Barbara J. Brickman
Birmingham,
AL 35205
University
of West Georgia
205-202-2605
1601
Maple St.
E-mail:
bbrickma@westga.edu
Carrollton,
GA 30118
Website:
www.westga.edu/~bbrickma
678-839-4895
Education
University of Rochester,
Ph.D., English with concentration in Film Studies, 2005
Dissertation: Looking For My HeartÕs Desire: Popular Cinema and the
Post-War
Adolescent Imaginary
Committee: Sharon
Willis (chair),
Karen Beckman, and John Michael
University of Georgia, M.A.,
English, May 1999
MasterÕs Thesis: ÒSeamus
Heaney in the Field of Vision: From Artful Voyeurism to the GazeÕs
ReturnsÓ
James Madison
University, B.A.,
English, summa cum laude, May 1995
New
American Teenagers: The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film. Under
contract with Continuum Press.
ÒBrothers, Sisters,
and Chainsaws: The Slasher Film as Locus
for Sibling Rivalry.Ó Quarterly Review of Film and Video
28.2
(Winter 2011): 135-154.
ÒPortrait of an Artist
as a Young Fan: Consumption and
Queer Inspiration in Six Feet Under,Ó
in
Teen
Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom. Eds. Sharon Ross and
Louisa Stein. Jefferson, NC: McFarland P, 2008.
ÒComing of Age in the
70s: Revision, Fantasy, and Rage in
the Teen-Girl Badlands.Ó Camera Obscura
66
(Dec 2007): 25-58.
ÒRiot in Girls Town:
Remaking, Revising, and Redressing
the Teenpic.Ó Journal
of Film and Video 59.4 (Winter 2007): 20-36.
Ò
ÔDelicateÕ Cutters: Gendered Self-Mutilation and Attractive Flesh in
Medical
Discourse.Ó Body and Society 10.4
(December 2004): 87-111.
ÒImposition
and Resistance in Cormac McCarthyÕs The Orchard Keeper.Ó The Southern Quarterly
38.2 (Winter
2000): 123-34.
¥
Reprinted in Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses
to Cormac McCarthy.
Ed. Rick Wallach. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000.
2005-present Associate
Professor
of English
Department
of English and Philosophy
ÒAmerican Literature Ð HonorsÓ
ÒAmerican Independent CinemaÓ
ÒDystopias in Literature and FilmÓ (independent study)
ÒEnglish Composition IIÓ
ÒFilm Theory Ð HonorsÓ
ÒGay Literature and FilmÓ (independent study)
ÒGender and Genre in American Popular FilmÓ (grad)
ÒHistory and Theory of FilmÓ
ÒHorror FilmÓ
ÒIndependent Film and the Youth AudienceÓ (grad)
ÒIntroduction to the Art of FilmÓ
ÒNew American Cinema of the 1970sÓ
ÒPractical Criticism: Research and MethodologiesÓ
ÒSenior Film ProjectÓ (independent study)
ÒSouthern Masculinity and Southern Violence in FilmÓ (grad)
ÒTeen Film and Youth CultureÓ
ÒTheories of Popular CultureÓ (grad)
ÒWhat Do You Really Know About Film?Ó
ÒWomen on Film: Lethal BodiesÓ (independent study)
ÒWriting and Editing at WSBÓ (independent study)
2000-2004
Lecturer/Instructor
Departments
of English, Gender Studies, Film and Media
Lecturer, Department of English, Spring 2004
ÒIntroduction to Media
StudiesÓ
Instructor, Susan B. Anthony Institute for
Gender and WomenÕs
Studies, Spring 2004
ÒIntroduction to WomenÕs
Studies: Fandom and GenderÓ
Instructor, Early Connection Opportunity, Summer
2002-2004
ÒCollege WritingÓ
Instructor, College Writing Program, Fall 2003
ÒDo Androids Dream?: Humans,
Technology, and the Ethics of Their UnionÓ
Instructor,
College Writing Program, 2000-2003
ÒWriting Youth: The (Re)Making of
Youth Identity in American CultureÓ
Teaching Assistant to Karen Beckman, Fall 2002
ÒIntroduction to the Art of
FilmÓ
1998-1999
Instructor
Department of
English
Instructor, Department of English, 1998-99
ÒEnglish Composition 1101Ó
Teaching Assistant to Simon Gatrell,
Fall 1998
ÒBritish Literature IIÓ
Director, Film Studies
Minor,
University of West Georgia, 2005-
Coordinator, Film
Learning
Community, University of West Georgia, 2007-2008
Film Studies Minor
Committee,
Chair, University of West Georgia, 2005-
Film Society, Faculty Advisor 2006-
Executive Committee,
College of
Arts and Sciences, University of West Georgia, 2010
Technology Planning
Committee,
Faculty Senate Subcommittee, University of West Georgia, 2007-2010
Advisory Committee,
Chair,
Department of English, University of West Georgia, 2010
Graduate Program
Committee,
Chair, Department of English, University of West Georgia, 2007-2009
Assessment Committee,
Chair,
Department of English, University of West Georgia, 2007-2010
ÒScreen on the GreenÓ
Committee, Carroll County Chamber of Commerce, 2007
First Year Writing
Committee,
Chair, University of West Georgia, 2006-2007
International Film
Committee,
University of West Georgia, 2005-2007
Temporary Graduate
Faculty,
University of Alabama, 2008- (dissertation committee)
Reader, ÒÒIn the
Marginal Zone:
Self-harm and the ÔPathologisedÕ BodyÓ for Body and Society, 2005
Reader, ÒIncorporating
Pharmakon:
HIV, Medicine, and Body Shape ChangeÓ
for Body and Society, 2003
Reader,
Reasoning, Writing and Rhetoric (as a
proposal and as a final manuscript) for Longman Publishers, February
and August
2001
ÒSorority
Sin: The
Queer Sisters of 1950s Teenxploitation
Film.Ó Joint
Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture
Association, St.
Louis, April 2010
ÒThe Queer
Kid and
WomenÕs Lib, or How the Disney Family Turned Freaky.Ó Society for
Cinema and
Media Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, March 2010
ÒQueerdies:
The Odd Girl Out in the 1950s Horror Teenpics.Ó
Joint
Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture
Associations,
New Orleans, April 2009
ÒBrothers,
Sisters, and
Chainsaws: The Slasher Film as Locus for
Sibling
Rivalry.Ó Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American
Culture
Associations, San Francisco, March 2008
ÒRiot in
Girls Town:
Remaking, Revising, and Redressing the Teenpic.Ó
Society
for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2007
ÒThe Heart
of a Lonely
Tomboy: Constructing Female Masculinities in the South.Ó The Annual
Conference
of the Popular Culture Association of the South, October 2006
ÒThe Kid
With the Movie
Camera: Adolescent Videography and Adult
Fantasy.Ó
Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture
Associations, April 2006
ÒThe
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Fan: Consumption and
Queer Inspiration in Six Feet Under.Ó
On-line Conference of Contributors to Watching
Teen TV, March 2006
ÒÔItÕs
Everyone Else WhoÕs BonkersÕ: The Parker-Hulme
Case,
Contagious Fantasy, and Teenage Others.Ó Media(ted)
Deviance
Conference, Plymouth State University, April 2005
ÒÔHe
Looked Just Like James DeanÕ: Consumption and Denial in the Teen
Badlands.Ó
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Atlanta, March
2004
ÒÔSo
Putrid I CouldnÕt Take My Eyes Off ItÕ: Holden Caulfield and DaddyÕs
Cinema.Ó
Film/Literature Association Annual Conference, Towson University,
November 2003
ÒÔDelicateÕ
Cutters: Self-Mutilation and Attractive Flesh in Popular and
Psychoanalytic
Discourses.Ó The Susan B. Anthony InstituteÕs Eighth Annual Gender and
WomenÕs
Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, The University of
Rochester,
March 2001.
ÒImposition
and Resistance in The Orchard Keeper.Ó
The Cormac
McCarthy SocietyÕs Third Summer Colloquy, Appalachian State University,
August
1999.
Robert
Reynolds Excellence in Teaching English Award, University of West
Georgia, 2007
William
H. Gilman Memorial Prize, University of Rochester, 2005
Ball
Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2004-2005
Susan
B. Anthony Institute Teaching Fellowship, University of Rochester,
2003-2004
University
of Rochester Graduate Fellowship, 1999-2003
Modern
Language Association
Society
for Cinema and Media Studies
National
WomenÕs Studies Association
American
Culture Association
Popular
Culture Association
Professor
Sharon Willis, Director of Film Studies, University of Rochester (swls@mail.rochester.edu)
Professor
Karen Beckman, Department of Art and Art History, University of
Pennsylvania (beckmank@sas.upenn.edu)
Professor
Randy Hendricks, Department of English, University of West Georgia (rhendric@westga.edu)