Rachelle Dermer

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Communications Media School of Arts and Sciences
Rachelle Dermer
978.665.3542 Office: Conlon Hall 349
Office Hours
Fall 2025

No office hours or classes. Professor Dermer is away on sabbatical for Fall 2025.

Courses Taught

To see course descriptions go to the University Catalog.

Pre-Production for Film/Video (COMM 3506)
Directing Video and Film (COMM 3730)
Writing for Film and Video (COMM 3765)

Background

M.F.A., Vermont College of Fine Arts (Film)
Ph.D., Boston University (Art History (Theory/Criticism and History of Photography))
M.A., Boston University (Art History (History of Photography))
B.F.A., Arizona State University (Photography)

The "Cambridge Turn"
Personal documentary
Psychoanalysis and the lens

Long-form non-fiction film currently in post-production: Photography Gave Me Cancer (and Other Stories I Tell Myself)

Developing non-fiction film with working title "The As-If Personality" on Helene Deutsch, an early woman in psychoanalysis (1925)