Faculty

Academic Interests: News writing, Screenwriting, Film, Women's Studies, Media Studies

Research: Women and Film (See my book, Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies & The American Dream.)

Publications:

I have contributed to the following publications:

The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Biography, Parade, Ms. (former movie critic), New York, The New York Times "Arts & Leisure," The Daily News, Penthouse, Playboy, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, Ladies Home Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Video Review (movie critic), Film Comment.

BOOKS

• Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, & The American Dream, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; Avon Paper. Also, British, French and Italian editions.
• Mia & Woody: Love and Betrayal, With Kristi Groteké (Mia's nanny). Carroll & Graf. Also published in Great Britain and Australia.
• What Nigel Knew, A comic murder mystery. With Joy Gould Boyum (under the pseudonym Evan Field) and Clarkson N. Potter.

OTHER

• Screenwriting Fellow. Writers Guild of America, East.
• Paddy Chayefsky Memorial Fellow. WGA, East.
• Lehman EngelÕs BMI Musical Theatre Workshops (1982-1987).
• MacDowell Colony Fellow (1082, 1984, 1987).
• Marsh Lecturer/Professor. University of Michigan (1987/1988).