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Please click here to download Cristina Lucia Stasia's CVCRISTINA LUCIA STASIA

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University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6E 6T6

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EducationPh.D., English, 2011

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Dissertation: Heroine Abuse: Feminism, Femininity and the Female Action Hero

Supervisor: Steven Cohan

C. A. S., Women's Studies, 2004

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

M. A., English, 2002

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

B. A. (Honors) with First Class Honors, English/Women's Studies, 2000Magna Cum Laude

University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Academic Employment

Instructor, Women's Studies Program, University of Alberta. 2010-present.

Research and Teaching Interests

Film theory; cultural studies; feminist theory; constructions of femininity; action cinema; blaxploitation; second wave and third wave feminism; postfeminism; the figure of the girl; film noir; women and violence; critical thinking and writing.

Academic Awards

2006 Summer Fellowship

2005 Summer Fellowship

2002 Five Year University Fellowship

2000 Hadassah-WIZO Canada Award in Women's Studies, University of Alberta

Teaching Awards

2006 Elson Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by a Graduate Student, Syracuse University

2002 Outstanding TA Award, Syracuse University

2001-4 Teaching Fellowship, Syracuse University

Academic Publications

2006 "'My Guns are in the Fendi!': The Postfeminist Female Action Hero." Postfeminism and Third Wave Feminism. Eds. Rebecca Munford, Gillian Howie and Stacy Gillis. Palgrave Press, 2006.

2004 "'Wham! Bam! Thank You Ma'am!': The New Public/Private Female Action Hero." Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration. Eds. Rebecca Munford, Gillian Howie and Stacy Gillis. Palgrave Press, 2004.

2004 "Butch-Femme Interrupted: Angelina Jolie and the New Butch Femme." InterSEXions of the Others: Bisexuality and Transgenderism. Eds. Jonathan Alexander and Karen Yescavage. Haworth Press, 2004.

2002 "Pop Pedagogy: Popular Culture Approaches to Teaching Writing," Reflections, Syracuse University

Invited Talks

2011 "From Fire Power to Sexual Power: Disarming the Female Action Hero." Feminist Research Speakers Series. University of Alberta, September 23.

2008 "Mrs. Croft: Angelina Jolie and the Straightening of the Female Action Genre." Invited Talk. Translation Colloquium. Syracuse University, February 8.

Select Conference Presentations

2011 "Sometimes a Glock is Just a Glock: Phallic Women and Backlash Femininity,"

FSAC, Fredericton, June 1-4.

2011 "Foxy Feminism: Second Wave Feminism, Black Liberation and the Female Action Hero," CWSA, Fredericton, May 28-31.

2010 "'Have you ever been mistaken for a man?:' Feminism and the Female Action

Hero," CWSA, Montreal, May 28-31.

2010 "'Wait, Why Do I Get the Girl Gun?:' Feminizing the Female Action Hero," PCA/ACA, St. Louis, March 31-April 3.

2008 "'Who's Your Daddy Now?:' Feminism, Femininity and the Female Action Hero," FSAC, Vancouver, June 2-4.

2008 "'Failure is Not an Option:'" Feminist Film Theory and the Female Action Hero," SCMS, Chicago, March 6-9.

2006 "Cherchez-La-Fille: Sexual Daughters and Anxieties about Postwar Motherhood in Female-Centered Film Noir," Film, Television and the 1950s, Plymouth University, October 6-7.

2006 "'Flip Your Goddamn Hair!': Postfeminism and the Female Action Hero" The Political and the Aesthetic, University of Albany, April 22-23.

2005 "One Angry Inch for the Musical, One Giant Step for the MTV-Kind: Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Moulin Rouge," Screen, University of Glasgow, July 1-3.

2004 "'What's Pleasure Without Pain?': The New Public/Private Female Action Hero," Interrogating Postfeminism: the Politics of Gender and Popular Culture, University of East Anglia, April 2-3.

2002 "Beyond Bisexuality: Angelina Jolie, Bisexuality and the New Butch-Femme," Third Wave Feminism, Feminist Institute for Theory and Research, Exeter, UK, July 23-5.

Dissertation

Heroine Abuse: Feminism, Femininity and the Female Action Hero

Committee Members: Steven Cohan, Roger Hallas, Claudia Klaver

My dissertation argues that female power has become a pervasive but meaningless concept and charts the depoliticization of popular feminism through an analysis of female action cinema. Reading the female action hero within both a historical and generic context, I analyze two complex relationships: the one between the female action hero and U.S. feminism and the one between the female action hero and the U.S. action film. Analyzing developments in female action cinema and feminist history alongside female action films from the 1970s to today, I argue that the female action hero is symptomatic in large of the historical trajectory of feminism from second wave to postfeminism. Each chapter approaches the female action hero as a cultural text and provides new readings of key female action films, including: Foxy Brown (1974), Aliens (1986), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).Teaching ExperienceSyracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Teaching Associate, 2007-8

ETS 154 "Interpretation of Film" Spring 2008

ETS 145 "Reading Popular Culture" Fall 2007

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Future Professoriate Teaching Associate, 2004-6

ETS 154 “Interpretation of Film” Spring 2006

ETS 153 "Interpretation of Fiction: American Racial Melodrama" Fall 2005

ETS 192/W St 192 "Gender and Literary Texts: American Femininities" Spring 2005

ETS 145 "Reading Popular Culture" Summer 2005;

Fall 2004

Syracuse University, Teaching Assistant, 2000-4

(Responsible for designing, teaching and grading my own courses.)

WRT 205 "Writing Studio II: (Re)Searching America" Spring 2004 (2 sections); Spring 2002

WRT 105 "Writing Studio I: (Re)Writing Pop Culture" Fall 2003; Fall 2001 (2 sections)

WRT 205 "Writing Studio II" Spring 2001

WRT 105 "Writing Studio I" Fall 2000 (2 sections)

Consulting Experience

2001; 2004 Writing Consultant, SummerStart Program, Syracuse University

Pedagogical Presentations

2007 "Classroom Activities: Affect, Pleasure, Activation," ETS TA Orientation Program, Syracuse University, August 23.

2006 Presentation to Undergraduates on Graduate Student Teaching and Academic Life SUNY-Oswego Future Professoriate Program, April 11.

2006 Faculty Roundtable Honors Students Association, Syracuse University, March 30.

2006 "Teaching in ETS," Co-Facilitator, Future Professoriate Program, March 22.

2002 "Responding to Student Texts," Writing Program Spring Conference, Syracuse University.

2001 "Political Moments in the Classroom," Writing Program, Syracuse University.

Select Media Interviews

"Cheerleader Controversy." Alberta Primetime.

Live, televised debate on the addition of an all-female Oilers cheer team. November 3, 2010.

"The Sunday Edition." CBC Radio One. January 20, 2008.

Debate about women's name change after marriage.

"Eyelashes on my car? Why I don’t need to primp my ride." Globe and Mail. October 7, 2010.

"What's in a Name?" Ottawa Citizen. June 18, 2008.

"The Ms. Myth." Boston GlobeSunday Magazine. February 14, 2010.

Non-Academic Articles

"Real Manias: The Ye-Ye Girl Craze." Good Girl. Summer/Fall 2004.

"Reel Phobias." Good Girl. Summer 2003.

Professional Memberships

Canadian Women's Studies Association

Film Studies Association of Canada

Popular Culture Association

Popular Culture Association of Canada

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Honour Societies

2001-11 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

2001-11 Phi Beta Delta, International Honor Society

2000-11 Golden Key National Honor Society

References

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