Dr. Jill Craven

 

Degrees:

• Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill
• B.S. Mathematical Science/Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill

Specializations:

• Film Studies
• Critical Theory
• Narrative Studies

Courses Taught:

• ENGL 232: World Literature II
• ENGL 237: Literary Research and Analysis
• ENGL 240: Introduction to Film/Art of Film
• ENGL 347: Studies of Ethnicity in Cinema
• ENGL 431: Comparative Literature
• ENGL 451/651: Literary Theory and Criticism
• ENGL 481/681: History of Film
• ENGL 482/682: Film and American Society
• ENGL 483: Politics, Film, and Electronic Media
• ENGL 484: Science Fiction, Technology and Film
• WRIT 311: Advanced Composition
• WGSS: Introduction to Women's Studies

Interests:

• Author: Faulkner
• Theorists: Foucault, Bakhtin, Arendt
• Directors: Polanski, Welles

University/Program Connections

• Chair, Gender Issues and Social Justice Committee, APSCUF
• Faculty DEI Liaison to Administration
• Faculty Senate Representation for Interdisciplinary Studies, Backup Representative for English and World Languages
• Coordinator of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Law Advisor for ENWL
• The Honors College
• President's Commission on the Status of Women

Community & Club Connections:

• Organizer of the Demystifying Dyslexia Conferences
• Advisor for the American Association of University Women club (AAUW)
• Adviser for Iota Phi Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society
• The Millersville University Ciné Club Advisor
• Volunteer for Church World Services Refugee Resettlement program

Recent Awards

Lori Souder Award for LGBTQ+ Advocacy (2023)
Presidents Commissition on Status of Women (2023)
President's Committee on Culture Diversity and Inclusion Grant (2023)
Positive Energy Grant for Dyslexia Conference (2023)
EPPIIC Microgrant for Eric McGriff Visit (2023) 
Arts, Humanities and Social Science Travel Grant (2022) to take students to Film Festival
EPPIIC Microgrant (2022) to take student to United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

Passions and Distractions

equity, justice, dogs, cats, films

Sample Publications:

• "The Marx Brothers" and "Sidney Lumet." Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture. Ed. Jack Fischel with Susan Ortmann. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. December, 2008.
• "Reading the Revolution and Writing the Wrongs: Exploring Roya Hakakian's Passion for Possibility." Rapportage: Literary Essays, Interviews, and Profiles: 50-54. Pennsylvania: Lancaster Literary Guild. January, 2006.
• "Unstitching Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 23(5): 440-443. Review Article. London, England: Taylor and Francis, 2006.
• "Ironic Empathy in Cronenberg's Crash: The Psychodynamics of Postmodern Displacement from a Tenuous Reality." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 17(3): 187-209. Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000