Kaja Silverman

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Kaja Silverman is an American film theorist and art historian. She received a Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She taught at Yale University, Trinity College, Simon Fraser University, Brown University, and the University of Rochester before joining the Rhetoric Department and the Film Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.

Her writing and teaching are concentrated at the moment primarily on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, photography, and time-based visual art, but she continues to write about and teach courses on cinema, and has a developing interest in painting. She maintains a continuing commitment to feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, queer studies, masculinity, and theories of "race." Silverman is currently writing a book on photography, and a book--entitled Appropriations--which is centrally concerned with racial, sexual and economic difference. Both follow closely from World Spectators.

Silverman is the author of numerous articles, and the following six books:

• The Subject of Semiotics (Oxford University Press, 1983)
• The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Indiana University Press, 1988)
• Male Subjectivity at the Margins (Routledge Press, 1992)
• The Threshold of the Visible World (Routledge Press, 1996)
• Speaking About Godard (New York University Press, 1998; with Harun Farocki)
• World Spectators (Stanford University Press, 2000)