Dahlia Schweitzer

Dahlia Schweitzer (born 1976) is a Los Angeles pop culture critic and writer. She is an associate professor in the Film and Media Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.[1] She is the author of various books and articles on film, television, music, gender, and identity.

Biography

Born in Baton Rouge in 1976, Schweitzer studied English and studio art at Wesleyan University before moving to New York and Berlin to live and work. She moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to study criticism and theory at ArtCenter College of Design, where she taught in the Humanities and Science Department.[2] In 2013, Schweitzer began in the PhD program in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. [3] Her book Cindy Sherman's Office Killer: Another Kind of Monster[4] is the only text to investigate Cindy Sherman's feature length studio film, Office Killer.[5] Going Viral, her second scholarly publication, focuses on the proliferation of outbreak narratives in media and popular culture.[6] L.A. Private Eyes, published in 2019, examines the character of the private detective in Los Angeles as depicted in film, television, and literature.[7]

Selected bibliography
  • Cindy Sherman's Office Killer: Another Kind of Monster (2014)
  • Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World[8][9] (2018)
  • L.A. Private Eyes[10] (2019)

References
  1. "FIT Welcomes New Faculty Members". Fashion Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  2. Anderson, Carolyn Gray (2015-07-09). "From punk rock cabaret to Cindy Sherman: Dahlia Schweitzer's compelling narrative extends well beyond the page". ArtCenter News. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  3. Anderson, Carolyn Gray (2015-07-09). "From punk rock cabaret to Cindy Sherman: Dahlia Schweitzer's compelling narrative extends well beyond the page". ArtCenter News. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  4. Dahlia., Schweitzer (2014). Cindy Sherman : Another kind of monster. Bristol: Intellect Books Ltd. ISBN 9781783202966. OCLC 935256325.
  5. "Book Review: Cindy Sherman's "Office Killer": Another Kind of Monster". Mediascape Blog. 2014-07-20. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  6. "Grad student looks into epidemic of outbreak narratives in media". dailybruin.com. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  7. "Dahlia Schweitzer, L.A. Private Eyes, Rutgers University Press, 2019".
  8. Dahlia, Schweitzer. Going viral : zombies, viruses, and the end of the world. New Brunswick, New Jersey. ISBN 9780813593159. OCLC 982605877.
  9. "Opinion | Noah Berlatsky: Trump's wall and "The Walking Dead" have this in common". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  10. Dahlia, Schweitzer. L.A. private eyes. New Brunswick. ISBN 9780813596372. OCLC 1047278213.


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