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lfstern@ucsd.edu
Biography:
Lesley Stern is the author of The Scorsese Connection (The British Film Institute and Indiana University Press, 1995) and The Smoking Book (The University of Chicago Press, 1999) and co-editor of Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance. Her work moves between a number of disciplinary locations, and spans both theory and production. Although her reputation was established in the fields of film theory and history she is also known for her fiction writing and her video productions.
Stern was born and raised in Zimbabwe, and spent many years in Australia before moving to UCSD in 2000. She has an Honors degree from London University (in English Language and Literature) and a Ph.D. from Sydney University (in film). She has taught in a number of countries, including Zimbabwe (at the University of Zimbabwe), the United Kingdom (Glasgow University), Australia (La Trobe and Murdoch Universities and The University of New South Wales) and the United States (UC Irvine).
She has published extensively in the areas of film, performance, photography, cultural history and feminism, and her essays have appeared in journals such as Screen, M/F, Camera Obscura, Film Reader, Image Forum (in Japanese), Trafic (in French), Emergences, Critical Inquiry.
A recipient of many awards and grants, Stern has recently been a Getty Scholar for the year of the Passions in 1998, and a Visiting Fellow at the Getty Research Institute for a seminar on Gesture in 1999.
Stern's current projects include a further work of ficto-criticism revolving around cinematic memory; a book-length study of Township Theater in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - where traditional arts (music, dance, story telling) are combined with more contemporary dramatic modes and with kung fu (a short video has been produced out of this project, and a longer film is in production); and a book on cinematic remakes.
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