Sandy Flitterman-Lewis

Professor Sandy Flitterman-Lewis holds the rank of Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University's School of Arts and Sciences. Her academic journey includes a PhD, MA, and BA from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in feminist theory, film studies, Holocaust representation, and French cinema, with notable expertise on directors like Chantal Akerman and Agnes Varda. Her work has been translated into multiple languages and recognized internationally, including a keynote role at a Musee d'Orsay retrospective on Germaine Dulac. She co-founded Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory and organized major academic events like the 1998 symposium Hidden Voices on childhood and antisemitism in WWII France.

Her teaching philosophy emphasizes passion, commitment to interdisciplinary learning, and compassionate pedagogy, reflected in courses like Film Noir and French New Wave. Over 36 scholarly articles and 30 anthology contributions showcase her prolific research, with key works including To Desire Differently and New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics. She actively bridges theoretical film studies with historical and cultural analysis, particularly in exploring memory, identity, and resistance narratives in cinema.