Tami M. Williams (Ph.D. University of California-Los Angeles) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and the Undergraduate Advisor for Film Studies. She is currently working on a book length manuscript on 1920s French avant-garde filmmaker Germaine Dulac. It examines the relationship between early 20th c. feminist writing and activism and subversive narrative and aesthetic strategies in 1920s and 30s avant-garde and commercial cinema. She has curated film programs on Dulac for the Musée d’Orsay (Paris), Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna) and the National Gallery (Washington D.C.), and recently edited the anthology Germaine Dulac: Au dela des impressions (AFRHC/Cineteca Bologna). She has published articles in English, French, Italian, German, Slovenian for the Cinémathèque française (Paris), the Olympic Museum (Lausanne), and journals such as 1895 (Paris), Cinéma et Cie (Bologna), Kinémathek (Frankfurt), Ekran (Lubiana). Her research and teaching interests include Silent Cinema, Global Women Directors, National Cinemas (US, Europe, Asia, Middle East),and Film and the Other Arts (music, dance, theater, painting, digital media).