This is the inaugural event in the annual Gaylyn Studlar Lecture Series.

Location: Seigle Room 301

Dr. Samantha N. Sheppard is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Chair in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. She is author of The Basketball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History (Rutgers University Press, 2026) and Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen(University of California Press, 2020). She is co-editor of Women, Sisters, Friends: The Selected Plays and Screenplays of Kathleen Collins (University of California Press, forthcoming 2027) with Alix Beeston and Hayley O’Malley, Sporting Realities: Critical Readings on the Sports Documentary (University of Nebraska Press, 2020) with Travis Vogan, and From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry (University Press of Mississippi, 2016) with TreaAndrea Russworm and Karen Bowdre.