Sarah Fanning

 Sarah Fanning

Sarah E. Fanning

  • Courses7
  • Reviews20

Biography

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.


Experience

  • Mount Allison University

    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.

  • Mount Allison University

    Director of Drama

    Sarah worked at Mount Allison University as a Director of Drama

  • Paragon Testing Enterprises Inc

    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.

  • BBC

    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.

Education

  • Saint Mary's University (Halifax, NS)

    Bachelor's degree (hons)

    English Literature (British and Commonwealth)

  • University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, NB)

    Masters

    Arts - English

  • University of Exeter

    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.

Publications

  • "A Soul Worth Saving: Post-Feminist Masculinities in 21st-Century Televised Adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights."

    Adaptation: Oxford Journal

  • "A Soul Worth Saving: Post-Feminist Masculinities in 21st-Century Televised Adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights."

    Adaptation: Oxford Journal

  • Forthcoming: Guest Editor, Special Issue of Bronte Studies: Emily Bronte: A Peculiar Music

    Bronte Studies / Taylor & Franci

  • "A Soul Worth Saving: Post-Feminist Masculinities in 21st-Century Televised Adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights."

    Adaptation: Oxford Journal

  • Forthcoming: Guest Editor, Special Issue of Bronte Studies: Emily Bronte: A Peculiar Music

    Bronte Studies / Taylor & Franci

  • "The Many Faces of Jane Eyre: Film Cultures and the Frontiers of Feminist Representation."

    Bronte Studies

  • "A Soul Worth Saving: Post-Feminist Masculinities in 21st-Century Televised Adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights."

    Adaptation: Oxford Journal

  • Forthcoming: Guest Editor, Special Issue of Bronte Studies: Emily Bronte: A Peculiar Music

    Bronte Studies / Taylor & Franci

  • "The Many Faces of Jane Eyre: Film Cultures and the Frontiers of Feminist Representation."

    Bronte Studies

  • Review of Sarah Wootton's "Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation."

    Journal of Romanticism

  • "A Soul Worth Saving: Post-Feminist Masculinities in 21st-Century Televised Adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights."

    Adaptation: Oxford Journal

  • Forthcoming: Guest Editor, Special Issue of Bronte Studies: Emily Bronte: A Peculiar Music

    Bronte Studies / Taylor & Franci

  • "The Many Faces of Jane Eyre: Film Cultures and the Frontiers of Feminist Representation."

    Bronte Studies

  • Review of Sarah Wootton's "Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation."

    Journal of Romanticism

  • "A Post-Feminist Hero: Sandy Welch's North & South (BBC, 2004)." Conflicting Masculinities: Men in Television Period Drama, edited by James Leggott, Katherine Byrne, and Julie Anne Taddeo. IB Tauris, 2018.

    IB Tauris

  • "A Soul Worth Saving: Post-Feminist Masculinities in 21st-Century Televised Adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights."

    Adaptation: Oxford Journal

  • Forthcoming: Guest Editor, Special Issue of Bronte Studies: Emily Bronte: A Peculiar Music

    Bronte Studies / Taylor & Franci

  • "The Many Faces of Jane Eyre: Film Cultures and the Frontiers of Feminist Representation."

    Bronte Studies

  • Review of Sarah Wootton's "Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation."

    Journal of Romanticism

  • "A Post-Feminist Hero: Sandy Welch's North & South (BBC, 2004)." Conflicting Masculinities: Men in Television Period Drama, edited by James Leggott, Katherine Byrne, and Julie Anne Taddeo. IB Tauris, 2018.

    IB Tauris

  • Forthcoming: Screening Bronte Men: From Hollywood's Golden Age to the Dark Heritage Film

    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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