Allen H. Redmon Profile

Dr. Allen H. Redmon

• Department: Humanities
• Dean, College of Arts and Science, Professor of English and Film Studies
• Room: HH-216J

Allen H. Redmon is Professor of English and Film Studies. He is the author of two monographs, Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index (University Press of Mississippi, 2022) and Constructing the Coens: from Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis (Rowman ∧ Littlefield, 2015). He is the editor of Next Generation Adaptation: Spectatorship and Process (University Press of Mississippi, 2021) and co-editor of Clint Eastwood’s Cinema of Trauma: Essays on PTSD in the Director’s Films (McFarland, 2017). His research utilizes a range of topics in adaptation studies, religious studies, film theory, film philosophy, and, more recently, trauma studies. He is most interested in uncovering the ways moving images invite spectators to make meanings of the films they watch. Dr. Redmon’s classes tend to be discussion-based and to prioritize process over content. Students often tailor the concepts in his courses to the professional and academic interests that they bring to his classes. He tends to assign essays rather than exams so that students develop critical thinking skills, become comfortable managing their own projects, and experience the value of constructing sustained scholarly arguments.