Biography and expertise
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.
Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in English
University of Texas at Austin, 2022
Master's Degree
MA in English
University of Texas at Austin, 2018
Bachelor's Degree
BA in English
Reed College, 2013
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Bursztajn-Illingworth, Z., & Clement, T. (2025). Speculative Knowledge and the Situated Dispositifs of Zora Neale Hurston and Stella Adler’s Digital Film Collections. Feminist Media Histories, 11(4), 144–154. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2025.11.4.144
- 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. (2025). “The Medium-Close Poetics of C.D. Wright’s One Big Self.” Post45: Contemporaries. Retrieved from https://post45.org/2025/11/the-medium-close-poetics-of-c-d-wright/
- 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/
Featured service activities
- Member
Search Committee Tenure-Track Position in Film Studies
- Member
Bobcat Day Committee
- Member
Therese Kayser Lindsey Visiting Scholars Committee
- Coordinator / Organizer
Program Committee, Society of Cinema and Media Studies
- Member
Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Job Search Alumni Panel, The Graduate School, The University of Texas
- Chair
Historiographical Practices Panel, Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference