skip to content
Faculty UCI Film and Media Studies
Faculty

Core Faculty
NameTitleEmail
Ackbar AbbasProfessor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Film and Media Studies (Hong Kong culture and postcolonialism, visual culture, architecture and cinema, cultural theory, globalization)mabbas@uci.edu
Eyal AmiranAssociate Professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies; (digital media theory, twentieth-century literature, narrative and textual theory, psychoanalysis, modern and postmodern intellectual history)amiran@uci.edu
Catherine BenamouAssociate Professor of Film and Media Studies (Latin American, Latina/o film & television, inter-American representation, Orson Welles and off-Hollywood cinema, film historiography, transnational media
theory and community practice)
cbenamou@uci.edu
Sohail DaulatzaiAssistant Professor of Film and Media Studies (cultural studies, postcolonial theory, race, internationalism, cultural politics of hip-
hop, sports, cinema)
sdaulatz@uci.edu
Edward DimendbergAssociate Professor of Film and Media Studies (film history, audio-visual media and the built environment, contemporary
architecture and urbanism, avant-garde cinema, modernism and modernity)
ed1@uci.edu
Kristen HatchAssistant Professor of Film and Media Studies (American film history; theories and histories of gender and sexuality; history of childhood; reception studies; cultural studies.)khatch@uci.edu
Lucas HilderbrandAssistant Professor of Film and Media Studies (cultural and media studies, histories of technology, documentary, queer studies, audio, intellectual property)lucas.h@uci.edu
Victoria E. JohnsonCHAIR and Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (history and critical theory of U.S. television, popular film, and media; politics of geography, race, gender, and sexuality in popular culture; cultural studies)v.e.johnson@uci.edu
Kyung Hyun KimAssociate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies (modern Korea, Asian cinema, critical theory)kyunghk@uci.edu
Peter KrappAssociate Professor of Film and Media Studies (digital culture, media theory, cultural memory, history and theory of artificial worlds)krapp@uci.edu
Bliss Cua LimAssociate Professor of Film and Media Studies (Philippine cinema; temporality; postcolonial and feminist film theory; transnational Asian horror and the fantastic; taste cultures)bliss.lim@uci.edu
Catherine LiuAssociate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature; Director of the Humanities Center (critical theory,
psychoanalysis, science fiction, narrative theory and melodrama in film and literature, New Wave)
catherine.liu@uci.edu
Glen MimuraAssociate Professor of Film and Media Studies (minority, diasporic, and third cinemas, popular culture, The Western, queer theory and racialized sexuality)gmimura@uci.edu
Mark S. PosterEmeritus Professor of Film and Media Studies and History (theory and history of the media, theory of technology and culture, and Internet studies)poster@uci.edu
Fatimah Tobing RonyDirector of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies (documentary and ethnographic film, transnational cinema, postcolonial studies, feminist film theory, film history and theory, film production)fatimah@uci.edu
Jared SextonAssistant Professor of African American Studies and of Film and Media Studies (race and sexuality, policing and imprisonment,
contemporary U.S. cinema and political culture, multiracial coalition, critical theory)
jcsexton@uci.edu
Roxanne VarziAssistant Professor of Anthropology (Visual Anthropology, Iran, popular culture, war, media and religion) and Film and Media
Studies

http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~rvarzi/
rvarzi@uci.edu


Lecturers
Liz Cane, Lecturer, Video Production
Teaches beginning, intermediate and advanced courses in film and video production. Through the University Extension program she also teaches screenwriting and video production. She has produced award-winning shorts (most notably That’s What Women Want) that have screened at festivals around the world. Her documentary Libido, about the continuing pleasures of romance and sex among the elderly, aired nationally on PBS and screened in exhibitions throughout the United States, most recently at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She has written several feature length screenplays: a romantic comedy, Don't Shoot, I'm Available; a thriller, High-rise; and a political farce Nudity on Capitol Hill. After completing two new comedic shorts, Audrey and Tonto’s Daughter and Hug, she recently finished a new documentary furthering her exploration of sex and romance among the elderly, Eager For Your Kisses: Love and Sex at 95
Marie Cartier, Lecturer, Screenwriting
Teaches beginning and advanced courses on screenwriting. Through the University Extension program she also teaches Acting for Film. Every year she curates and administers the Annual Festival of Staged Reading of Student Screenplays. Her poetry book I Am Your Daughter, Not Your Lover was published in 1994 by Clothespin Fever Press. She has had five plays published by Dialogus Press. Currently she is a dual degree candidate - enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Religion at Claremont Graduate University, specializing in Women an d Religion and religion and Art, and the MFA program in Visual Art. She also holds two additional MFA's from UCLA - one in Film, and one in Theater, and an MA in English from Colorado State University, and a BA in Communications, from University of New Hampshire. She is a performance artist and recently toured the West Coast with her poplar show, *Ballistic Femme.*
Lauren Steimer, Lecturer
Ph.D. NYU
Profile coming soon.


Affiliated Faculty
NameTitleEmail
Juan Bruce-NovoaProfessor of Spanish (Latin American and Chicano studies)jbruceno@uci.edu
Kai EversAssistant Professor of German (twentieth century German literature and film, modernism and Holocaust literature)N/A
Edward FowlerProfessor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Japanese; (modern Japanese literature, film, and cultural studies)ebfowler@uci.edu
Adriana M. JohnsonAssistant Professor of Comparative Literature (Latin American literature and film, subaltern studies, postcolonial studies)N/A
Sally A. SteinAssociate Professor of Art History; (American art, history of photography, photography and media)sastein@uci.edu
Frank Benjamin WildersonAssistant Professor African American Studies and Drama (film theory, Marxism, dramaturgy, black political theory)N/A

Faculty Publications

Wandering and Home
Eyal Amiran

It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey
Catherine L. Benamou

San'Ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo
Edward Fowler

Heartland TV
Victoria E. Johnson

Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory
Peter Krapp

Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton
Catherine Liu

The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle
Fatimah Tobing Rony

Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism
Jared Sexton