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Carol Donelan is a Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Carleton College, where she has taught since 1999. Her office is located in the Weitz Center for Creativity (room 130), and she can be reached at cdonelan@carleton.edu or 507-222-5779.
She earned two Master of Arts degrees from the University of Iowa and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her academic career spans over two decades at Carleton, where she teaches foundational and advanced courses including Film History I, Introduction to Cinema and Media Studies, and specialized seminars on Film Noir and genre studies.
Professor Donelan's research centers on mythological frameworks in screen narratives, examining how films process historical trauma and construct moral meaning through cinematic storytelling. Her work bridges film history with cultural studies, focusing on gender representation, disability narratives, and secular enlightenment across diverse genres from classic Hollywood to contemporary franchises like Planet of the Apes and Twilight.
Analysis of her 2015-2023 publications reveals consistent engagement with historical film/television, melodrama evolution, and myth's role in shaping audience understanding of morality. Her scholarship demonstrates methodological range—from analyzing Kubrick's gangster aesthetics to deconstructing trauma in post-9/11 cinema—while maintaining focus on how screen media mediates cultural memory and identity.
