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Janelle Blankenship has a Ph.D. from Duke University and is a faculty member in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University. Her academic interests lie in 19th-century optical technologies, early silent-era cinema, German film history, European avant-garde, and popular science film. Blankenship has co-edited 'European Visions: Small Cinemas Transition', published in 2015, and has contributed to various journals and edited volumes on film and media studies, exploring topics such as the archival impulse in European film history and the political dimensions of cinema. She has received accolades for her teaching and research work, including the USC Teaching Honor Roll Award and nominations for excellence in teaching at her institution. Her recent research includes examining the intersection of media and culture, with a focus on visual languages that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a scholar, Blankenship engages with both contemporary theory and historical contexts to analyze the evolution of film as a medium.
Streams include Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.