Film Studies Professor Wins Fellowship

Theresa Geller, associate professor of film theory and history in the English department, has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship entitled “Thinking the Humanities in the 21st Century” at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University for the 2015–16 academic year.

According to Yale, the fellowship is directed toward faculty at four-year liberal arts colleges who have received tenure within the past five years.

During Geller’s research year, shewill work on a book-length project titled Modes of Entrustment, which will examine affect and intersubjectivity in contemporary queer film and media.

“As someone in the rare position of teaching film studies as humanities, I have been compelled to think through the ways media model humanistic inquiry,” Geller says.