Shira Segal Department of Art and Art History University at Albany, State University of New York Fine Arts 216, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222 EDUCATION Ph.D. Film and Media Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington (2011) Department of Communication and Culture, minor: American Studies Dissertation: Home Movies and Home Birth The Avant-garde Childbirth Film and Pregnancy in New Media M.A. Cultural Memory, University of London (2004, Pass with Merit) School of Advanced Study, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies B.A. Film and Creative Writing, University of Colorado at Boulder (2000) Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University (1998) PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS University at Albany, SUNY Director of Film Studies, Lecturer 2015- Department of Art and Art History University of Colorado at Boulder Visiting Scholar of Film Studies 2014-2015 Film Studies, Brakhage Center for the Media Arts Director of Research 2014-2015 Photography Book Museum, Archive of Vision Visiting Assistant Professor 2013-2014 Film Studies Program Lecturer of Film Studies 2012-2013 Film Studies, Division of Continuing Education Northwestern University Lecturer of Film Studies Winter 2012 Department of Radio, Television, and Film Indiana University Associate Instructor 2004-2011 Department of Communication and Culture American Studies Program, Hutton Honors College RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS Film and (New) Media Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Memory and Cultural Studies; Documentary and avant-garde Recent projects: The Embodied Camera: Strategies of the Self in Avant-garde Film First Person Fe/Male: Identity in Autobiographical Cinema 1
COURSES TAUGHT University at Albany, SUNY (2015- AARH 260 Introduction to Cinema AARH 362 Significant Cinema Directors: Wes Anderson and his Influences AARH 460 Special Topics in Film: First Person Cinema AARH 468 The Documentary Film (upcoming) AARH/WGST 461/561 Women in Cinema (upcoming) University of Colorado at Boulder (2011-2014) FILM/HUMN 3104 Film Criticism and Theory FILM 1502 Introduction to Film Studies FILM 3012 Documentary Film History and Criticism FILM 2003 Landscape and Cinema FILM 3013 Women and Film Northwestern University (2012) RTVF 398 Landscape and Cinema Indiana University (2004-2011) CMCL C392 First Person Cinema: The Poetics and Politics of Subjective Cinema COLL C103 Critical Approaches: Cultural Representations of the Holocaust AMST A202 U.S. Arts and Media: Cultural Memory and Film Seminar CMCL C494 Independent Study in Communication and Culture AMST A100 What is America? Resisting the Mainstream: Alternative Bodies in Film CMCL C360 Motion Picture Production, 16mm CMCLC203 Gender, Sexuality and the Media * teaching award AMST-A202 U.S. Arts and Media: Pregnancy and Visual Culture CMCL-C190 Introduction to Media Studies CMCL-C121 Introduction to Public Speaking PUBLICATIONS (* peer reviewed) 2015 * Stories of the Self in Cinema: Autobiography and the Documentary Image in American Creative Nonfiction, Critical Insights, Salem Press. 2010 * Homebirth Advocacy on the Internet in Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 2.1, Special Issue: Visual Arts (February 2010): 72-83. 2010 * The Unassisted Childbirth Movement: Questions of Autonomy, Intuition, and Empowerment in the Familial and Communal Context in MP An Online Feminist Journal 2.6, Women and Families (Winter 2009-2010): 84-100. 2
2010 Dear Jonas, Jan 6, 1972 a commentary on the economics of experimental filmmaking in The Wig: Journal of Experimental Scholarship 1.2 (June 2010). 2007 * The Masculinization Project of Hospital Birth Practices and Hollywood Cinema in esharp The Education, Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Review for Postgraduates Issue 9, Gender: Power and Authority (Spring 2007): 1-18. The University of Glasgow. 2007 The Untutored Vision of Stan Brakhage the Body as an Approach to Filmmaking in Window Water Baby Moving in The Graduate Film Studies Journal (GFSJ) 2.3 (2007). 2006 Book review: Birthing Fathers The Transformation of Men in American Rites of Birth (Richard K. Reed, 2005), reviewed in Fathering: A Journal of Theory and Research about Men as Fathers 4.2 (2006): 212-214. 2005 * From the Private to the Public Photography, Film and the Transmission of Cultural Memory in Hollis Frampton s (nostalgia) in Text, Practice and Performance 6 (2005): 34-54. Univ. of Texas at Austin, Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies. INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2015 Technologies of Vision and the Maternal Body in Avant-garde Cinema. Technology and Difference: A Cyberfeminist Approach course, Ohio State University and FemTechNet s Collaborative Learning Experiment. 2014 Contextualizing the Avant-garde Childbirth Film: The Untutored Vision of Stan Brakhage Dept. of Comparative Literature, Univ. of Washington. 2013 The Gendered Self in First Person Cinema from the Avant-garde to the Internet Interdisciplinary Graduate Film Studies Group, Ohio State Univ. 2010 Observations on Stan Brakhage History of the American Avant-garde; 2007 Experiments with the Film Camera: Advanced Motion Picture Production in Avant-garde and Experimental Filmmaking courses, Indiana University. CONFERENCES Panels organized 2015 Co-Chair, Autobiography and Writing the Self in Cinema Panel. SCMS. Paper, The Embodied Camera: Visual Strategies of the Self in Avantgarde Cinema, Autobiography and Writing the Self in Cinema Panel. 2013 Chair, Experiments in First Person Cinema Panel. SCMS. Paper, First Person Fe/Male: Gendered Divisions in Diary Filmmaking. 3
2012 Chair, Cinematernity Extended Panel: Representations of Pregnancy and Motherhood from the Archive to Contemporary Cinema, sponsored by the Women s Caucus. SCMS. Paper, The Mythology of Woman as Artist and Mother in Avant-garde Cinema and Online, Cinematernity Extended Panel. SCMS. Papers presented 2014 Collaborative Experimental Film Practices: Feminism, Friendship, and Formalism, Unfamiliar Feminisms: Alternative Narratives of Women s Experimental Cinema Panel, sponsored by the Women s Caucus and the Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group. SCMS. 2010 Homebirth Advocacy on the Internet: visual (auto)biography on-line as a political project, New Media, Advocacy and Activism Panel. Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism. 2008 Narratives and Images of Birth: Photographic Depictions of Childbirth, Technology, Representation, and Contemporary Life Panel. Symposium in Anthropological Research: Womb to Tomb Understanding Daily Life. 2007 The Avant-garde Childbirth Film Stan Brakhage s Window Water Baby Moving (1959) and Gunvor Nelson s Kirsa Nicholina (1969), Women In and Out of the Avant-garde Panel. Film Indiana Conference. 2007 The Birthing Body as the Ambiguous Body Absence and Representation, Medicine Panel. Pushing Boundaries Creative Bodies, Corporeal Knowledge Extreme Folklore and Ethnomusicology Conference 2007 Landscape, Memory, Tourism, and Time Digital Effects and Authenticity in the film Amelie, (In)Authentic Spaces Panel. Time/Passages Conference. 2006 The Malleability of One Photograph s Meaning: The Failure of Language and the Construction of Private and Public Memory. Narrative Matters Conference The Storied Nature of Human Experience: Fact and Fiction. 2006 Space and Memory Objects that Transmit Cultural and Personal Memories, Space and Material Culture Panel. Pushing Boundaries: Extreme Folklore and Ethnomusicology Conference. 2006 From the obstetrical forceps, good Lord, deliver us! Obstetrical Intervention and the Production of Culture, Tools of Power: Science, Medicine, and State History Panel. Paul Lucas Conference in History. 4
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2014-2015 Selection Committee Member, Boulder International Film Festival 2012-2015 Judge & Co-programmer, Grillo Memorial Grant in Film Production 2012 Judge, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival s Science Media Awards 2010-2012 Assisting Editor, The Wig: Journal of Experimental Scholarship 2004-2012 Board of Directors, Underground Experimental Film Series 2010 Judge, Collins Living-Learning Center Student Film Festival 2009 Organizer, Buddhism and Film screening and discussion 2008-2010 Co-organizer, International Home Movie Day 2003-2004 Programmer, Cultural Memory Film Seminar PEDAGOGICAL SERVICE 2015 Invited Introductions, Genders Future Tense Conference, U. of Colorado 2014 Organizer, Spanish Cinema Event for Hispanic High School Students 2014 Invited Speaker, Boedecker Cinema Theatre Talk Back Series 2014 Panelist, 10 th Annual Brakhage Center Symposium, Univ. of Colorado 2013-2014 Honors Thesis Committee member, University of Colorado at Boulder 2012 Invited Talk, Professional Development Workshop Series, Northwestern 2010-2011 Guest Lecturer, National Cinemas courses, Indiana University 2011 Programmer s Introduction, Underground Experimental Film Series, IU 2009 Guest Introduction, D/evolution Film Series, Indiana University 2009 Panelist, Teaching Portfolio Workshop & Share Fair, Indiana University 2006-2011 Projectionist, film equipment room manager, Indiana University GRANTS & AWARDS 2014-2015 Innovative Seed Grant for the Photography Book Museum and Archive of Vision; ASSETT Technology Development Award for the Archive of Vision and the Visual Resource Center, University of Colorado. 2006-2015 College of Arts & Sciences Conference Travel Award (Univ. of Colorado) Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference Travel Award Cultural Studies Program Travel Grant Award (Indiana University) Dept. of Communication and Culture Spring Travel Grant Award College of Arts & Sciences Travel Grant Award (Indiana University) 2009 Teaching Award for Outstanding Independent Course 2009 Certificate in Pedagogy, Preparing Future Faculty Program AFFILIATIONS 2009-current Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2004-current Frameworks Experimental Film Listserv 5