Biography
Lea Jacobs was born on January 12,1957,in Passaic,New Jersey. [2] After obtaining a BA in University of California,San Diego in 1977,she did graduate studies at the University of California,Los Angeles,obtaining an MA in 1981 and PhD in 1986. [2] Her doctoral dissertation,Reforming the fallen woman cycle:strategies of film censorship,1930-1940, [3] was supervised by Janet Bergstrom. [4]
After working at the Rockefeller Foundation as a postdoctoral fellow from 1987 to 1988,Jacobs joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison,as an assistant professor of communication arts. [2] She was promoted to associate professor in 1994 and full professor in 1999, [2] eventually becoming a professor emerita. [1] She was a 1994 fellow of UW Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities [2] and a 2010-2011 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow. [5] In 2013,she became associate vice-chancellor for arts and humanities at UW Madison. [5]
As an academic,Jacobs focuses on American film. [1] She has written four books: The Wages of Sin (1991) on the evolution of fallen women cinema due to Hollywood censorship; [6] Theatre to Cinema (1997;co-authored with Ben Brewster),on the relationship between stage visual effects and their early film counterparts; [7] The Decline of Sentiment (2008),on the change of values in 1920s American film; [8] and Film Rhythm After Sound (2015),on the history of film technology during the transition between silent film and sound. [9] In 2002, [10] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of the decline of sentiment in American silent film." [2] In addition to film history,she also teaches animation history at UW Madison. [1]
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