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Assistant Professor and Graduate Director, School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, Central Michigan University
Patty Williamson is an assistant professor in the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts at Central Michigan University. She also is graduate director for the school's master's program. She completed her Ph.D. in Mass Media at Michigan State University in August 2007. Her M.A. and B.A.A. in Broadcast and Cinematic Arts were both completed at Central Michigan University in 1992 and 1997, respectively. She currently teaches film and media criticism at CMU.
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Her research focuses mainly on the MPAA film ratings and their effectiveness as a form of public policy, as wellas their unintended consequences. She's editing the final manuscript of a book project that will be published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2010, tentatively titled "Rating Reasons: A Look at the Efficiency, Application and Unintended Consequences of the Motion Picture Association of America's Film Ratings".
In addition, she has published: "From Aura to Iridescence: Benjamin and Boorstin Theorize Postmodern Mediated Culture" in the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 29 (3&4),17-23;"Group Critiques in Broadcast Performance: Using Peer Reviews as a Teaching Tool". Feedback, 45 (1), 17-21; and "La Petite Mort: Sex Equated to Death in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut". Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 165-169.
