Christina Lane received her Ph.D. in critical and cultural theory from the Radio-TV-Film Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned an M.A. in Women's Studies from Ohio State University. As a film studies professor in the Motion Picture Program, her scholarly interests include film authorship, cultural studies, historiography, and feminist theory.

Dr. Lane is the author of the books, "Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break" (Wayne State UP, 2000) and "Magnolia" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), which is the first full-length study of the Paul Thomas Anderson film. She has published journal articles in Cinema Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Film and TV, Australian Screen Education, and Film and History. She also has essays in various edited collections, including "Acting for America: Movie Stars of the 1980s," "Culture, Trauma, and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on War, Authorship and Film," "Hollywood Transgressor: The Films of Kathryn Bigelow, and Contemporary American Independent Film." Her latest essay (with Nicole Richter) is a consideration of Sofia Coppola in the anthology "Feminism Goes to the Movies" (Routledge, 2011).

Dr. Lane is currently working on a book entitled "State of the Union: Marriage, Politics, and Classical-era Star Couples."Analyzing such couples as Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren

Bacall, and Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, this project furthers the current understanding of Hollywood's construction of marriage and heterosexuality in the 1930s and 1940s by placing it in the context of the American Popular Front.

She teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She won the 2007 Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She teaches History of Motion Pictures I & II (CMP 204 & 205), Film Directors (CMP 503), Women, Film, & Popular Culture (CMP 508), and Film Culture I (CMP 666), among others.

Dr. Lane is the Director for the Norton Herrick Center for Motion Picture Studies, which includes a collection of over 11,000 film and television titles. The Herrick Center is dedicated to providing support for research, preservation and archiving, to facilitating the study of film at the University, and to enriching the cultural life of the University and the South Florida community.