Faculty

Alenda Y. Chang

Associate Professor

Research Interests

• Environmental Media
• Digital Technology
• Games

Allison Anders

Distinguished Professor

Research Interests

• Film Production

Althea Wasow

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

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

Anna Brusutti

Continuing 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

Bill Steinkellner

Lecturer

Research Interests

• Television Writing
• Comedy

Charles Wolfe

Professor

Research Interests

• Film History
• Historiography
• Silent Comedy
• Documentary Media
• Art and Politics

Cheri Steinkellner

Continuing Lecturer

Research Interests

• Television Writing
• Comedy

Chris Jenkins

Head of Production

Research Interests

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

Constance Penley

Professor

Research Interests

• Feminist Theory
• Porn Studies
• Fan Studies
• Contemporary Art Practice
• Science and Technology Studies

Cristina Venegas

Associate Professor

Research Interests

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

Cynthia Felando

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests

• American Activism
• Youth Culture
• Global Cinema
• Short Film
• Film Feminism

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

Ian Kellett

Lecturer

Research Interests

• Emergent Media
• Cultural Activism
• Environmental Design
• Science and Technology Environment
• Cinematography

James McNamara

Lecturer in Film & Media Studies

Research Interests

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

Janet Walker

Professor

Research Interests

• Documentary
• Trauma Studies
• Media and Environment
• Feminist Theory
• Spatial Media

Jennifer Holt

Associate Professor, Department Chair

Research Interests

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

Laila Shereen Sakr

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Research Interests

• Theory and Practice
• Glitch Theory
• Digital Art Practice
• Data Analytics
• Middle East Studies
• Feminist Technology

Lisa Parks

Distinguished Professor

Research Interests

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

Michael Miner

Lecturer

Research Interests

• Screenwriting
• Modern Narrative

Mona Damluji

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

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

Naoki Yamamoto

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests

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

Patrice Petro

Distinguished Professor and Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center; Presidential Chair in Media Studies

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

Research Interests

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

Sara Caldwell

Lecturer

Sasha Razor

Lecturer

Sven Holcomb

Lecturer

Wendy Eley Jackson

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