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Dr. Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth

  • Assistant Professor - English
Portrait of Dr. Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth

Biography and education

Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at Texas State University. Prior to her arrival at Texas State, she held a Mellon grant-funded postdoctoral fellowship in digital humanities at the University of Texas where she received her PhD in 2022.

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Bursztajn-Illingworth, Z., & Clement, T. (n.d.). Speculating and Situating Knowledge in Digitized Recordings of Zora Neale Hurston and Stella Adler. Feminist Media Histories.
  • Bursztajn-Illingworth, Z., & Wintermeier, T. (2024). Building Digital Exhibits of Annotated Audiovisual Artifacts with AVAnnotate. #DLFTeach Toolkits, 4. Retrieved from https://dlfteach.pubpub.org/pub/ywx1l55d/release/2?readingCollection=277f5fe5
  • Bursztajn-Illingworth, Z. (2023). Filming the Elegy: Elegiac Horror in David Lowery’s A Ghost Story. Literature/Film Quarterly, 51(3). Retrieved from https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/51_3/filming_the_elegy_elegiac_horror_in_a_ghost_story.html
  • Bursztajn-Illingworth, Z. M. (2023, November 7). Material Evidence for Poetic Crimes of the Future. ASAP/Review. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Retrieved from https://asapjournal.com/node/poetic-voice-and-materiality-material-evidence-for-poetic-crimes-of-the-future-zoe-bursztajn-illingworth/
  • Bursztajn-Illingworth, Z. M. (2021). “Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it:” Whitmanic Currents and Complications in He Got Game and “I, Too". In A. H. Redmon (Ed.), Next Generation Adaptation: Spectatorship and Process (pp. 90–107). Jackson, Mississippi, USA: University Press of Mississippi. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1j55gz6.9
  1. Member

    Bobcat Day Committee

  2. Member

    Therese Kayser Lindsey Visiting Scholars Committee

  3. Chair

    Historiographical Practices Panel, Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference

  4. Coordinator / Organizer

    Program Committee: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference

  5. Other

  6. Coordinator / Organizer

    Lyric Figures Across Media Seminar at ACLA Annual Conference