Hansen, Miriam, 1949-2011

LC control no.	n 90658282
Personal name heading	Hansen, Miriam, 1949-2011 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bratu, Dorothea Miriam, 1949-2011
Birth date	19490428
Death date	20110205
Place of birth	Offenbach, Germany
Place of death	Chicago, Ill.
Profession or occupation	Film historian
Special note	Ezra Pounds frühe Poetik u. Kulturkritik zwischen Aufklärung u. Avantgarde formerly on undifferentiated name record n80041332
Found in	Babel and Babylon, 1991: CIP t.p. (Miriam Hansen) data sheet (b. April 28, 1949) Her Ezra Pounds frühe Poetik u. Kulturkritik zwischen Aufklärung u. Avantgarde, 1979: t.p. (Miriam Hansen) New York times WWW site, Feb. 14, 2011 (in obituary published Feb. 12: Miriam Hansen; b. Dorothea Miriam Bratu, Apr. 28, 1949, Offenbach, Germany; d. Feb. 5, Chicago, aged 61; scholar of cinema who studied not only film itself but also the early 20th-century creation known as the film audience) Wikipedia, March 14, 2012 (Miriam Hansen; b. 28 April 1949; d. 5 February 2011; film historian who made important contributions to the study of early cinema and mass culture. Born Miriam Bratu in Offenbach, Germany, Hansen received a doctorate in American literature from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt. She worked at Yale University and Rutgers before moving to the University of Chicago, where she served as Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the time of her death. She founded the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at that university)
Associated language	eng
Invalid LCCN	n 2011030939