Stephanie Roberts is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Arts and Humanities Division, where she teaches WRT 2000 - Research Writing. She also teaches English 101 at UMass Boston and formerly worked in their Writing Center as a consultant. In her teaching of writing, Stephanie aims to expand her students' abilities to recognize the intricate world we live in and teach them skills for navigating the situations they encounter, both in and out of the classroom. She emphasizes multimodal and rhetorical awareness, where she partners with her students to construct a path towards understanding that validates and challenges them along their writing journeys.
Stephanie's research interests include a primary focus on European Art Cinema, where she interrogates the intersections of memory, nostalgia, hauntings and atrocities, embodiment and the female body, and the post-colonial existence. Within her research, she has special interests in the art film representations of France, seen through the work of Alan Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard, and Ireland, seen through the work of Yorgos Lanthimos and Martin MacDonagh. Stephanie's current research explores the New Trauma Gothic Film and how gothic film can uniquely examine the nuances of collective memories, which are plagued by post-colonial hauntings of the past seen through mythic bodies. She uses her love of films and the visual mode as inspiration for much of her multimodal pedagogy, where she has her students spend time exploring the Rhetoric of Films and roles of spectatorship. Within her multimodal teaching, Stephanie also emphasizes the gestural and spatial modes through costuming, lighting, and framing plus the aural mode through movie soundtracks and movie instrumental arrangements.
She holds a Master of Arts from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Bachelor's of Arts from the University of Kentucky, where she also double minored in criminology and sociology. She is a Kappa Kappa Gamma - Beta Chi alumni and proud UK Wildcats fan. Stephanie is originally from Richmond, Virginia, and she is currently applying to PhD programs in Cinema/Film Studies.
