Faculty | Joan Hawkins

Associate Professor , Department of Communication and Culture

Email: jchawkin@indiana.edu
Phone: 855-51548
Office: 211

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993

Background

Joan Hawkins teaches courses on the horror genre; experimental film, theater and performance art; women directors; French cinema; panic culture; media theory and media history. Her research continues to focus on the politics of taste culture, gender and sexuality.

Courses Recently Taught

C414 Experimental Film, Theater and Performance Art
C392 The History and Politics of the Horror Film
C420 Nightmare Movies
C420 Independent Film
C445 Film Fascism and Psychoanalysis
C503 Intro to Media Theory and Aesthetics
C592 Horror
C596 Race and Class in Postwar French Cinema

Publication Highlights

"The Anxiety of Influence: Georges Franju and the Medical Horrorshows of Jess Franco." Horror Film Reader. Ed. James Ursini and Alain Silver. New York: Limelight Editions, 2000.
"'Click Here if You're White:' The Construction of Race and Gender on Whie Supremacist Web Sites." Concerns: A Publication of the Women's Caucus for the Modern Language Association 27 (2000): 45-48.
Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
"One of Us: Todd Browning's Freaks." Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Ed. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. London and New York: New York University Press, 1996.
"'See It From the Beginning': Hitchcock's Reconstruction of Film History." The Hitchcock Annual: Hitchcock Centenary Issue (1999-2000): 13-29.
"Sleaze-mania, Euro-trash and High Art:The Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture." Film Quarterly 53 (1999-2000): 14-29. Also accepted for inclusion in the Trash Cinema Reader. Ed. Eric Schaefer. Under consideration by University of Minnesota Press and the British Film Institute.
"'No Sicker Than You Were Before:' Theory, Economy and Power in Abel Ferrara's The Addiction." Underground U.S.A. Ed. Steven Schneider and Xavier Mendik. Wallflower Press, forthcoming.
"When Bad Girls Do French Theory: The Deconstruction of Rodney King." The Teacher's Body: Questions of Embodiment, Identity and Authority in College Classrooms. Ed. Diane Freedman, forthcoming.

Selected Honors and Awards

numerous teaching awards and the 2007 Active Learning Grant to develop a class on the American Avant-garde