Film Expert New Plous Awardee

Anna Everett, an associate professor of film studies, is the winner of the Harold J. Plous Award as the university's outstanding assistant professor of 2001.

"I grew up with the ubiquitous television," said Everett, who earned a Ph.D. in critical studies from the School of Cinema-TV at the University of Southern California in 1996 and joined the UCSB faculty in 1997. "But it was never this object to be stared at and its messages accepted. There was this constant talking back, this expression of 'Can you believe that? That's ridiculous.'"

Everett, who received tenure and was promoted this year, still talks back to the media. But she does it now in scholarly books and papers.

"Professor EverettÉhas attained stellar national and international prominence of a kind usually reserved for those only at much later stages in their careers," said Plous Award Committee Chairman Carl Gutierrez-Jones, chair of the English Department.