SARAH SINWELL

Sarah E. S. Sinwell (Ph.D., Communication and Culture, Indiana University) is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Film and Media Arts at the University of Utah. She has published essays in Alphaville, Flow, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Jump Cut, Mai, New Review of Film and Television Studies, The Projector, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, Refractory, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Through analyses of such topics as YouTube, web series, art house cinemas, and queer and female independent filmmaking, her research investigates the intersections between contemporary American independent cinema and new media platforms. Examining shifting modes of independent film distribution and exhibition on YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, and SundanceTV, her first book Indie Cinema Online (Rutgers University Press, 2020), redefines independent cinema in an era of media convergence. Sarah has won numerous awards for both her research and teaching, including a grant to participate in the NEH Institute on Understanding Digital Culture: Humanist Lenses for Internet Research. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in Media Arts, Film History, Film Theory, Women Directors, Queer Media, Independent Cinema, and Convergence Cultures.