Sharon Willis

Biographic Data

ID5625410
NAMESharon Willis
GIVEN NAMESSharon
FAMILY NAMEWillis
SIGNATUREWILLIS S
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
ORCID0009-0008-1155-1226
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Navigating school cost affordability in Australia

    Open AccessSharon Willis, Jessica L Mackelprang et al.ARTICLEThe Australian Educational…2026

  • Women’s transnational cinema

    Open AccessSharon WillisARTICLEPostmodern Culture2017

    Women’s transnational cinema: displacement, projection, and identification.A review of Patricia White, Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms Sharon Willis (bio) White, Patricia. Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms. Duke UP, 2015. Patricia White’s ambitious project sets itself the daunting task of tracking fast-moving targets. Its anchoring terms— “women’s cinema” and “world cinema” —remain in …

  • The Poitier Effect

    Sharon WillisBOOKThe Poitier Effect2015

    The civil rights struggle was convulsing the nation, its violence broadcast into every living room. Against this fraught background, Sidney Poitier emerged as an image of dignity, discipline, and moral authority. Here was the picture-perfect black man, helping German nuns build a chapel in The Lilies of the Field and overcoming the prejudices of recalcitrant students in To Sir with Love, a redneck sheriff in In the Heat of the Night, and a prospe…

  • Cognitive Training Gain as a Predictor of Mental Status

    Julie Blaskewicz Boron, Sharon Willis et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2007Cited by: 2References: 3

    We examined the association of proximal and distal training gain to subsequent mental status ratings in 302 participants (M = 76.62 years) trained on inductive reasoning or spatial orientation in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Only training effects on reasoning ability were predictive of mental status group membership. Participants subsequently rated as probably demented did not significantly differ from nondemented participants in magnitude of …

  • The Politics of Disappointment

    Sharon WillisARTICLECamera Obscura Feminism Culture…2003Cited by: 2References: 1

    Sharon Willis is professor of French and visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester, where she also directs the Film and Media Studies Program. A member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective, she is the author of Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body, and High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film. This essay is drawn from a chapter of the book she is completing on representations of the civil rights moveme…

  • Taking It like a Man

    Sharon WillisARTICLEAmerican Literature2000

    Book Review| September 01 2000 Taking It like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture By David Savran. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1998. 382 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95. Sharon Willis Sharon Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 649–650. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-3-649 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn M…

  • The Fathers Watch the Boys' Room

    Sharon WillisARTICLECamera Obscura Feminism Culture…1993

    Research Article| September 01 1993 The Fathers Watch the Boys' Room Sharon Willis Sharon Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 41–74. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11-2_32-41 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sharon Willis; The Fathers Watch the Boys' Room. Camera Obscura 1 September 1993; 11 (2 (32)): 41–74. doi: htt…

  • Special Effects

    Sharon WillisARTICLECamera Obscura Feminism Culture…1991

    Research Article| September 01 1991 Special Effects: Sexual and Social Difference in Wild at Heart Sharon Willis Sharon Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 274–295. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9-1-2_25-26-274 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sharon Willis; Special Effects: Sexual and Social Difference in Wild at Heart. Camera Obscura …

  • Disputed Territories

    Sharon WillisARTICLECamera Obscura Feminism Culture…1989Cited by: 1

    Research Article| January 01 1989 Disputed Territories: Masculinity and Social Space Sharon Willis Sharon Willis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (1 (19)): 4–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-1_19-4 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sharon Willis; Disputed Territories: Masculinity and Social Space. Camera Obscura 1 January 1989; 7 (1 (19)): 4–23. doi: ht…

  • Marguerite Duras

    Mary Lydon, Sharon Willi et al.ARTICLESubStance1989

  • Feminism's Interrupted Genealogies

    Sharon Willis, Alice JardineARTICLEdiacritics1988

  • Mis-Translation

    Sharon Willi, Sharon WillisARTICLESubStance1987

  • Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight

    Elizabeth Wright, Shoshana Felman et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today1987

  • "Hélène Cixous's "Portrait de Dora

    Sharon Willi, Sharon WillisARTICLETheatre Journal1985

  • A Symptomatic Narrative

    Sharon WillisARTICLEdiacritics1983

    I used to be fond of jewellery, too, once; but I have not worn any since my illness. Once, four years ago. And Father and Mother had a great dispute about a piece of jewellery. Mother wanted to be given a particular thingpearl drops to wear in her ears. But Father does not like that sort of thing, and bought her a bracelet instead of the drops. She was furious, and told him that as he had spent so much money on a present she did not like he had b…

  • Statue and Mask

    Open AccessRemo Guidieri, Sharon A Willi et al.ARTICLERes: Anthropology and Aesthetics1983Cited by: 1