Amy Villarejo is Associate Professor in Film and Director of the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program. She received her B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College in 1985, an M.A. in English from the University of Pittsburgh in 1991, and a Ph.D. in Critical and Cultural Studies (in the Film Studies Program) from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997, when she came to Cornell.

Her publications include Queen Christina, co-authored with Marcia Landy (London: BFI Publishing, 1995); Keyframes: Popular Film and Cultural Studies, co-edited with Matthew Tinkcom (London: Routledge, 2001), and Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), which won the 2005 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her articles on documentary film, activist media, television and queer culture have appeared in numerous journals such as New German Critique and Social Text, and she has also contributed to a variety of edited volumes and book projects. She is currently writing an introductory film studies book, Film Studies: The Basics, to be published by Routledge, and is co-editing, with Jordana Rosenberg, a volume on Marxism after queer theory.
Her areas of interest include documentary and experimental film, television, theories of feminism and sexuality, queer film and culture, and America in the mid-twentieth century.