Alicia Kozma is a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, "The Limits of Exceptional Women: The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman and the Trouble With Archives," wields historiographic and archival research, interventional feminist media studies, and theoretical analysis to explicate how the marginalization of female authorship has taken root in the history and practice of U.S. filmmaking, focusing on a case study of exploitation director Stephanie Rothman.
