B.A., English, UNC-Chapel Hill
M.A.Ed., Wake Forest University
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Women’s and Gender Studies, UNC-Greensboro
Ph.D., Educational Studies with a concentration in Cultural Foundations, UNC-Greensboro
Chad E. Harris’s interdisciplinary Ph.D. in cultural foundations of education integrates philosophy of education, sociology of education, history of education, critical theory and pedagogy, and cultural studies. He specializes in philosophy of education; film phenomenology; film reception studies; podcast studies; critical phenomenology; and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. With his dissertation, “Educational Viewing Meets Educational Conversation: Phenomenology, Classrooms, and Film Reception,” he rethinks and expands “educational” and “classroom.”
Dr. Harris has also presented on and published in critical media studies, specializing in depictions of teachers, students, and administrators in film and on TV. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, he taught eleventh and twelfth grade English and speech and debate in a suburb of Winston-Salem, NC.
On the undergraduate level, prior to joining ETSU, Dr. Harris taught cultural foundations of education before transitioning into philosophy of education. He is a film festival curator and programmer and has served on the board of directors for the aforementioned film festival. He currently serves on the board of directors of a/perture cinema, Winston-Salem's art house cinema.