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Screen Arts and Cultures Faculty listing
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Professor Abé Mark Nornes, Chair (7/1/2009-6/30/2014)
Stashu Kybartas, Associate Chair
Academics and Requirements
Professors
Richard Abel (Robert Altman Collegiate Professor of International Film and Media), Silent French & American Cinema; International Film & Media, Exhibition/Promotion/Reception
Hubert Cohen (Residential College/Screen Arts and Cultures), Narrative Literature, Westerns, Nordic cinema, Religion in Film
Susan J. Douglas (Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor) (Communication Studies), the history of broadcasting in the United States and the representations of gender in the media
Geoff Eley (Sylvia L. Thrupp Collegiate Professor of Comparative History) (History), German history, modern Europe, historiography, cultural studies
Caryl Flinn, Music in film and media, American film (esp. genre film), film theory, cultural studies, feminist and critical theory, west European cinema, kitsch/camp and queer film studies
Laurence A. Goldstein (English), 19th-Century Literature, Creative Writing
Daniel Herwitz (Philosophy) (Mary Fair Croushore Professor of Humanities; Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor), European Avant-Garde, Aesthetics, Culture of Modernism and Postmodernism, Wittgenstein, Poststructuralism, Postcolonial Theory, Film and Philosophy
Barbara Hodgdon (English/Music [Theatre and Drama]), Shakespeare in Performance
Lisa Nakamura, Digital Media Theory, Digital Game Studies, Ethnic Studies, Feminist Theory, Film and Television Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Race and Gender in New Media
Abé Mark Nornes (Asian Languages and Cultures / Screen Arts and Cultures), Documentary, Japanese cinema
Associate Professors
Peter M. Bauland (English), History and Analysis of Major Film Directors and Genres
Giorgio Bertellini (Screen Arts and Cultures / Romance Languages and Literatures), Silent film; Italian, North American and Eastern European cinema; Intersections of Gender and Racial Culture; Immigration; National Identity and International Film Culture
Herbert Eagle (Slavic Languages and Literatures), Russian literature, Slavic and East European film, literary theory
Amand Lotz, Media institutions and media criticism, feminist media studies, U.S. television studies
Johannes von Moltke (Germanic Languages and Literatures / Screen Arts and Cultures), German Cinema, Film Theory, and Cultural Studies
Sheila Murphy, Digital Media Studies, Video Games, TV Studies and Theory
Yeidy Rivero (American Culture/Screen Arts & Culture), Television studies, race and media, global media, Latino/a, Spanish Caribbean, Latin American, and African diaspora studies
Matthew Solomon, film history, film theory, film and the other arts, early and silent cinema, classic Hollywood
Assistant Professors
Colin Gunckel (Screen Arts & Cultures / American Culture), American film history, Chicano/Latino film and media, Mexican Cinema
Daniel Herbert, Film Theory, History, and Criticism
Candace Moore, American Film History, American Television history, Cultures of Consumption, Feminist and Queer Media Studies
Aswin Punathambekar, Media institutions, globalization, new media and media convergence, postcolonial theory and criticism, contemporary South Asia and South Asian diaspora
Senior Lecturers
Robert Rayher, Motion Picture Production Emphasizing Dramatic Narrative Techniques
Terri Sarris, Video, Television, and Film Production
Lecturers
Alexis Bravos, Video, Television, and Film Production
James Burnstein, Screenwriting
Victor Fanucchi, Screenwriting as Literature
Mark Kligerman, History of American cinema, Film Genres, and Authorship Studies
Stashu Kybartas, Film/Video Production with emphasis on alternatives to dramatic narrative structure
Terry Lawson, Screenwriting
Chris McNamara, Computer Animation
Daniel Shere, Screenwriting
Oliver Thornton, Screenwriting for Television
Professors Emeriti of Film and Video Studies
Frank E. Beaver (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor),Film history, film production
Ira Konigsberg, Fiction, Film, Critical Theory