51ÁÔÆæ

Allison Farrell

  • Teaching Assistant, English

Education

  • MA, UW-Milwaukee, 2022
  • BA, UW-Stevens Point, 2019

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ENGLISH 102-056 College Writing and Research MW 2:30pm-3:45pm
ENGLISH 102-057 College Writing and Research MW 4pm-5:15pm

Courses Taught

  • ARTHIST 205 - History of Film I: Development of an Art
  • ARTHIST 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
  • ENGLISH 111 - Entertainment Arts: Film, Television, and the Internet
  • FILMSTD 111 - Entertainment Arts: Film, Television, and the Internet
  • FILMSTD 205 - History of Film I: Development of an Art
  • FILMSTD 206 - History of Film II: Development of an Art
  • RTHIST 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. 51ÁÔÆæ Moving Image Society    in conjunction with 51ÁÔÆæ Center for 21st Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI 2022
  • Video & Digital Projectionist, Home Movie Day 2022. 51ÁÔÆæ Archives, 51ÁÔÆæ Film Studies Program, and 51ÁÔÆæ 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. 51ÁÔÆæ Moving Image Society and 51ÁÔÆæ 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

  • 51ÁÔÆæ Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award in English, 2021
  • 51ÁÔÆæ Chancellor's Graduate Student Award in English, 2020 

Selected Publications

“Navigating the Virtual Labyrinth: An Exploration of the Winchester Mystery House as a Digital Ghost,” Media Fields 18 (Forthcoming)