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Sarah E. S. SinwellHOME ADDRESSOFFICE ADDRESS 392 Benefit St.Program in Media and Screen StudiesProvidence, RI 02903Northeastern University(812) 361-5283360 Huntington Ave.s.sinwell@neu.edu114 Holmes HallBoston, MA 02115EDUCATIONPh.D., Indiana University 2007Department of Communication and Culture, Film and Media Studies Minor, Feminist Critical Studies, Department of EnglishM.A., Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University2000Film Studies B.S.F.S., School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University 1998Concentration in Culture and Politics, specifically Film StudiesRESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTSNew Media and Digital Culture, Media Studies, Film Theory, History and Aesthetics, Cultural Studies, Communication Studies, American Studies, Feminist, Gender and LGBTQ Studies, YouTube, Independent Cinema, Queer Cinema, Queer Theory, Body Theory, Body Genres.AWARDSFavorite Professor Award, Northeastern University Cauldron, Spring 2013.Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Award Nominee, Spring 2012.Favorite Professor Award, Northeastern University Cauldron, Spring 2012. Outstanding Professor Award, Sigma Delta Tau, Northeastern University, Spring 2010. Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, Northeastern University, 2008-2011.Robert Gunderson Award in Public Culture, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Spring 2005. (A self-nominated award for a graduate?student paper written in a Communication and Culture seminar, judged upon its quality?of writing and research, originality of its vision, risk taking, and its interdisciplinary contribution to public culture.?The winner is given a small honorarium.)Travel Grant, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Spring 2005Travel Grant, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Fall 2004BOOK MANUSCRIPTIndie Cinema Online. This book investigates the changing nature of independent cinema within the context of new media and digital technologies. Focusing on the ways in which modes of distribution and exhibition are shifting with the advent of online streaming, YouTube, and simultaneous release strategies, this book analyzes independent cinema on YouTube, Hulu, Netflix and the Sundance Channel website as a means of redefining independent cinema in a digital era. This book is currently under review at Columbia University Press.PUBLICATIONSSinwell, Sarah E. S. “Aliens and Asexuality: Media Representation, Queerness and Asexual Visibility.” Forthcoming in Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. NY and London: Routledge, 2013.Sinwell, Sarah E. S. “Mapping the (Adolescent) Male Body: Queerness, Pedophilia, and Perversion in L.I.E. and Mysterious Skin.” Forthcoming in Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies. Fall 2013.Sinwell, Sarah E. S. “Race, Gender and the Queer Imaginary: Whiteness and the Asexual Visibility and Education Network.” Forthcoming in The Intersectional Internet: Race, Gender and Culture Online. Peter Lang, 2013.Sinwell, Sarah E. S. “Now Streaming on a Device Near You: Instantly Viewing Indie Documentary on Hulu." Forthcoming in Indie Docs. NY and London: Routledge, 2014.Sinwell, Sarah E. S. “Written on the Child: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Gummo.” Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012.Sinwell, Sarah E. S. “Sex, Bugs, and Isabella Rossellini: The Making and Marketing of Green Porno.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2010. Sinwell, Sarah E. S. “The Art of Seduction: Film Spectatorship in the Age of the Cell Phone.” In Media Res. December 13, 2010. Sinwell, Sarah E. S. “Is Malkovich Malkovich? Sexual Identity on a String.” In Kylo Patrick Hart (ed.) Film and Sexual Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholarly Press, 2006.Sinwell, Sarah E. S. “‘With the Boundaries Between Us Still Intact’: Mapping Memories of Incestuous Desire in Eve’s Bayou.” Under revision and resubmitted at Feminist Media Studies.Sinwell, Sarah E. S. “A Sexuality without Orientation? “Coming Out” on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network.” Under review at Public Media/Private Media. MIT Press.Sinwell, Sarah E. S. “In Pursuit of Quality: YouTube and the Future of Independent Film Distribution.” Under review at Communication and Critical/Cultural StudiesSinwell, Sarah E. S. “Indie’s Net Gains: How the Independent Spirit Awards and Netflix (Re)Create Independence.” Under review at Film Quarterly.CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS “A Sexuality without Orientation: “Coming Out” on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network”May 2013, MIT 8: Media in Transition International Conference, Boston, MA“Now Streaming on a Device Near You: Instantly Viewing Indie Documentary on Hulu"March 2013, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL“Remembering the Life and Legacy of Alexander Doty,” Queer Caucus Event, Invited PanelistMarch 2013, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL“Making Media Studies Perfectly Queer: A Tribute to Alex Doty,” Invited PanelistNovember 2012, FLOW Conference, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX“Performing (A)sexual Identity on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network”July 2012, Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, Boston, MA“From Amateurs to Auteurs: Life in a Day, YouTube, and the Future of Global Documentary”March 2012, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston, MA“Broadcast Yourself: YouTube, Self-distribution and the Small Screen”March 2011, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA“Left Behind: Revisiting the Video Store”September 2010, Flow Conference, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX“The Art of Seduction: Bodies, Sex and Cinematic Storytelling in the Age of Cell Phones”February 2010, Bodies Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC “Sex, Celebrity and Bugs: Isabella Rossellini and Green Porno”November 2009, National Communication Association, Critical/Cultural Studies Division, Chicago, IL“Surf Safe, Wear Red: Girls, Sex and Danger in Hard Candy”March 2009, Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA“Reel Girls Have Sex: (Re)Imagining Chicana Sexualities and Spaces in Quinceanera”March 2008, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Queer Caucus, Philadelphia, PA“Mapping the (Adolescent) Male Body: Queerness, Pedophilia and Perversion in Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin”March 2007, Creative Bodies, Corporeal Knowledge: Pushing Boundaries Conference, Bloomington, IN“Spaces and Souvenirs: Constructing Female Adolescent Subjectivity in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides”March 2007, Time/Passages Conference, English Department, Bloomington, IN“Eight Desiring Bodies Multiplied: Queering Family Melodrama in Todd Solondz’s Palindromes”March 2007, Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago, IL “Girlhood, Interrupted:Queering Female Adolescence in Contemporary Independent American Cinema”April 2006, Cultural Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC “There’s Something about Touching Myself:Masturbation in Contemporary American (Independent) Cinema”April 2006, Pop Culture Association Conference, Eros, Pornography and Popular Culture Division, Atlanta, GA“In Search of the Intelligible:Memory, Trauma and Multiple Identification in Cinematic Narratives of Incest”March 2006, Going Awry: A National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Bloomington, IN“‘With the Boundaries Between Us Still Intact’: Mapping Memories of Incestuous Desire in Eve’s Bayou”November 2005, National Communication Association Conference, Critical/Cultural Studies Division, Boston, MA“Sensation/Separation: Constructing Intimate Spaces in Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream”April 2005, Intimacy/Proximity Conference, Bloomington, IN“In Touch with the Queer: Embodying Girlhood in Catherine Hardwicke’s thirteen”March 2005, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, London“Is Malkovich Malkovich? Sexual Identity on a String”October 2004, Screen Media and Sexual Politics Conference, Plymouth, NH“Excesses, Bodies, Masculinities, Perversions: Coming to Todd Solondz’s Happiness”June 2004, Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Champaigne-Urbana, IL“Coming to Happiness, Creating Perversion”March 2004, Fraker Perversion Conference, Ann Arbor, MIINVITED PRESENTATIONS AND GUEST LECTURES“Broadcast Yourself: Redefining Independent Film in an Era of Convergence”October 2012, Invited Presentation, Interactions Faculty Event, Northeastern University, Boston, MA“Sex Didn’t Start With You! Erotica, Short Films and Cinematic Histories of Queer Desire”January 2008, Invited Presentation, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN“The Erotic Thriller”Spring 2007, Invited Guest Lecturer, Media Genres, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN“Porn and Society”February 2007, IU Men’s Coalition Presentation at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN“What is Pornography?”November 2006, Collins Living and Learning Center Presentation at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN“The Body, Gender, and The Gaze in Kieslowski’s A Short Film About Love”Spring 2006, Invited Guest Lecturer, The Body in Polish Film and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN“Queer Cinema”Spring 2006, Invited Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Media, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN“Creating Syllabi and Applying for Teaching Positions at the Collins Living and Learning Center”Spring 2006, Invited Guest Lecturer, Advanced Graduate Seminar in Pedagogy, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN“What is Queer Cinema?”January 2006, Presentation, Panel at Pride Film Festival, Bloomington, IN“‘With the Boundaries Between Us Still Intact’: Mapping Memories of Incestuous Desire in Eve’s Bayou”September 2005, Robert Gunderson Award Colloquium Presentation at Indiana University, Bloomington, INFall 2005, Panelist, Graduate Student Brownbag on Conferences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN“Gender and Sexuality in the Classroom” Fall 2005, Invited Guest Lecturer, Pedagogy in Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN“Addicted to Abjection: Varying Depictions of (Ab)Used Bodies”Spring 2004, Colloquium Presentation with Megan Fogarty at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN“Introduction to Public Speaking and the First Day of Classes”Fall 2003-2007, Panelist and Guest Lecturer, New Associate Instructor Orientation, Indiana University, Bloomington, INTEACHING EXPERIENCE Northeastern University, Assistant Academic Specialist (2012 - present)Program in Media and Screen StudiesTheories of Media and CultureThis course provides an overview of the key theories and ideas supporting the critical analysis of the media. Unlike other courses in the media studies concentration it is organized around theories, not specific media. Including such concepts as ideology, Marxist theory, gaze theory, critical race theory, feminist theory, queer theory, and postmodern theory, this course focuses on theories that help us understand the role of media in culture. In this course, we analyze the ways in which theory as an object can be studied as a means of studying the culture that surrounds us. Media, Culture and Society This course assesses developments in the mass media in order to provide a broader understanding of communication, cultural meanings, and social interaction. The course examines the emergence of new means of communication at various historical junctures and critically analyzes the implications of media technologies and the institutions and structures of the mass media. Throughout the semester we will examine the means by which various media and their supportive industries influence cultural practices with attention to the ways that the media helped shape society in the past and the ways that continue to influence our daily lives.Media and IdentityThis course examines representations of identity (gender, race, sexuality, and class) in the media, investigates their influences, and considers their repercussions. The class especially focuses on understanding identity as a construction, rather than as inherently “natural.” Broadly, we discuss the relationship between identity and media representations; more specifically, we look at cultural texts, sites, and practices where the existing gender and racial categories mix, merge, and/or rub up against each other in ways that problematize the naturalness of essentialized identities. Film TheoryThis course will provide an overview of the key theories and ideas supporting the critical analysis of film. It explores the movement from the modernist concern with film as an art object to postmodern concerns with subjectivity and spectatorship, race, and gender. Focusing on theories that help us understand the role of film in culture, it also posits that cultural and historical context frames the ways in which we view and critique film texts. Through a variety of theoretical perspectives, this course explores theories such as genre theory, theories of spectatorship, ideology, auteurism, star studies, Marxist theory, feminist film theory, critical race theory, queer theory, new media theory, and reception studiesTelevision: Text and Context This course introduces students to the history, theory, and criticism of television texts. The readings focus on visual analysis, television as a meaning-making medium, and the relationship of television to culture and ideology. In this course, we use various critical methodologies to examine television: semiotics, myth and narrative, genre, ideology, feminism, politics, economics, and postmodernism.Northeastern University, Lecturer (2011 - 2012)Northeastern University, Postdoctoral Fellow (2008 - 2011)Department of Communication Studies Theories of Media and CultureMedia, Culture and SocietyConvergence CulturesThis graduate course provides an overview of the key theories and ideas supporting the critical analysis of convergence cultures. Addressing the sociocultural implications of the intersections between cinema studies and digital culture, this course addresses the ways in which discourses of power, identity and location become visible through new media and communication technologies. Emphasizing the ways in which the forms and technologies of popular culture have changed during the age of the internet, this course will interrogate such issues as convergence, digitality, emergence, fan cultures, paratexts, etc. International Communication AbroadThis course addresses the way the localization of media and the cultural and communication industries is a key component of communication studies. It examines theories around the global and local through the lens of glocalization. Drawing on Australian cultural policy concerns it looks at specific industries such as the film and television, new technology and broadcasting. It includes a focus on Aboriginal and indigenous struggles over identity and cultural preservation. Dialogue of Civilization: Global Issues in Comparative PerspectiveThis course addresses the international and global challenges that are an increasingly powerful force in media production, and the cultural and communication industries. The course offers students the opportunity to understand through the use of theory and practice, the key developments in these fields and how issues relevant to those concerns are manifest in a non-US context. Communication and GenderThis class explores the personal and social dimensions of gender, culture, and communication, and the intersection of these three areas in our lives. In order to do this, we look at various areas of daily life, including media, public and private spaces, such as home and work, politics, and other cultural and social experiences. In doing so, we seek to understand the influences between culture, gender and communication, how gender shapes communication and culture, and how communication creates, recreates, sustains, challenges and changes the meaning of gender.Advertising and Promotional CultureThis class undertakes a close study of advertising’s history and contemporary industry to help us understand promotional culture through the viewpoint of critical theory. Throughout the semester, we consider how advertisements are used as a form of communication, and further, how our systems of media and communication are impacted by the dominance of commercial interests in our culture. This course focuses on the material advertisement itself as well as its relationship to larger questions of identity, citizenship and power. Introduction to Communication StudiesThis course provides an overview of the principal areas and concentrations in the study of communication. It introduces the foundations of Public Communication (speech and rhetoric), Media Studies, and Organizational Communication. The course is designed to introduce the theories, concepts, and principles of each area and help students make connections between them in critical ways. Public SpeakingThis course develops skills in public speaking and communication. The course includes topics such as choosing and researching a topic, organizing and delivering a speech, handling speech anxiety, listening critically, and adapting language to an audience. Introduction to CollegeThis course will help students majoring in communication studies transition to college life, introducing services and resources available on campus. It will also begin a discussion of what career opportunities are on the horizon for communication majors. Indiana University, Visiting Lecturer (2007-2008)Department of Gender Studies Representation and the Body (G310) A course of my own design, this course concentrates on the creation and institutionalization of sexual difference through representations of the body and also examines attempts to challenge these representations. Topics addressed include chronic dieting, sports and fitness; racially and culturally specific body alterations; cross-dressing and transsexualism; the commodification of reproduction; and ‘alternative’ sexualities.Gender, Sexuality and Popular Culture (G225) A course of my own design, this course examines representations of gender and sexuality in American film, television, and print media. Topics addressed include: gender and the power of the image; sex and spectatorship; melodrama and soap operas; psychoanalytic film theory and the gaze; men’s magazines and the male consumer; the romance novel and the slasher film; race, age and representation; masculinity and femininity; and violence and pornography. Girls and Girlhood Studies (G104)Delving into an understanding of girlhood that also takes into account understandings of both childhood and adulthood, this self-designed course explores girlhood as a transitional and liminal space within our cultural imaginary. Using film, literature, television, art, cartoons, advertisements, music, etc., this course investigates the ways in which girlhood has been constructed within contemporary American popular culture. Topics addressed in this course include: tomboys, final girls, girlhood sexualities, girl-made media, zines, girlhood ideas of beauty, girlhood body ideals, teen dramas, dolls, Lolitas, child beauty pageants, tween culture, girls' fan cultures, girls' subcultures, music videos, etc.Indiana University, Associate Instructor (2002 – 2007)Department of Gender Studies Representation and the Body (G310) (Spring 2006 – Spring 2007Independent Research and Readings: Violence Against Latinas (G495) (Summer 2006) This course explores aspects of what it means to be Latina in the United States. It also covers topics such as domestic violence, human trafficking, and racism within the United States. Domestic violence is covered by conducting research at a domestic violence shelter, along with personal interviews.Department of Communication and Culture and Department of Gender Studies (Summer 2006)Media Genres/Topics in Gender Studies: Body Genres: Melodrama, Horror, and Pornography (C392/G302)A course of my own design, this course was competitively selected among graduate students in CMCL who are ABD and cross-listed between the two departments. The course focuses on melodrama, horror and pornography as film genres that are especially prone to excess, as well as to the incorporation of the spectator’s body. Screenings include Far From Heaven, The Killer, Candyman, Romance and Old Boy. Readings include Linda Williams’ “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, Excess,” Thomas Schatz’s “The Family Melodrama,” Barbara Creed’s “Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine,” and Linda Williams’ Porn Studies.Collins Living-Learning Center (Fall 2005)Mediated Bodies in Contemporary Cinema (L320) A course of my own design, this course was competitively selected and compiled for Honors Students in the Collins Living-Learning Center. This course investigates the ways in which bodies are mediated within cinema through the lenses of gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, technology, etc. Screenings include Fight Club, sex, lies, and videotape, thirteen, Dead Ringers, and Boys Don’t Cry. Readings include Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Steve Neale’s “Masculinity as Spectacle: Reflections on Men and Mainstream Cinema,” Harry Benshoff and Sean Griffin’s Queer Cinema: The Film Reader, and E. Ann Kaplan’s Feminism and Film. Department of Communication and Culture (Fall 2002 – Spring 2007) Business and Professional Communication (C223) (Spring 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2004, Fall 2003)Introduction to Media (C190) (Fall 2004, Spring 2003)Public Speaking (C121) (Summer 2004, Fall 2002, Spring 2003)Jagiellonian University, Poland, Assistant Professor (Fall 2000 – Summer 2002) English Department, NKJO (Teacher’s Training College of Foreign Languages), Sucha Beskidzka Graduate and Undergraduate courses in:American CultureAmerican LiteratureBritish HistoryWriting ConversationIntegrated Skills (Writing, Reading, Grammar and Conversation)KONTEKST Center for Teaching Foreign Languages, Poland, Private Instructor (Fall 2001 – Spring 2002) English Grammar, Writing and Conversation to students of all levels of English Sucha Beskidzka, Poland, Private Instructor (Fall 2000 – Summer 2002) English Grammar, Writing and Conversation to students of all levels of EnglishEmory University, Teaching Assistant (Fall 1999 – Spring 2000) Department of Film StudiesViolence in American Film and History (Spring 2000) Introduction to Film (Fall 1999)SERVICE Faculty Mentor, Program in Media and Screen Studies, Northeastern University, 2012-presentReviewer, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 2012-presentReviewer, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 2012-presentReviewer, South African Review of Sociology, 2011-presentMember, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Host Committee, 2011-2012Reviewer, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association Conference, 2009Member, Public Speaking Curriculum Committee, Northeastern University, 2008-2012Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University, 2007-2008MFA Committee Advisor, Indiana University, 2006-2007Planner and Coordinator, Kinsey Institute Screening of Queer Erotica and Pornography, 2007-2008Moderator, Director’s Panel, Pride Film Festival, Bloomington, IN, Spring 2007Member, Pride Film Festival Steering Committee and Film Solicitation Committee, Bloomington, IN, 2005-2008Reviewer, Critical and Cultural Studies Division Student Section, National Communication Association Conference, Fall 2005Official Judge, Union Board Film Festival, Indiana University, Spring 2003Committee Member, City Lights Student Film Association, 2003-2006 (responsibilities included selecting and screening film prints for screenings each semester, creating a bi-annual promotional program for the series, and public relations with both campus and community organizations)Film Klub Organizer, NKJO Sucha Beskidzka, Poland, 2000-2002Writer, Georgetown University’s feminist journal, The New Press, 1994Member, Women’s Empowerment League, Georgetown University, 1994-1996Writer, Women’s Center Newsletter, Georgetown University, 1994PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTPresenter, Teaching Portfolios for Job Seekers Seminar, Indiana University, Fall 2007Participant, First Day of Classes Seminar, Indiana University, Fall 2007Participant, Teaching Portfolios for Job Seekers Seminar, Indiana University, Fall 2006Participant, Preparing Future Faculty Conference, Indiana University, Spring 2006-Spring 2007Participant, The Lively Discussion Seminar, Indiana University, Fall 2005-Fall 2007Participant, Course Design Seminar, Indiana University, Summer 2005ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEWTIU/WFIU, ”See It or Skip It,” Bloomington, IN (2007 - 2008) Film ReviewerReview films for podcast and episodes of The Weekly Special on PBS TVNational Geographic Children’s Television, Washington, DC (Spring 1997) InternAssist in production and post-production of children’s television shows “Really Wild Animals” and “Amazing Planet”; watch and review program acquisitions for possible future productionHumanities Council of Washington, DC (1996)InternReview and write summaries of videos and books in Humanities Council Resource Center Directory; assist Program officer in writing press releases; write and edit articles for newsletterTies to Rachel, independent film, various locations, RI (Summer 1996) Production AssistantAssist Producer in all aspects of behind-the-scenes filmmakingLANGUAGESProficient in Spanish (speaking, reading and writing)Knowledgeable in Polish (speaking, reading and writing)ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONSSociety for Cinema and Media StudiesNational Communication AssociationNortheast Modern Language AssociationAssociation of Cultural StudiesREFERENCESDr. Marcus BreenProfessor, Associate Dean and Head of SchoolBond UniversityCommunication and MediaGold Coast, Australia 4229(+61) 7 5595 5035 mbreen@bond.edu.auDr. Joan HawkinsAssociate Professor Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture800 E. Third St.Bloomington, IN 47405(812) 855-1548jchawkin@indiana.eduDr. Barbara KlingerProfessor Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture800 E. Third St.Bloomington, IN 47405(812) 855-7282klinger@indiana.eduDr. Karma LochrieChair, Department of Gender Studies Indiana University Department of English442 Ballantine Hall1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.Bloomington, IN 47405(812) 855-5430klochrie@indiana.eduDr. Phaedra PezzulloAssociate Professor Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture800 E. Third St.Bloomington, IN 47405(812) 855-2106pezzullo@indiana.eduDr. Craig RobertsonAssociate Professor and Director, Program in Media and Screen StudiesNortheastern University 360 Huntington Ave.204 Lake HallBoston, MA 02115(617) 373-7246cr.robertson@neu.eduDr. Yannis TzioumakisSenior Lecturer in Media and Communication StudiesUniversity of LiverpoolDepartment of Communication and MediaSchool of the Arts19 Abercromby SquareLiverpool, United Kingdom L69 7ZQ(+01) 51 7942897y.tzioumakis@liverpool.ac.uk ................
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