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Jennifer Kramer grew up in Newark and graduated from Arts High
School
there as a photography major. Her undergraduate thesis advisor at
the UC Irvine Film Studies Department was Linda Williams, Ph.D.,
now Director of Film Studies at UC Berkeley and author of Viewing
Positions and Figures of Desire. The subject was cognitive film
theory as applied to The Silence of the Lambs. The thesis posited
Jodie Foster's character and her attention or inattention to details
as a disciplinal or propaedeutic model for the film viewer. Her
MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago was on "two
cultures" algebraic analysis of 2-dimensional ethnographic
knot art, overseen by current Math Department chair Paul Sally and
the late art historian Michael Camille.
Kramer has written articles, essays, video reviews, book chapters
and
encyclopedia entries for various feminist, academic and mass-market
publications. Her chapter "Cold Comfort: Stephen W. Hawking
and The
Bible," on the scientist's ventures into populist media, appears
in The
Monstrous and the Unspeakable: The Bible as Fantastic Literature,
edited by Tina Pippin and George Aichele (Sheffield Academic Press,
1997).Kramer has lectured at the New Jersey Historical Society and
presented at various annual conventions of the National Women's
Studies Association, as well as at annual meetings of the International
Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and the Society for Literature
and Science. She is also Vice-President Elect of the National Coalition
of Independent Scholars and a Steering Committee Member of the National
Women's Studies Association's Independent Scholars Task Force. Kramer
will teaches "Women's Changing Roles," both on-line and
in the classroom.
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