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Dr Sarah Lahm

Dr Sarah Lahm

  • Position: Lecturer in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies
  • Areas of expertise: US TV; television studies; feminism; neoliberalism; gender; genre; film studies; cultural studies; American cultural studies.
  • Email: S.Lahm@leeds.ac.uk
  • Website: Academia.edu | Researchgate | ORCID

Profile

My research interest lies in the connections between televisual storytelling, neoliberalism, and gender. My first monograph, Fragmentation, Neoliberalism and Gender on TV: Serial Self-Replacement is in its early stages (under contract with Edinburgh University Press) and will explore 'self-replacing' subjects in US-American dark comedy-dramas that employ time loops, time travel, and parallel and augmented realities in an era marked by cultural anxieties, economic instability, and the pressures of neoliberal self-optimisation. I have consistently presented my research at conferences such as BAFTSS, MeCCSA, Screen, and Critical Studies in Television. I have published aspects of my research as journal articles (for example, in Critical Studies in Television and Journal of Gender Studies) and book chapters.

Research interests

Latest publications:

'They were too fragile': Questioning feminist resilience in Russian Doll (Journal of Gender Studies), 2024

‘No, the world is ending because of me’: Satire, neoliberal crises, and the millennial female subject in Search Party in Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis, eds. Holly Willson Holladay and Chandler L. Classen, Routledge, 2024

‘I miss when my problems were about nothing’: Millennial angst, neoliberal feminism, and paratexts in Search Party (Critical Studies in Television), 2023

Qualifications

  • PhD in Television Studies
  • MA in English and American Studies, University of Graz
  • Graduate studies at the City College of the City University of New York (CCNY/CUNY)
  • BA in English and American Studies, University of Graz

Professional memberships

  • Critical Studies in Television
  • BAFTSS
  • BAAS
  • MeCCSA

Student education

As a lecturer at the University of Leeds, I lead undergraduate and taught postgraduate modules in media and communication, as well as film and television. I have teaching experience (lectures, seminars, workshops, language classes, all in HE, starting in 2015) here in the UK, as well as in Austria and the US, with course themes ranging from American literary and cultural studies to media and film/television studies.