English professor concludes successful visiting fellowship at Warwick University

Dr. Cynthia Lucia, professor of English and the director of Rider’s Film and Media Studies program, recently returned from a visiting fellowship at Warwick University in the United Kingdom as part of its Institute for Advanced Study, where she lectured on her book-in-progress on Natalie Wood. Lucia also took part in a workshop on film criticism, along with one of her co-editors at Cineaste magazine.

At Rider, Lucia teaches across several programs, including English, American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Law and Justice.

In addition to frequent appearances in the film journal Cineaste, where she has served on the editorial board more than two decades, she has also written for Film Journal International and The Guardian and has had essays published in numerous anthologies. Lucia’s previous books include Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film (University of Texas, 2005), as well as the four-volume Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012); American Film History: Origins-1960 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), and American Film History: 1960 to the Present (Wiley Blackwell, 2016), all of which she  co-edited. 

Each spring, Lucia organizes a film symposium on Rider’s Lawrenceville campus, bringing the perspective of scholars and professionals to students and the rest of the Rider community. Recent symposium themes have included animation, film comedy, the horror film, and the interplay between Broadway and Hollywood. She also has organized special film programs, most recently Film Music Inside and Outside of Hollywood and a scholarly conference devoted to the works of Oliver Stone, which the filmmaker attended.