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Miriam Posner



Education

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

• Master of Philosophy in Film Studies and American Studies, 2008

• Master of Arts in Film Studies and American Studies, 2005

• Ph.D. student in Film Studies and American Studies, September 2003 – present

• Dissertation: Conventions of Display: Cultures of Exhibition in Twentieth-Century American Medicine

• Advisers: Charles Musser and John Harley Warner

• Other fields of interest: history of capitalism, silent film, documentary, industrial filmmaking, gender and sexuality


Reed College, Portland, Oregon

B.A. received December 2001


Teaching Experience

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


Work Experience

Instructional Innovation Intern

Yale University Instructional Technology Group

June 2009 – present

Design and develop 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.


Presentations Given

“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


Publication

“Communicating Disease: Germ Theory and Narrative in Thomas Edison's Red Cross Seal Films,” forthcoming in Marsha Orgeron et al., Learning with the Lights Out: An Educational Film Reader (Oxford, 2010).


Awards and Honors

Digital Humanities Summer Institute (University of Victoria) Merit Scholarship, Summer 2009


John F. Enders Research Grant, May 2008


Yale University Graduate School Conference Travel Award, May 2006 and December 2007