EMORY UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Assistant Teaching Professor
Aaron Kagan Putt is an Assistant Teaching Professor of studio art at Emory University. In his research and art practice, he explores the aesthetics of collective memory, memorialization, and utopian fantasy. His layered paintings, drawings, and sculptures combine fragments of architectural forms, personal photographs, collected historical imagery, and altered found objects to create dynamic and unwieldy configurations that deliberately resist easy categorization.
Putt earned an MFA and an MA in Art History from Georgia State University in Atlanta. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Minsk, Belarus, Usak Archeology Museum in Usak, Turkey, and the Kokoka International House Gallery in Kyoto, Japan. He has been awarded grants by the Minnesota State Arts Board and has been an artist in residence, most recently at the Vermont Studio Center.
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- Department of French & Italian
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- Program Coordinator
- Program Coordinator, Communications
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- Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Film and Media
I have taught courses on Children and Media, History of American Television and an Introduction to Media Studies, a team taught course which is foundational for Media Studies students. I began teaching in Emory's Department of Film and Media since 2010 and in 2014-2015 served as Interim Chair. My areas of expertise include children, families and media, critical media literacy, and the history of U.S. television.I started at Emory in 2008, initially as a Senior Research Fellow at the Emory Center on Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL) where I conducted research on media, myth, and ritual in families with teens.
Before coming to Atlanta, I was Associate Dean for Research at the University of Illinois' College of Media, and taught at the Institute of Communications Research (ICR), where I also served as ICR Interim Director and Head of the program in Media Studies and taught at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
During the early 2000's I was the Research Director for the Center for Media Education in Washington D.C., dealing with children's media policy issues.I also worked with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education and the National Parent Information Network, managing their AskERIC project, one of the first online question answering services, and oversaw the creation of a statewide electronic information service for parents and families in Illinois. In 1996-97, I was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Haifa's Department of Communication.
I am co-author of Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children: When Harry Potter Meets Pokemon in Disneyland, an international study of children's fantasies and their relationship to media.I also write about children's media content and issues. Currently I am working on a research-based script about families and media, which will be used to raise awareness about the role of new and old media in family life.
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- Department Chair and Professor / Department of Anthropology
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- Asa Griggs Candler Professor
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- Associate Professor, on Leave
- Associate Professor, on Leave 2023 - 2024
For my entire career, I have been committed to examining, understanding, disrupting and disseminating ideas about Black presences in visual culture. I've worked in a number of academic institutions including Spelman College, Georgia State University, University of Houston, and Tulane University. In 2008, I received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research and teach at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. This experience allowed me to see first hand the connections, contours and complexities of Africans and their descendants in the Diaspora. I've worked in media production also: as a production assistant at the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (now the PBS Newshour), as a freelance producer for Manhattan Cable Television, and as a music researcher at both WVEE-FM-Atlanta and WBLS-FM-New York.
My research explores representational, industrial, production, and aesthetic aspects of Black television engagement. I have authored two books within these frameworks: Shaded Lives: African-American Women and Television and Pimpin' Ain't Easy: Selling Black Entertainment Television. My most recent book publication is an edited anthology, Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences-a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Beyond these works, my research appears in journals and anthologies on Black filmic representations, cable television, Black spirituality and African-American women.
My current projects consider African-American and Nollywood independent media distribution, K-12 media literacy, and Black folks, religion, and media. To the latter area, I'm completing a book of essays, tentatively titled Aw, the Devil with Hem Untied: The Black Mediated Sacred. In addition, I plan to return to media production in order to think through two different lines of inquiry: one, the seeming visual war on black and brown girls and women and two, the ways in which women of color faith leaders negotiate popular culture.
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- Bill Brown Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Film and Media
- Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Film and Media
I am a Senior Lecturer in Emeritus Film Studies Department. I've been teaching at Emory since 1974, first as adjunct faculty in the Art History Department, then as a Lecturer with a joint appointment in Film Studies and Visual Arts. I'm an independent filmmaker producing both documentaries and avant-garde short films. My primary interest is in the history of avant-garde movements and their influences on technological media, including photography, film, and video. I also own Atlanta Video, Inc., a production company specializing in documentary and arts programming.View full CV
Achievements
(2010) One of three Southern artists chosen for the national show Altered Experimental Images shown at the University of West Florida Art Gallery
(2009) One of 17 artists chosen internationally by the Houston Arts Alliance for a purchase award of an experimental video: Permanent installation at the George C. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas.
(2009) Production of a 60 minute PBS Program on the Emory performance of Stabat Mater.: Collaborative project with Richard Prior, Music Department. Aired state-wide on GPTV.
(1984) Emmy Award winning documentary, Apocalypse Then, broadcast nationally on the A&E Network
Numerous arts grants since 1974 from N.E.A., N.E.H., Georgia Council for the Arts, Fulton Endowment for the Arts, MTV Network, Emory University (CCA, URC, Winship, ICIS).
Photographs in permanent collection of the High Museum of Art and The U.S. Information Agency.
Publication credits include Art Papers and Southern Independent
Founding member of Nexus Art Center (Now the Contemporary Art Center) and The Image Film Video Center, both in Atlanta
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- Associate Professor, Japanese Language and Literature
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- Academic Department Administrator
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- Director of Visual Arts & Associate Teaching Professor
As an artist working with sound and sensation, Dana investigates how our bodies remember the physicality of its history. Dana has been a resident in the Atlanta Contemporary's Studio Artist Program and is a Hambidge Fellow. He has recently been shown at the Atlanta Contemporary, Zuckerman Museum at Kennesaw State University, the Macon Museum of Arts and Science, and the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids Michigan and won the Forward Art Foundation's 2021 Edge Award. Dana received his MFA from the University of Iowa.
Daniel Fuller is a writer and curator based in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2004, he has curated over 175 exhibitions at sites such as museums, art fairs, ice fishing shakes, a swap meet, the Jumbo Tron of a minor-league hockey stadium, public access television, the caboose of the Chattanooga Choo-Choo, and on cable television's most popular show, VH1's Love & Hip Hop. Previous institutional positions include curator at Atlanta Contemporary and director at The Institute of Contemporary art at Maine College of Art, Portland Maine, His writing as appeared in many magazines, including ArtForum, Art in America, ARTnews, Afterall, Art Asia Pacific, Art Papers, Burnaway, Crease, The Brooklyn Rail, Freiz, KALEIDOSCOPE, Upstate Diary, The Wine Zine, and numerous artists catalogs. He recently wrote an 032c cover story on the rapper Gucci Mane. Fuller currently teaches at Emory University.
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- Associate Professor, on Leave Spring 2024
- Daniel Reynolds Associate Professor, on Leave Spring 2024
Daniel Reynolds's research focuses on media, embodiment, and the mind. He is interested in particular in how films and video games depict psychology and stimulate psychological responses in their users. At Emory, he teaches courses in media theory, video games, media technology, authorship, and the psychology of media use.
Dr. Reynolds is the author of the book Media in Mind (Oxford University Press, 2019) and has published essays in Film Quarterly, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and Game Studies, among other venues. He is currently working on a new book about the relationship between film technology and conceptions of cinematic authorship.
He is a faculty affiliate of Emory's Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture.
Associations
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Education
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012
MFA, Boston University, 2004
BA, University of Oregon, 2001
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- Assistant Professor
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Assistant Professor & Interim Director of Production
- David Barba Assistant Professor & Interim Director of Production
- Interim Director of Production
David Barba is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television & Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, the Director of Industry Outreach and CU Film Festival at Columbia University's Graduate Film Program in New York and taught Screenwriting at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Courses taught at Emory include Writing the Short Film, Film Producing and Intro to Digital Video.
David is a Latinx filmmaker who has worked in fiction and documentary in both short and long formats. His short films have screened at over 150 festivals around the world, garnered national and international awards and aired on Showtime, HBO Latino and AXN Network in Latin America. He has produced and directed three feature documentaries, Pop Star On Ice (2009, IFC Center, Sundance TV) about 2-time Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir; American Cheerleader (2014, Fathom Events, Varsity Spirit) that follows two of the top high school cheerleading teams to the National Championships in Orlando; and, most recently, Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer (2018, Film Forum, The Orchard) a portrait of Brazilian ballet star Marcelo Gomes, which won the Audience Award at the 2017 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.David served as co-creator and Executive Producer on two seasons of the documentary series Be Good Johnny Weir (2010, 2012) for Sundance TV and Logo TV.
He is a graduate of the 2-year Meisner professional acting program at the William Esper Studio in New York, a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP).
Education
MFA in Film, Columbia University
BA in Feminist Studies, Stanford University
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Department of Anthropology
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, on Leave Spring 2024
Dehanza Rogers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University where she is the Director of Production and an Assistant Professor.
Her filmmaking is in direct conversation with Blackness, specifically Black girlhood. Her research also includes Black (girl) cultural production and representation of Blackness in cinema, television, and social media. She teaches narrative filmmaking, directing, and cinematography, as well as a course on Black girlhood/femme representation in contemporary film, television and media.
Her films have been in exhibition, and screened both nationally and internationally, most recently at Venice Biennale 2022, the Kennedy Center, and PBS. She was recently nominated for an Emmy Award for her work with choreographer and MacArthur fellow Kyle Abraham on race and embodiment in the film If We Were a Love Song which premiered on ALL ARTS, part of The WNET Group and PBS.
She is currently working on a film exploring federal judicial politics and immigration court watching and a film on Black girl joy.
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- Program Coordinator, Integrated Visual Arts
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- Goodrich C. White Professor
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- Gregory Zinman Associate Professor & Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies
Gregory Zinman's research and curatorial work bridges the fields of film studies, media studies, and art history, with a particular emphasis on contemporary global media art, experimental film and media, public art, and digital culture.
Zinman's writing on film and media has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, among other publications. He is the curator of Off The Wall @ 725 Ponce, a public screening program in Atlanta. He has also programmed film and media art at the Film-makers' Co-op, the Museum of the Moving Image, the Berkeley Museum of Art, Asia Society New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and several venues in Atlanta. He recently served as a technical consultant for Ad Astra (James Gray, 20th Century Fox, 2019), and is currently an archival producer for Universe in a Grain of Sand, Mark Levinson's documentary about the future of art and computing for IBM. He is the author of Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts (University of California Press, 2020) and co-editor, with John Hanhardt and Edith Decker-Phillips, of We Are in Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik (The MIT Press, 2019).
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Religion
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- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Co - Founder and Director of the New York City
- James Pellerito Assistant Teaching Professor
Biography
Born and raised in Italy, James Pellerito is an award-winning fiction and documentary filmmaker. Pellerito's work has screened at over 200 festivals worldwide (including AFI Docs, Berlinale, Dance on Camera, Frameline, Full Frame, NewFest and Outfest), won over thirty awards, aired on HBO Latino, Sundance TV, Logo TV, PBS America, Biography Australia, NTV Japan, QTV Korea, and been reviewed in Variety, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter. His feature documentaries include Pop Star On Ice (2009, IFC Center), American Cheerleader (2014, Fathom Events), and Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer (2018, Film Forum), all produced with David Barba. Pellerito served as Co-Creator, Director and Executive Producer on two seasons of his series Be Good Johnny Weir (2010, 2012). His narrative short Maree [Tides] (2003) qualified for the 2005 Academy Awards.
Pellerito is the Co-Founder and Director of the New York City Short Film Festival (NYC Shorts), currently in its twentieth year, and he is a graduate of the 2-year Meisner acting program at The Neighborhood Playhouse. He has taught at Emory since 2020.
Job Titles:
- Instructor
- James Steffen Instructor
Jane Foley is a sculpture, sound, and new media artist living in Atlanta, Georgia (US). They have created sound sculptures for the Architecture Triennale in Lisbon, Portugal and La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille, France with Zurich-based Sound Development City, as well as composed sounds that played in taxicabs throughout the 5th Marrakech Biennale in Morocco.
In Atlanta, they have created public artworks for the High Museum, Dashboard, The Beltline, Flux Projects, and the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport, among others. Foley currently teaches sculpture, graphic design, and new media at Emory University, after completing an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her pedagogical approach centers inclusivity, anti-hierarchical learning approaches, and considers artists and students as important voices for activism and community.
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- Associate Professor
- Artist
- Jason Francisco Associate Professor
As a media scholar and teacher, Jing Wang's specialties include global media studies, media industry studies, Chinese cinema studies, documentary studies, and film festival studies. Her work sheds light on non-major media industry actors (as opposed to the Hollywood media conglomerates) and their industrial management practices in enabling transnational media flows, along with the resulting cultural implications. She is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled Globalizing Independent Cinema: Transnational Circulation of the Independent Chinese Documentary (1991-2017).
Prior to earning her Ph.D. in Media Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and joining in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University, Ms. Wang was an associate professor in the Theater, Film, and Television School at the Communication University of China. Her academic work has been published in academic journals such as Asian Journal of Communication, Contemporary Cinema, and The Velvet Light Trap. She has an article forthcoming in 2023, in JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Jing Wang also gained relevant industrial experience working in documentary filmmaking for China Central Television between 2002 and 2010. Now, in addition to her academic career, she also works as an independent film producer who is committed to promoting independent Chinese films on the international stage.
Jinsook Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, she was a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her research program takes a critical approach to digital media and cultures that involves both identifying the competing forces that make digital media toxic and inhospitable for marginalized groups and accounting for the struggle and labor necessary to render digital space livable. She is currently working on her first book project, provisionally titled Sticky Activism: Online Misogyny and Feminist Anti-Hate Activism in South Korea. It is based on her doctoral dissertation, which received a Dissertation Award Honorable Mention from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in 2021. Through textual, discursive, and institutional analyses of social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and wikis, as well as in-depth interviews with feminist activists, this book examines how new modes of feminist activism have contested the global phenomenon of misogyny in the specific context of contemporary South Korea.
Her work on topics in digital media culture has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Communication, Culture & Critique, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She also authored a chapter in the edited anthology Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment. She was the recipient of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars' WW Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies, the Social Science Research Council's Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, and the Korean American Communication Association-Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange Research Grant.
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- Instructor
- Joe Conway Instructor
Joe Conway has been teaching intoductory and advanced courses in screenwriting and television writing at Emory University for the past five years.
Conway graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Masters Degree in English and Creative writing in 1989; and in addition to his work as an educator, he is s a professional screenwriter with over twenty-five years of experience and three produced films to his credit: Undertow - starring Josh Lucas, Kristin Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, and Jamie Bell - was released by MGM in the fall of 2004, and Roger Ebert named it one of the Top Ten Films of the year; Paradise, Texas, starring Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show, The Paper Chase) was released in late 2005; and After The Fall, starring Wes Bentley (American Beauty, The Hunger Games) and Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter, The Patriot), had its world premiere in February at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival and its North American premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. The film won the 40th Anniversary Award at the 2014 Deuville Film Festival.
Recently Conway optioned a one-hour TV drama titled "Fallout," about an FBI agent trying to solve a series of murders on a nuclear complex in the deep south to Herrick Entertainment.
Education
MA, English/Creative Writing, University of Texas, Austin, 1989
BA, English, University of Texas, Austin, 1987
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- Professor of English and Creative Writing
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- Professor of Japanese Language and Literature
Katherine Taylor was born and raised in Biloxi, MS, a coastal city shaped by decades of natural disasters. Her landscape-themed works explore visual relationships in painting that mediate our experience of disaster and belonging with the natural world.
Taylor is a WAP Fellow with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and resides in Atlanta, where she maintains a studio practice, exhibits, and teaches with Emory in drawing and painting.
Taylor is the recipient of Vermont Studio Fellowships including the VSC Zeta Orionis Fellowship and three time featured in New American Paintings. Her works are reviewed in books, catalogues and publications including Art Papers, The Boston Globe and Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views. Taylor's exhibitions include the Quebec City Biennale; Diverseworks, Houston TX; The Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Marietta Cobb Museum of Art; and in Atlanta, at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and the High Museum of Art.
Krista Clark completed her MFA in Drawing and Painting at Georgia State University in 2016. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2023, Clark held a position at Morehouse College.
Clark's research focuses on the commodification of space and the standardization of building aesthetics. Her work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, The Studio Museum in Harlem New York and the New Museum in New York. She was also the recipient of the Artadia Award in 2018 and the Working Artist Project Award in 2018.
Laura Asherman is a documentarian, stop-motion animator, and sculptor. After growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she moved to Georgia to attend Emory (BA ‘12), where she began observing and documenting Southern stories. She is interested in the manifestation of intergenerational trauma, environmental racism, and artists who use their work for social justice. Her recent films use humor as a lens to explore climate change, personifying animals to examine the Anthropocene.
Asherman earned an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University in 2023, where she participated in a yearlong fellowship at Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics. In 2022, she co-directed Crisis of Substance, a Southeast Emmy-winning PBS documentary about the opioid epidemic in Georgia. Through her production company, Forage Films, Asherman directed and shot documentaries aired on PBS, VICE, and HBO and content for brands such as Red Lobster, Parents Magazine, and Colgate. Her independent films have played at RiverRun, Maryland, Sidewalk, Atlanta Jewish, and Cucalorus film festivals, among others. Between 2018 and 2020, Asherman served as a Kiva fellow and created videos in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Guatemala.
As Director of Ethics and the Arts, Asherman aims to help build relationships between Emory students and Atlanta's vibrant arts and activist communities. She hopes to bring the conversation about ethical documentation practices to the forefront by fostering these connections. Finally, Asherman intends to harness the power of the Emory community to support local artists.
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- Manager, Film and Media Equipment Room
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- Goodrich C. White Professor
- White Professor
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- Program Administrative Assistant
Maureen Downs graduated from Emory University in 2009 with a BA in Theater Studies and Sociology and recently completed an MA in Arts Administration from SCAD.
She works as a freelance stage manager, house manager, and technician for Atlanta area theaters including Theater Emory, Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Out of Hand, Actor's Express, and the Woodruff Arts Center.
She is a Rosie's Theater Kids certified instructor and is currently working to provide free arts education programming to underserved Title I schools in Atlanta.
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- Visiting Assistant Professor
Michael Reinhard's research and teaching interests focus on the history and politics of feminist, queer, & trans media studies, digital & social media, documentary, media consumption, visual culture, and television. Before his time at Emory, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow with the "Rediscovering American Democracy" project at Montclair State. Elsewhere, Dr. Reinhard has taught courses at Columbia University and Rutgers University within the areas of Film Studies, Media Studies, and American Studies.
Across these research areas, Dr. Reinhard's work is interested in how civil rights politics were commercialized by braiding the language of social, political, and media representation. To chart this braiding, he is preparing his first book, The Diva's Public: Celebrity, Media Activism, and the New Cultural Citizenship. This project studies new media approaches to performance by global pop stars as public female figures, and it has attracted strong interest from the University of California Press. In this work, Dr. Reinhard examines how ideas about social progress were transformed by civil rights movements through media industry. By studying how diva performers began forging branded associations with the NAACP, queer liberation, and second wave feminist activism, this project foregrounds how systems of advertising and media production participated in reshaping public understandings of media consumption as a tool for social justice. Crucially, Dr. Reinhard sees this new understanding of media consumption as a vital lens for understanding contemporary debates about history, culture, and society in the 21 st-century.
Dr. Reinhard's work has appeared in Velvet Light Trap, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Studies, and Transformative Works and Cultures. His essays have also appeared in edited collections like Music and Myth in Las Vegas (U Illinois UP), The Films of Susan Seidelman (Edinburgh UP), and Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics (Routledge). Future work is slated to appear in GLQ,Feminist Media Histories, Sexualities, and The Oxford Handbook of American Documentary.
Associations:
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
American Studies Association
Education:
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
MA, University of Chicago
BA, University of Chicago
Job Titles:
- Department Chair & Associate Professor
- Michele Schreiber Department Chair & Associate Professor
Professor Schreiber's insights on gender and the media have been featured in The New York Times, Variety, The Huffington Post, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune and Business Insider.
Before becoming Department Chair in 2021, Professor Schreiber was the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Film and Media from 2015 to 2020. She is an associated faculty member in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Disability Studies Initiative.
Michele Schreiber's research and teaching interests focus on the intersections between film and television genres, women's independent and Hollywood cultural production and representation, feminist criticism and genre studies.
She is the author of American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), and the co-editor of two anthologies: Independent Women: From Film to Television (Routledge, 2021) and Indie Reframed: Women's Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
Her scholarship has appeared in Film Quarterly, Journal of Film and Video, Feminist Media Studies, and numerous anthologies, including American Cinema of the 2010s: Themes and Variations (Rutgers University Press, 2021), The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz (UT Press, 2018), American Independent Cinema: Indie, Indiewood and Beyond (Routledge 2012), and Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History (WSUP, 2010).
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- Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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- Visiting Assistant Professor
Monica Sandler's research focuses on issues of creative labor and the cultures of prestige in the American film and television industry. Her current book project examines the socioeconomic history of the Academy Awards and the development of the movie "awards season." She considers the role that prize-giving practices play in building the class, gender, and racial hierarchies of Hollywood. Sandler's research on the Oscars has been published in Cinephile, Spectator, and the Media Industries Journal and she has also been interviewed as an awards expert in outlets including NPR, The LAist, and Time magazine.
Additionally, she researches Comics Studies and presented on labor rights at the 2023 San Diego Comic-Con. Sandler is interested in the conditions and livelihoods of comics creators as a long un-unionized working body. She is currently producing an edited volume entitled, Conversations: Walter and Louise Simonson through the University Press of Mississippi.
Education
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2023
MA, New York University, 2012
BA, New York University, 2010
Job Titles:
- Finance
- Program Coordinator
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- Rogers Dehanza Assistant Professor, on Leave Spring 2024
Dehanza Rogers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University where she is the Director of Production and an Assistant Professor.
Her filmmaking is in direct conversation with Blackness, specifically Black girlhood. Her research also includes Black (girl) cultural production and representation of Blackness in cinema, television, and social media. She teaches narrative filmmaking, directing, and cinematography, as well as a course on Black girlhood/femme representation in contemporary film, television and media.
Her films have been in exhibition, and screened both nationally and internationally, most recently at Venice Biennale 2022, the Kennedy Center, and PBS. She was recently nominated for an Emmy Award for her work with choreographer and MacArthur fellow Kyle Abraham on race and embodiment in the film If We Were a Love Song which premiered on ALL ARTS, part of The WNET Group and PBS.
She is currently working on a film exploring federal judicial politics and immigration court watching and a film on Black girl joy.
Before joining Emory University, she previously held an academic appointment at Cornell University and is a Cornell Society for the Humanities Fellow.
Education
MFA in Production/Directing, University of California, Los Angeles,
MFA in Cinematography, University of California, Los Angeles,
BA in Anthropology, California State University, Northridge
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- RETIRED - East Asian Studies ( Chinese ), REALC
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- Associate Professor ( French )
Tanju Ozdemir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, he held positions at the University of Connecticut, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Emerson College. His teaches courses on screenwriting, directing, cinematography, and video production.
Tanju is a Turkish filmmaker who writes and directs narrative films that study the complexities of immigration, identity, and memory. His works have been selected for many prominent national and international film festivals.
He has just completed production of his short film "Woodpecker," which follows the story of a Kurdish gay graduate student from Turkey seeking asylum while familiarizing himself with the Turkish-Kurdish diaspora in the U.S.
He is currently working on a feature film called "Black Hole," which focuses on the generational ripples of the Greek-Turkish population exchange within the contemporary context of the U.S. and Turkey.
Education
MFA in Film & Media Art, Emerson College, 2017
B.Sc. in Physics, Bogazici University, 2011
I joined the Department of Film and Media as an assistant professor in 2017. The courses that I teach at Emory revolve around my research areas, namely the history of film and media theory, French culture and cinema, philosophical approaches to film and media, and the history of world cinema. Prior to joining the Department of Film and Media, I taught at North Carolina State University, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3), and Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne.
My research has been published in Film-Philosophy, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Screen, and New Review of Film and Television Studies. I am currently completing a monograph that investigates the overlooked role of cinema in Jacques Derrida's oeuvre, as well as the timeliness of deconstruction for contemporary film and media studies.
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- Professor ( on Sabbatical for 2021 - 2022 )
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- Member of the Leadership Team