Education

PhD, Art History, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center (1993)
M. Phil., Art History, CUNY Graduate Center (1991)
BA, Art History, Cornell University (1981)

Areas of Specialization

• Relationship between film and other visual arts
• History and theory of avant-garde film and video and the art film
• History and theory of Hollywood cinema
• Modern art and theory
• Psychoanalytic theory
• Feminist theory
• Videographic criticism

Bio

Susan Felleman is the author of four books: Botticelli in Hollywood: The Films of Albert Lewin (Twayne 1997), Art in the Cinematic Imagination (University of Texas, 2006), Real Objects in Unreal Situations: Modern Art in Fiction Films (Intellect 2014), and Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema, co-authored with Steven Jacobs, Vito Adriaensens, and Lisa Colbert (Edinburgh University, 2017), as well as numerous other publications, among recent ones: "Show the clichés": the appearance of happiness in Agnès Varda’s Le Bonheur," Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies, Volume 19 (2021); “The Roses of Jay DeFeo and Bruce Conner: Belated Thoughts on Intermediality and Friendship,” Interfaces: Image-Texte- Language, no. 48 (2022); “Avant-garde and Kitsch: Modern Art and Money on Screen, 1963-1964,” in Screening the Art World (Amsterdam University Press, 2022); “A parenthetical story about art: between the lines of Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia),” in Intermedial Encounters (Scientia, Cluj, 2022); “Ninotchka: Pleasure and Politics Objectified,” co-authored with Catherine Walworth, in A Light Touch: New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch (Amsterdam University Press, 2024); and two video essays, “Four Ways to Be a Woman Artist... According to the Movies,” co- authored with Hannah Shikle ([in]Transition, 2022) and “Hiding in Plain Sight: Blackamoors in Classical Hollywood Cinema” (In Media Res, 2024). She recently wrote and co-directed (with Hannah Shikle) a feature-length, personal essay film, In Production: the Life and Career of George Justin.