Joanna Rapf

E-mail: jrapf@ou.edu
Office: Gittinger Hall, Room 113
Phone:405/325-6254

Joanna Rapf  (Ph.D. Brown University) is a Professor in the English Department. She is the author of Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1995), On the Waterfront (Cambridge, 2002), and Interviews with Sidney Lumet (Univ. of Mississippi Press, 2005). Her articles on film have appeared in such journals as Film Quarterly, Literature/Film Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Film Criticism, Journal of Popular Culture, Studies in American Humor, Western Humanities Review , and in a number of critical anthologies, including an essay on feminism and Jerry Lewis praised by the comedian himself in Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader (Routledge, 2003). She is currently putting together a collection of essays on "Children of the Hollywood Blacklist" for The Cinema Journal .