Faculty

Alenda Y. Chang

Associate Professor

Research Interests

• Environmental Media
• Science and Technology
• Digital Media
• Games

Althea Wasow

Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Research Interests

• Silent Cinema
• Precinematic Visual Culture
• Black Studies
• Theory and Practice
• Avant Garde
• Critical Carceral Studies
• Essay Film

Anna Brusutti

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests

• Italian Cinema
• American Cinema
• Science Fiction

Bhaskar Sarkar

Professor

Research Interests

• Global Media
• Indian Cinema
• Emergent Media
• Piracy
• Risk and Media
• Bollywood

Cheri Steinkellner

Continuing Lecturer

Research Interests

• Television Writing
• Comedy

Chris Jenkins

Continuing Lecturer, Head of Production

Research Interests

• Documentary Production
• Animation
• Cinematography
• Short Film
• Live-action

Cristina Venegas

Associate Professor

Research Interests

• Media and History
• Latin American Cinema
• Internet and Historiography
• Digital Media

Dana Driskel

Studio Professor

Research Interests

• Silent Film History
• Archival Science

Greg Siegel

Associate Professor

Research Interests

• Media History
• Media Theory
• Cultural Theory
• Critical Theory
• Science and Technology Studies
• Sound Studies

Heidi Duckler

Lecturer in Film & Media Studies

James McNamara

Associate Teaching Professor

Research Interests

• Adaptation Studies
• Television Narrative
• Medical Humanities
• Gothic Horror

Jason Ludwig

Assistant Professor

Jennifer Holt

Professor, Department Chair

Research Interests

• Media Industries
• Policy and Regulation
• Digital Media
• Media Infrastructures
• History and Historiography

Jordan Schonig

Assistant Teaching Professor

Laila Shereen Sakr

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests

• Art Practice
• Theory and Practice
• Glitch Theory
• Feminist Theory
• Middle East Studies
• Data Science
• postcolonialism and Globalization

Lisa Parks

Distinguished Professor, Vice Chair

Research Interests

• Satellite Technologies
• Media Globalization
• Media Infrastructures
• Surveillance
• Digital Cultures
• Television Studies
• Feminist Theory

Mona Damluji

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

• Energy Humanities
• Middle East Studies
• Urban Studies
• Media History
• Cultural Studies

Naoki Yamamoto

Associate Professor

Research Interests

• Film Theory
• Asian Cinema
• Marxism
• Avant Garde Art
• Japanese Culture

Patrice Petro

Distinguished Professor

Research Interests

• History and Historiography
• Feminist Theory
• Art and Politics

Peter Bloom

Professor

Research Interests

• Early Media
• Ethnography
• African Studies
• Francophone Studies
• Narrative Theory
• Third Cinema
• British Radio

Ross Melnick

Professor, Interim Director of Carsey-Wolf Center

Research Interests

• Film History
• Film Exhibition
• Media Industries
• Silent Cinema
• Archival Theory
• Global Hollywood
• History and Historiography
• Media Journalism

Sara Caldwell

Continuing Lecturer

Sasha Razor

Lecturer

Sven Holcomb

Lecturer

Wendy Eley Jackson

Continuing Lecturer

Research Interests

• Basic Screenwriting
• Advanced Screenwriting for Television
• Contemporary Screenwriters
• Film and as Literature
• Crew Production
• Documentary Filmmaking
• Race and Gender on the American Screen
• Creative Writing
• Documentary Activism