Full-time faculty

	Heather Addison Assistant Professor
	Email: heather.addison@wmich.edu
	Office: 315 Sprau Tower Office Phone: 269 387-2901
	Education: Ph.D., University of Kansas
	Areas of expertise: Film communication
	Email: addison@123.net
	For more information go to Dr. Addison's Homepage

About Professor Addison

Heather Addison, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, joined the faculty in 2002. She received her doctorate from the University of Kansas. She has taught a broad range of courses in film and video history, theory, criticism, and production. She is a film historian whose current research area is early Hollywood and its long-term impact on physical culture, motion picture stardom, and consumerism. She has presented her work at the Society for Cinema Studies and the University Film and Video Association. Her writing has been published in The Velvet Light Trap; Hollywood Goes Shopping: American Cinema and Consumer Culture, edited by Garth Jowett and David Desser; and Film Genre 2000, edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon.