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Charles (Chad) Newsom

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., English, University of Florida
  • M.A., cinema studies, Savannah College of Art and Design
  • B.A., philosophy, University of Memphis

Credentials

  • Professor, cinema studies, 2014-present
    Adjunct professor, cinema studies, 2012-2013, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Teaching assistant, 2008-2012, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • SCAD Presidential Fellowship, Winter 2018
  • Nominee, Graduate School Teaching Award, University of Florida, 2011–2012
  • Finalist, Graduate School Teaching Award, University of Florida, 2010–2011
  • Department of English Teaching Award, University of Florida, 2009–2010
  • Partial Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida, 2008–2012
  • SCAD Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2006–2007
  • Marcus W. Orr Humanities Scholarship, University of Memphis, 2004–2005

Publications and presentations

Presentations

  • "'A Rousing Melodrama with a Freudian Twist': David O. Selznick's Spellbound (1945)," paper presented at the Literature/Film Association Conference, New Orleans, 2018
  • "'You’ll Never Be Jennifer Jones Again': Jennifer Jones and Melodramatic Stardom," paper presented at the Stars and Screen Conference, Rowan, N.J., 2018
  • "Dreaming of Manderley: Melodrama and Mood in Rebecca," paper presented at the Film and History Conference, Milwaukee, 2017
  • Chair: Melodrama Area Panels Film and History Conference, Milwaukee, 2017
  • "Constructing a Melodramatic World in the 1940s Hollywood Melodrama," paper presented at the International Conference on Narrative, Lexington, Ky., 2017
  • "Jane Wyman and the Loneliest Look in the World," paper presented at the Film and History Conference, Milwaukee, 2016
  • Co-chair: Stardom Area Panels Film and History Conference, Milwaukee, 2016
  • Co-chair, Film Studies Panel: Authorship and Audience in Dystopian Film, South Atlantic MLA Conference, Jacksonville, Fla., 2016
  • "Shirley Temple, Child Performance, and Wee Willie Winkie," paper presented at the South Atlantic MLA Conference, Durham, N.C., 2015
  • "Shirley Temple and Child Stardom," paper presented at the Film and History Conference, Madison, Wisc., 2015
  • "An Introduction to In a Lonely Place," invited guest speaker at the SCAD Cinema Circle, Savannah, Ga., 2011
  • "What Does It Mean to Teach a Film?" paper presented at the College English Association Conference, St. Petersburg, Fla., 2011
  • "On Teaching Film in the 21st Century," paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, 2011
  • "Long Lost Film Theory," paper presented at the South Central MLA Conference, Baton Rouge, La., 2009
  • "Young, Male, and Czech: The Ideal Protagonist for Black Peter and Closely Watched Trains," paper presented at the Florida State University Film and Literature Conference, Tallahassee, Fla., 2007

Publications

  • "Feels Like Home: Since You Went Away and the 1940s Family Melodrama," Screen, Vol. 58, No. 3, 2017, pp. 285–308
  • "Temple of Youth," Film Criticism, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2015, pp. 6–25
  • "Teaching Film History to Production Students," Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2019
  • Review of Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of the 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics, by Julia A. Turnock, The Cine-Files, Issue 9, November 2015
  • "The Significance of Slightness," US Independent Filmmaker after 1989: Possible Films, edited by Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis, Edinburgh University Press, 2015, pp. 120–132
  • "Cahiers du Cinéma and Evaluative Criticism," The Cine-Files, Issue 2, May 2012
  • Review of Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction Vol. 1, edited by Jason Sperb and Scott Balcerzak, Film Criticism, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2010, pp. 106–109