Mary Ann Doane works in the areas of film theory, feminist film studies, cultural theory, semiotics, photography, television, and digital media. She is the Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley. Doane was previously the George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she taught for more than three decades, from 1979 until 2011. She has also held visiting positions at New York University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Chicago, and served on the Executive Board of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990.
Doane has served on many professional organizations and editorial boards, including the Executive Council for The Society for Cinema Studies, the Film Division of the Modern Language Association and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies . Her most recent work examines the use of close-ups in film practice and theory, and the way in which screen size and its corresponding scale have figured in the negotiation of the human body’s relation to space in modernity.
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From the guide to the Mary Ann Doane papers, Doane (Mary Ann) Papers, 1966-2009, (John Hay Library Special Collections)
