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Scott Balcerzak

Assistant Professor

Film and Media Studies

Office: ZH 1014
Phone: 753-6642
Email: sbalcerzak@niu.edu

Educational Background


Ph.D. University of Florida; 2008

M.A. Oklahoma State Unviersity; 2004

B.A. Louisiana State University in Shreveport; 2001


Professional Interests


Classic Hollywood

Literature and Film

Early 20th Century Popular Stage, Vaudeville and Broadway

Cinema and Digital Culture

Gender Studies


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Current Courses >

Selected Publications

  • "Laurel and Hardy Queer the Fraternity: The Comedy Duo and Heterosexual Brotherhood in Sons of the Desert (1933)." Camera Obscura 25.1 (2010).
  • With Jason Sperb, eds. “Presence of Pleasure.” Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure, and Digital Culture. Vol. 1. Wallflower Press, 2009.
  • "Nationalizing and Segregating Performance: Josephine Baker and Stardom in Zouzou (1934)." Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 26.1 (2006).
  • “The Two Faces of Hans Beckett: Refragmenting and Reconstructing Cinematic Performance in Peter Lorre’s The Lost Man (1951).” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 29.1 (2006).

Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2013ENGL 363.1 (details)
MW / 3:30 - 4:45 / DU270
Fall 2013ENGL 690.1 (details)
W / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH202
Spring 2013ENGL 691.1 (details)
M / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH201
Spring 2013ENGL 363.1 (details)
MW / 2:00 - 3:15 / DU 270
Spring 2013ENGL 400.1 (details)
MW / 3:30 - 4:45 / DU 270
Fall 2011ENGL 363.0001 (details)
MW / 3:30 - 4:45 / DU 270
Fall 2011ENGL 690.0001 (details)
W / 6:00-8:40 / RH 302
Spring 2012ENGL 200.2 (details)
MW / 3:30 - 4:45 / DU270
Spring 2012ENGL 363.1 (details)
MW / 2:00 - 3:15 / DU270
Spring 2012ENGL 707.P1 (details)
M / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH201
Summer 2012ENGL 363.1 (details)
MW / 11:00 - 1:45 / RH301
Fall 2012ENGL 363.1 (details)
MW / 3:30 - 4:45 / RH270
Fall 2012ENGL 604. (details)
M / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH201