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Sarah Louise Childress

Title: Lecturer

Program: Film Studies
Department: English

Office: 309 Alumni Hall
Email: sarah.l.childress@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Vanderbilt University (2009)
  • M.A. Vanderbilt University (2005)
  • B.A. Emory University (1994)

Research Area

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

Current Research

  • Common Interests, Competing Subjectivities: U.S. and Latin American Avant-garde Film Theory and Practice (dissertation)
  • Seeing It All: The Panoptic Aesthetic of Post-9/11 Films

Current Courses

  • ENGL 118, Film as a Subversive Art

Current Positions

  • Lecturer, English Department
  • Faculty Coordinator for Film Programs, Office of the Dean of Students, Vanderbilt University
  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies Teaching Committee
  • The City in Twilight: Surrealism, Photography and Paris, 1924-1935, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
  • Film Programming Advisory Committee
  • Upper Class Experience Committee, Office of the Provost and Office of the Dean of Students, Vanderbilt University

Previous Positions

  • Instructor, FILM 125 (Intro to Film)
  • Instructor, ENGL 100W (Composition)
  • Instructor, ENGL 102W (Multi-genre literature course)
  • Consultant, Vanderbilt University Writing Studio
  • 10 years in Advertising & Marketing creative development

Professional Societies

  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies
  • Modern Language Association

Professional Honors

  • Thomas Daniel Young Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, 2008-2009
  • Fellow, Vanderbilt University Center for Ethics, Fall 2008
  • "Best of Nashville" award, for work on International Lens film series, Fall 2008
  • Tournées Festival Grant, in support of International Lens film series, Fall 2008
  • Fellow, Vanderbilt University Center for the Americas, 2007- 2008
  • Presidential Honors Scholar, American University and Emory University, 1990-1994

Publications

  • "The Influences of 'Avant-Garde Film'." A review of Avant-Garde Film by Alexander Graf and Dietrich Scheunemann (eds.). Film-Philosophy (forthcoming).
  • "Directions: a small collection of films curated by Harmony Korine." number: an independent journal of the arts. Number: 62, Fall 2008.