Amanda Elaine Doxtater er ph.d.-forsker ved Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley hvor hun skriver en afhandling om Carl Th. Dreyer, det teatralske og melodramatiske i Dreyers film. Hun har tidligere udgivet artikler om skandinavisk litteratur, film og teater.
Amanda Elaine Doxtater is currently completing her Ph.D. at the Department of Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation treats issues of theatricality and melodrama in Carl Th. Dreyer’s work. She has previously published articles on Scandinavian literature, film and theater.