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Title: Professor
Department: English
Office: 318 Benson Hall
Phone: 615-322-2271
Cell Phone: 615-613-2903
Fax: 615-343-8028
Email: sam.b.girgus@vanderbilt.edu
Degrees
Current Research
- Film, Modernism, American Studies, Film and Philosophy
Professional Honors
- Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, 1980-81
- Senior Fulbright Lectureship, Heidelberg, Germany, Summer 1984
- Publications Committee, American Studies Association, 1984-87; (Chair, 1985-1987)
- Who's Who in America
- Awarded Uppsala Chair in American Studies: Fulbright Chair for Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (Awarded November 1996)
- The Roundtable, Peabody College, Vanderbilt, Outstanding Educator, 2000
- Professor of the Semester, Arts and Science; Panhellenic Society, Vanderbilt, Spring 2006
- Project Director, Filming Nashville (VCNS grant)
- Fellow, Center for Religion and Culture
- Fellow, Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies
Publications
- Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine (Columbia University Press, 2010)-- Film and Culture Series
- America on Film : Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
- The Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan (Cambridge UP, 1998)
- The Films of Woody Allen (Cambridge UP, 1993; 2nd ed. 2002)
- Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature (Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1990)
- The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea (U of North Carolina Press, 1984)
- Editor, The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture (U of New Mexico P, 1981)
- The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature (U of Texas P, 1979)
- Essay-Review, Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona in Cineaste (Winter 2009):55-57
- Clint Eastwood's America (forthcoming)
- A Companion to Woody Allen, co-editor with Peter Bailey (Blackwell, 2013)
Biography
Sam B. Girgus is professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America; Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan; The Films of Woody Allen (2nd ed.); Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature; The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea; The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature. He also has edited several works, including The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture, and has written many essays and reviews, including articles on humor and Jewish writers and life. A recipient of a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship and other scholarly and teaching awards, he has lectured and taught extensively in universities throughout America and the world. His interdisciplinary teaching and scholarly areas of interest include film, modernism, and American literature, thought, and culture. He also taught a class that made In Loco Amicis: the New Vanderbilt Story, a 30-minute documentary about change at Vanderbilt University. The documentary was researched, written, filmed, and edited by students in a class listed as Documentary Vanderbilt. It was presented at the Nashville Film Festival on April 27, 2004. During 2003-2004, he directed the development of a new Film Studies major at Vanderbilt. He is a contributor to Screen Decades: The 1930's and is a member of the Teaching Committee of the SCMS. He received a major grant for Filming Nashville: Student Documentaries of Nashville that also included major curriculum innovation between college students and area high school students.
He is married to Judith Ann Elizabeth Scot-Smith, formerly of Bronxville, New York. His daughters are Katya Roberts Arrington of San Carlos, Ca., Meighan St. John Vafa of Dallas, Texas, and Jennifer Scot-Smith Girgus of Dallas. His grandchildren are Arielle Gianni and Zachary Isaac Girgus Arrington of San Carlos and Mia Victoria and Max of Dallas.
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