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Joan Hawkins is a Professor at The Media School, Indiana University Bloomington, specializing in the intersection of horror cinema, European art cinema, and avant-garde film through the lens of taste politics.
She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, with foundational work in 19th-century French and English literature. Her academic trajectory shifted to Film Studies under the influence of feminist theory and Gothic aesthetics, culminating in a dissertation supervised by Carol Clover.
Her research interrogates how cultural notions of "good" and "bad" taste are constructed, focusing on horror cinema, film subcultures, and avant-garde movements. Key publications include the monograph Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde (2000) and the edited anthology Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 (2015), with the forthcoming The Burroughs Century (2016) co-edited with Charles Cannon and Alex Wermer-Colan.
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