Joanne Klein
Professor of theater, film, and media studies and former coordinator of the cross-disciplinary study area in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Film studies, film theory and criticism, introduction to film and media studies, documentary practices, dramatic literature, theater history, literary theory, dramatic criti cism, feminist studies, directing.
e-mail: jrklein@smcm.edu
Website: http://faculty.smcm.edu/jrklein/
Joanne Klein is professor of theater, film, and media studies and former coordinator of the cross-disciplinary study area in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She received her A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. An avid proponent of liberal arts breadth as the best setting for performance and screen studies, she pursues a wide array of scholarly interests in film and theater studies as well as a diverse range of work as a stage director. She has been published in Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre Journal, and The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism. Her book, Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays, was published by Ohio State University Press, and her essay, "Looking at Looking (at Looking): Experiments in the Interrogation of Spectating," is included in the recent collection, Audience Participation: Crossing Time and Genre, edited by Susan Kattwinkel. Her productions at SMCM have included The Threepenny Opera, Cloud 9, Angels in America, and The Laramie Project. As a teacher, scholar, and director she is committed to cultural pluralism throughout all aspects of her work. Of all her achievements, she is most pleased by the success of her former students, who are thriving in careers or graduate work in fields both related and unrelated to theater, film, and media. (Office: MH 179C, in the Theater lobby)
