Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway

Dr Sarah Arnold 22 Budock Terrace Falmouth TR11 3ND Phone: +44 (0)7818360234 Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION

Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway. PhD in Film Theory: Horror and Gender TITLE: Motherhood in Late Twentieth Century Horror Film (abstract at end of CV) Supervisor: Niamh Doheny/Sean Ryder 2006-Jan 2010 (completed)

School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England. M.A. in Film Theory 2002-2003

Southampton Institute, England. B.A. in Film Studies 1999-2002

Griffith College Dublin, South Circular Road, Dublin Certificate in Film and Television Practices 1998-1999

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

3 Year Scholarship for PhD Study: Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway

EMPLOYMENT

University College Falmouth, Tremough, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9EZ Position: Lecturer in Film & Digital Media Level 1 Tutor and practice coordinator. Modules taught:  Criticism, Analysis and Theory (1st Year, BA Film)  History of the Moving Image: Future Cinema (1st Year, BA Film)  Cult Film (2nd Year, BA Film)  Postmodernism and Film (2nd Year, BA Film)  Research & Methods: Archive (2nd Year, BA Film)  Professional Practice: Filmmaking (1st Year, BA Film)  Professional Practice Supervisor (3rd Year, BA Film)

1  Dissertation Supervisor (3rd Year, BA Film)

Solent University, Southampton, East Park Terrace, SO14 OYN, Hampshire, UK Position: Lecturer in Media, Culture and Production Level 1 Tutor. Modules taught:  Cultural Revolutions (1st Year Media, Culture and Production)  Cultures of Consumption (2nd Year Media, Culture and Production)  Global Media/Local Culture (3rd Year Media, Culture and Production)  Dissertation Supervisor/Unit Leader (Media, Culture and Production)  Contemporary Cinema (3rd Year Film Studies)  Contemporary British Television (2nd Year TV Production)  Film, Culture, and Industry (1st Year Film Studies)  Issues in Film History (1st Year Film Studies)  Spectators and Audiences (2nd Year Film Studies)  Classical Hollywood Cinema (2nd Year Film Studies)  Issues in TV History (1st Year TV Production)

Huston School of Film and Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway Position: Hourly paid tutor in Film Modules taught:  Film in the Digital Age (MA in Digital Media) 2008  Critical Theory 1(MA in Film Studies: Film, Culture, Society) 2008-2009  Critical Theory 2 (MA in Film Studies: Film, Culture, Society) 2009  Supervision of MA Dissertation (MA in Film Studies: Film, Culture, Society) 2009

Department of English, National University of Ireland, Galway

 Shakespeare and Film (2nd Year English) 2007-2008  The Horror Film (3rd Year English) 2007-2008

Women’s Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway

 Women in European Cinema (2nd Year Women’s Studies) 2007-2008 (as part of European Women’s Studies)

New Media Technology College, 13 Harcourt St, Dublin 2, Ireland Position: Tutor in Film and Digital Production FETAC Course. Modules taught:  Film Production (Camera, Lighting, Sound) 2004-2006  Media Analysis 2004-2006  Communications 2005-2006  Work Experience 2005-2006

2 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Pacifica Ancient and Modern Languages Association, San Diego, USA 1st-3rd November, 2013 The Walking Dead , paradigms of (a)morality for those who live yet

Pleasures of the Spectacle. Film and Media 2013, London, UK June 27th-29th June, 2013 Rethinking Spectatorship, Space and Spectacle: The Pleasures of the Digital

Picking Through the Trash, York University, Toronto, Canada May 10-11th 2013 Urban Decay Photography and Film: Fetishism and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Cinema at the Interstices, UCC, Cork Sept 6-9th, 2012 Interactive Spectatorship

Film & History Biennial Conference: Representations of Love, Milwaukee, USA Nov 13-17th 2010 Intergenerational Relationships: Youth, Sexuality and the Problems of Representation

Re-Imagining Computer Games: an Interdisciplinary Conference, University College Dublin. 12th Sept 2009 Cinema and Gaming: Bridging the Divide. Co-written with Dr Niamh Doheny

Film & History Biennial Conference: Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond, Chicago, USA. 28th Oct- 1st Nov 2008 Post-apocalyptic depictions of the black woman in the British Sci-Fi films Children of Men and 28 Days Later .

Crosscurrents Conference: Scottish and Irish Studies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. 18th-20th April 2008 Rural Ireland and Cultural Identity in Recent Irish Horror: Deconstructing Myths

Narrative Encounters: Postgraduate Symposium, UCC, Cork 15-17th February 2008 Halloween (1978) versus Halloween (2007): Narrative Strategies

3 PUBLICATIONS

Television, Technology and Gender: New Platforms and New Audiences. London: I.B. Tauris (forthcoming 2015)

'New Perspectives on Cinematic Spectatorship, Digital Culture and Space: Re-evaluating Exhibition, Participation and Interaction' for Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN. Guest Editors Sarah Arnold and Dario Llinares (Forthcoming December 2014).

Maternal Horror: Melodrama and Motherhood. Basingstoke: Palgrave (Forthcoming May 2013)

The Film Handbook, Co-Authored With Mark De Valk. London: Routledge (Forthcoming April 2013)

‘The Denial Of Denial: Intergenerationality In The Films Of Larry Clark’ In Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversities, Eds Donna Peberdy & Darren Kerr, London: I.B. Tauris (Forthcoming 2013)

‘The Ring And Ringu: Naturalising Maternal Self-Sacrifice’ In Bound By Love: Familial Bonding In Film & Television Since The 1950s, Ed Laura D’amore, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. Isbn: 9781443829854

‘A Comparative Analysis Of Motherhood In The Us And Japanese Dark Water Films,’ In Cinema Jura Gentium: Cinema And Globalization, Summer, 2011.

“The Monstrosity Of The Beautiful And The Dark Side Of Consumption And Consumerism In The Melodrama/Horror Film Dumplings”, In 'Monsters And The Monstrous: The Monstrous Identity Of Humanity ', Ed Marlin C. Bates, Iv, Inter- Discinplinary.Net, Isbn: 978-1-904710-53-0.

Review: ‘Shakespeare On Film: Such Dreams As Things Are Made From, By Carolyn Jess-Cooke’, In Scope: An Online Journal Of Film & TV Studies, Issue 13, Feb 2009, Institute Of Film & TV Studies: University Of Nottingham.

Review: ‘Spectatorship: The Power Of Looking On, By Michele Aaron’, In Scope: An Online Journal Of Film & TV Studies, Issue 12, Oct 2008, Institute Of Film & TV Studies: University Of Nottingham.