Dr. Debra White-Stanley

Debra White-Stanley's research interests include film feminisms, the war film genre, and television melodrama. At Keene State College she has taught courses such as "Film Theory Through the Films of Alfred Hitchcock," "Filming War, Writing War," "Media and the Environment," "Women in Film," "American Independent Cinema," and "Film Adaptations of Literature." She earned her doctorate at the University of Arizona, Tucson with a dissertation exploring the cinematic representation of nurses at war. Her research on gender in the war film genre has been published in a number of publications, most recently an essay on the representation of nurses in Bataan and Corregidor in A Companion to the War Film (2016). She loves discussing Film Studies concepts and analysis in the classroom to help students become better writers and to develop their interests. She served as Chair of the Film Department from 2015-2018. In Fall 2019 she is starting an MFA program in filmmaking, through which she plans to adapt nursing memoirs to tell the stories of the experiences of medical women during wars past and present. She lives in Western Massachusetts where she is an avid hiker, pet lover, and reader.