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Heather Addison
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Assistant Professor 315 Sprau Tower (269) 387-2901 Alternate e-mail: Personal Homepage |
Education: Ph.D., University of Kansas
Areas of Expertise: Film communication
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.