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Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
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Holly A Wlodarczyk

612/624-2634
Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature 364 Nich Hall 216 Pillsbury Dr SE

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Film, Television and Media Studies
  • Suburbia and the Single-Family Home
  • Sustainable Architecture and Planning
  • Socio-Cultural History of Cold War Domesticity
  • Feminism, Femininity and Visual Culture
  • Working Class Studies

Educational Background

  • B.A.: Film Studies, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1993.
  • Ph.D. Candidate: Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Publications

  • "Intermediate Landscapes: Constructing Suburbia in Postwar American Photography": Wlodarczyk, Holley, Walker Art Center, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, 2008. Link

Professional Activities

  • Conference Presentation: "Redefining 'Green': The Rhetoric of Sustainable Suburbia." The Urban History Association's Fifth Biennial Conference; Las Vegas, NV; October 21, 2010
  • Conference Presentation: “Working for a Living on Roseanne: Class Confusion and Transitional Television.“ Class Matters: Working Class Studies Association Conference; University of Pittsburgh; June 5, 2009
  • Conference Presentation: “How “˜Green’ Is the “˜American Dream’? Sustainability, Suburbia, and the Single-Family Home.“ From the Local to the Global: International Sustainability Conference; Villanova University; April 24th, 2009
  • Conference Presentation: “Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: Nuclear Fear in the Suburbs of The Twilight Zone.“ Film & History Conference; Chicago, IL; October 31st, 2008.
  • Conference Presentation: “Sex & Suburbia: Setting Pornography in Everyday Domesticity.“ Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference; Cincinnati, OH; October 4th, 2008
  • Conference Presentation: "A Tale of Two Suburbs: Adaptive Critique in The Stepford Wives, 1975-2004," presented at the Popular Culture Association, San Franciisco, CA , March 19, 2008
  • Conference Presentation: "Intermediate Lanscapes: Construction Photographs of Late Twentieth Century Suburbia," presented at "Photography and the City," University College Dublin, Clinton Institute for American Studies , June 30, 2006
  • Conference Presentation: "Optimism, Nostalgia, Critique: Reviewing the Single-Family Home in Postwar Photography," presented at "Out of Time: Theorizing Culture and the Political," University of Minnesota , October 20, 2005
  • Conference Presentation: "Picturing Life in Suburbia: Social Documentation and Cultural Critique in Late Twentieth Century American Photography," presented at "Two-Way Traffic: Representing Urban and Suburban Spaces," University of Dundee , June 25, 2005

Awards

  • Course Transformation Program grant, with Professor Robin Brown, 2008 - 2009
  • Graduate Research Partnership Program grant, with Professor John Archer, 2005

Courses Taught

  • CSCL 3177: On Television
  • CSCL 3173W: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life
  • CSCL 1921: Introduction to Film Study
  • CSCL 1401W: Reading Literature: Theory and Practice
  • CSCL 1301W: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice
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