Amy Villarejo

Chair at the Department of (FTVDM)
Amy Villarejo
Born
Los Angeles and Davis, California
Occupation(s)Chair and Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Academic work
Disciplinefeminist, queer media, critical theory, and television studies

Amy Villarejo is an American scholar in cinema and media studies, specializing in feminist and queer media, critical theory, and television studies. She is currently chair of the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media (FTVDM) and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Previously, she was the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Humanities at Cornell University, where she taught in the Department of Performing and Media Arts and the Department of Comparative Literature.[1][2]

Her notable works include Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire (Duke University Press, 2003), which won the Katherine Singer Kovács Prize from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.[3]

  1. ^ "Amy Villarejo". Cornell University. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  2. ^ "Amy Villarejo – Faculty". UCLA. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  3. ^ "Amy Villarejo - Lesbian Rule". Lesbian Looks. Retrieved 2024-11-11.