Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Ohio University. Her research deals with the impact of historical forces on artistic forms and offers in particular a feminist reappraisal of how historical trauma and globalization influence affective form in transnational film and literature. Her book, Remnants of Refusal: Feminist Affect, National Trauma (SUNY, 2025), examines literature and cinema from Post-Occupation France and Post-Tiananmen Square China to argue that strategies of feminist refusal can be found in the ways that these texts enact a series of affective response to the historical and social erasure of traumatic history: melancholy, ambivalence, and exhaustion. Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf's courses examine how image and text interrogate national, racial, gendered, and sexual identity politics. She has previously held teaching positions at Seattle University, Simon Fraser University, and Harvard University.

Academic Positions:

• Associate Professor, Film Studies, 2024 – Present, Ohio University
• Assistant Professor, Film Studies, 2018 - 2024, Ohio University
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Film Studies, 2015 - 2018, Ohio University
• Lecturer, Film Studies, 2014 - 2015, Seattle University
• Lecturer, World Literature, 2012 - 2014, Simon Fraser University

Book Project:

• Remnants of Refusal: Feminist Affect, National Trauma (SUNY Press for their series in Feminist Criticism and Theory, 2025)

In Peer-Reviewed Journals and Edited Volumes:

• “White Mothers on Colonized Land, or What Isabelle Huppert Makes Visible?” Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert. Ed. Iggy Cortez and Ian Fleishman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
• “Exhaustion: In Defiance of Homogenous Empty Time.” CR: The New Centennial Review, 21.1, Spring 2021.
• “Historical Melancholy, Feminine Allegory.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Critique, 27.3, 2016.
• “Notre musique: Juste une conversation.” A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard. Ed. Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
• “Intermediality, Translation, Comparative Literature, and World Literature.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 13.3, 2011.

Book Reviews:

• James Leo Cahill, Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé. SubStance, forthcoming.
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. Situations: Cultural Studies in the East Asian Context, 7.2, 2014.

Academic-Adjacent Publications:

• “Liu Jiayin’s Spatial Politics of Reduction.” Mediapolis: A journal of Cities and Culture, 5, 2020.
• “No Exit, or Duration in Slow Cinema: Aesthetics of Femininity, Porosity, Security.” Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, 5, 2020.

Educational Background:

M.A./Ph.D., Comparative Literature (Film Studies Minor), Harvard University 
B.A., Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College