Rate My Professor Paige Sarlin

Paige Sarlin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, where she joined as Visiting Assistant Professor in 2012-2013 and was appointed Assistant Professor in 2013. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University (2012), an M.F.A. in Film/Video/New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005), an M.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University (2008), a Post-Baccalaureate in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2003), and a B.A. in English from Oberlin College (2001, Magna Cum Laude). Sarlin is an artist, filmmaker, scholar, and political activist whose career includes active participation in the 16Beaver Group in New York City from 1999 to 2010, a platform for discussing the intersection of art and politics.

Her research interests encompass documentary theory and practice, media and activism, intersectional politics and aesthetics, history of the interview, and labor. Sarlin is developing a book-length manuscript entitled Interview-Work: The Genealogy of a Media Form, examining the interview as a media form. Her feature-length documentary The Last Slide Projector premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2007 and screened at Anthology Film Archives in 2008. Key publications include Audibilities: Voice and Listening in the Penumbra of Documentary: An Introduction (Discourse, 2017), New Left-Wing Melancholy: Mark Tribe’s The Port Huron Project and the Politics of Reenactment (Framework, 2009), Illuminating Obsolescence: Eastman Kodak’s Carousel Slide Projector and the Work of Ending (chapter in The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence, 2019), and The Irresistible Rise of Story (World Records, 2021). She has received the Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellowship (2015-2016), Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action/Diversity Leave (Spring 2019), and earlier honors such as the Banff Research In Culture Residency (2011) and Dissertation Completion Fellowship from Brown University (2011). Sarlin has delivered invited lectures and performances at institutions including Tate Modern, National Gallery of Art, and the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute, and contributed to curatorial projects and editorial discussions.