Catherine Benamou
Associate Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: Hispanophone and Lusophone Cinema and Television, U.S. Latinx Media, Orson Welles and Maverick Cinema, Transnational Practices, Spectatorship, Cinematic Memory and Cultures of Preservation
Ph.D., New York University, Cinema Studies
Published Books:
It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey (University of California Press, 2007)
Transnational Television and Latinx Diasporic Audiences: Abrazos Electrónicos in Four Global Cities
Desha Dauchan
Associate ProfessorInterests: Media and Activism, African American Film, African Diaspora Cinema, Screenwriting & Film Production
M.F.A., UCLA, Direction/Production
Sohail Daulatzai
Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: African American studies, Postcolonial Theory, Race, Hip Hop, Muslim Diasporas
Ph.D., University of Southern California, Cinematic Arts
Published Books:
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic (Civitas Books, 2009)
Arcelia Gutierrez
Assistant Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: Latinx Media Studies, Media Activism, Media Policy, Industry Studies
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Romance Languages & Literatures
Bambi Haggins
Associate Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: Black African-American Comedy in Film, Television History, Digital Media and Performance, Comedy as Social and Political Discourse, African American Studies, American Studies
Ph.D., UCLA, Film & Television
Published Books:
Laughing Mad (Rutgers University Press, 2007)
U.S. Television and Cultural Studies (Pearson Learning Solutions, 2009)
Kristen Hatch
Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor for Film and Media Studies
Interests: Classical Hollywood, American Film History, Histories of Race, Gender and Sexuality, Stardom, Childhood and Girlhood Studies
Ph.D., UCLA, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Published Books:
Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood (Rutgers University Press, 2015)
Lucas Hilderbrand
Department Chair and Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: Queer Cultures and Media, Pornography, Cultural Studies, Documentary, Media Infrastructures, Popular Music, Histories of Technology
Ph.D., New York University, Cinema Studies
Published Books:
Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright (Duke University Press Books, 2009)
Paris Is Burning: A Queer Film Classic (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013)
Victoria E. Johnson
Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: Television, Critical Race Theory, Sound, Media Policy, Sports Media
Ph.D., University of Southern California, Cinema-Television
Published Books:
Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity (NYU Press, 2008)
Meryem Kamil
Assistant Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: New Media Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Palestine/Palestinian Social Movements, Ethnic Studies, American Studies
Ph.D., University of Michigan, American Culture
Published Books:
Technoprecarious (Goldsmiths Press, 2020)
Peter Krapp
Professor of Film and Media Studies; English; Informatics; MusicInterests: Secret Communications and Cybernetics (Cryptologic History), Cultural Memory and Media History (Games and Simulations, History of Computing), Aesthetic Communication (Title Design, Film Music)
Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, German & Comparative Literature
Published Books:
Medium Cool (Duke University Press Books, 2002)
Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2004)
Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 (The MIT Press, 2011)
Sprache - Kultur - Kommunikation/ Language - Culture - Communication (De Gruyter Mouton, 2016)
Keiji Kunigami
Assistant Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: Brazilian Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Critical Race Theory, Film and Media Theory, Critical Theory, Silent Cinema, Decoloniality, Cinematic Embodiment, Asian-Latin American Studies
Ph.D., Cornell University, Asian Studies
Catherine Liu
Professor of Film and Media Studies and Comparative LiteratureInterests: Historical Materialism, New Taiwan Cinema, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Sinophone Cinema, Political Economy of Film and Media Studies, Genre Film, Class and Contradiction, History and Theory of Trauma Studies and Trauma Media
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, French
Published Books:
Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton (University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique (University of Iowa Press, 2011)
Oriental Girls Desire Romance (Kaya Press, 2012)
Glen Mimura
Associate Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: Third Cinema; Asian American Film and Media; Native American and Indigenous Film and Media; the Western and Martial Arts Genres; Animals and Representation
Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness
Published Books:
Ghostlife of Third Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
Philana Payton
Assistant Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: Black Film and Television History, Black Popular Culture, Performance Studies, Classical Hollywood, Stardom, Women and Gender Studies, Black Studies, Queer Studies
Ph.D., University of Southern California, Cinema and Media Studies
Allison Perlman
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Profesor of Film and MediaInterests: TV Studies, Media Policy and Law, Media Activism, Popular Memory, Public Media, Media History
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, American Studies
Published Books:
Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television (Rutgers University Press, 2016)
Fatimah Tobing Rony
Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: Narrative, Experimental, and Documentary Film Production, Visual Biopolitics, History and Theory of Ethnographic Film, Transnational Cinema, Postcolonial Studies, Feminist Film Theory, Visual Studies, Animation
Ph.D., Yale University, History of Art, M.F.A., UCLA, Directing/Production
Published Books:
The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle (Duke University Press Books, 1996)
How Do We Look? Resisting Visual Biopolitics (Duke University Press, 2022)
Bo Ruberg
Associate Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: Digital Media, Game Studies, Technology, Queer Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Gender Studies, Video Games, Feminism, Digital Humanities
Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Comparative Literature
Published Books:
Queer Game Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)
Video Games Have Always Been Queer (NYU Press, 2019)
The Queer Games Avant-Garde (Duke University Press Books, 2020)
Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies (MIT Press, 2022)
Braxton Soderman
Associate Professor of Film and Media StudiesInterests: Game Studies, Game History, Digital Media Studies, New Media Aesthetics
Ph.D., Brown University, Modern Culture and Media, M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Writing - Critical Studies
Published Books:
Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject (The MIT Press, 2021)