Liz Constable

Liz Constable is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is affiliated with Cinema & Digital Media programs and collaborates with the French-American Cultural Exchange and International House to organize an annual French and Francophone Film Festival at UCD since 2005.

Her research focuses on women filmmakers, feminist film practices, and postwar French cinema’s engagement with historical memory. Central themes include the German Occupation of France (Vichy regime), North African Francophone media’s treatment of war histories, and the intersection of psychoanalytic theories with transcolonial narratives. She is completing a book manuscript on Catherine Breillat’s films (Visions of Shame) and has published on Nadir Moknèche’s Viva Laldjérie.

Teaching includes courses on French cinema history, memory of WWII in France, and feminist film perspectives. Her work bridges film studies, postcolonial theory, and cultural memory studies.