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