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Hannah Elizabeth Pedersen Graves
Address: Department of History, Humanities Building, University Road,
University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
Telephone: +44 (0)208 459 1977 or 07867 526 158
Website: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ep/pg/hyrlaj
Email: h.e.p.graves@warwick.ac.uk
EDUCATION
2011–present
Ph.D., History, The University of Warwick [part-time]
Project: Keepers of our Consciences: Producing The Liberal
Hero of Hollywood's ‘Vital Center,’ 1947-1967
Supervisor: Dr. J.E. Smyth
2011
Postgraduate Diploma, Journalism, London School of
Journalism (Merit)
2010
M.A., American Studies, Kings College, London (Distinction)
2009
B.A., English Literature with Film Studies, Kings College,
London (First Class Hons.)
PUBLICATIONS
'Beyond the Bounds of Criticism: Preserving Spencer Tracy as a Liberal Hero.'
Forthcoming in Lasting Screen Stars: Personas That Endure, Images that Fade
eds. Lucy Bolton and Julie Lobalzo Wright (Palgrave, expected 2016).
Book Reviews
Review of Catherine Jurca, Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures’ Greatest Year
(Berkley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2012) forthcoming in
Film & History.
Review of Andrea Most, Theatrical Liberalism: The Jews and Popular
Entertainment in America (New York: NYU Press, 2013), Journal of American
Culture, 37.4 (December, 2014), 440–441.
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Review of Richard B. Jewell, RKO Radio Picture: a titan is born (Berkeley, Los
Angeles and London, University of California Press, 2012), The Historical
Journal of Film Radio and Television, 34.3 (July, 2014), 464-466.
Review of Eric A. Goldman, The American Jewish Story Through Film (Austin,
Texas: University of Texas Press, 2013), The Journal of Popular Culture, 47.3
(June, 2014), 667-670.
Review of M. Todd Bennett, One World, Big Screen: Hollywood, the Allies, and
World War II (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), The
Journal of American Culture, 37.1 (March, 2014), 96-97.
Review essay on Terry Lindvall and Andrew Quick, Celluloid Sermons: The
Emergence of the Christian Film Industry, 1930-1986 (New York University Press,
2012) and William D. Romanowski, Reforming Hollywood: How American
Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies (Oxford University Press, 2012) in
SCOPE: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies, Issue 26 (February, 2014), 8692.
Review of Thomas Doherty, Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2013) in Film Quarterly, 67.1 (Fall, 2013) 84-86.
Review of Jason Sperb, Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence, and
the Hidden Histories of Song of the South (Austin, Texas: University of Texas
Press, 2012), Journal of American Studies, 48.1 (February, 2014), E14.
Review of Russel Meeup, John Wayne’s World: Transnational Masculinity in the
Fifties (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2013), Senses of Cinema, Issue
69 (December, 2013).
Review of Peter Lev, Twentieth Century-Fox: The Zanuck-Skouras Years, 19351965 (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2013), The Historical Journal of
Film Radio and Television, 33.4 (December, 2013), 632-634.
Review of Elizabeth Bronfen, Specters of War: Hollywood’s Engagement with
Military Conflict (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University
Press), Journal of American Studies, 47.4 (November, 2013), E118.
Review of Jason Jacobs, Deadwood (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 49th
Parallel, 31.2 (Spring, 2013).
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Online
‘Pinky (1949) and the Origins of Interracial Oscar-Bait’, Bitch Flicks, February
2016.
Review of Trumbo (Jay Roach, 2015), U.S. Studies Online, January 2016.
INVITED TALKS
‘Corruption on Celluloid: A Discussion and Screening of Seven Days in May
(1964).’ At the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London,
December 2015.
'Dore Schary: Hollywood's Forgotten Mogul.' At the History and Cultures
Workshop Series, University of Birmingham, March 2015.
‘Adult Entertainment: Conscience, Creed and the Evolution of the Crusading
Hero in Gentleman's Agreement (1947).’ At the Film and History Seminar Series,
Institute of Historical Research, March 2014.
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
‘Jane White’s Pinky (1949).’ Doing Women’s Film and TV History Conference,
The Phoenix Cinema, Leicester, May 2016.
‘Running for Office in the Arts: Stanley Kramer’s Liberal Brand-Building.’
British Association of Film and Television Studies Conference, University of
Reading, April 2016.
'All That's Fit to Print: Tracing Brand-Building in the Hollywood Biography
Through Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking.' Joint IAAS and BAAS conference,
Queen's University Belfast, April 2016.
'Resisting Melodrama: The Legacies of Birth of a Nation during Hollywood’s
‘Race Year.’ Art Culture & Ethics in Black and White: A Birth of a Nation
Symposium, Liverpool International Slavery Museum, November 2015.
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'Zanuck Knows Best: Gratitude and Attitude in Hollywood's 'Race Year.''
Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference,
University of East Anglia, Norwich, June 2015.
'The Citizen Writer Inside the Studio Gates: Albert Maltz during Warner Bros.'
War Years.' British Association of American Studies 60th Conference, University
of Northhumbria, April 2015.
'"Metro-Goldwyn-Moscow": Dore Schary at MGM, 1948-1956.' Film & History
Conference 2014: Golden Ages, Madison WI, November 2014.
‘Dore Schary’s Social Conscience: Addressing Japanese American Internment in
Postwar Hollywood.’ British Association of Film and Television Studies
Conference, Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image, University of London,
April 2014.
‘Sensationalism and Specious Melodrama: The Spectacle of Lynching in Storm
Warning (1951).’ Film and Media 2013: The Pleasures of the Spectacle, Institute
of Education Conference Centre, University of London, June 2013.
‘The Spectacular Failure of Darryl F. Zanuck’s Wilson (1944).’ Watching Politics:
An Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Impact of Visual Culture on Politics,
Department of Film and Television Studies and Institute of Advanced Study,
University of Warwick, May 2013.
‘Race, Citizenship and Recruitment: Dore Schary’s Go For Broke (1951) and
Hollywood’s Social Conscience.’ Theatre Film and Television Studies
Department 4th Postgraduate Symposium, University of York, May 2013.
‘Darryl F. Zanuck and the Coming of Age of Hollywood's Social Conscience
Filmmaking.’ British Association of American Studies 58th Conference,
University of Exeter, April 2013.
‘Under the Cover of Whiteness: Restoring a Power to Racial Ambiguity in Mat
Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Graphic Novel Incognegro (2008).’ The Interdisciplinary Study of Race in the Americas Conference, University of
Birmingham, April 2013.
‘They Didn’t Dig Dinner: The Production and Reception of Stanley Kramer’s
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967).’ Popular Culture Association and
American Cultural Association National Conference, Washington, D.C., March
2013.
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GRANTS AND AWARDS
2015 – 2016
Dissertation Fellowship, Harry Ransom Centre, University of
Texas, Austin. Supported by the Creekmore and Adele Faith
Charitable Foundation and the University of Texas at Austin
Office of Graduate Studies ($1500).
2015
Postgraduate Essay Prize, Historians of the Twentieth
Century United States (HOTCUS). For the essay, ‘The Value
of an Endorsement: Reassessing Hollywood’s ‘Race Year’
Through the Debate over Pinky (1949)' (£100).
2014
Callum MacDonald Memorial Bursary, University of
Warwick. Funding for research trip to Margaret Herrick
Library, Los Angeles (£500).
2013
Callum MacDonald Memorial Bursary, University of
Warwick. Funding for a research trip to the Lilly Library
University of Indiana and the Historical Society of
Wisconsin (£500).
2012
American Study and Student Exchange Committee,
University of Warwick. Funding for research trip to the
Warner Bros. Archive, University of Southern California
(£500).
PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
2015
Postgraduate Award: Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education, University of Warwick
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Warwick
2013 – present
Seminar Tutor for the North American Themes and
Problems module, a three-term survey course for 1st year
History and Comparative American Studies undergraduates.
2014
Guest lectured on ‘World War II and America’ for North
American Themes and Problems.
2013
Devised and delivered the seminar 'Reading the Industrial
Politics of Topical Filmmaking Through the Archive' for the
core the History and Film module on the Film History MA.
Guest lectured on ‘War and Remembrance: Beyond Pearl
Harbor and Popular History’ for the American Historical
Cinema module, a three-term option module for History and
Comparative American Studies undergraduates.
2012
Co-led the 'Mass Culture' Seminar for the core Approaches
to the Comparative Studies of the Americas module for the
Comparative American Studies MA.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2015 – present
History representative for the Sessional Teaching Payroll
project user group, University of Warwick.
2014 – present
Website Editor and Steering Group Member, The Women’s
Film and Television History Network.
2012 – present
Manuscript Reviewer for the University of Warwick’s
Retrospectives: A Journal of Postgraduate History.
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EMPLOYMENT
2013 – present
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History,
University of Warwick
2012 – present
Library Assistant, The British Library.
2011 - 2013
Section Manager, London Distribution, John Lewis Plc.
REFERENCES
Available on request
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