Sarah Hagelin

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Chair • Associate Professor

Office Location:
Plaza 102 E

Office Hours:

T/Th 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Remote zoom meeting by appointment. Email professor.

Expertise Areas:
Film, Television, American Popular Culture, Feminist Media Studies, Gender Studies

Sarah Hagelin is an Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Colorado Denver. She is also the interim chair of the Ethnic Studies Department. She teaches courses in film, television, and American popular culture.  Her latest book (co-written with Gillian Silverman) is The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television  (University of Chicago Press).

The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television (University of Chicago Press)

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo125522299.html

 

Reel Vulnerability: Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/reel-vulnerability/9780813561059

 

“Shame TV: Antiaspirationalism in HBO’s Girls” (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society)

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/696694

 

“The Female Antihero and Police Power in FX's Justified” (Feminist Media Studies)

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2017.1283344

 

“Shake My Hand: Racial Fantasies, White Saviors, and Django Unchained’s Haunted Screen” (forthcoming, Journal of Popular Culture)

 

  • ENGL 2450: Introduction to Film

  • ENGL 3070: Film History (Classical Hollywood Cinema, New Hollywood Cinema)

  • ENGL 3075: Film Genres (Romantic Comedy, Documentary)

  • ENGL 3080: Global Cinema (Gender and Global Cinema)

  • ENGL 3085: Film Directors (Women Directors, Tarantino, The Coen Brother)

  • ENGL 3200: From Literature to Film

  • ENGL 4450/5450: Film Theory and Criticism

  • ENGL 4770/5770: Special Topics in Literature and Film (Pulp Fictions, Race & Gender in US Cinema, Gender and Violence in Popular Culture)

  • ENGL 5100: Introduction to Graduate Studies

  • WGST 3020: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in American Popular Culture