Cinema Faculty

Staff

Bryson Cooley

Administrative Assistant

Cinema

Brian Murphy

Instructional Support Assistant

Cinema

Harry Rudolph

Instructional Support Associate

Cinema


Faculty

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Joel Anderson

Lecturer

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Visual and cultural studies
  • Self-documentary and community media
  • Environmental and disability justice
  • Digital culture and platforms
  • Neoliberalism and decolonization

Teaching Interests

  • Cinema and media history and theory, narrative and genre
  • Documentary and experimental film/video
  • Environmental media and ecology
  • Film festival studies and programming practices
  • East Asian cinemas and and diasporic media
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Magdalena Bermudez

Assistant Professor

Cinema

Research Interests

  • The History of Technology
  • Essay Film
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Experimental Expository

Teaching Interests

  • Film and the Archive
  • Film and the Nonhuman
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Research-Based Filmmaking
  • Found Footage Filmmaking
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Jason Bernagozzi

Undergraduate Director; Assistant Professor of Cinema Production

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Video Hardware and Software Development
  • Mycology
  • Languages
  • Critical Theory and New Materialism
  • History of Technology, Image Processing and Glitch Art

Teaching Interests

  • Hybrid Studio Systems
  • Interactivity for Performance and Installation
  • Designing for Emerging Media Distribution Platforms
  • Media Archaeology
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Ariana Gerstein

Professor, Graduate Director

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Alternative Processes
  • Experimental Animation
  • Documentary Approaches
  • Projection Mapping
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Kirsten Gill

Lecturer

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Histories of visuality
  • Black Studies
  • Experimental cinema
  • Philosophies of the image
  • Diasporic cultural practices
  • Collectivity and forms of the social
  • Poetics
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Andrea Gyenge

Assistant Professor

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Film aesthetics
  • Critical theory and continental philosophy (French tradition)
  • Theories of the body (especially the mouth and orality)
  • Sound Studies
  • Experimental cinema

Teaching Interests

  • History and Theory of the Moving Image
  • Critical Theory
  • Popular Media and Mass Culture
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Katie Kirkland

Assistant Professor

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Documentary and Experimental Nonfiction
  • Reenactment, Performance and Expanded Cinematic Practices
  • Feminist Film and Media Histories
  • Archives, Counter Archives and Speculative Methodologies

Teaching Interests

  • Documentary and Experimental Nonfiction
  • History and Theory of Cinema
  • Archives, Counter Archives, and Speculative Methodologies
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Monteith McCollum

Chair; Associate Professor

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Experimental and Hybrid Documentary
  • Sound Art and Electronic Music
  • Historical explorations in sound and image science
  • Environment
  • Sound Mapping

Teaching Interests

  • Non-Fiction and Experimental Film
  • Sound Design
  • Field Recording and Experimental Electronic Modular Synthesis
  • Live Audio Visual Performance
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Daniel Murphy

Lecturer

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Darkroom techniques and technologies
  • Historical research
  • Environmental phenomena
  • Chance operations

Teaching Interests

  • Experimental filmmaking
  • Found footage
  • Digital/analog hybrid workflows
  • Rephotography
  • 16mm filmmaking
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Zeke Saber

Assistant Professor

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Film Theory and Aesthetics
  • Ecological Philosophy
  • Cinematic Space, Place and Process
  • Strategies of Immersion/Illusion
  • Experimental Animation
  • Mysticism and Exegesis
  • Theater Architecture and Life Safety Discourse
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Sofia Theodore-Pierce

Assistant Professor

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Nonfiction poetics
  • Experimental cinema
  • Collage methodologies
  • Personal cinema
  • Artist film programming

Teaching Interests

  • Nonfiction poetics
  • Personal cinema
  • Experimental narrative
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Brian Wall

Associate Professor

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Critical Theory, Particularly that of Adorno and Benjamin and the Historical Avant Garde
  • Film Noir
  • German Expressionism and Weimar Cinema
  • Paracinema
  • Marxism
  • Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology
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