiting Associate Professor, 1989.

University of Michigan, Visiting Professor, 1999.

Film Festival Jury Service:

Birmingham Film Festival, 1983.

Chicago Film Festival, 1976. At UIC she served as

Education:

University of Chicago: BA (1970), MA (1971), PhD (1976).

E-mail:

vwexman@uic.edu

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