Sara Creel is a doctoral candidate in Literature, Criticism, and Textual Studies in the Department of English, and she is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Cinema Studies. Her research centers primarily around Shakespeare, film, and new media studies (with an emphasis on online fandom). She is currently working on her dissertation, which looks at how Shakespeare is adapted in online spaces of fandom (specifically, in works of fanfiction) and places these works in conversation with the films of Shakespearean auteurs. In doing so, the project aims to discover what these online spaces allow Shakespeare’s work to do or achieve that cinema does not (or cannot) and what this reveals to us about how the relationships between Shakespeare, author, and audience function in the age of new media.

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Sara has taught courses in first-year composition and has served as TA for Introduction to Film Studies.