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Miriam Posner, Ph.D.
(Skip to education, teaching experience, professional experience, presentations, publications, or awards and honors.)
Current Position
Digital Humanities Program Coordinator
University of California, Los Angeles
Begining February 2012
Education
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• Ph.D., Film Studies and American Studies, 2011
• Master of Philosophy in Film Studies and American Studies, 2008
• Master of Arts in Film Studies and American Studies, 2005
Dissertation: Depth Perception: Filmmaking and Narrative in American Medicine
Advisers: Charles Musser and John Harley Warner
Oral examination fields:
Capitalism and American Culture (Jean-Christophe Agnew, examiner)
Early American Silent Film (Charles Musser, examiner)
Medicine and Visual Culture (John Harley Warner, examiner)
Theories of Film Spectatorship (Brigitte Peucker, examiner)
Other fields of interest: documentary film, industrial filmmaking, gender and sexuality
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
B.A., History, December 2001
Professional Experience
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Emory University Library
June 2010 – January 2012
Researched, designed, and co-wrote successful $695,000 Mellon grant to fund this fledgling, library-based digital humanities center. Performed outreach, offered workshops, and provided research consultations to faculty and graduate students.
Instructional Innovation Intern
Yale University Instructional Technology Group
June 2009 – June 2010
Designed and developed websites for Yale University courses, using CSS, HTML, PHP, and JavaScript.
Associate Curator of the Collection
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York
January 2007 – January 2008
Curated, maintained, and developed MMI's collection of 125,000 artifacts. Managed interns, researched artifacts, and handled incoming donations.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Fellow
Medicine and the Media in the Twentieth-Century United States
Yale University, spring 2010
Head Teaching Fellow
American Cultural Landscapes
Yale University, fall 2009
Instructor
Writing and Communication
Yale University Summer Medical and Dental Education Program, summer 2009
Instructor
Recent American History through Film
University of Rhode Island, summer 2008
Teaching Fellow
Introduction to Film Theory
Yale University, spring 2008
Grader
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Yale University, fall 2008
Teaching Fellow
Contemporary Documentary Film
Yale University, fall 2006
Instructor
The Television Sitcom
Yale University, summer 2006
Teaching Fellow
Formation of American Culture, 1920 – 2000
Yale University, spring 2006
Teaching Fellow
Introduction to Film Studies
Yale University, fall 2005
Online Instructor
Presenting Alfred Hitchcock
AllLearn Online Consortium, spring 2005
Grader
Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, Genre
Wesleyan University, spring 2004 and 2008
Selected Presentations
“Digital Humanities in the Library”
Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, October 2011
“Sexual Commerce: Negotiating Sex in The End of the Road”
Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2011
“Depth Perception: Surgical Film and the Problem of Anatomical Legibility”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2011
“Head and Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Water Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomy”
American Association for the History of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, April 2010
“Depth Perception: Narrative in American Surgical Films”
American Association for the History of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, April 2010
“Conventions of Display: Exhibition in Twentieth-Century American Medicine”
American Association for the History of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2009
“Cut to Measure: Lobotomy's Visual Archive”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2008
“Freeman and Watts Make a Movie: Exploring the Visual Culture of Lobotomy, 1936 – 1950”
Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, October 2007
“Written on the Brain: Neurosurgery and the Documentary Endeavor”
Film and History Annual Conference, Dallas, November 2006
“Making Way for the Chain: The Struggle Over Grocery Chains, 1925 – 1935”
The History of Capitalism in North America, Harvard University, October 2006
“Six Edison Films About Tuberculosis”
Mephistos Conference, University of Chicago, April 2006
Publications
“Communicating Disease: Germ Theory and Narrative in Thomas Edison's Red Cross Seal Films,” in Marsha Orgeron et al., Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (Oxford, 2011).
Digital Humanities (SPEC Kit #326) with Tim Bryson, Frances Maloy, Alain St. Pierre, and Stewart Varner, Association of Research Libraries, November 2011.
“Conventions of Display: Cultures of Exhibition in American Medicine,” Anastasia Filippoupoliti, ed., The Science Exhibition: Curation, Design, Communication (MuseumsEtc., 2010).
Book review. Stagestruck Filmmaker: D.W. Griffith and the American Theatre, by David Mayer, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 30:1 (Spring 2010).
Awards and Honors
Joseph L. Daniels Fellow, 2009 – 2010
Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, 2008 – 2009
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (University of Victoria) Scholarship, Summer 2009
John F. Enders Research Grant, May 2008
Yale University Graduate School Conference Travel Award, May 2006 and December 2007