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Janet Staiger is the William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Education
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1981.
Career
As a theoretician and historian of American film and television, Staiger has published on the Hollywood mode of production, the economic history and dynamics of the industry and its technology, poststructural and postfeminist/queer approaches to authorial studies, the historical reception of cinema and television programs, and cultural issues involving gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity. She curated an exhibition on the television show Dallas for the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin. She serves on the jury to select the best television shows of the year for the American Film Institute.
She is a past president of the Society for Cinema Studies and a member of the Cultural Studies Association.