Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster | |
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| Born | 1960 (age 64–65) |
| Education | Rutgers University (B.A. English, 1983) University of Nebraska at Lincoln (M.A., 1992; Ph.D., 1995) Douglass College |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar, filmmaker |
| Known for | Women Who Made the Movies |
| Partner | Wheeler Winston Dixon |
| Awards | 1998 AAUW Emerging Scholar 2004 College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Nebraska at Lincoln |
| Website | gwendolynaudreyfoster |
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an experimental filmmaker, artist and author. She is Willa Cather Professor Emerita in Film Studies. Her work has focused on gender, race, ecofeminism, queer sexuality, eco-theory, and class studies. From 1999 through the end of 2014, she was co-editor along with Wheeler Winston Dixon of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. In 2016, she was named Willa Cather Endowed Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and took early retirement in 2020.