Tami Williams, Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies
Office: Curtin Hall 474
Phone: 414-229-6047
e-mail: tamiw@uwm.edu
Degree(s):
Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles
Professor Williams is currently working on a book length manuscript on 1920s French avant-garde filmmaker Germaine Dulac. It examines the relationship between early 20th c. feminist writing and activism and subversive narrative and aesthetic strategies in 1920s and 30s avant-garde and commercial cinema. She has curated film programs on Dulac for the Musée d'Orsay (Paris), Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna), the Greek Film Archive (Athens), the National Gallery (Washington D.C.), and edited the anthology Germaine Dulac: Au dela des impressions (AFRHC/Cineteca Bologna). She has published articles in English, French, German, Italian, Greek, Slovenian for the Cinémathèque française (Paris), the Olympic Museum (Lausanne), and journals such as 1895 (Paris), Cinéma et Cie (Bologna), Kinémathek (Frankfurt), Ekran (Lubiana).
Teaching Interests:
Silent Film Restoration and Preservation, Global Women Directors, National Cinemas (US, Europe, Asia, Middle East), and Film and the Other Arts (music, dance, theater, painting, digital media)
Book:
Germaine Dulac: Au dela des impressions (principle editor with Laurent V�ray, AFRHC/Cineteca Bologna, 2006)
Articles:
"Germaine Dulac and the French Film Industry between the Wars: Modernizing the 'News-Real.' " Gender and Politics: Women in Europe between the Wars. ed. Angela Kershaw and A. M. Kimyongur, 171-189. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2007.
"Dancing with light: Choreographies of Gender in the Cinema of Germaine Dulac." Avant-Garde Film. (Avant-Garde Critical Studies 23 ed. Dietrich Scheunemann and Alexander Graf. Editions Rodopi, 2007. p. 121-132.