People
Below you can browse the profiles of our faculty.
Moving Image, Media & Sound Staff
Keya Ganguly
Specialties
The Frankfurt School; Intellectual History of Vision; Sociology of Culture; Postcolonial Criticism; Global Cinema; Marxism; Peripheral Literature
Graeme Stout
Specialties
Visual Arts and Intellectual History; Film, Television, Video Games and Digital Media Studies; Political and Social Theory
Moving Image, Media & Sound Faculty
Hakim Abderrezak
Specialties
Maghrebi and Beur Literature, Cinema and Music; Clandestine Migrations in Arabic, French and Spanish; The Contemporary Western Mediterranean; Francophone Studies
Shir Alon
Specialties
Modern Arabic Language and Literature; Literary theory; Modern Hebrew Literature; Postcolonial Theory and Criticism; Gender and Feminism
Sophia Beal
Specialties
Brazilian Literature and Cultural Studies; Urban Studies
Benjamin Bigelow
Specialties
Film and media studies; Scandinavian literature; Scandinavian culture
Jane Blocker
Specialties
contemporary art; critical theory; performance art; the body in art; 20th century theory and criticism; transgenic art; theories of representation; theories of witness; historiography; feminism; alternative media
Emily Ruth Capper
Specialties
Modern and contemporary art; Critical theory; The social history of art; Intellectual history; Film and media studies; Performance art
Cesare Casarino
Specialties
Literary and visual cultures of HIV/AIDS; Modern and contemporary continental philosophy; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century comparative literatures; Literary theory; European cinemas; Theories of gender and sexuality; Queer theory
Palita Chunsaengchan
Specialties
Film Historiography; Media Theory and the Global South; Aesthetics, coloniality and decolonization in Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian Cinema: specifically work, labor and migration; Early Thai Cinema (book manuscript)
Siobhan Craig
Specialties
Fascist-era cinema in Italy and Germany; Italian Neorealism; new German cinema; monsters and hybrids; the cinematic body; literary and cultural theory after 1968: psychoanalysis, queer and feminist theories, post-modern theories of language and meaning, film theory
Lorenzo Fabbri
Specialties
Film History and Theory; Continental Philosophy; Postcolonial Studies; Visual Culture under Fascism; Biopolitics
Joseph Farag
Specialties
Palestinian Literature and Culture; Modern Arabic Literature; Postcolonial Theory and Criticism
Ana Forcinito
Specialties
20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature and film, with focus on the Southern Cone; 19th-century literature with emphasis on the Southern Cone; Latin American and Latinx feminist theory about gender violence; Latin American film studies, with an emphasis on sound aesthetics; Interdisciplinary approaches to testimonial narratives, memory and trauma studies; Transdisciplinary Humanities
Michael Gallope
Specialties
Music and Sound Studies; Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory; Cultural and Intellectual History; Political Economy; Academic Freedom
Keya Ganguly
Specialties
The Frankfurt School; Intellectual History of Vision; Sociology of Culture; Postcolonial Criticism; Global Cinema; Marxism; Peripheral Literature
Sumanth Gopinath
Specialties
Sound studies; Popular music; Musical hermeneutics; Music and politics; Avant-garde and experimental musics; Music after WWII; Music and globalization
Ron Greene
Specialties
Political Communication; Debates; Civic Education; Philosophy of Communication; Rhetorical Theory; Argumentation Studies; Cultural Studies
Atilla Hallsby
Specialties
Rhetorical Theory and Criticism; Secrecy and Surveillance Studies; Critical Algorithm Studies; Critical Artificial Intelligence Studies
Maggie Hennefeld
Specialties
Film and Media Studies; Comedy, Humor, Laughter; Silent Cinema (Especially Early Cinema); Film Theory and Film History; Archival Film Curating; Feminism, Affect Theory, Gender Politics; Speculative Approaches to Critical Thought; Media Historiography and Its Relation to Social Justice; Critical Theory and Cultural Politics; Film and Popular Culture
Katerina Korola
Specialties
History of Photography; Film and Media Studies; Modern and Contemporary Art; Environmental Humanities
Alice Lovejoy
Specialties
Film and media history and historiography; East European film, literature, and cultural history; Nonfiction and experimental film and literature; Geopolitics and political economy of media; Media technologies and materials; Transnational media histories; Film criticism and filmmaking
Christine Marran
Specialties
Ecocriticism; Japanese literature and cinema; Critical theory and film theory; East Asian cinema; Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Jason McGrath
Specialties
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture; Taiwan studies; Ecocritical theory and film studies; Chinese and international cinemas; Realism in fiction, film, and theory; Digital cinema, CGI, and animation; Chinese and Western Marxisms; Convention and intertextuality in film theory
Stuart McLean
Specialties
Philosophical anthropology; Experimental writing; Anthropology of Art; North Atlantic region; Landscape and environment
Laurie Ouellette
Specialties
Gender and Sexuality; Media Studies; Biopolitics and Governmentality; Television Studies; Lifestyle and Consumer Culture; Precarity, Labor and Class; Digital Media and Culture; Media Historiography
Sonali Pahwa
Specialties
Egypt; Digital Media; Gender Studies; Middle East Studies; Performance Studies; Youth Culture
Elliott Powell
Specialties
American popular music and culture; Comparative and relational race studies; Feminist and queer studies; Afro-Asian studies; Black cultural studies; Afro-diasporic popular music; Inter-/cross-cultural music making; Sound studies
Jani Scandura
Specialties
cultural studies and critical theory, esp. theories of modernity, materiality, subjectivity; 20th century North American literatures, film, visual and mass culture; European, American and (recently) Japanese modernisms; theories of space and place; stuff--theories of matter, objects, things, refuse, trash; sound and acoustic culture, memory; history of science, medicine and its intersections with philosophy; writing in cultures impacted by US imperialisms (especially Cuba)
Jenny Schmid
Specialties
Combined print media; Digital applications; Photolithography; Mezzotinting; 2D animation; Public art; Experimental video
Suvadip Sinha
Specialties
Indian Cinema; Modern South Asian Literature and Culture; Global Modernities; Philosophy of Non-human
Graeme Stout
Specialties
Visual Arts and Intellectual History; Film, Television, Video Games and Digital Media Studies; Political and Social Theory
Mary Vavrus
Specialties
Feminist theory; Media studies; Mediated masculinity; Media postfeminism; Media coverage of political women; Political economy of media; Media activism; Gender and media
Christophe Wall-Romana
Specialties
French cinema; Science and Technology Studies; Media history; Modern French poetry; Silent cinema; Modern French philosophy and theory; 19th- & 20th-century French literature and thought
Jamele Watkins
Specialties
German literature and history; Black women writers; Black/African Diaspora Studies; Performance studies; German Film
Margaret Werry
Specialties
performance studies and performance theory; theatre historiography, 19C performance, theatre, and entertainment; museum studies; settler colonialism, neo-liberalization, nationalism, state-making and theories of race and ethnicity; tourism, heritage, and cultural policy; Pacific studies; critical pedagogy
Diane Willow
Specialties
Participatory culture; Creative inquiry and artistic expression with emerging media; Poetic interplay of nature, technology and community; interactive art; Interdisciplinary collaborations; Sound art; Community collaboration; Public art; Responsive environments; Playful explorations :: new modes, new materials, new media; Interactive, socially engaged, contemplative environments
Travis Workman
Specialties
Korean and Japanese literature; Intellectual history; Film and media; Melodrama; Humanism and its critiques; Translation
Moving Image, Media & Sound Emeriti Faculty
Amy Kaminsky
Specialties
Latin American film; Spanish and Latin American literature; feminist literary theory and criticism; Exile and national identity in Latin America; Jewish writing and film in Argentina; race, gender, and sexuality
Richard Leppert
Specialties
art history; critical theory; cultural studies; discourse theory; Frankfurt School; musicology; post-structuralist sociology of popular and high culture; Theodor W. Adorno
Rick McCormick
Specialties
Brecht; Feminism; Film and cultural history; Film studies; German film history; Nazi cinema; Post-WWII German cinema: New German Cinema, GDR cinema, feminist cinema; Post-WWII West German literature and culture; Weimar film and culture; German-Jewish studies; Films by German and Austrian emigres/exiles
Mara Pedelty
Specialties
Music as Environmental Communication; Ethnographic research in the USA, El Salvador, and Mexico; Sound and Environment
Paula Rabinowitz
Specialties
American women, minority, and working-class writers; visual culture; film, photography, media; US literary radicalism; marxist and feminist theories; modernisms; cultural studies; American Studies