Department Faculty - Film

Sabine Haenni

Sabine Haenni, Associate Professor in Film and American Studies, received her B.A. in English and Russian from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago. She also earned a Diploma in American Studies from Smith College. From 1999-2002 she taught as a Harper-Schmidt fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, before joining the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance and the American Studies Program at Cornell.

She is the author of The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880-1920 (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and co-editor (with John White) of Fifty Key American Films (Routledge, 2009). Current projects include a book-length study on Marseille and its colonial connections, transnational cinema in the wake of 1968, and an anthology on Berlin before Weimar. Her essays on popular theater, film and American fiction have appeared in journals such as Cinema Journal, Theatre Research International and American Literature, as well as in a number of anthologies.

Her areas of interest include American, transnational and silent film; popular and mass culture; cinema in the context of other media (including fiction and theater); immigrant and ethnic film and culture; and the intersection between urbanism and media.