Karen Beckman - History of Art and Cinema Studies
Film theory; feminist, queer and critical race theory; early and experimental film; photography; magic; contemporary art.

Stefania Benini - Romance Languages
Italian film and literature and culture.

Timothy Corrigan - English and Cinema Studies
Modern American and international cinema, pedagogy and film.

Julie Nelson Davis - History of Art
Japanese Cinema, especially Mizoguchi, Ozu and Kurosawa, Ukiyo-e prints and paintings of the eighteenth century.

Thadious Davis - English
Geography and African American writers; photography and Southern women; film and literary modernism; visual culture and the Harlem Renaissance; civil rights law and narrative fiction.

Peter Decherney - English and Cinema Studies
Film and media history, with a focus on media institutions, law, and policy.

David L. Eng - English
American literature, Asian American studies, Asian diaspora, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, queer studies, and visual culture.

James English - English
British Cinema, 20th-century British literature and culture.

John L. Jackson, Jr. - Communication, Anthropology, and Africana Studies
Ethnographic methods in media analysis. Impact of mass media on urban life. Mediamaking as a form of community-building and proselytizing among religious organizations. Globalization and the remaking of ethnic/racial diasporas. Visual studies and theories of reality. Racialization and media technology.

Ayako Kano - Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Gender, performance, nationalism.

Heather K. Love - English
Gender studies, the literature and culture of modernity, film, psychoanalysis, race and ethnicity, and critical theory.

Catriona MacLeod - Germanic Languages and Literatures
Nazi cinema; gender studies, in particular literary and aesthetic figurations of androgyny; the intersections between high art and popular culture in Weimar Classicism; the relationship between verbal and visual arts.

Paul Messaris - Communication
Visual communication; viewers' interpretations of images; viewers' responses to the formal devices of advertising and other types of visual persuasion or manipulation; ways in which the media have been affected by the advent of computers; and digital special effects in fiction film.

Philippe Met - Romance Languages
International Horror Cinema and French Film Noir.

Joshua Mosley - Animation and Digital Media in the School of Design
Digital animation, short film, drawing, poetry, experimental film sound, and music.

Lydie Moudileno - Romance Languages
African Cinemas, Francophone Literature from West and Central Africa, Post-Colonial Identity, Contemporary Popular Genres.

Sara Nadal-Melsió - Romance Languages
The role of the documentary in Surrealism; representations of the insurrectional city; contemporary Peninsular Literatures and critical theory.

Kathy Peiss - History
Early cinema and American cinema, 20th century U.S. history, women, gender, and sexuality.

Eve Troutt Powell, History
Film and the Middle East.

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw - History of Art
Race, gender, and class in American art, film and architecture.

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. - Music
African-American and American music, jazz, cultural studies, popular music, film studies, and historiography.

Simon Richter - Germanic Languages and Literatures
German cinema, cinematic traditions.

Barbara Savage - History
The history of the relationship between media and politics; twentieth century African American history; and the history of American religious and social reform movements.

Katherine Sender - Communication
Consumer and popular culture; reality television, especially makeover shows; audience research; cultural production; gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender media and marketing; and documentary film and video, including production.

Michael Solomon - Romance Languages
Comparative media studies, screenwriting, and medieval language literature and culture.

Wendy Steiner - English
Modern literature and critical theory, relations between visual and verbal art, and the contemporary novel.

Salamishah Tillet - English
Twentieth-century African-American literature and visual and performance arts, cultural studies, and feminism.

Xiaojue Wang - East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film, comparative literature, visual and
cultural studies, popular culture.