Gaylyn Studlar (born 1952) is an American feminist, film and media critic. She is David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities and director of the program in film and media studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Studlar gained a BA in music at Texas Tech University, and a MA in music at the University of Southern California. She gained her PhD from USC in 1984.^[1]

After receiving her PhD, Studlar taught for three years at the University of North Texas and eight years at Emory University.^[2] In 1995 she because professor of women's studies and director of the program in film and video studies at the University of Michigan. In 2000 she was appointed Rudolph Arnheim Collegiate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Michigan.^[1]

In January 2009 Studlar moved to Washington University in St. Louis.^[2]

• In the realm of pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the masochistic aesthetic,. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois, 1988.
• (ed. with David Desser) Reflections in a Male Eye: John Huston and the American Experience. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
• Visions of the East. 1996.
• This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age. New York, 1996.
• (ed. with Matthew Bernstein) Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
• (ed. with Kevin S. Sandler) Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
• (ed. with Matthew Bernstein) John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001.
• Precocious Charms: Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema. University of California Press, 2013.
• Have Gun — Will Travel. Wayne State University Press, 2015.