Pat Gill, Associate Professor
Contact Information
Department of Communication
1207 W. Oregon, Room 312
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-244-4135
About
Pat Gill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and the Gender & Women's Studies Program. She studies gender and film, popular culture, interpretive theories, and psychoanalytic theories.
Education
- 1987: Ph.D., Cornell University, English
- 1982: M.A., Cornell University, English
- 1980: B.A., SUNY at Buffalo, summa cum laude
Academic Employment
- 2007 - Present: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Associate Professor, Department of Speech Communication and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program
- 1999-2007: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Associate Professor, Institute for Communication Research and the Gender and Women's Studies Program
- 1995 - 1999: Western Michigan University, Associate Professor, Department of English
- 1994 - 1995: Western Michigan University, Assistant Professor, Department of English
- 1987 - 1994: University of Virginia, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Women's Studies Program
Selected Publications
Books
- Interpreting Ladies: Women, Wit, and Morality in the Restoration Comedy of Manners (University of Georgia Press, 1994)
- Illicit Sex: Identity Politics in Early Modern Culture, co-edited with Thomas DiPiero (University of Georgia Press, 1996)
Articles
- “Taking it Personally: Male Suffering in 8MM” Camera Obscura 52 ( 2003) 157-187
- “Apprehending Criminals: Genre and Interpretation in Seven” Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies 2 (2002) 47-68
- “The Monstrous Years: Teens, Slasher Films, and the Family” Journal of Popular Film and Video 54 (2002)
- "Gender, Sexuality, Marriage," in The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, ed., Deborah Payne Fisk (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) 191-208
- "Technostalgia: Making the Future Past Perfect" Camera Obscura 40-41, (Fall 1999) 163-79
- "Pathetic Passions: Incestuous Yearnings in Plays by Otway and Lee." Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 39 (Fall 1998) 192-208
- "The Way of the Word: Telling Differences in Congreve's The Way of the World," in Broken Boundaries: The Feminist Critique in Restoration Drama, ed. Katherine Quinsey (University of Kentucky Press, 1996) 164-181
Works in Progress
- “Perry Mason and the Law of the Father”
- “Violence Under Class: CSI, Forensic Files, and Medical Detectives”
- Anguished Male Cinema (book-length manuscript)
Courses Taught
- Blaxploitation Films
- American SciFi: Homeland Security
- The Media’s War on Drugs: Gender, Race, and Nation
- American Gangster Films
- Anguished Male Cinema
- Teen Slasher Films
- American Hitchcock: Gender, Culture, Power
- Film Culture: Film Noir
- Film Melodrama: Gender and Genre
- Masculinities on Film
- Re-conceiving Film Heroes
- Film Genre: Crime, Horror, and Sentiment
- Film Noir and the Detective Genre
- Race and Cinema
- Film Theory
- Introduction to Women’s Studies in the Humanities
- Feminist Film Theories
- Feminist Theory and Methods
- Popular Culture
- Women's History and the Politics of Sexuality
- Psychoanalytic Criticism
- Contemporary Cultural Theory
- Film Interpretation
- 18th-Century survey courses
- Restoration Drama
- Women Writers of the 18th Century
- Augustan Age; Age of Johnson
- British Literature I Survey
- Literary Interpretation
Graduate Courses
- The Media’s War on Drugs: Gender, Race, and Nation
- Anguished Male Cinema
- Alfred Hitchcock: Gender, Culture, Power
- Film Melodrama: Gender and Genre
- Masculinities on Film
- Psychoanalysis and Marxism
- Cultural Studies
- Contemporary Critical Theory
- Film Theory
- Postmodernisms
- Gay and Lesbian Theory
- Politics of Cultural Aesthetics
- French Freud
- Women's History and the Politics of Sexuality
- Literary Criticism and Theory
- Restoration Drama
- 18th-Century Prose Fiction
- Age of Johnson
- Enlightenment Thought
- Women Writers of the 18th Century
- 18th-Century Literature and Culture
- Age of Satire
- 18th-Century survey courses