Assistant Professor

Office: 219 Admin. Bldg.

Email: rosss2@sacredheart.edu.

Education:
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin--Madison

Research and Teaching Interests:
Women and film, 1920s film and culture, screenwriting.  

Recent Courses Taught:
Screenplay Writing, Women and Film, The Art of the Moving Image, Digital Filmmaking I.

Recent Publications:
“1922 - Movies and the Perils of the Unknown.” American Film of the 1920s. Ed. Lucy Fischer. Rutgers UP, forthcoming.
     
“The Americanization of Tsuru Aoki: Orientalism, Melodrama, Star Image and the New Woman.” Camera Obscura 20.3 (2005).

 “‘Good Little Bad Girls’: Silent Comediennes and the Performance of Girlish Sexuality.” Film History 13.4 (2001).

“Early Experiments with the Cinematic Flapper.” Aura 6.2 (2000).

 "The Hollywood Flapper and the Culture of Media Consumption." Hollywood Goes Shopping: American Cinema and Consumer Culture. Eds. David Desser and Garth Jowett. U of Minnesota P, 2000.