College of Humanities People

Linda Mizejewski, Professor

Department of Women's Studies: http://womens-studies.osu.edu/
Sexuality Studies: http://sexualitystudies.osu.edu

Office Information
113D University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: mizejewski.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-2467
Fax: 614-292-0276

Office Hours:
Autumn quarter: Tuesdays 10-11 a.m., Thursdays 10-11 a.m. and 2-3 p.m.

Personal URL(s):
and: http://www.genders.org/g46/g46_mizejewski.html

General Background:
My research interests are film and cultural studies. My first two books, Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles (Princeton, 1992) and Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema (Duke, 1999), are about the historical, sexual, and racial meanings of high-profile showgirls in American culture. My most recent book is Hardboiled and High Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2004). For me, the woman detective character is a symbol of the feminist scholar/investigator, showing up to ask tough questions and make the authorities squirm. My current research project is women and comedy, and my book on the film widely regarded as the template for the romantic comedy genre, It Happened One Night, will soon be published in a new series from Blackwell. My work has been supported by grants from NEH and ACLS, and in 2004 I won the Ohio State University Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award.