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 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
• WSTU Introduction to Women's Studies

Interests:

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

University/Program Connections

• Director of Women and Gender Studies
• Law Advisor 
• The Honors College
• President's Commission on the Status of Women

Community & Club Connections:

• The Millersville University Ciné Club Advisor

Passions and Distractions:

politics, justice

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