Five join faculty in time for spring semester
Several new faculty members have joined The Media School faculty this spring, including tenure-track professors and visiting professionals.
“We welcome all of these talented people to The Media School,” said associate dean Lesa Hatley Major. “They bring with them not only knowledge in their fields but also enthusiasm for working with our students.”
Meet the newest members:
Laura Meadows, assistant professor
Meadows has a doctorate from University of North Carolina. Her areas of research include the intersection of media, social movements and political communication through interdisciplinary and multi-method perspectives. She is teaching J110 Foundations of Journalism and Mass Communication and J560 Topics Colloquium: Media and Social Movements.
Richard Dyer, visiting professor
Dyer is a professor of film studies at King’s College in London. His research specialties are entertainment and representation, and the relationships between the two, as well as music and film, Italian cinema, and gay, lesbian and queer cultures. He is teaching C594 Media History, The Moment of La Dolce Vida.
Elaine Monaghan, professor of practice
Elaine Monaghan has worked for Reuters as a correspondent in Russia and a chief correspondent in Ukraine, Belarus and Ireland. She also worked as a correspondent for the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., as well as for The Times of London and Congressional Quarterly. In was vice president at West End Strategy Team, a strategic communications company based in Washington, D.C. She is teaching J560 The Media and the Message Makers and J410 The Media as Social Institutions.
Michael Uslan, professor of practice
Hollywood producer Michael Uslan, known for his work on Batman films, is a New Jersey native who has received three degrees from Indiana University: a bachelor’s degree in history in 1973, a master’s in urban education in 1975 and a law degree in 1976. He is an avid comic book collector and donated his collection to the IU Lilly Library in 2001.
Uslan has had more than three decades of experience in the film and television industry. He is teaching T453 The Business of Producing Motion Pictures and T453 Writing for Comic Books, Graphic Novels and Animation.
David Anspaugh, adjunct professor
David Anspaugh is an American producer and director and native Hoosier. He graduated from University of Southern California’s School of Film and Television. He directed the films Hoosiers and Rudy and the drama series Hill Street Blues, for which he won two Emmys. He is teaching T498 Projects in Telecommunication, Directing for Film and Television.