Rutgers University (B.A. English, 1983) University of Nebraska at Lincoln (M.A., 1992; Ph.D., 1995) Douglass College
Occupation(s)
Scholar, filmmaker
Known for
Women Who Made the Movies
Partner
Wheeler Winston Dixon
Awards
1998 AAUW Emerging Scholar[1] 2004 College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Website
gwendolynaudreyfoster.com
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an experimental filmmaker, artist and author. She is Willa Cather Professor Emerita in Film Studies. Her work has focused on gender, race, ecofeminism, queer sexuality, eco-theory, and class studies.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] From 1999 through the end of 2014, she was co-editor along with Wheeler Winston Dixon of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video.[4][12][13] In 2016, she was named Willa Cather Endowed Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and took early retirement in 2020.[14]
^ abMay 6, 1998, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, FOSTER RECEIVES EMERGING SCHOLAR AWARD Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed October 26, 2013, "...Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska, has won the American Association of University Women Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars. ... The award selection is based on demonstrated excellence in teaching, a documented and active research record, evidence of mentoring female students, and evidence of a potentially significant contribution to the awardee's field of study. ..."
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^Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (2003). "Community, Loss, and Regeneration: An Interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon". Senses of Cinema. No. 27.
^ abYork College of Pennsylvania, Literature/Film Association Annual Conference, October 2012, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Conference Archived 2016-04-28 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed October 26, 2013, "...keynote speakers ... Gwendolyn Audrey Foster,..."
^Mike Hollins, October 15, 2010, Daily Nebraskan, Film professors prescribe lesser-known horror cinema, Accessed October 26, 2013, "... Dr. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster... Terror of Frankenstein ... mesmerizing and thoughtful.."
^Daily Nebraskan, Mike Hollins, December 3, 2010, Film professors share underappreciated holiday classic, Accessed October 26, 2013, "... Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, an English professor at UNL, said she dislikes the idyllic outlook of most holiday films..."
^Kendra Marston, 2013, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, English ladies to liberators? How Pirates of the Caribbean and Alice in Wonderland mobilize aristocratic white femininity Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed October 26, 2013, "... Gwendolyn Audrey Foster explores the film performances of classic Hollywood star Mae West...
^Gwendolyn Audrey Foster and Wheeler Winston Dixon (September 2003). "Every Frame Was Precious": An Interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon". Film Criticism. 28 (1). Allegheny College: 53–79. JSTOR 44019199. Retrieved October 26, 2013. ...Dixon discusses his work with the Gwendolyn Audrey Foster ...
^Daily Nebraskan, January 27, 2011, Mike Hollins, 3-D movies prove successful at box office, despite difficulties in filmmaking, Accessed October 26, 2013, "..."I think the problem is that studios are not run by visionaries anymore.."
^Mayne, Judith. Book Review: Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Women Filmmakers Of The African And Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing The Gaze, Locating Subjectivity and Kenneth W. Harrow, Ed. With Open Eyes: Women And African Cinema. In Research in African Literatures. Spring 1999, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 238–240. Accessed October 26, 2013
^Judith E. Pike, January 1, 1997, Literature/Film Quarterly, Women-of-Color Filmmakers, Accessed October 26, 2013, "...Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. 177 pp...."
^Film Criticism, Allegheny College, Film Criticism, Accessed October 26, 2013, "...with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. ..."
^"Quarterly Review of Film and Video". Inside Higher Ed. Archived from the original on September 20, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2013. ...The editors (Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) of Quarterly Review of Film and Video...
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