Expertise
Film history and criticism; British and American literature; cultural studies.
Broadcast Media, Film History and Criticism, Journalism, Literary Criticism, Mass Communication/Media, Theatre/Film Criticism
Affiliations

Professor, Communication and Culture, English, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington
1970 - current

Past Affiliations

Professor Emeritus, Department of Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication and Culture

Visiting Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago (past)
2001 - 2001

Professor Emeritus, Media School, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Visiting Professor, English
1980 - 1981

Professor Emeritus, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
English, Communication
Degrees
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, English, 1970
PhD
Keywords
literary criticism theatre or film criticism journalism broadcast media mass communication
Languages
French, German
Honors

Kraszna-Krausz Moving-Image Book Award, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, London, England, 2000

Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, Indiana University, 1995

Guggenheim Fellowship (Film criticism), John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1994-1995

Mellon Fellowship (Film criticism), National Gallery of Art, 1993-1994

Associations
Modern Language Association
Society for Cinema Studies