Sarah Godfrey

My research sits broadly within the arena of feminist media studies. My teaching and research focus on gender and its intersections with race, class, sexuality, and other systems of power across a range of contemporary media cultures. I am particularly interested in how media both reflect and shape social identities, cultural narratives, and political dynamics.

My current research builds on my position as an academic practitioner and centres on two key projects. As Lead Curator of the Norwich Queer International Film Festival, I am investigating how digital platforms are shaping the narrative forms, distribution models, and production ecologies of contemporary queer filmmaking.

The second project centralizes my own creative practice and focuses on British Jewish women with two primary aims: first, to use multimedia storytelling in collaboration with participants to reimagine the narratives of women in the Hebrew Bible – deliberately and consciously bringing these marginalised women to the foreground of our exploration about gender and Jewishness and locating our work within that of our local, national, transnational and invariably diasporic identities; and second, to explore how these women articulate and experience their sense of British Jewish identity.

Sarah's expertise falls under the broad scope of intersectional feminist film and television studies to include the following themes and areas:

• Gender and Culture
• British Jewish culture
• Film festivals and curation
• Feminist approaches to production
• Research as Practice
• British film and television
• American film and television
• Cultures of masculinity
• Queerness
• Children's media cultures
• Contemporary gender politics
• British media, cultural and social history since 1970

I welcome PhD candidates interested in projects allied with or adjacent to any of these areas.

British Cinema of the 1980s-present

British Television 1980s-present

Children's film and television

Gender and identities

Feminist Media and Cultural Studies

Jewishness as an identity

Theory/Practice intersections

Sarah teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Amongst the modules that she delivers are Gender and Genre in American Cinema since 2000; Gender and Television; Women and Film; Feminism and Television. She also contributes to modules including British cinema since the 1960s and a range of other core and specialist modules.

Sarah has been the Course Director for the BA (hons.) Film and Television Studies, Film and English, and History and Film as well as the MA Film Studies programmes since 2018.