Mary Ann Doane
George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media:
Modern Culture and Media
Phone: +1 401 863 2807
Mary_Ann_Doane@Brown.EDU
Mary Ann Doane works in the areas of film theory, feminist film studies, cultural theory, and semiotics. She has written on photography, television, and digital media as well. Currently, she is researching the use of the close-up in film practice and theory, and the way in which screen size and its corresponding scale have figured in the negotiation of the human body's relation to space in modernity. She has also recently edited an issue of "differences" devoted to the concept of indexicality in photography, film, and digital media.
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 also serves 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 and in Spring 2005 she delivered the Christian Gauss Seminar Lectures at Princeton University.
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 UP, 2002). The Desire to Desire has been translated into Japanese and Femmes Fatales has been translated into Italian. Doane also served as co-editor of Re-Vision: Essays in Feminist Film Criticism (1984) and of Camera Obscura, no. 20-21: "The Spectatrix" (1989). In addition, 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 is currently working on a book on the close-up and scale in the cinema.
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. She also received a Wriston Fellowship and a Pembroke Center Faculty Fellowship at Brown in 1982-83. In 2001-2002, she directed the Pembroke Seminar on "Technology and Representation."
Interests
Mary Ann Doane's interests include film theory, feminist film studies, cultural theory, media theory, psychoanalysis, and semiotics. She has also written on photography, television (the televisual representation of catastrophe), and digital media.
Degrees
Ph.D., The University of Iowa; B.A. Cornell University
Awards
ACLS Fellowship, Fall 2008
Cogut Humanity Center Fellowship, Brown, Spring 2008
Winner of the 2nd Limina Award, organized by the International Film Studies Conference and CINEMA & CIE International Film Studies Journal, 2004 and a Special Commendation, Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, London, 2003 for The Emergence of Cinematic Time.
George Hazard Crooker University Professor, Brown University, July 1997-present.
Harrison S. Kravis University Professor, Brown University, July 1996-July 1997.
Invited to give Christian Gauss Seminar Lectures, Princeton University, Spring 2005.
Frederic Ives Carpenter Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, April 11-22, 1994.
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1990-91.
Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship, Spring 1983.
Brown Faculty Fellowship, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Fall 1982.
Affiliations
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Teaching
Film Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Technology and Media, Cultural Theory, Feminist Theory, the Avant-Garde, Film and Modernity
Funded Research
N/A
