Professor
Communication
Professor
Cinema Studies Minor
Office
Emma Hart Willard Hall
401-39
Monday
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Wednesday
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Friday
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Or by appointment
Biography
Dr. Karen A. Ritzenhoff is a Professor of Communication at Central Connecticut State University. She is also affiliated with the s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS) as well as Cinema Studies and the Honors Program. Ritzenhoff co-edited two volumes on Contemporary Asian Popular Culture with Dr. Yeojin "Julie" Kim (Communication), Dr. Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe (English) and Dr. Hiba Aleem (English, Emmanuel College). The anthologies will be published by Palgrave MacMillan (Springer Group) in January 2025.
Recently her co-edited anthology on "Gender, Power, and Identity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick" with Dijana Metlic and Jeremi Szaniawski (Routledge, 2023) was released in paperback.Â
https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Power-and-Identity-in-The-Films-of-Stanley-Kubrick/Ritzenhoff-Metlic-Szaniawski/p/book/9781032072227
Further publications: "Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness" with Renee T. White (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021).Â
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793623577/Afrofuturism-in-Black-Panther-Gender-Identity-and-the-Re-Making-of-Blackness
"Mediated Terrorism in the 21st Century" with Elena Caoduro and Karen Randell (Palgrave, 2021).Â
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-73511-1
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Education
Film Studies, Communication, Comparative Literature
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
1996
Romance Languages, Political Science, American Studies
University of Tubingen, Germany
1988
Romance Languages, Political Science, American Studies
Siegen University, Germany
1987
Areas of Expertise
Study Abroad courses to France, Italy, the UK, and Spain/Portugal
Film Studies
Gender Studies
Television and mass media
TV Documentary
Global Visual Communication
Women and Film
American CinemaÂ
Stanley Kubrick
Publications, Research & Presentations
* “A Clockwork Orange and its Representations of Sexual Violence as Torture: Stanley Kubrick and Francis Bacon.” In Matt Melia and Georgina Orgill (eds.). Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange. New York: Palgrave, 2023: 265-284.Â
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• “A Maverick on the Streets: Bill Cunningham and the Documentary Process.” In
Elena Caoduro and Boel Ulfsdotter (eds.). Documenting Fashion. Edinburgh
University Press, 2023
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• “Terrorism and Gender in Eye in the Sky and Zero Dark Thirty: Women and Girls
on the War Front in Contemporary Cinema.” In Elena Caoduro, Karen Randell
and Karen A. Ritzenhoff (eds.). Mediated Terrorism in the 21st Century, Chapter
11. New York: Palgrave, 2021.
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• “Feminism and Kubrick.” In: Nathan Abrams and Ian Hunter (eds). The
Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021: 169-
178. https://www.amazon.com/Bloomsbury-Companion-Stanley-
Kubrick/dp/1501343629/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&
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- Ritzenhoff, Karen A. and Hannah D’Orso. “The New Wave in the New Millenium: Joker, Taxi Driver, Nostalgia, and Trumpian Politics.” In Gregory Frame and Nathan Abrams (eds.) New Wave, New Hollywood. Bloomsbury Press, 2021: 179-200.
Awards & Grants
Finalist for the Excellent In Teaching Award at Central in 2020 and 2013
Memberships & Affiliations
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Courses Taught
Comm 220 History of Film
Comm 255 Visual Communication
Comm 380 Women and Film
Comm 382 American Cinema
Comm 455 Global Visual Communication
Comm 487 TV Documentary
Comm 485 Topics in Media and Culture: Life in Prison in Film and TV (fall 2020)
Comm 496 Field Studies in Communication
Comm 490 Internship Program
Hon 210 Western Culture: Trauma and Identity in Literature and Film
Hon 230 Post 9/11 Literature and Film