Barbara J. Brickman

680 Clifton Rd. SE Department of English

Atlanta, GA 30316 University of West Georgia

404-627-7530 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 Heart’s 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

Master’s Thesis: “Seamus Heaney in the Field of Vision: From Artful Voyeurism to the Gaze’s Returns”

James Madison University, B.A., English, summa cum laude, May 1995

Publications

“Brothers, Sisters, and Chainsaws: The Slasher Film as Locus for Sibling Rivalry.” Forthcoming in Quarterly Review of Film and Video 28.1 (January 2011).

“Portrait of an Artist as a Young Fan: Consumption and Queer Inspiration in Six Feet Under,” in

Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom. Eds. Sharon Ross and Louisa Stein. Jefferson, NC: McFarland P, 2008.

“Coming of Age in the 70s: Revision, Fantasy, and Rage in the Teen-Girl Badlands.” Camera Obscura 66

(Dec 2007): 25-58.

“Riot in Girls Town: Remaking, Revising, and Redressing the Teenpic.” Journal of Film and Video 59.4 (Winter 2007): 20-36.

“ ‘Delicate’ Cutters: Gendered Self-Mutilation and Attractive Flesh in Medical Discourse.” Body and Society 10.4 (December 2004): 87-111.

“Imposition and Resistance in Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper.” 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.

Conference Presentations

“Brothers, Sisters, and Chainsaws: The Slasher Film as Locus for Sibling Rivalry.” Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, San Francisco, March 2008

“Riot in Girls Town: Remaking, Revising, and Redressing the Teenpic.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2007

“The Heart of a Lonely Tomboy: Constructing Female Masculinities in the South.” The Annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association of the South, October 2006

“The Kid With the Movie Camera: Adolescent Videography and Adult Fantasy.” Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, April 2006

“The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Fan: Consumption and Queer Inspiration in Six Feet Under.” On-line Conference of Contributors to Watching Teen TV, March 2006

“‘It’s Everyone Else Who’s Bonkers’: The Parker-Hulme Case, Contagious Fantasy, and Teenage Others.” Media(ted) Deviance Conference, Plymouth State University, April 2005

“‘He Looked Just Like James Dean’: Consumption and Denial in the Teen Badlands.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Atlanta, March 2004

“‘So Putrid I Couldn’t Take My Eyes Off It’: Holden Caulfield and Daddy’s Cinema.” Film/Literature Association Annual Conference, Towson University, November 2003

“‘Delicate’ Cutters: Self-Mutilation and Attractive Flesh in Popular and Psychoanalytic Discourses.” The Susan B. Anthony Institute’s Eighth Annual Gender and Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, The University of Rochester, March 2001.

“Imposition and Resistance in The Orchard Keeper.” The Cormac McCarthy Society’s Third Summer Colloquy, Appalachian State University, August 1999.

Fellowships and Awards

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

Teaching Experience

University of West Georgia

Assistant Professor of English, 2005-

“American Literature – Honors”

“American Independent Cinema”

“English Composition II”

“Gay Literature and Film” (independent study)

“Gender and Genre in American Popular Film” (grad)

“History and Theory of Film”

“Horror Film”

“Independent Film and the Youth Audience” (grad)

“Introduction to the Art of Film”

“Practical Criticism”

“Teen Film and Youth Culture”

“What Do You Really Know About Film?”

University of Rochester

Lecturer, Department of English, Spring 2004

“Introduction to Media Studies”

Instructor, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, Spring 2004

“Introduction to Women’s Studies: Fandom and Gender”

Instructor, Early Connection Opportunity, Summer 2002-2004

“College Writing”

Instructor, College Writing Program, Fall 2003

“Do Androids Dream?: Humans, Technology, and the Ethics of Their Union”

Instructor, College Writing Program, 2000-2003

“Writing Youth: The (Re)Making of Youth Identity in American Culture”

Teaching Assistant to Karen Beckman, Fall 2002

“Introduction to the Art of Film”

University of Georgia

Instructor, Department of English, 1998-99

“English Composition 1101”

Teaching Assistant to Simon Gatrell, Fall 1998

“British Literature II”

Professional Experience and Service

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

Technology Planning Committee, Faculty Senate Subcommittee, University of West Georgia, 2007-

Graduate Program Committee, Chair, Department of English, University of West Georgia, 2007-

Assessment Committee, Department of English, University of West Georgia, 2007-

“Screen on the Green” 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

Reader, ““In the Marginal Zone: Self-harm and the ‘Pathologised’ Body” for Body and Society, 2005

Reader, “Incorporating Pharmakon: HIV, Medicine, and Body Shape Change” 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

Professional Memberships

Modern Language Association

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

American Studies Association

Popular Culture Association

References

Professor Sharon Willis, Director of Film Studies, University of Rochester

Professor Karen Beckman, Department of Art and Art History, University of Pennsylvania

Professor John Michael, Department of English, University of Rochester

Professor Jane Hill, Department of English, University of West Georgia