2011-12 General Catalog

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Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Sharon Daniel
Community-based public art in information and communications environments, social and political aspects of information technology, new media documentary and database documentary, participatory culture, digital inclusion, net art, human-computer interface design

Eli E. Hollander
Film and video directing; ethnographic documentary directing, editing, cinematography, and videography; digital image generation; screenwriting

Charles L. Lord, Professor Emeritus

Margaret Morse
Media theory and criticismemphasis on digital/new/bio/electronic, media history/archeology, media art, technology and culture, collaborative culture, sensory studies and art, feminist and gender studies, German cinema, documentary media, science fiction, and silent comedy

B. Ruby Rich
Documentary film and video, post-9/11 culture, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latin/a cinema, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, the politics of film festival proliferation and the marketing of foreign films in the U.S.

Shelley Stamp
Film history, theory, and criticism; silent cinema; women's filmmaking; film censorship; histories of moviegoing; feminist approaches to cinema

Renee Tajima-Pea
Documentary film and video focusing on Asian American and immigrant communities, media, and social change

Associate Professor

Lawrence Andrews
Film, video, installation and media art

Irene Gustafson
Producing across the boundaries between "theory" and "practice," non-fiction media, experimental film/video, production design, gender and queer studies

Jonathan Kahana
Documentary film and media; film and politics; American film history; essay film; cultural and social theory; media publics; arts of historical re-enactment; war and cultural memory; audio culture; disciplines of listening

L. S. Kim
Television history and theory, racial discourse, feminist criticism, Asian-American media production, industrial practices and social change in both mainstream Hollywood and alternative media

Peter Limbrick
International cinemas; intersections of race, gender, and sexuality; theories of globalization, transnationalism, and postcoloniality; queer theory

Warren Sack
Software design and media theory

Gustavo Vazquez
Film and video production, directing drama, documentary and experimental cross-cultural experiences in film, film curator

Assistant Professor

Jennifer Horne
Media citizenship; non-theatrical film and film exhibition; archives and technologies of information; film preservation; mass media and humanitarianism; cinema and media history and historiography; institutions, disciplinarity, and the politics of knowledge

John Jota Leaos
Social documentation, social art practice, community arts, documentary animation, Chicana/o art practice and cultural studies, media and cultural studies, subaltern studies, photography, installation art, public art and intervention

Irene Lusztig
Film and video production, experimental documentary, ethnographic film, autobiographical film, editing

Soraya Murray
New media art, theory, and criticism; visual culture including digital, film, video, and electronic games; theories of technology and globalization; representation of otherness, migration, citizenship

Yiman Wang
Film history and theory; colonial/semi-colonial/postcolonial/postsocialist modes of media production and exchange; border-crossing film remakes; silent cinema; translation theory and cinema; acting theory/practice and ethnic star studies; transnational connections and ramifications of Chinese cinema and documentary; fan culture; East Asian cinemas

Professor

Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Emerita, Literature

Teresa de Lauretis, Emerita, History of Consciousness

Rosa Linda Fregoso, Latin American and Latino Studies
Human-rights studies; intercultural and transborder feminism; cultural studies; Latina/o-Latino Amrican film and media arts

Herman S. Gray, Sociology
Cultural studies, media and television studies, black cultural politics, social theory

Donna J. Haraway, Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies

David S. Marriott, History of Consciousness
Literary theory, psychoanalysis, black cultural theory and philosophies of race, literary and visual cultures of modernism

Assistant Professor

Neda Atanasoski, Feminist Studies
U.S. and Eastern European film and media; cultural studies and critical theory; war and nationalism; gender, ethnicity, and religion

Revised: 8/13/12