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Dr Sadie Wearing

Associate Professor in Gender Theory, Culture and Film; Deputy Head of Department (Teaching)

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Sadie Wearing is Associate Professor in Gender Theory, Culture and Film in the Department of Gender Studies, which she joined in 2004, having previously studied and worked at in the Department of English at Queen Mary College, University of London, where she obtained her PhD and Masters degree, and the University of East Anglia in the department of Film and Television Studies, where she held a lecturer post. Her research and teaching interests are in the critical, gendered, analysis of film, literature and popular culture. Her work examines the ways in which cinema, literature and popular culture both reflects and contests wider cultural dynamics. Her research covers historical and contemporary contexts exploring the ways in which literary and cinematic narratives articulate contested cultural processes including questions of gender, sexuality, public and private memory, national identity, heritage and belongings, and aging. A key strand of her work has explored how aging is figured in contemporary culture and with what effects. Drawing on a range of genres she has explored how meanings are attached to dementia and how a range of aging subjectivities are managed and articulated. Her newest book Jill Craigie: Film and Feminism in Post-war Britain, co-authored with Yvonne Tasker, is forthcoming with University of Illinois Press.

Member of the PhD Supervisory team of Yihan Wei.

With Leticia Sabsay and Sumi Madhok, she edits the book series ‘Thinking Gender in Transnational Times’ for Palgrave Macmillan

Expertise

gender and feminist theory; representation; feminist film theory and history; aging and subjectivity in literature; culture and film