Professor Ned Schantz

Position:

Director, Graduate Studies & Associate Professor

Office:

Arts 120

Phone:

514-398-4400 Ext 09334

Email Address:

ned [dot] schantz [at] mcgill [dot] ca

Mailing Address:

McGill University
Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA

Degrees and Academic Title(s):

B.A. (Stanford); M.A. and Ph.D. (University of Southern California), Associate Professor

General Research Areas:

Cultural Studies

Cinema

Theory

Teaching and Research Areas:

Cultural Studies, film, narrative theory, genre theory, feminism, media and technology, the theory of hospitality, Hitchcock

Taught previously at:

University of Southern California.

Selected Publications :

"Hospitality and the Unsettled Viewer: Hitchcock's Shadow Scenes" inCamera Obscura 25 (1 73): 1-27 (2010).

Gossip, Letters, Phones: The Scandal of Female Networks in Film and Literature. Oxford UP, 2008.

"Telephonic Film" in Film Quarterly (Summer 2003) 23-35.

"Jamesian Gossip and the Seductive Politics of Interest" in The Henry James Review (Winter 2001) 10-23.

Current Research:

Hitchcock and Hospitality, The Contemporary Forking-Path and Multi-plot Film, train narratives in film and the novel

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