BARBARA ODABASHIAN
Professor Odabashian received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.  She has published in the area of Renaissance literature as well as Film Studies.  Professional Staff Congress Research Awards have supported her work. Her most recent publication, "Portrait of an Artist: Hitchcock's Vertigo," will appear in the Millennium issue of the Hitchcock Annual to commemorate the centenary of Alfred Hitchcock's birth.  She has created and is Director of the Film Studies concentration in the English Department.  Professor Odabashian has developed and taught a wide variety of Film Studies courses at John Jay, including courses on Filmmakers, Film Genres, and Special Topics in Film.