Dr Sarah Crowther
School of English
University Teacher in Film Studies
+44 114 222 8458
Full contact details
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
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S3 7RA
- Profile
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I directed the 11th Fantastic Films Weekend (a 3-day celebration of horror, fantasy and sci-fi film and television) at the National Media Museum in Bradford and have served on film festival juries at Fanomenon at Leeds International Film Festival and Celluloid Screams film festival in ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. I have written for Diabolique magazine and Metro newspaper. I curated the digital art gallery [open source] Is the Internet You Know Under Threat? as part of the Life Online project at the National Media Museum. Before arriving at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ University in September 2022, I taught on Media degree programmes at Leeds Trinity University and Swansea University (where I won the 2019 College of Arts and Humanities Teacher of the Year award).
- Research interests
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My PhD 'Bloody Disgusting! Abjection, Excess and Absurdity' explored the carnivalesque cohesion between horror and comedy in film and television. The doctorate also incorporated an original feature-length horror comedy film script. I am interested in further exploring the shared cross-genre traits of each of these themes, whilst seeking production for my script. Having been invited to speak on the subject at The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies in London, I am also interested in furthering my research into representations of drag and transvestism in horror film and television.