Sarah Projansky

228 Gregory Hall
(217) 333-1549
sprojans@illinois.edu

Education

PhD, Communication Studies (Film Studies), 1995, University of Iowa
MA, Communication Studies (Film Studies), 1990, University of Iowa
BA, Film Studies and Psychology-Sociology, 1987, Wesleyan University

Affiliations

Associate Head for Cinema Studies
Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Associate Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
Associate Professor, Institute of Communications Research
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Course Specialties

Film Theory
Girls and Popular Culture
Film and Television Stars
Feminist Theory
Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies
Research Methodologies

Background

Projansky has written or co-edited two books:

• Projansky, Sarah. 2001. Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture. New York: New York University Press.
• Harrison, Taylor, Sarah Projansky, Kent A. Ono, and Elyce Rae Helford. Eds. 1996. Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Additional selected recent publications include:

• Projansky, Sarah. 2010. "Rihanna's Closed Eyes." Velvet Light Trap 65.
• Projansky, Sarah. 2007. "Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism's Daughters." In Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. Ed. Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 40-72.
• Projansky, Sarah. 2007. "Gender, Race, Feminism, and the International Girl Hero: The Unremarkable U.S. Popular Press Reception of Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider." In Youth Culture in Global Cinema. Ed. Timothy Sharry and Alexandra Seibel. Austin: University of Texas Press. 189-206.
• Valdivia, Angharad and Sarah Projansky. 2006. "Feminism and/in the Media." In The Gender and Communication Handbook. Ed. Bonnie J. Dow and Julia Wood. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 273-296.
• Projansky, Sarah. 2004. "Teaching through Feelings and Personal Beliefs: 9/11 As Case Study." Cinema Journal. 43.2: 105-109.
• Vande Berg, Leah R. and Sarah Projansky. 2003. "Hoop Games: Narrativizing Identity in Televised Coverage of U.S. Professional Women's and Men's Basketball." In Case Studies in Sports Communication. Ed. Robert S. Brown and Daniel J. O'Rourke. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 27-49.
• Projansky, Sarah and Kent A. Ono. 2003. "Making Films Asian American: Shopping for Fangs and the Discursive Auteur." In Authorship and Film. Ed. David A. Gerstner and Janet Staiger. New York: Routledge. 263-280.

Related Links

• UI Department of Gender and Women's Studies