Stacy Rusnak
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Dr. Stacy Rusnak
Professor of Film, Visual and Performing Arts Department Chair
Biography
Dr. Stacy Rusnak is a professor of film at Georgia Gwinnett College. She holds a Ph.D. in moving image studies and an M.A. in Spanish language and literature from Georgia State University. Her interests include Spanish language cinema, popular culture and politics of identity. Rusnak has published chapters on Giorgio Agamben’s “state of exception” in Children of Men, MTV and the1980s satanic panic, cannibalism and consumption in Somos lo que hay, and third wave feminism in Twin Peaks. She is also co-editor of a special journal issue of Postmodern Culture and the book, Final Girls, Feminism and Popular Culture.
Education
- Doctorate – moving image studies – Georgia State University
- Master’s – Spanish language and literature – Georgia State University
- Bachelor’s – Spanish – Agnes Scott College
Academic Interests
- Spanish language cinema
- Horror film
- Popular culture
- Identity politics
- Gender studies