Ned Schantz

Ned Schantz
Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-4400 Ext. 09334
Email address: 
ned.schantz [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts 130
Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Associate Professor
Stream: 
Cultural Studies
Specialization by geographical area: 
United States
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
21st-Century
Area(s): 
Fiction
Film & Television
Theatre & Performance
Creative Practice & Performance Studies
History & Theory of the Novel
Identity & Representation
Status: 
On Sabbatical
Areas of interest: 

cultural studies; film; narrative theory; genre theory; feminism; media and technology; the theory of hospitality; Hitchcock; the contemporary forking-path and multi-plot film; train narratives in film and the novel.

Degree(s): 

M.A., Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
B.A. (Stanford)

Selected publications: 

Books

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

Book cover of "Gossip, Letters and Phones"

Articles

"Hospitality and the Scene of Contract in Dial M for Murder." Hitchcock Annual 21 (2017): 40-70.

"Teaching The Bridge." The Cine-Files (December 2015): online.

“Surprised by La Jetée.” Senses of Cinema 76 (September 2015).

"Melodramatic Reenactment and the Ghosts of Grizzly Man," Criticism Volume 55, Number 4 (Fall 2013).

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

"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.

Taught previously at: 

University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)

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