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Biography
Sarah Choi is a doctoral candidate in Cinema & Media Studies at the UW, whose research interests include race and cinema, orphan films, and found footage filmmaking. Sarah is the recipient of the 2024-2025 AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship, the 2024-2025 Humanities Washington's Public Humanities Fellowship, the 2022 Simpson Center Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship, and the 2021 Barclay Simpson Scholars in Public Fellowship. In 2021, she won Third Place in the Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Student Writing Award for her essay, " Life, Death, or Something in Between: Photographic Taxidermy in Get Out (2017)." As a filmmaker, Sarah creates screendance and documentaries, and curates films for the Lights Dance Festival, which she founded in 2016. She served as the Managing Editor of Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal from 2022-2023.
Research
Selected Research
- Choi, Sarah. "Can We Just Work It Out? Spike Jonze's Short Choreographic Storytelling in Arcade Fire's 'Afterlife' (2013)." Short Film Studies 14, no. 1 (2024): 43-50, https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs_00109_1.
- Choi, Sarah. "Cross-Generational Storytelling: A Conversation with Sasha Su-Ling Welland and Sabrina Craig." Feminist Media Histories, Vol. 9, Number 4, pps. 135–150.
- Choi, Sarah. "When Light Permeates Through: Inside Barbara Earl Thomas' Transformation Room." A Year in Black Art 5 (Fall 2022): 14-19.
- Choi, Sarah. "Silent Revelations in Trade Queen (2015)." Short Film Studies 11, no.2 (2021): 147-51. https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs_00048_1.
- Choi, Sarah. "Life, Death, or Something in between: Photographic Taxidermy in “Get out”(2017)." Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2021): https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2021.1888606.
- Sarah Choi, Racelar Ho, and Michael Trommer. "Shanawdithit VR: Exploration of Indigenous Opera in Immersive Media" (2020)
- Sarah Choi, "Too Hot for a Pandemic," SCMS+ (Summer 2020), https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/scmsplus/Choi_Too_Hot_for_a_Pandemic.pdf