Visiting Professors
Summer 2013
Linda Williams is a PhD, Professor in Film & Media and Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley. She gained her PhD from the University of Colorado for her dissertation Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysisof Surrealist Film. Her academic interests center on Feminist Theory as well as “body genres” — films designed to elicit specific physical reactions. She taught FILM 4043/ARTF 5043 – Topics in Film Studies—Critical Studies: Serial Television’s World and Time at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Film Studies.