MCM Faculty & Staff : Mary Ann Doane
Website
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Mary-Ann_Doane
Office Hours
155 George, Room 206
Thursday 3:30-5:00
or by appointment
Phone Number
401-863-2807
Email Address
Courses
2006-2007 Course Listing on BOCA
Biography
Mary Ann Doane is George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. In 1996-1997 and 1998-2000 she was Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media. She has also served on the Executive Board of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. She has held visiting teaching positions at New York University and the University of Iowa. In 1994 she was Frederic Ives Carpenter Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. A specialist in film theory, feminist theory and semiotics, Doane holds degrees from Cornell University (B.A. English, summa cum laude, 1974) and the University of Iowa (M.A. Speech and Dramatic Art, 1976; Ph.D. Speech and Dramatic Art, 1979). She is the author of The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Indiana University Press, 1987), Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1991), and The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (Harvard University Press, 2002). She has published a wide range of articles on feminist film theory, sound in the cinema, psychoanalytic theory, sexual and racial difference in film, melodrama, and television. Doane was a member of the Executive Council for The Society for Cinema Studies from 1986 to 1989 and served on the Film Division of the Modern Language Association from 1993-1997. She is a member of the editorial board of Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and an advisory editor for Camera Obscura and Parallax. In 1990-91, she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2005 she was invited to deliver the Christian Gauss lectures at Princeton. She also received a Wriston Fellowship and a Pembroke Center Faculty Fellowship at Brown in 1982-83.