Bio

On the Medieval side, Carol has published two books and a number of articles on the history and culture of Early Northern Europe (Scandinavia, Anglo-Saxon England, northern Continent). Her interests here range from the origins of narrative prose, the borders between pagan/Christian and oral/literate, and the understanding of gender. She is currently researching the role of procedural law and of specific trials in the rise of the prose sagas of early Iceland.

On the Film side, she is workin on a book on the relation between the Anglo-American trial and Anglo-American narrative entertainment (The People's Plot: Film and the Adversarial Imagination) and the difference of that trial and that entertainment system from those of Continental Europe. Clover has taught courses on film theory, film and law, and film genres (horror, film noir, courtroom drama).

Areas of Interest

Film and popular culture, Oral literature, orality and literacy, Medieval literature (esp. Germanic vernacular), Feminist theory, Designated emphasis in women, gender, and sexuality

Selected Publications

Books

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1992; London: British Film Institute, 1992);
--Best Book on Film Award, 1992 (Time Out, Britain's largest entertainment magazine)
--Emily Toth Award for Best Book on Film, 1992 (American Popular Culture Association).

Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide, Ed. with John Lindow (Cornell Univ. Press, 1985).

The Medieval Saga (Cornell Univ. Press, 1982).

Research Articles

"Movie Juries," De Paul Law Review, 48 (1998): 389-405.

"'God Bless Juries!'" in Reconfiguring American Film Genres History and Theory, ed. Nick Browne (University of California Press, 1998) 255-77.

"Law and the Order of Popular Culture," Law in the Domains of Culture, ed. Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1998) 97- 119.

"Judging Audiences: The Trial Movie," Film Studies, ed. Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams (London: Arnold, 1998).

"Dancin' in the Rain." Critical Inquiry, 21 (1995): 722-47.

"The Eye of Horror," Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film, Ed. Linda Williams (Rutgers University Press, 1995). [A version of chapter 4 of Men, Women, and Chain Saws]

"Regardless of Sex: Men, Women, and Power in Early Northern Europe." Speculum: Journal of the Medieval Academy of America, 68 (1993): 365-88.

"The Politics of Scarcity: On the Sex Ratio in Early Scandinavia." Values and Society. Special issue of Scandinavian Studies, 60 (1991), 21-60.

"Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film." Representations, 20 (1987), 187-228.