Dr Michelle Y Lekas

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Bachelor of Arts: Cinema Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1980.
• Bachelor of Arts: English Education, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1982.
• Master of Arts: English Literature/Critical Theory, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1987.
• PhD: Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society/Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota , TC, 2000.

Specialties

• Dissertation: "A Brief Epistemology of Seriality": 2000
• Lacanian Psychoanalyis
• Film Music: 1912 to Present
• World Cinema History and Theory: 1895 to present
• American and British Literature: 1810 to 1990
• Queer Theory

Courses Taught

• Pulp Fiction: from Melodrama to Noir
• Gay Men and Homophobia in American Culture
• American Literature: 1850 to Present
• Cinema and Ideology
• Black American Cinema

Research & Professional Activities

Creative

• Film Appearance: "Snuff: a Documentary about Killing on Camera," Paul von Stoetzel, dir., 2008,
• Film Appearance: "Feminism and Horror," Ebony Winston, dir. , 2005

Publications

• Lekas, Michelle Yvonne, [Craig Saper, ed.]. "The French New Wave Today: China? An Interview with Peter Wollen." Zeit no. 12 (1989): 11-25.
• Lekas, Michelle Yvonne, [Gail Sheperd, ed.]. "Aphanisis, Strange Justice, and the Clarence Thomas 'Affair'." The Red Herring #16 (1994): 13-21.
• Lekas, Michelle Yvonne, [James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, David Neumeyer, eds.]. "Ultrasound: the Feminine in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Music and Cinema (2000): 275-294. Download
• "Writing and Reading...Aloud: notes on the Revision Process," : Lekas, Michelle, NCTE, English Journal, vol. 99, no. 7 68-80, 2010.