Area of Expertise: Film
Coplan, Amy
Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Knowledge
- Ancient Greek philosophy and culture
- History of philosophy
- Contemporary ethics and moral psychology
- Philosophy and film (especially issues relating to the ethics of film representations and the psychology of the film viewer)
Davis Jr., Robert W.
Professor of Cinema and Television Arts
Areas of Knowledge
- Contemporary American film
- European and Asian cinema
Desser, David M.
Lecturer in Cinema and Television Arts
Areas of Knowledge
- Japanese Film
- Hong Kong Cinema
- Jews and Film
Engels, Robert M.
Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts
Areas of Knowledge
- TV-FILM
Fink, Edward J.
Professor of Cinema and Television Arts
Areas of Knowledge
- Television, video and film production
- Scriptwriting
- Media history, criticism and aesthetics
Frost, Jacqueline B.
Professor of Cinema and Television Arts
Areas of Knowledge
- Film production (cinematography, independent film producing and directing)
Hargraves, Hunter
Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts
Areas of Knowledge
- television criticism
- popular culture studies
- television history
Lagerberg, Don
Professor Emeritus of Art
Areas of Knowledge
- Figure drawing and painting
- Head and hands drawing
- Portraiture (historical and contemporary)
- Character design (historical and contemporary)
- Scene design (historical and contemporary)
- Storyboarding
- Aspects of the arts as they relate to certain periods in ancient art
- Western art since 1400
- Japanese 19th century
- Popular culture
- Comics in America
- Production design for film
Monti, Gloria
Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts
Areas of Knowledge
- Hollywood cinema
- European cinema
- Feminist film theory
- Race theory
- Jean-Luc Godard
Puente, Henry
Professor of Communications
Areas of Knowledge
- Media diversity issues
- Film marketing/distribution
- U.S. Latino film/media
- Latino film distribution
- Media/film stereotyping
Sekhon, Sharon
Lecturer in American Studies, Asian American Studies, University Honors Program
Areas of Knowledge
- History
Seymour, Nicole
Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics
Areas of Knowledge
- Environmental Humanities
- Environmentalism
- Literature and the Environment
- Film and the Environment or Ecocinema
- Queer Theory or Queer Studies
- LGBTQ Literature or Queer Literature
- Queer Ecology
- Transgender Studies or Transgender Theory
- Performance Studies
- Affect Theory or Affect Studies
Sheehan, Rebecca A.
Professor of Cinema and Television Arts
Areas of Knowledge
- American Avant-Garde Cinema
- Sculpture and Cinema
- Film and Philosophy
- Border Cinema
- Early American and German Cinema
- Experimental Cinema and Modernist Poetics
Sparks, Anthony
Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts
Areas of Knowledge
- Television Industry/Media Industry Studies
- Television Writing/Screenwriting
- Politics & Performance Studies
- African American Culture & Politics
Sztajnkrycer, Ben
Lecturer in Cinema and Television Arts
Areas of Knowledge
- Screenwriting
