
Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, and Department of Comparative Literature
Media School faculty include award-winning professionals with years of practical experience in their fields, as well as internationally ranked researchers.
Foregrounding Black artistic and intellectual achievement in cinema and media, faculty employ humanistic and social science approaches to address a wide range of genres, including documentary, experimental film and video, speculative fiction, and independent, marginal and oppositional cinema and media formations (e.g. radio and print media). Emphasis is placed on canonical and more recent Black media texts and topics such as:
Research in Black cinema and media benefits from close faculty and student engagement with the Black Film Center & Archive, Black Camera, and the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society.
Additionally, our faculty who work in the area of race and media employ social science, cultural studies and critical-cultural methodologies and approaches to study:
Race is a social construction presenting us with a conundrum of having to see race to see the effects of racism and work to live beyond its illusions, knowing that this undertaking is lived in vastly unequal ways by those racialized in immediate and subtle, though no less felt, ways and those who are not directly racialized as part of the illusion.
Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, and Department of Comparative Literature
Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies & Department of History
Senior Lecturer
Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor (Class of 1948)
Herman B Wells Endowed Professor (Class of 1950)
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor