Allison Farrell
Teaching Assistant
English - Media, Cinema and Digital Studies, PhD
Achieved Degrees
- MA, University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, 2022
- BA, University of Wisconsin -- Stevens Point, 2019
Forthcoming Publications
“Navigating the Virtual Labyrinth: An Exploration of the Winchester Mystery House as a Digital Ghost,” Media Fields 18
Courses Taught
- ARTHIST/FILMSTD 205 - History of Film I: Development of an Art
- ARTHIST/FILMSTD 206 - History of Film II: Development of an Art
- ENGLISH 100 - Introduction to College Writing & Reading
- ENGLISH 101 - Introduction to College Writing
- ENGLISH 102 - College Writing and Research
- RTHIST/ENGLISH/FILMSTD 111: Entertainment Arts: Film, Television, and the Internet
Research Interests
- Media History and Historiography
- Cultural Memory
- Hauntology
- Horror
- The Weird
Related Activities
- “‘The Story Began Long Ago’: Matrilineal Historiography Through History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (Tajiri, 1991),” SCMS 2024. Boston, MA 2024
- “Fragments of an Era and One Reel Movies: Home Movies Magazine and 1940s American Wartime Anxiety,” SCMS 2023. Denver, CO 2023
- “Into the Virtual Labyrinth: Exploring the Winchester Mystery House as a Digital Ghost,” Backward Glances. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 2022
- Panel Moderator/Co-Organizer, Teaching Media Archives Symposium. UWM Moving Image Society in conjunction with UWM Center for 21st Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI 2022
- Video & Digital Projectionist, Home Movie Day 2022. UWM Archives, UWM Film Studies Program, and UWM Department of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres, Milwaukee, WI 2022
- Introduction of A Man’s a Man (1912, dir. Alice Guy Blaché). Kennington Bioscope in conjunction with Women and the Silent Screen – Entr’acte – Columbia University, NY, 2021
- Introduction, Archival Screening Roadshow 2. UWM Moving Image Society and UWM Archives in conjunction with the Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference 2021
- “Severing a Head Full of Ghosts: The Price of Forgetting in Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman.” Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 2021
- “Searching for a Mediator, Blinded by Desperation: Competing Ideals of Citizenship and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.” Film & History, Madison, WI 2018
Academic Awards
- UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award in English, 2021
- UWM Chancellor's Graduate Student Award in English, 2020