Laura Mary Alice Mulvey
Curriculum Vitae
Education
1960-63
BA (Hons.) History. St.Hilda's College, Oxford.
Professional Positions and Fellowships
2000
Director, AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies
Fellow of the British Academy
1999 -
Professor of Film and Media Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London
1994-1999
Course Director, MA in Film and Television Studies, British Film Institute and Birkbeck College, University of London.
Fellow, The London Consortium. Member of the Steering Committee. (Tate Gallery, Architectural Association, Birkbeck College, Institute of Contemporary Arts)
1992-
Fellow, The Whitney Independent Study Program, New York.
1993-4
Lecturer in Film, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia.
1983-90
Senior Lecturer in Film Practice, London College of Printing, The London Institute, London.
1978-82
Senior Lecturer, Department of Film and Theatre, Bulmershe College, Reading.
1978
Lecturer in Film, The Slade School of Fine Art, London.
1976-77
Lecturer, London University Extra-Mural Department. Diploma in Film Studies.
1976
Lecturer, Department of Film, The Royal College of Art, London.
1975-6
Lecturer in Film, Derby College of Art.
Visiting Professorships
1994
Visiting Professor: Institut fur Film Theater und Media Wissenschaft, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
1992
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Women's Studies, Ohio State University.
Regents' Professor, Department of Art History, University of California, Davis. Davis, California.
1991
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Film, University of Warwick, England.
1990
Senior Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1986
Visiting Professor, Department for Cinema Studies, New York University.
Other Academic Activities
2001-
External Examiner: MA in Film Studies, University of Kent
1995-8
External Examiner, School of Media Studies, University of Coleraine, Ulster.
1994
Artist in Residence, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University
1993-7
PhD Supervisor, University of East Anglia.
2 supervised dissertations awarded PhD
1994-
PhD Supervisor, Birbeck College, University of London.
2 supervised dissertations awarded PhD
4 under supervision (Department of History of Art, Film and Visual Media)
4 under supervision (London Consortium)
1988-89
Designed, composed and wrote the Course Document for a Post-Graduate Diploma in Research and Screen-writing at the London College of Printing, The London Institute.
1989-90
Course Leader of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Research and Screen-writing, The London College of Printing, The London Institute.
Member of the Library Committee and the Equal Opportunities Committee at London College of Printing, The London Institute.
Elected member of the Academic Board of the London Institute
1976-77
External Assessor, Slade School of Art, London University
1977
External Assessor, Department of Film and Photography, Trent Polytechnic.
Guest Lecturing (recent/selected)
(not updated)
1998
Museum of the Moving Image, London; University College London; Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London; University of California, Los Angeles ; Queens University, Canada; University of Pittsburg; 'School of Sound' (conference), London; University of Southampton; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; Tate Gallery, London.
1997
Istituto Universitario Europeo, Fiesole Italy; Royal College of Art, London; All Souls College, Oxford; Museum of the Moving Image, London; Dukes Theatre, Lancaster; Waterside Arts Centre, Bristol; Smith College, Northampton, Mass, USA; Napier College, Edinburgh
1996
Whitechapel Gallery; Slade School of Art , London; Paris Program of Film Studies, Paris France; UCLA, Los Angeles California; The Wexner Centre for the Arts, Columbus Ohio; Cal Arts, Los Angeles California; University of Juvaskula, Finland
1996
Concluding day school for the MA option 'Reading Laura Mulvey and Watching Movies', Department of Fine Art, University of Leeds
1995
New York University, New York; University of Zaragossa, Spain; University of Amsterdam; Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paolo, Brazil;The University of Maryland, USA; The Italian Cultural Institute, London.
Film and Videos
1994
Disgraced Monuments. (co-directed with Mark Lewis). A documentary film about the fate of public art in the former Soviet Union. (Canada Council,and Channel Four, London).
1987
New Horizons. Installation for thirty six video monitors commissioned by Public Access, Toronto, for the series 'The Lunatic of One Idea', also shown at The Tate of the North, Liverpool, England.
1983
The Bad Sister. Video, 90 mins, Channel Four, London (Co-directed with Peter Wollen).
1982
Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti. 16mm film/col. 30 mins, Arts Council of Great Britain. (Co-directed with Peter Wollen).
1981
Crystal Gazing. 16mm film/col. 90 mins, British Film Institute (Co-directed with Peter Wollen)
1980
AMY! 16mm film/col. 30 mins., South East Arts Association (Co-directed with Peter Wollen)
1977
Riddles of the Sphinx. 16mm film/col. 90 minutes, British Film Institute. (Co-directed with Peter Wollen).
1974
Penthesilea. 16mm film/col. 90 minutes. (Co-directed with Peter Wollen).
These films and videos have been shown at various international film festivals. Retrospectives have been held at the ICA in London, England; Amsterdam, Holland; Barcelona, Spain; Vienna, Austria. They are currently in distribution in the USA, Australia, Britain, Germany and some other European countries. Interviews and articles about the films/video have been published in American, British and other, international, journals. The script of Riddles of the Sphinx is published in Screen Writings, Scott MacDonald (ed.), California University Press, 1995 ; Riddles of the Sphinx is the subject of a chapter in Kaja Silverman's The Acoustic Mirror, Indiana University Press l988; Riddles of the Sphinx and AMY! are discussed extensively in: E. Ann Kaplan's Women and Film , Methuen 1983; The Bad Sister is the subject of a chapter in: Lucy Fischer's Shot Counter Shot , Princeton University Press, 1989; the script for Disgraced Monuments was published in PIX 2, BFI London, 1997.
Books
1996
Fetishism and Curiosity, BFI, London; Indiana University Press, Bloomington USA. (the essays listed below, marked * are included in this collection)
1992
Citizen Kane, Film Classics Series BFI, London
1989
Visual and Other Pleasures. Macmillan, London; Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
1972
Douglas Sirk. A collection of essays co-edited with Jon Halliday. Edinburgh Film Festival
Articles in Collections and Journals
2000
'Death Drives: Hitchcock's Psycho' Film Studies 2
'The Index and the Uncanny' in Time and the Image C.Gill and T.Matthews (eds.)
Manchester University Press.
'Vesuvian Topographies: the Eruption of the Past in Journey to Italy'
Roberto Rossellini: One Hundred Years G.Nowell-Smith and D.Forgacs (eds.)
The British Film Institute
'Death 24 Times a Second' Coil 9/10
1999
Reflections on Disgraced Monuments' in Architecture and Revolution Neil Leach (ed.)
Routledge, London
1998
'Notes on Citizen Kane' in Reading Melanie Klein, John Phillips and Lyndsey Stonebridge, Routledge London 1998
1997
'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Anita Loos/Howard Hawks/ Marilyn Monroe' in Howard Hawks: American Artist; Jim Hillier and Peter Wollen (eds.) , BFI, London.
1996
*'The Pre-Oedipal Father; the Gothicism of Blue Velvet' in Modern Gothic; A Reader, V.Sage and A. Lloyd Smith (eds): Manchester University Press
'Cinematic Space: Desiring and Deciphering,' in Desiring Practices: Achitecture, Gender and the Interdisciplinary, McCorquodale, Ruedi, Wigglesworth (eds). Black Dog Publications, London.
*'Changing Objects, Preserving Time,' in Jimmie Durham, Phaidon Press, London.
1994
*'Pandora: topographies of the mask, the box and curiosity,' in Space and Sexuality , Beatriz Colemana (ed), Princeton University Press.
'Peeping Tom,' a critical commentary for laser disc, Criterion Collection, Voyager Company, Los Angeles.
'Angela Carter's Cinema: Magic and Metaphorphoses' in The Flame and the Mirror. Essays in Honour of Angela Carter, L. Sage (ed). Virago, London.
1992
*'The Hole and the Zero: the Janus face of Femininity,' in Godard: Son + Image, Raymond Bellour, (ed). MOMA, New York
1991
*'Xala Freud and Marx in a film by Sembene Ousmane,' Third Text, 16/17 London, 1991
*'Cindy Sherman: the Lure of the Masquerade,' New Left Review, July /August London.
1990
'British Feminist Film Theory's Female Spectators,' Camera Obscura 20-21.
1970s/80s
Articles on film, feminism and art collected into 1989 publication Visual and Other Pleasures
including:
1974
"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," Screen, BFI, London.Translated into French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (People's Republic) Danish, Lithuanian and Japanese.
Articles in Magazines etc.
2000
Samira Makmalbaf's Blackboards Sight and Sound December 2000
Abbas Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us Sight and Sound August 2000
1999
'The Warner Brother Who Died for Sound' Sight and Sound May 1999
1998
'Kirostami's Uncertainty Principle," Sight and Sound, June 1998
'Written on the Wind' Review article in Sight and Sound February 1998
1997
'Interview with Laura Mulvey by Ilona Halberstadt,' in PIX 2,
'His Girl Friday' Review article in Sight and Sound August 1997
1995
'Trying to Kiss the Moon,' an Essay on Steve Dwoskin's film, Arts Council of Great Britain.
'Silences of the Palace' Review article and interview with Moufida Tlatli
Sight and Sound December 1995
Curated Exhibitions and Festivals
1982
Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti. Co-curated with Peter Wollen. Whitechapel Gallery, London; Kunstverein, Berlin; Kunstverein, Hannover; Kunstverein, Hamburg; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Grey Gallery, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City.
1974
Women's Film Festival, Chicago.
1972
Women's Film Festival, Edinburgh.
Panels and Juries
1997-
Advisory Panel for Artists' Film and Video, Arts Council of England
1991
Jury member, Jay Leyda Book Award, Anthology Archive, New York.
1990-2
Council for National Academic Awards, London.
1989-92
Research Advisory Committee, British Film Institute.
1986-9
Film Production Committee, Arts Council of Great Britain.
1983-7
Advisory Board, John Logie Baird Centre for Film and Television, Strathclyde University, Glasgow.
1986
Jury member, Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany.
1978
Jury member, Toamina Film Festival, Italy.
1976-9
Artists' Films Sub-committee, Arts Council of England
1975-8
Board of Management, The Other Cinema, London.
Journals
1998-
Editorial Board, Film Studies
Editorial Board, Framework
1990-
Advisory editor Atlantica
1989-96
Editorial Board, History Workshop Journal.
1987-94
Associate Editor, October, MIT Press, New York.
1985
Associate Editor, Camera Obscura. University of California, USA.
1982-7
Associate Editor, Framework