Kathleen McHugh

Kathleen McHugh is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research focuses on intersections of feminist theory, film studies, and cultural analysis, with a particular emphasis on melodrama, domesticity, and industrial media feminism.

Research Interests:

• Contemporary Critical Theory
• Feminist Theory
• Film & Visual Culture
• Industrial Media Feminism
• Autobiography & Self-Narration

Publications span comparative studies of Hollywood and South Korean cinema, including American Domesticity (1999) and South Korean Golden Age Melodrama (2005). Her forthcoming work analyzes Jane Campion's cinematic strategies, while concurrent publications explore cinematic self-narration reframed through public and historical contexts.