Lucy Fischer
Professor of Film Studies and English
Director of the Film Studies Program
University of Pittsburgh
Lucy Fischer is the author of 6 books: Jacques Tati (1983), Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema (1989), Imitation of Life (1991), Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre (1996), Sunrise (1998), and Designing Women: Art Deco, Cinema and the Female Form (forthcoming). She has published extensively on issues of film history, theory and criticism in such journals as Screen, Sight and Sound, Camera Obscura, Wide Angle, Cinema Journal, Journal of Film and Video, Film Criticism, Women and Performance, Frauen und Film, Biography, Film Quarterly, etc. She has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), and has written catalog essays for exhibits at the Wight Gallery (Los Angeles) and the Neuberger Museum (Purchase, NY). She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts "Art Critics Fellowship," as well as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers. She is currently the President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and has served as the organization's Vice-President and President-Elect. She has also served as chair of the Film Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association.