Dr. Shannon Walsh
Associate Professor
Documentary, film production, South Africa, politics of friendship, social movements, gig economy, gig work, platform economy, cinema, activism, popular education
Dr. Alec Beall, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dating, Attraction, Relationships,
Christine Evans, PhD
Lecturer in Film Studies
Film theory, film-philosophy, critical theory, love, love and cinema, Lacanian psychoanalysis, cinema and psychoanalysis, representation, cinema and popular culture, film and philosophy, film and culture, Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Lacan
Anna Casas Aguilar, PhD
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Spain, Catalonia, masculinities, gender, contemporary Spanish literature and culture
Patrick Rizzotti
Assistant Professor of Scenic and Production Design
Theatre, theatre design, scenic design, production design, film design, devised theatre, virtual reality, AR, augmented reality, mixed reality, XR, site specific, storytelling, narrative
Christopher Patterson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Video games, digital media, critical race theory, queer theory, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, Oceania, tourism, The Philippines, literature, Asian North America, American empire, multiculturalism, colonization, creative writing, fiction, speculative fiction, travel writing, travel, migration, diaspora
Katherine Bowers, PhD
Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies
Russia, Eastern Europe, Russian literature, Russian culture, Russian language, Siberia, gothic literature, narrative, genre, digital humanities, media studies,