Mount Allison University - English
Director of Drama at Mount Allison University
Higher Education
Sarah
Fanning
Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
I have a PhD in English and Film and specialize in Victorian literature and adaptation studies (books to screen). Over the past five years, I have taught English literature in a university setting. I have particular expertise in Victorian literature and culture, the long nineteenth century, film and television studies. I am passionate about the creative intersections among culture, media, screenwriting, narrative, history, film and television.
As demonstrated by my experience and expertise in literature, film and television, I have a strong interest in and aptitude for television and film, especially writing, story development, and script editing.
I am seeking new opportunities in the areas of film, television, writing, editing, screenwriting, script editing, and university lecturing.
Lecturer in English
FIRST-YEAR COURSES TAUGHT AT MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY
Introduction to the Principles of Literary Analysis
Introduction to Prose Fiction
LECTURING (BY INVITE)
Late Victorian Literature, George Eliot’s Middlemarch: Book V and the BBC’s Middlemarch
(dir. Anthony Page)
Early Victorian Literature, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, “Objects and Origins”
Restoration and Augustan Literature, Earl of Rochester’s poetry and The Libertine (dir. Laurence Dunmore)
Literature of the Regency, Jane Austen’s Persuasion and the BBC’s Persuasion (dir. Roger
Mitchell)
Restoration and Augustan Literature, Restoration (dir. Michael Hoffman)
Literature of the Regency, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and TriStar’s Frankenstein (dir. Kenneth Branagh)
Introduction to the Principles of Literary Analysis, James Joyce’s “Araby.”
Late Victorian Literature, George Eliot’s Middlemarch (dir. Anthony Page)
Early Victorian Literature, Wuthering Heights (dir. Coky Giedroyc)
Literature of the Regency, Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Past and Present II, “Jane Eyre in Hollywood, 1943.”
Film and Literature: Textual Transformations, “Shakespeare on Film.”
TEACHING SUPERVISION
Honours Thesis: “True to the ‘Kindred’ Spirit: Adaptations of Anne of Green Gables from 1934-2017.”
Teaching Assistants: Supervised four teaching assistants throughout my time at Mount Allison.
ENGL 1801 TUTORIAL
Supervised a tutorial for ENGL 1801 in 2015 winter term, which was initiated and led by students.
FILM AND LITERATURE SOCIETY
A number of students initiated and developed an unofficial student society based on their interests in literature and film, and the relationship between these different media.
MOUNT ALLISON ENGLISH SOCIETY
Voluntarily provide faculty resource support to the English Society by attending film screenings, directing and facilitating discussions.
Director of Drama
Sarah worked at Mount Allison University as a Director of Drama
Passage Writer
Aware of the challenges faced by EAL students in Canadian universities, I have contracted with Paragon to develop and write test passages for the organization’s Canadian Academic English Language Assessment program.
Script Reader
Read book manuscripts and screenplays for BBC Drama to evaluate the dramatic merits of the writing, and to assess if a novel and/or screenplay might be suitable for production as a television series.
Bachelor's degree (hons)
English Literature (British and Commonwealth)
Masters
Arts - English
PhD
English and Film
Dissertation: Changing Fictions of Masculinity: Adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering
Heights, 1939-2009.
Supervisors: Dr. Helen Hanson and Dr. John Plunkett
External Examiner: Professor Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Literary adaptations; the Brontës; the Victorian novel; women writers; northern British writers; literary biography and autobiography; masculinity; gender studies; gothic fiction; neo-Victorianism; material culture; archives and manuscripts; character studies; textual and filmic landscapes; film and television aesthetics; documentary; “afterlife” study; cultural studies.
Adaptation: Oxford Journal
Adaptation: Oxford Journal
Bronte Studies / Taylor & Franci
Adaptation: Oxford Journal
Bronte Studies / Taylor & Franci
Bronte Studies
Adaptation: Oxford Journal
Bronte Studies / Taylor & Franci
Bronte Studies
Journal of Romanticism
Adaptation: Oxford Journal
Bronte Studies / Taylor & Franci
Bronte Studies
Journal of Romanticism
IB Tauris
Adaptation: Oxford Journal
Bronte Studies / Taylor & Franci
Bronte Studies
Journal of Romanticism
IB Tauris
TBA
Book manuscript. This book explores depictions of the Brontes' most famous heroes, Rochester (Jane Eyre) and Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) across film and television adaptations since the 1930s. Publication date: TBA
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