Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
- Associate Professor, English
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, English
- Director of Film Studies, Film Studies
Education
- PhD, Northwestern University, 2013
Teaching Schedule
| Course Num | Title | Meets |
|---|---|---|
| ENGLISH 383-002 | Cinema, Television, and Genre: Horror (1985-present) | MW 1pm-2:50pm |
| FILMSTD 383-002 | Cinema, Television, and Genre: Horror (1985-present) | MW 1pm-2:50pm |
Teaching Interests
- Trash Cinema
- Film History
- Animation
- Special Effects
- Horror Films
- Historiography
- Spectatorship + Exhibition
- Weird Horror
Research Interests
- Exhibition and Theatrical Architecture
- Spectatorship
- American Film History
- Film and Visual Theory
- History of Technology
- Cultural History
Selected Publications
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “Spectatorship’s Intoxicating Field.” The Cinephile 19(1) (Summer 2025).
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “Stress is a Battleground: The Relaxed Wife." Medicine on Screen, May 5, 2025.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “Histories of Exhibition and Spectatorship: Loss and Imagination.” In The Routledge Companion to American Film History, edited by Pam Wojcik and Paula Massood (New York: Routledge, 2025).
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. Movies Under the Influence. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “The Right to Sit Still" Film Quarterly 77.4 (2024).
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “Tasteful Networks of Attention: Language, Listening, Meaning, and Art House Exhibition” The Oxford Handbook on Cinematic Listening Oxford University Press. (2021).
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “Bombed Pasts, Burning Futures: Notes on Demolition and Exhibition” Framework 62.2 (2021).
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “Technologies of Blackness: Aldo Tambellini, Psychedelia, Widescreen, Media” Cultural Critique 112. (2021).
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn, and Grusin, Richard A. Ends of Cinema. University of Minnesota Press. 2020.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theater Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2018.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn, and Groening, Stephen. Afterword, Objects, Exhibition, and the Spectator 28.3 Bloomington, IN: Film History. 2016.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn, and Groening, Stephen. Objects, Exhibition, and the Spectator - Special issue of Film History 28.3 Bloomington, IN: Film History. 2016.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “Smoke and Mirrors: Cigarettes, Cinephilia, and Reverie in the American Movie Theater” Film History 28.3 (2016): 85-113.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “Revisiting The Apparatus: The Theatre Chair and Cinematic Spectatorship” Screen 57.3 (2016): 253-276.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “Space, Satisfaction, and the Screen” 2ha 7, "Suburbia + Cinema". (2014).
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “In the House, in the Picture: Distance and Proximity in the American Mid-Century Neutralized Theatre” World Picture 7, "Distance". (2012): 1-18.
Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. “The Hues of Memory, the Shades of Experience: Color and Time in 'Syndromes and a Century'” Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive New York and London: Routledge. (2012): 104-113.