Victoria Sturtevant

A specialist in the areas of race, class, and gender in American film, Professor Sturtevant teaches courses on film history, theory, and criticism, including Writing About Film and Media, Gender and Media, Classical Hollywood Cinema, and Cinemas of Childhood.  Her first book, A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler was published by the University of Illinois Press in Spring 2009. Her second book, Hysterical: Women in American Comedy, co-edited with Linda Mizejewski (University of Texas Press, 2017), was awarded the Popular Culture Association's Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology, Multi-Authored Work, or Edited Collection in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture. Her new monograph, It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy, is forthcoming in 2024 from the University of Texas Press.  Professor Sturtevant is also an affiliated member of the Women's and Gender Studies faculty.