Nancy Roche

Biography

Nancy McGuire Roche grew up on a family farm in Western Kentucky and now lives in an historic house in East Nashville. Film is both her passion and her profession. She holds a Ph.D. in English with Concentrations in Film Studies and American Literature 1930-Present from Middle Tennessee State University, as well as a B.S. degree from Vanderbilt University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brown University. Her academic awards include The Arnstark and Rome Prizes for Poetry and the Feldman and Harris Awards for Fiction, while at Brown, and a Provost Writing Fellowship from MTSU. She has been a university professor for almost two decades and has taught film studies for twelve years.  

 Dr. Roche specializes in film genres, Women in Film, Cinemas of the 1960s, and American Independent Film, with an emphasis on culture studies, narrative, and gender and identity performance. Her recent publications include a chapter in Modern American Drama on Screen from Cambridge University Press and the book Conversations with Edmund White from

University Press of Mississippi. A chapter on Mike Nichols in The Other Hollywood Renaissance and her book Cinema in Revolt: Censorship Reform in 1960s British and American Film are both forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press. She also writes the column “Film Beat” for the East Nashvillian Magazine. Her passions include travel, gardening, yoga, and challenging herself to see how many movies she can view at the Belcourt Theatre in one week.