Humanities Faculty Spotlight:

Mayne Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

The College is pleased to announce that Humanities Distinguished Professor of French Judith Mayne is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the most prestigious fellowships available to humanists. Mayne was among 190 artists, scientists, and scholars from the United States and Canada selected from more than 2,600 applicants during the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s 84th annual competition.

Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment. Selections are based on the recommendations of hundreds of expert advisers and with approval of the foundation’s Board of Trustees.

Mayne’s areas of teaching and research interest are French cinema and feminist film studies. She will use her fellowship to write a book-length study of Continental Films, the Nazi-owned company that dominated feature film production in France during World War II.

She is the author of eight books, including The Woman at the Keyhole, Cinema and Spectatorship, and Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture. Her most recent books are studies of French film director Claire Denis (University of Illinois Press, 2005) and of the controversial French film Le Corbeau (I. B. Tauris, 2007).

Her work has been translated into Czech, Finnish, French, German, Korean, and Polish, and has been reprinted in a wide range of anthologies. She has served on the editorial boards of several film studies journals, including Cinema Journal and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. She has also published articles on stardom, contemporary French cinema, French cinema in the 1950s, and women-in-prison films in books and journals including Camera Obscura, Signs, and Studies in French Cinema. Professor Mayne is a recipient of the University Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and of the College of Humanities Exemplary Faculty Award. She has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ohio Arts Council.