NATALIA BRIZUELA
(PhD, New York University; Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese) has areas of research that lie at the intersection of Latin American literature and visual technologies /new media, specializing in Argentine, Brazilian and Chilean literature and culture.
TIMOTHY CLARK
(PhD, London University; Chancellor’s Professor of History of Art) is interested in visual culture.
CAROL J. CLOVER
(PhD, Berkeley; Class of 1936 Professor of Rhetoric and Film Studies and Scandinavian, Emerita) works in film and popular culture and teaches courses in film genre (Horror, Courtroom, Noir).
ULYSSE DUTOIT
(PhD, Lausanne; Senior Lecturer in French) teaches history of French cinema and visual arts, focusing on Resnais, Renoir, and Godard.
DENIZ GÖKTÜRK
(PhD, Free University of Berlin; Associate Professor of German) has taught courses on transnational cinema, world cinema/global cities, and German cinema.
RICHARD HUTSON
(PhD, University of Illinois; Associate Professor of English) teaches American film and popular culture from the beginnings to the 1960s (Griffith, films of the Depression) in its historical context, focusing on cinema as a diagnostic of culture.
MARTIN JAY
(PhD, Harvard University; Professor of History) is interested in theories of visuality and visual culture and is the author of books on German intellectual history and theory (Adorno, Frankfurt School, Lukács) and cultural criticism.
ANTON KAES
(PhD, Stanford University; Chancellor’s Professor of German Literature and Film Studies) teaches courses in film theory, film noir, and German cinema.
GAVRIEL MOSES
(PhD, Brown University; Graduate, London School of Film Technique; Associate Professor of Italian and Film Studies) teaches courses in Italian cinema, literature in film, film theory, and Renaissance roots of the cinematic apparatus.
ANNE NESBET
(PhD, Berkeley; Associate Professor of Slavic and Film Studies) teaches courses in film theory and Russian and European cinema before WWII. Her research interests include Eisenstein, Soviet cinema, and European experiments in the “dialectical image.”
GREG NIEMEYER
(MFA, Stanford University; Assistant Professor of Art Practice and Film Studies) teaches new media and creates digital media installations.
LINDA RUGG
(PhD, Harvard; Associate Professor of Scandinavian) has teaching and research interests that include Swedish literature and culture, 1870 to the present; August Strindberg; Ingmar Bergman; autobiography, including visual autobiography, and literature and the visual arts.
MARK SANDBERG
(PhD, Berkeley; Associate Professor of Scandinavian and Film Studies) works on silent cinema, Scandinavian film history, Ingmar Bergman, and pre-cinematic visual culture. He teaches courses on film historiography, silent cinema, and Scandinavian film.
MIRYAM SAS
(PhD, Yale University; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Japanese) is interested in experimental film, Japanese film, critical theory, twentieth century Japanese, French, and English literature, and the visual and material cultures of modern Japan.
KAJA SILVERMAN
(PhD, Brown University; Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film Studies) teaches film theory and cultural studies, feminist theory and psychoanalysis.
JEFFREY SKOLLER
(PhD, Northwestern; Assistant Professor of Film Studies) teaches film/video production and the theory and practice of counter-cinemas. His work focuses on experimental/avant-garde film and video art, documentary/non-fiction film, Third Cinema, and tactical and activist media practices.
TRINH T. MINH-HA
(PhD, University of Illinois, Champaign; Professor of Women Studies and Rhetoric) is a documentary feminist filmmaker and expert on avant-garde and Third World post-colonial film theory. She teaches seminars on Third Cinema, film theory and aesthetics, cultural politics and feminist theory.
KRISTEN WHISSEL
(PhD, Brown University; Assistant Professor of Film Studies) works on American modernity in early cinema, including representations of the Spanish-American wars, new technologies at World's Fairs and expositions, and the "white slavery" scandals.
LINDA WILLIAMS
(PhD, University of Colorado; Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric) works on popular moving-image genres (pornography, melodrama, and "body genres" of all sorts) visual culture, feminist theory and pornography.
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