Michelle Citron
Encyclopedia
Michelle Citron is a feminist film, video and multimedia producer, scholar and author. She taught at Northwestern University
from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s, but recently took the position of Chairperson of the Interdisciplinary arts
department at Columbia College Chicago
. http://web2.colum.edu/phonebook/bio.php?cid=5097 She grew up in Hawaii
and holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Her best known film is Daughter Rite (1979), a feminist pseudo-documentary about her relationships with her mother and her sister. It has won numerous awards and is often cited in analyses of feminist film.
She is also the author of Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions (1998).
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s, but recently took the position of Chairperson of the Interdisciplinary arts
Interdisciplinary arts
Interdisciplinary Arts is an academic department in the School of Media Arts at Columbia College Chicago. As one of the earliest interdisciplinary arts programs in the United States, it has been an incubator for new approaches towards art making that has shaped the development of arts professionals...
department at Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago is one of the largest art colleges in the United States with nearly 12,000 students pursuing degrees within 120 undergraduate and graduate programs...
. http://web2.colum.edu/phonebook/bio.php?cid=5097 She grew up in Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
and holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...
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Her best known film is Daughter Rite (1979), a feminist pseudo-documentary about her relationships with her mother and her sister. It has won numerous awards and is often cited in analyses of feminist film.
She is also the author of Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions (1998).