Title: Ph.D. Candidate / Graduate Instructor

Department: English

Office: 4-38 Buttrick Hall
Email: sarah.l.childress@vanderbilt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Degrees

• B.A. Emory University (1994)
• M.A. Vanderbilt University (2005)

Research Area

• Film Theory & Criticism
• Philosophy of Film & Film Aesthetics
• Experimental & Avant-garde Film
• New American Cinema & New Latin American Cinema

Current Research

• The Free Space of Identity: Ten Films of the New American Cinema and the New Latin American Cinema (dissertation)
• Seeing It All: The Panoptic Aesthetic of Post-9/11 Films (delivered at 2008 SCMS Conference)
• The Revolutionary Fluidity of Sara Gómez’s DE CIERTA MANERA (Delivered at 2008 FSU Film & Literature Conference)

Current Courses

• Instructor, ENGL 100W (Composition)
• Teaching Assistant, FILM 125 (Intro to Film)

Current Positions

• Fellow, Vanderbilt University Center for Ethics (2008)
• Graduate Student Representative, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Teaching Committee
• International Lens Program Coordinator, Vanderbilt University Office of the Dean of Students
• Film Committee (Belcourt Theatre)

Previous Positions

• Fellow, Center for the Americas (2007-2008)
• Instructor, ENGL 102W (Multi-genre literature course)
• Teaching Assistant, FILM 125 Intro to Film (Fall 2006 & 2007)
• Teaching Assistant, Film and Modernism (Spring 2008)
• Consultant, Vanderbilt University Writing Studio
• 10 years in Advertising & Marketing creative development

Professional Societies

• Society for Cinema and Media Studies
• Modern Language Association
• Modernist Studies Association