The College of

Arts and Sciences

Tara Jo Lenertz

PhD Student, Screen Studies

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Pronouns: she/they
Address: 410-33 Morrill Hall
E-mail:tara.lenertz@okstate.edu

MA, English – Film Studies, North Carolina State University

BA, English, Clemson University

AA, Humanities, Tri-County Technical College

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Cultural Studies

• Philosophy of Film

• Carceral Studies

• Reception Theory

• Phenomenology

Recent Courses Taught

• First-Year Writing; North Carolina State University

• ENGL 1113: Composition I

• ENGL 1213: Composition II

• ENGL 2453: Introduction to Film and Television

Selected Publications

• “Film as Rehabilitation: Reception Studies and Captive Audiences,” International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS), vol. 2, no. 11, June 2022.

• “Memories Woven in Space and Time: Julia Koets’s The Rib Joint” (Book Review), South Carolina Review, vol. 53, no. 1, Fall 2020.

Selected Conference Presentations

• “Film as Rehabilitation: Reception Studies and Carceral Institutions,” OSU Southern Plains Arts, Humanities, and Languages Conference, 2023.

• “Melodrama, Temporality, and the Patriarchy: The Economy of Labor and Time in Tully,” University of Arkansas Graduate Students in English Conference, 2023.

• Panel Member on the A/V Geeks’ Live Film Presentation “A/V Geeks at the Hunt Library – The Haunted Classroom,” North Carolina State University, 2020.

• “Horrific Vantage Points: Genre and Identification in Candyman,” William Peace University Interdisciplinary Conference, 2019.

• “Seasonal” (Short Story Fiction), Sigma Tau Delta International Convention, 2019.

Professional Appointments & Professional Service

• Assistant Director, OSU Writing Center. Oklahoma State University, 2023.

• Assistant Director, Screen Studies Program. Oklahoma State University, 2021.

• Assistant Editor, South Carolina Review. Clemson University, 2018-2019.

• Endowment Intern, South Carolina Educational Television (ETV), 2017.

Awards and Recognition

• Awarded the English Honor Key Medal from the Clemson University Department of English, which is presented to the English major with the highest academic standing in the graduating class, 2019.