Michelle Devereaux
Thesis title: Spirits in Solitude: Romanticism in the Films of Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman and Wes Anderson
- PhD in Film Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
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Background
Michelle received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Video (Hons) from Toronto’s York University and a Bachelor of Journalism (Hons) from Ryerson University, also in Toronto. She received an MSc with distinction in Film Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 2008. She recently submitted her PhD thesis, which was supervised by Dr David Sorfa and co-supervised by Dr Daniel Yacavone.
For the past several years she has worked as a freelance film journalist and critic and has contributed to the programming and editorial staffs of several major film festivals, including Sundance and the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Research summary
Michelle’s PhD research examines the confluence of “metamodernism” and historical conceptions of Romanticism in contemporary American film, including the aesthetics of the sublime and beautiful and theories of personal identity, intersubjectivity, and authenticity.