Dr. Linda Badley
Professor
Member, Graduate Faculty
| B.A., 1966, Oklahoma Baptist University; M.A., 1967, University of Iowa; Ph.D., 1977, University of Louisville. (1979) |
Office: PH 354; Phone/Voice Mail: 898-2597
Dr. Badley teaches courses in Gothic studies, Victorian and contemporary literature, women’s and gender studies, film studies, and the Honors Program. She is the author of two volumes on horror fiction and film. Her current research concerns world cinema traditions, American independent film, and issues of film authorship. She serves with R. Barton Palmer as General Editor of the Traditions in World Cinema series at Edinburgh University Press and co-edited the series flagship volume. Since 1997, with Charisse Gendron and Clare Bratten, she has coordinated the Feminist Film Series for MTSU’s Women and Power Conference.
See Publications
Editorship
“Sons of Celluloid: Recent Movies about Making Horror Movies.” Popular Culture Association in the South. Jacksonville, FL. 4 Oct. 2001.
“Women, Media, and Risk: International Perspectives.” Feminist Film Series Co-chair and Moderator (with Charisse Gendron). Women and Power: Engendering Risk. MTSU Women’s Studies Conference. Murfreesboro, TN. 8-10 March, 2001.
“Wiccans, Witches, and Bitches: The Craft as Portrayed in Recent Television and Film.” Popular Culture Association in the South, Nashville, TN. 9 Oct. 2000.
“Return to Repression: Postfeminism, Witchcraft, Filmmaking, and The Blair Witch Project.” Popular Culture Association. New Orleans, LA. 22 April 2000.
“Feminist Films.” Feminist Film Series Co-chair and Moderator (with Charisse Gendron). Women and Power. MTSU Women’s Studies Program Conference. 18-20 February 1999.
“Working Collaboratively in the Portfolio Composition Program.” National Council of Teachers of English, 88th Annual Convention, Nashville, TN. 21 Nov. 1998.
“Posthumanism, The X-Files, and the Key to Heaven’s Gate.” The Nineteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Dania, FL. 19 March 1998.
“Female Bonding Films in the 1990s.” South Central Women’s Studies Association Conference Houston, TX. 6 March 1998.
“‘Exiting the Vehicle’: Heaven’s Gate, Posthuman Identity, and Recent X-Files.” Popular Culture Association in the South, Columbia, SC. 16 Oct. 1997.
“How to Make a [Hollywood] Woman’s Film.” Popular Culture Association in the South, Savannah, GA. 19 Oct. 1996.
“Feminist Films.” Feminist Film Series Co-chair and Moderator (with Charisse Gendron). Women and Power. MTSU Women’s Studies Program Conference. 21-22 February 1997.
“The Body as Alien in The X-Files.” Popular Culture Association in the South, Richmond, VA. 5 Oct. 1995.
“Victoria’s Secret and the ‘Literate’ Films of 1993: Pleasures of Repression.” Popular Culture in the South, Charlotte, NC. 22 Oct. 1994.
"Discomforting Pleasures: Identification and the Gaze in Manhunter and The Silence of the Lambs." Popular Culture in the South, Nashville, TN. 15 Oct. 1993.
"Celebrations of Perversity: The Films of Clive Barker." Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 23 March 1991.
"Little Red Riding Hood Meets the Wolf Man." Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, TX. 27 March 1991.
"'The Fantastic Considered as a Language': Pee Wee's Playhouse, Beetlejuice, and Jean-Paul Sartre." Popular Culture Association in the South, Montgomery, AL. 5 Oct. 1990.
"The Female Gothic and Clive Barker." Popular Culture Association, Toronto, Ontario. 8 March 1990.
"Monstrous Offspring of the Female Gothic: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child.'' Popular Culture Association in the South Jacksonville, FL. 6 Oct. 1989.
"Postliterate Culture and Stephen King." 14th Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL. 27 Jan. 1989.
"Bioethics: Issues and Viewpoints." Popular Culture Assoc. in the South, Knoxville, TN. 6 Oct. 1988. Session Organizer and Chair. With Carole Caroll, Faye Johnson, and Robert Rucker.
"Frankenstein Today: Biotechnological Monsters, Miracles, and Wonder." Popular Culture Association in the South, Knoxville. TN. 6 Oct. 1988.
"Stephen King and the Oral Tradition: 'Postliterate Prose."' Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA. 26 March 1988.
"Adrienne Rich's Dream of a Common Language." Part 2 of 3‑part "Literary Women and the Patriarchal Theory of Literature," with Ayne Cantrell and Angela Hague, for Women's Magic: An Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, MTSU. 4 Mar. 1986.
"'Did I Flash My Teeth Long Enough, Do You Think ?': The New Vamp." South Atlantic Modern Language Assoc., Film Section, Atlanta, GA. 1 Nov. 1985.
"Love and Death in the American Car: Stephen King's Auto-Erotic Horror." Popular Culture Association, Louisville, KY. 5 Apr. 1985.
"Biography or Fiction?" Narrative and Identity in The French Lieutenant's Woman and Parallel Lives." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY. 21 Feb. 1985.
"Pronouns and Postmodernism: The Seduction of the Reader in Barthes, Barth, and Calvino." SAMLA, Comparative Literature Section, Atlanta, GA. 30 Oct. 1983.
"Calvino engage: Reading as Resistance in If on a Winter's Night a Traveler." Twentieth‑Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY. 25 Feb. 1983.
"Pronouns and Postmodernism: The Seduction of the Reader in Barthes, Barth, and Calvino. " Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, FL. 28 Jan. 1983.
"Barth's Letters and the Great Tradition: 'Literature of Replenishment'?" Twentieth‑Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY. 25 Feb. 1982.
“'Strange Love-Talk, Is It Not?': Modern Love as Self‑Parody." SAMLA, Louisville, KY. 6 Nov. 1981.
"Modern Parody as a Mode: The 'Structuralist Imagination' as Comparative Literature (Only Partly a Parody)." SAMLA, Atlanta, GA. 10 Nov. 1980.