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Cheryl Herr

Cheryl Herr

 
Professor of English; Cinema and Comparative Literature
Ph.D. North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Office: 350 EPB
Phone: (319) 335-3219
cheryl-herr@uiowa.edu

Background:
Cheryl Herr conducts research on and teaches British and Irish film and culture. Current areas of interest include the underground in British film, the cinematic depiction of the built environment, British popular music and the movies, and film phenomenology. A recent National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship recipient, Cheryl is currently writing a book called Understanding the Everyday in British Film.  She explored the cinema of rural crisis in a 1996 book called Critical Regionalism and Cultural Studies, and in 2002 published a monograph on Jim Sheridan’s The Field.
Research Areas:
British and Irish film; film and popular music; James Joyce and film; phenomenology and the everyday