Sara Hall

Sara Hall (Director) is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and the chair of the minor in Moving Image Arts. She regularly teaches courses on Weimar culture, silent film, film historiography, women filmmakers, and recent German film. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and has been awarded fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Berlin Program for Advanced European Studies at the Freie-Universität Berlin, the UIC Institute for the Humanities, and the John Nuveen Center for International Affairs. She is a two-time winner of UIC’s Teaching Recognition Award (2004 and 2017) and has taught and lectured around Chicago in such venues as the School of the Art Institute, the Center on Halsted, the Chicago Cultural Center/Cinema Chicago, the Gene Siskel Film Center and Facets Multimedia. She is the author of numerous academic articles on German silent and early sound film and New German Cinema and is currently completing a book manuscript on the role of film in police work in 1920s Berlin. As the Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, she oversees core initiatives such as the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award, the annual Student Research Forum, and Posters Under the Dome and offers workshops and advising sessions for student groups and academic and student support units across campus. She brings to this role fifteen years of combined experience as a Director of Undergraduate Studies in Germanic Studies, two terms as a member of the LAS Educational Policy Committee, and five years as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the UIC Honors College.