Academic Affairs

Celeste Reeb

Reeb, Celeste

Celeste Reeb

Assistant Professor of English- Film and Media Studies

reeb@hendrix.edu Fausett 201 - C

Biography

Dr. Celeste Reeb is a Film and Media scholar whose work primarily focuses on Disability, Closed Captioning, Film History, and Gender and Sexuality. Their work has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly. They have published chapters in Screening Adult Cinema and Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History. Currently, they are working on a manuscript examining the rhetorical choices in closed captioning. Dr. Celeste serves as a mentor for 1st Generation College Students.

 

When not researching or watching B-movies, they spend time with their two beautiful cats (MozzerElla Fitzgerald and Cheesy Gordita Crunch). 

Academic Background

  • B.A., Salisbury University, 2012
  • M.A., Salisbury University, 2015
  • Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2020

Publications

  • “Language of Love (1969).” Screening Adult Cinema. Routledge, 2025

    [This Closed Captioning is brought to you by Compulsive Heterosexuality/Able-bodiedness]. Disability Studies Quarterly39(3). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v39i3.6061

Classes

  • Introduction to Film Studies

    Disability Media

    Queer Horror

    Global Cinema

    American Film History

    Cinema in the Margins

    Digital Storytelling

    Feelings on Film

    Introduction to Academic Writing

     

President's Medalist named at 2025 Honors Convocation

Hendrix College students were recognized for academic excellence and campus community service at the 2025 Honors Day Convocation on April 24 in the Wellness and Athletics Center.

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