Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Who is Gwendolyn Audrey Foster?

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is a prolific American film scholar with a focus on numerous areas related to cinema, often with an emphasis on gender studies and women. Critic Michael Rowin described her 2003 anthology Identity and Memory: The Films of Chantal Akerman as "impressively comprehensive." In 2016, she is Willa Cather Professor of English and Film studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

Foster received a B.A. Degree in English from Rutgers University in 1983 and received a doctorate at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1995. She teaches at the University of Nebraska. Foster has written about film-related topics such as censorship, screenwriting, underground film, Hollywood film, avant garde film, history of film, film criticism, French filmmakers, Asian cinema, cultural studies, feminist and Marxist critical theory, and women directors such as Grace Cunard and Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Along with filmmaker and scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Foster has made films including the 1991 documentary Women Who Made The Movies as well as the 1994 film Squatters. She has written many film-related books and articles.