Kaja Silverman

Class of l940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film

Rhetoric Department: 7327 Dwinelle University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 510 642-3922, 642-1415 KSilverman@compuserve.com

Kaja Silverman received her B.A. in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara in l970; her M.A. in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara in l972; and her Ph.D. from Brown University in l977. 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 at Berkeley in l991.

Professor Silverman currently writes and teaches courses in the areas of psychoanalysis, phenomenology, post-structuralist theory, film studies, feminist theory, and theories of racial difference. She has also worked on, and maintains an active interest in, queer theory, cultural studies, and the nineteenth and twentieth century novel. She is the author of numerous articles, and the following six books:

World Spectators (Stanford University Press, 2000) Speaking About Godard (New York University Press, l998; with Harun Farocki) The Threshold of the Visible World (Routledge Press, l996) Male Subjectivity at the Margins (Routledge Press, l992) The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Indiana University Press, l988) The Subject of Semiotics (Oxford University Press, l983)