Amanda Greer
girlhood, pedagogy, adolescence, teen film, melodrama, gender, feminist & queer theory
Amanda Greer is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, working on a project titled, 鈥淎 Strange, Quiet World: Antisocial Aesthetics in Contemporary Girlhood Cinemas.鈥� She received her PhD in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. Her dissertation research developed a theory of cinematic form as pedagogy of adolescent gender in a corpus she terms the 鈥渕id-century guidance counsellor cinema.鈥� This work was supported by a SSHRC Bombardier Doctoral Fellowship, a Doctoral Excellence Award, and the Vivienne Poy Chancellor鈥檚 Fellowship.
Her work has been published in New Review of Film and Television Studies, Film Criticism, and Sound Studies. From 2018-2022, she served as Assistant Production Editor for JCMS, for which she received the SCMS Distinguished Service Award鈥擟ollective.
Passionate about teaching, she has a forthcoming article in Teaching Media and has previously worked as a Graduate Educational Developer with the University of Toronto鈥檚 Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation, running pedagogy workshops and reading groups. She is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, and currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group.
Please get in touch to chat about teen films, pedagogy, and/or girlhood in media!
PhD, Cinema Studies, The University of Toronto (2024)
MA, Film Studies, University of British Columbia (2017)
Hon. BA with High Distinction, English Literature and Cinema Studies, University of Toronto (2015)