Visual & Media Arts
Associate Professor (1982)
B.A. Simmons College; M.A. Boston University; Ph.D. Boston University;
Dr. Claire Andrade-Watkins is a historian, filmmaker and 2nd generation American of Cape Verdean descent. Her scholarship focuses on French and Portuguese language African cinema. She was a 1995-1996 Fulbright Scholar in Cape Verde, and a recipient of an American Philosophical Society grant in l997. She was an Associate Producer on Odyssey, a National PBS anthropology and archaeology documentary series, and Assistant to the Producer on Sankofa, an internationally acclaimed feature film on slavery by filmmaker Haile Gerima. She is the founder and President of SPIA Media Productions, Inc., a production and distribution company specializing in media from the Africana Diaspora. In 2006, SPIA Media released her award-winning feature length documentary,"Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?": A Cape Verdean American Story; - the first in a series of three documentaries about the Cape Verdean community in North America. Dr. Andrade-Watkins is a returning Visiting Scholar for the 2008/2009 Academic Year at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University.
Pierre Archambault
Associate Professor (2002)
B.F.A. Tufts University; M.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago;
Mr. Archambault is a sound designer, sound art and music composer and a performer of electronic music. Among others, his credits include sound design for the award winning, CD-ROM, Exotic Japan, the BBC film Dear Nelson, and contributing composer for the PBS series Our Stories and Made-in-Maine. He also composed the music for the global art exhibit, C.O.D. He has also taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Savannah College of Art & Design.
Miranda Banks
Assistant Professor (2008)
B.A. Stanford University; M.A. University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles;
Dr. Banks' primary area of research is the American film and television industries, with a specific focus on creative and craft guilds and unions. Her current book project is a history of the Writers Guild of America. Dr. Banks worked in programming at the American Cinematheque, and has curated film series for the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She is co-editor of Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries (Routledge, Forthcoming Spring 2009) and has written for Television & New Media, Popular Communication, Flow, and The Journal of Popular Film and Television, as well as for the anthologies Teen Television and Garb: A Reader on Fashion and Culture. Before arriving at Emerson, she spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor in USC's School of Cinematic Arts.
Anya Belkina
Assistant Professor (2007)
B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A. University of California, San Diego;
Born in Moscow, Russia, Anya Belkina began her studies of drawing, painting and design at the Moscow Art Institute In Memory of 1905. After relocating to the United States, she worked as a designer for companies such as NTN Communications, Compton's New Media, Pacific Data Products, Litel Instruments and Chicago Tribune. Prior to joining Emerson College, she taught drawing, design and virtual modeling at Duke University. Belkina's paintings are held in private and corporate collections throughout the United States. Her newer work in the area of new media has been presented nationally and abroad at conventional exhibition venues as well as in form of large-scale site-specific installations, video projections, broadcasted media and cover art for literary journals. Her animated short Nasuh won the North Carolina Filmmaker award and screened at New York City Shorts, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, The Light Factory Museum in Charlotte, NC among other venues. Her experimental animation Crowded with Voices received Honorable Mention from the Accolade International Film Festival.
Harlan Bosmajian
Assistant Professor (2009)
B.A. Western Washington University; M.A. New York University;
Martie Cook
Associate Professor (2002)
B.S. Emerson College; M.F.A. Emerson College;
Ms. Cook has worked as a writer/producer for all four television networks and PBS. Her writing credits include Charles In Charge, and Full House. Her producing credits include Entertainment Tonight, America's Most Wanted, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show and the Emmy-nominated children's show Zoom. Ms. Cook's screenplay Zachary's Truth was optioned by Universal Studios.
Thomas Cooper
Professor (1983)
B.A. Harvard University; M.A. University of Toronto; Ph.D. University of Toronto;
Dr. Cooper is the author or co-author of five pubished books, over a hundred articles and reviews, and is co-publisher of Media Ethics magazine. He served as an assistant to Marshall McLuhan, co-produced some of the first audio-spacebridges between the U.S., Soviet Union and other countries, and has received many fellowships, awards and grants, and was founder and Founding Director of the Association for Responsible Communication which was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988.
Kenneth Feil
Scholar-In-Residence (1995)
B.S. Emerson College; M.A. Emerson College; Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin;
Ken Feil is the author of Dying For A Laugh: Disaster Movies and The Camp Imagination (Wesleyan University Press, 2006). Upcoming publications include "'Talk About Bad Taste': Camp, Cult, and the Reception of What's New, Pussycat?" in Convergence Media History (edited by Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake, forthcoming June 2009, Routledge Press) and "'Esthetically As Well As Morally Repulsive': Kiss Me, Stupid, 'Bilious' Billy, and the Battle of Middlebrow Taste" in a collection on director Billy Wilder (edited by Karen McNally, forthcoming, McFarland). Ken has also commented on various events and issues in popular culture for the Boston Herald, the BBC program The Greatest Ever Disaster Movies (2007), and the CNBC special Nuclear Options (2008).
Marc Fields
Associate Professor (2006)
A.B. Princeton University; M.F.A. New York University;
Marc Fields is a writer/producer/director of arts and cultural documentaries and the winner of five regional Emmys for his work on PBS. He wrote the scripts for two episodes of the recent six-part PBS series, Broadway: The American Musical. His production credits include four years as a Series Producer for State of the Arts, a weekly arts magazine on New Jersey Public Television. He is the co-author of the award-winning biography/theater history From the Bowery to Broadway: Lew Fields and the Roots of American Popular Theater, (Oxford University Press, 1993), and is a frequent consultant for programs about American popular entertainment. He previously taught screenwriting and production at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, the New School and at Concord Academy.
John Craig Freeman
Associate Professor (2002)
B.A. University of California, San Diego; M.F.A. University of Colorado, Boulder;
Professor Freeman uses digital technologies to produce exhibitions made up of projected virtual reality environments that lead the user from global satellite perspectives to virtual reality scenes on the ground. His work has been exhibited internationally including at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, the Kunstraum Walcheturm in Zurich, Eyebeam in New York, City, the Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki Warsaw, Kaliningrad Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Russia, Art Basel Miami, Ciberart Bilbao and the Girona Video and Digital Arts Festival in Spain, La Biblioteca National in Havana, the Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, the Nickle Arts Museum in Calgary, the Center for Experimental and Perceptual Art (CEPA) in Buffalo, Art interactive, Mobius and Studio Soto in Boston, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, Ambrosino Gallery in Miami, the Photographers Gallery in London, and the Friends of Photography's Ansel Adams Center in San Francisco.
Donald Fry
Associate Professor (1986)
B.A. Bowling Green State University; M.A. Bowling Green State University; Ph.D. The Ohio State University;
Dr. Fry?s expertise is in mass communication theory, research methods, and media management. He served as Television and Film Head, Department of Speech Communication, Wichita State University, and has taught at West Virginia University, Ohio State University, and Bowling Green State University. Dr. Fry has published in The Journal of Communication Inquiry, Communication Yearbook, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Newspaper Research Journal, and Mass Communication Yearbook.
Daniel Gaucher
Assistant Professor (2005)
B.A. University of New Hampshire; M.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art;
Daniel Gaucher established himself in the production world as one of the original editors for the hit series, Blind Date. Since then, he has crafted a series of successes including 5th Wheel, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and Extreme Engineering. His work has aired worldwide on NBC, MTV, Bravo, A&E, UPN, Spike, VH-1, TLC, Discovery, PBS and the National Geographic Channel.
John Gianvito
Assistant Professor (2003)
B.F.A. California Institute of the Arts; M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Professor Gianvito is a filmmaker, curator, and critic. His films include the feature films The Flower of Pain, Address Unknown, and The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein, winner of multiple awards including being cited as one of the top ten films of the year by critics in The Chicago Reader, The Boston Phoenix, and Film Comment magazine. He has taught film production and film history at the University of Massachusetts/Boston, Rhode Island School of Design, and Boston University, and was film curator for 5 years at the Harvard Film Archive. In 2001 he was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.
Eric Gordon
Assistant Professor (2004)
B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D. University of Southern California;
Eric Gordon is a scholar of new media, with a special interest in place-based digital communities, social networking, and virtual environments. He has recently published articles in Space and Culture, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Information, Communication and Society. He edited a special issue of Space and Culture on the topic of "The Geography of Virtual Worlds," exploring the ideas of how location matters even in the most virtual of conditions. His book, The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities From Kodak to Google is forthcoming from Dartmouth College Press. He is the principal investigator of the The Digital Lyceum (http://digitallyceum.org), an NEH funded project that seeks to build systems and practices around using and preserving digital backchannels for live events. And he received a MacArthur Digital Media and Learning grant for a project called Participatory Chinatown, which investigates the use of 3-D gaming technologies to augment the community planning process.
Amy Grill
Producer-in-Residence (2001)
B.S. University of Kansas;
Amy Grill recently moved back to Boston after launching the College Outreach program at global documentary TV network Current in 2007 and heading up Current's College and Events division in Experiential Marketing. She has worked in various capacities (everything from production assistant to producer) in network and cable television in New York, Los Angeles and in public television in Boston. Amy was a key architect in building the student television network at Emerson College (The Emerson Channel) and is active on the college media conference circuit (Broadcast Educators Association, College Media Advisors, Association of Higher Education Campus Television Administrators). She just finished directing and producing her first feature length documentary, Speaking in Code which is currently screening at film festivals all over the world.
Hassan Ildari
Assistant Professor (2009)
B.F.A. University of Bridgeport;
Sarah Kernochan
Jane and Terry Semel Chair in Screenwriting (2009)
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Joseph Ketner
Lois and Henry Foster Chair in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice (2008)
B.A. Indiana University; M.A. Indiana University;
Tom Kingdon
Associate Chair and Associate Professor (1994)
M.A. University of Birmingham, England;
Mr. Kingdon has been a producer, director (theater and television) and production manager. His directing credits include BBC TV's Theatre Night and Eastenders, in addition to Beowulf (2006), Interfaces (2009) and many network drama series, children's programs, and corporate productions. His book on directing narrative fiction, Total Directing, was published in 2004.
Brooke Knight
Associate Professor (2002)
B.A. Davidson College; M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts;
Professor Knight's interactive artwork is currently centered around surveillance, webcams, and remote control, and the relationship between text and landscape. His work has been shown in over 40 exhibitions and festivals in over ten countries. He has also taught at the University of Maine and West Texas A&M University.
Cristina Kotz Cornejo
Associate Professor (2001)
B.A. University of Southern California; M.A. Antioch College; M.F.A. New York University;
Raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the US, Cristina Kotz Cornejo is an independent filmmaker whose debut feature film, 3 Américas (2007) premiered at the 2007 Woodstock Film Festival. 3 Américas has since screened at over 15 venues nationally and internationally ranging from Uruguay to San Francisco to New York City and is distributed by Vanguard Cinema and Cinetic Rights Management (Cinetic Media). The screenplay for 3 Américas was twice semi-finalist for the 2004/2005 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab, participated in the IFP/NY Director's Lab and was in the script competition at the 2003 International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, Cuba. She is the recipient of 2004 and 2007 Moving Image Fund Grants from the LEF Foundation and was invited to attend the Sundance Institute's 2004 Independent Producer's Conference. Her last short film, La Guerra Que No Fue/The War That Never Was (2004) has screened at over 25 national and international festivals in over 10 countries and is distributed by Ouat! Media. She is a twice recipient of the Award of Merit from the University Film and Video Association for her short films, Ocean Waves (2002) and Ernesto (2000). Her thesis film at NYU, The Appointment (1999), developed under the advisement of Spike Lee and Nancy Savoca was awarded 3 NYU Craft Awards, a Warner Bros. Pictures Production Award, and a Dean's Post Production Award and was distributed by Urban Entertainment.
Cristina is a contributing author of Filming Difference: Actors, Directors, Producers and Writers on Gender, Race and Sexuality in Film, University of Texas Press, May 2009.
Cher Krause Knight
Associate Professor (2002)
B.A. Rutgers University; M.A. City University of New York; Ph.D. Temple University;
Cher Krause Knight is an art historian focused on modern and contemporary art and architecture. She is also a specialist in museum studies, with an emphasis on curatorial theory. Dr. Knight has published her work in a variety of sources, including Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, the Journal of American and Comparative Cultures, Visual Resources, and American Art Review. She has contributed essays to the anthologies Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism (2007, Cambridge Scholars Publishing), and Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1999, SUNY Press). Professor Knight has also authored three books: An Independent Spirit: The Art and Life of R.A.D. Miller (2009, James A. Michener Museum of Art); Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism (2008, Blackwell Publishing); and Louis Bosa: A Keen Eye and a Kind Heart (2005, James A. Michener Museum of Art). She has been twice awarded the Gemmill Research Fellowship at the Michener Museum in Doylestown, PA, and was Emerson College's 2006-2007 recipient of the Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award. Dr. Knight is a co-founder, and currently serves as co-chair, of the Public Art Dialogue, a professional organization devoted to providing an interdisciplinary, critical forum for that field.
Diane Lake
Assistant Professor (2006)
B.F.A. Drake University; M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst;
Diane Lake, who previously taught screenwriting for UCLA's acclaimed Writer's Program, has been a working screenwriter since 1993 when she sold her first story idea. Since then, she has been commissioned to write screenplays for Columbia, Disney, Miramax and Paramount, as well as numerous independent producers. Projects currently in active development include Distance, the story of the French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot, under option by Blue Collar Films; Chandler, a film noir set in 1930s Los Angeles, being packaged by Roth/Arnold Productions; and A Thousand Cranes, an epic love story set against the backdrop of the bombing of Hiroshima in WWII, being packaged by Digital Domain Studios. Diane's film, Frida, opened the Venice Film Festival in 2002, and was named one of the 10 best films of the year by numerous top 10 lists, including The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. Frida was also nominated for 6 Academy Awards in 2003.
James Macak
Assistant Professor (2006)
B.A. University of Akron; M.F.A. Yale School of Drama;
Jim worked as an intern for Emmy and Humanitas winner David Milch and went on to write scripts for three of David's shows, including NYPD BLUE. Jim was also chosen as a Disney Fellow and wrote a produced sitcom pilot for Disney and CBS as well as several TV movies for CBS, FOX and Lifetime. He served as a staff writer for other TV dramas and the daytime serial GENERAL HOSPITAL. Jim is also a playwright -- his plays have been seen at The Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, The Coast Playhouse in Los Angeles and the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Festival in Key West.
Maurice Methot
Associate Professor (2000)
M.A. Brown University;
Mr. Methot teaches courses in Audio for New Media, Studio Recording, and Media Production. He is a composer, performer, and media artist whose work is devoted to the exploration of sound both as a physical phenomenon and as a metaphorical device. He has performed extensively in a variety of venues ranging from punk mecca C.B.G.B.'s to the Moscow Conservatory of Music. His work in experimental video has been screened at a numerous conferences and digital media festivals. His professional work includes freelance production for MTV. His projects are available on CD, cassette, vinyl, and on the WWW. He has also taught at Brown University, Southern Illinois University, and Albright College in Pennsylvania.
Robert Patton-Spruill
Artist-In-Residence (2007)
B.A. Boston University; M.S. Boston University;
Kathryn Ramey
Assistant Professor (2004)
B.A. Evergreen State College; M.F.A. Temple University; Graduate Certificate Temple University; Ph.D. Temple University;
Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work operates at the intersection of experimental film processes and ethnographic research. Her award winning and strongly personal films are characterized by manipulation of the celluloid including hand-processing, optical printing, and various direct animation techniques. Her scholarly interest is focused on the social history of the Avant-Garde film community, the anthropology of visual communication and the intersection between avant-garde and ethnographic film and art practices. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Social Science Research Council on the Arts fellowship, the LEF New England moving Image Grant and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship. She has published articles in Visual Anthropology Review and The Independent as well as the anthology Women's Experimental Cinema and has screened films at multiple film festivals and other venues including the Toronto Film Festival, MadCat Women's Film Festival, 25fps Experimental Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC.
Jan Roberts-Breslin
Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor (1990)
B.A. University of Delaware; M.F.A. Temple University;
Ms. Roberts-Breslin is an independent media artist whose work has been broadcast on PBS and has received national and international festival awards. She served as video director for the United Church of Christ in New York City and has taught at Temple and Seton Hall universities. She is the author of Making Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production, the second edition of which was published in 2006.
Robert Sabal
Associate Professor and Director of the BFA Program (1997)
B.S. Northwestern University; M.F.A. Northwestern University;
Professor Sabal is a film and video producer whose works include narrative drama, documentary, abstract experimental, instructional, and commercials. His films and videos have won awards at numerous festivals and have been funded through regional, state, and local grants. He previously taught at the University of Arizona and the University of Texas.
Eric Schaefer
Interim Chair and Associate Professor (1992)
B.A. Webster University; M.A. University of Texas, Austin; Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin;
Dr. Schaefer is a film and media historian who specializes in exploitation film and other marginalized cinemas. His essays have been published in Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, Film History, and anthologies such as Looking Past the Screen, Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics, and American Cinema of the 1960s. He is the author of "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 now in its third printing. He is working on Massacre of Pleasure: A History of Sexploitation Films, 1960-1979 and an anthology on media and the sexual revolution. Dr. Schaefer is active in the area of film preservation as a member of the advisory board of Northeast Historic Film and the editorial board of The Moving Image, the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. He has twice served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Michael Selig
Associate Professor (1986)
B.S. University of Texas; M.A. University of Texas; Ph.D. Northwestern University;
Dr. Selig has taught at the University of Vermont, Rosary College, Northwestern University, and the University of Texas. He has published in Screen, Wide Angle, Jump Cut, and other publications. He is a former editor of the Journal of Film and Video.
Jane Shattuc
Professor (1989)
B.A. Indiana University; M.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison;
Dr. Shattuc has taught at the University of Vermont, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a fellow at Bonn Universität, Bonn, Germany. Dr. Shattuc is the author of Television, Tabloids, Tears: Fassbinder and Popular Culture and The Talking Cure: Television Talk Shows and Women, and the editor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Cultures.
Lauren Shaw
Associate Professor (1972)
B.V.A. Georgia State University; M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design;
Lauren Shaw co-chaired the National Conference: Women in Photography in 1997, and helped formed New England Women in Photography. She is the recipient of two National Endowment Regional Grants, and seven Faculty Advancement Fund Grants. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and in the collection of the Getty Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fogg Museum, High Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, the Library of Congress, and the Newark Museum. Her photographic installation, Maine Women: Living on the Land was exhibited at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine: Aug. -Nov. 2005. It will then travel throughout the state of Maine for the following year before coming to Boston. The accompanying documentary film , Maine Women: Living on the Land, premiered at the Maine International Film Festival 2005, and was shown again at the Camden International Film Festival. The Farnsworth Museum has published her book Maine Women: Living on the Land with an essay by Lucy Lippard, the renowned art and social critic.
James Sheldon
Associate Professor and Director of Media Production (1996)
B.A. Cornell University; M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Before joining the Emerson faculty in 1996, Mr. Sheldon worked for many years as a museum curator and artist active in the media of photography, video, and interactive art. Recently he produced a number of interactive exhibition applications for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Currently he is working on a series of on-line interactive documentaries about cultural landscapes funded by the Cultural Landscape Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Stephen Shipps
Associate Professor (1971)
A.B. Dartmouth College; Ed.D. Harvard University;
Dr. Shipps is an arts educator primarily concerned with the nature and history of "art" as a Western cultural institution, and how best to teach about that. He has written and spoken widely about those concerns in both national and international forums. An award-winning teacher, he has been a Fellow of the National Endowment of the Humanities and of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, and has served as Chair of the Education Committee of the College Art Association.
Jean Stawarz
Associate Professor (1999)
B.S. Boston University; M.F.A. Goddard College;
Ms. Stawarz has worked as a screenwriter for film and television, a story editor, and associate producer. Numerous producers have optioned her work including, Davis Entertainment/Classics, Accent Entertainment and the CBC. Her production credits include the award-winning films Powwow Highway, Henry & Verlin, the television movie, Spirit Rider, and the CBC show, North of Sixty. Her work has screened at many film festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, Montreal Film Festival, Munich Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and American Indian Film Festival, and has aired on PBS, CBC, and the BBC. She wrote, produced, directed and edited the short film, The Hunters, winner of the Best International Short Under 25 Minutes at the Ireland International Film Festival. The Telluride Indie Fest named her original screenplay, The Sculptors, one of the "Top Thirty Screenplays in the World." She has served on the board of directors for the University Film and Video Association and on the editorial board of the Journal of Film and Video.
Robert Todd
Associate Professor (2000)
B.A. Tufts University; B.F.A. School of the Museum of Fine Arts; M.F.A. Tufts University;
A lyrical filmmaker as well as a sound and visual artist, Robert Todd continually produces short works that resist categorization. In the past twelve years he has produced a large body of short-to-medium format films that have been exhibited internationally at a wide variety of venues and festivals including the Media City Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Le Rencontres Internationale, Black Maria Film Festival, Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, Cinematheque Ontario, the Harvard Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, the Paris Biennial, Slamdance Film Festival, and others. His films have won numerous festival prizes, grants, and artist's awards. He has taught film production at Boston College, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Institute of Boston, University of Massachusetts, and the Boston Film and Video Foundation.
He has also worked as editor, sound designer/editor, post-supervisor or music producer on various award-winning broadcast and theatrically-released media programs.
Paul Turano
Artist-In-Residence (2006)
B.A. Hampshire College; M.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art;
Paul Turano has independently produced numerous personal films. His work has been exhibited nationally and abroad and has been shown at festivals throughout North America, including the Black Maria, Ann Arbor, Athens International, Hartford International, and the New England Film and Video festivals. Locally, his films have been screened at the Harvard Film Archive, the Coolidge Corner Theater, the Embassy Theater, and the Museum of Fine Arts. He is the recipient of a Media Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a 2007 Moving Image Fund Grant from the LEF Foundation. He has taught film production and film studies at Hampshire College, Massachusetts College of Art, Harvard University, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. His recent digital video "I Covered My Eyes," won 3rd place at FLEX FEST, and 3rd place in the experimental category at MAGA Film and Video Festival, as well as being presented at Globians World and Culture Documentary Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. He is currently completing a ½ hour 16mm film "Windows onto Montebello Rd." a meditation on personal space and the pre-millennial American political landscape.
Shujen Wang
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the School of the Arts (1998)
B.A. The Chinese Culture University, Taiwan; M.S. Indiana University; Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park;
Author of Framing Piracy: Globalization and Film Distribution in Great China (2003), Dr. Wang's research interests include media globalization, film distribution and piracy, and issues surrounding networks, space, and technology. In addition to having contributed book chapters to several anthologies, her work has appeared in Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, Asian Cinema, positions, Public Culture, Theory Culture & Society, Global Media Journal, Policy Futures in Education, East Asia: An International Quarterly, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Visual Anthropology, Gazette, Text, Asian Journal of Communication, Media Asia, among others. Her work has also been translated into Portuguese and Chinese. Formerly president of Chinese Communication Association, Dr. Wang has also been research associate in the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University since 2002.
Marc Weinberg
Screenwriter-In-Residence (2006)
B.A. Rutgers University; M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles;
Marc Weinberg has a supernatural thriller slated for production in late 2006/early 2007. He has written a biopic on Harry Houdini for A&E, sold scripts and story ideas to the USA Network and Dick Clark Productions, and has written for several shows on the Discovery Channel. Marc is a member of the Writers Guild of America, and presently teaches writing for film at the Disney/Pixar Studios, Brandeis University, and Dickinson College. He also spent over a decade working as a story analyst for production companies and studios, including 20th Century-Fox, MGM, and Interscope Communications.
