Dr. Shelley Stamp
Dr. Shelley Stamp
We are happy to announce that Dr. Shelley Stamp will join us for an invited lecture "Willa Cather and Company: Female Filmmakers, Female Screenwriters, and female Authors in Early Hollywood." Stamp is the UC Santa Cruz Presidential Chair and the author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon (a finalist for the Theatre Library Association Book Award) and Lois Weber in Early Hollywood, winner of the Michael Nelson Prize from the International Association for Media and History and the Richard Wall Special Jury Prize from the Theatre Library Association. She curated the 6-disk set Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, honored with a Special Award from the New York Film Critics Circle. She is also Founding Editor of Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal, published quarterly by the University of California Press, and an accompanying book series also published by UC Press. Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a University of California President’s Fellowship. Stamp is Professor of Film + Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, where she won the Excellence in Teaching Award.
