Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Maps & Directions

Faculty & Staff

Linda Dittmar

  • Facilitator
  • Telephone: 617-287-7312
  • Office Location: M-3-003A

Additional Information

Professor Linda Dittmar has taught literature and film studies at UMass Boston for 40 years, with a special emphasis on narrative art as social expression. Her courses included “America on Film,” “Narrative Form in the Novel and Film,” “Women Film Directors,” "Literature and the Political Imagination," and more. She has published many articles as well as the books “From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film” and “Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism.”

1 course: Hollywood’s Gender Trouble (Video Conference)