Media & Cultural Studies CFD Predoctoral Fellow Genevieve Yue will present:
The Invisible Face: China Girls On and Offscreen.
February 10. U of M Nicholson Hall. More detailshere.
Media and Cultural Studies faculty include media and film studies professors assigned to the department as well as professors in disciplines in the divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences and other interdisciplinary departments who teach cultural studies, film studies, humanities, and media studies. Faculty are engaged in active research programs that may offer opportunities for student assistance or collaboration.
Leola Johnson, Associate Professor and Chair
Professor Johnson's most recent scholarly work focuses on transgressive representations of black men and women in low-brow and middle-brow culture. She teaches courses on television, the press and other mass media as social and cultural institutions. Johnson was a regular guest on the program Mental Engineering, which airs on public television stations around the country. Professor Johnson has just published a short essay on visual representations of Barack Obama titled "Obama's Body and the Liberal Body Politic," in "Bodytalk, International Journal of Communication, Volume 4.
Office: HUM 301 Spring 2012 office hours: Thursday, 1:00 – 4:00 pm; and by appointment
Phone: 696-6725
E-Mail: johnsonl1@macalester.edu
John Kim, Assistant Professor
John Kim comes to Macalester after having taught at the University of San Francisco, Stanford University and Williams College. He is a theorist and practitioner of new media, who has exhibited interactive installations at museums and galleries across the country. Before returning to teaching, he also worked as a programmer and designer at a handful of internet startups.
Office: HUM 301 Spring 2012 office hours: W 1-3pm; TH 1-2pm; and by appointment Phone:651-696-6788
Email: jkim5@macalester.edu
Michael Griffin, VisitingAssistant Professor
Michael Griffin has a Ph.D. in visual media studies and has worked as a documentary filmmaker and video producer. He writes and teaches on the history, theory and practice of visual representation in film, photography, television, and new multi-media forms. Recent publications include: "Picturing America's 'War on Terrorism' in Afghanistan and Iraq," JOURNALISM: Theory, Practice, Criticism 5(4); "Photos from Abu Ghraib," MESSAGE: Internationale Fachzeitschrift fur Journalismus 3/2004; "The Great War Photographs: Constructing Myths of History and Photojournalism," in B. Brennen and H. Hardt, (eds.) Picturing the Past: Media, History, and Photography.
Office: HUM 300 Spring 2012 Office Hours: M,W 4:45-5:30 pm, T, Th 4:00-4:45 pm, and by appointment
Phone: 651 696-6424
Email: mgriffi1@macalester.edu
Genevieve Yue, Consortium for Faculty Diversity Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Genevieve Yue is a Ph.D. candidate in the Critical Studies program at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California and Managing Editor of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. Her criticism has appeared in Reverse Shot, Film Comment, Cinema Scope, and Moving Image Source, and her research interests include American experimental film and video, contemporary East Asian cinema, and media history and theory. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled “Medusan Optics: Film, Feminism, and the Forbidden Image.” In spring 2012, she will be teaching "Gender, Sexuality, and Film."
Aron J. Kahn is a writer, writing teacher and media consultant who won numerous journalism awards at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. A 1995 series prompted a change in Minnesota law, precipitated a widely known case study on nonprofits by the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. A dalliance into fiction, a screenplay, was optioned by actor Ed Asner. But his first love is news and nonfiction writing, which he practices occasionally as a contributor to news programs at Minnesota Public Radio. He taught previously at the University of Minnesota and eagerly looks forward to his first semester at Macalester.
Martha LeDuc, Department Coordinator Martha has been at Macalester for 10 years and enjoys working with her talented student employees, and HMCS majors and minors. She attended the University of Minnesota and the Provincetown (MA) Art School. She is an artist and has shown her work at Black Dog in St. Paul and Altered Aesthetics in Minneapolis.
Anne Carayon, part-time faculty in the French Department, teaches Advanced Stylistics, Art and Ideas in French Culture, Elementary and Intermediate French, French Conversation and Cultural Trends in Contemporary France. She is interested in contemporary esthetics, and, as an artist, has exhibited in France and the Twin Cities.
Amanda Ciafone's research and teaching is at the nexus of history, cultural studies, and area studies. Her interests include cultural history and cultural studies of Latin America and the Americas, culture and media industries, global capitalism, theories of globalization, and social movements. She is currently at work on a book about The Coca-Cola Company and the politics, cultural representations, and social movements around the multinational corporation
A. Kiarina Kordela, Professor, German & Russian Studies
A. Kiarina Kordela's interdisciplinary approach to German and cultural studies is based on her expertise in intellectual history, philosophy, critical theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, economic and political theory, theories of ideology, film analysis and visual theory, and literature and literary theory.
David Martyn teaches courses in German language, German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present, and in philosophy and critical theory. His major interests are 18th- and early 19th-century German literature and philosophy, literary and cultural theory, and constructions of linguistic and cultural identity in Germany from the late 18th century to the present.
David Moore , Associate Professor and Chair, International Studies
David Moore's primary interests are in literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America. He has published widely in places such as Callaloo, Diaspora, Research in African Literatures, PMLA , Genre, and The Journal of Anthropological Research.
Professor Overman specializes in religion, culture, and ethnicity in the Greco-Roman world. He has written on the development of Christianity and Judaism in the Roman world, the interaction between cultures and races in the Roman Empire, diaspora Judaism, and archaeology of the Roman world. He is an archaeologist and currently the director of the Omrit dig in Israel. Each summer students accompany him to this site in the Middle East to conduct excavations of a Roman temple.
Jane Rhodes, Professor and Chair, American Studies
Dr. Rhodes is Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and Professor and Chair of American Studies at Macalester College. Her writing has been published in numerous book and journals including The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Feminist Media Studies, The Canadian Review of American Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Media History.
Professor Samman teaches the department’s Social Theory course, Islam and the West, Secularism and Its Discontents, as well as a range of classes on social problems and social inequalities. Professor Samman’s latest publication is Cities of God and Nationalism: Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as Contested World Cities (2007.) Recently, professor Samman collaborated with a number of his students and published together their sociologically informed biographries in the journal Human Architecture: The Journal of the Sociology of Self Knowledge (2005, Volume 3.)
Sonita Sarker, Professor and Chair, Women's & Gender Studies
Sonita's research and teaching interests are: feminist and literary theories, cultural globalization as it intersects with nationalism, democracy, and imperialism, and in "minoritized" literatures, with a transnational comparative basis in Western Europe and Asia. She teaches feminist postmodern and postcolonial theories, 20th and 21st century transnational comparative women's writing, and sociopolitical activism. She is the recipient of awards from the Ford, Mellon, Bush, Hewlett, FaCE, and Wallace Foundations.
Linda Schulte-Sasse, DeWitt Wallace Professor and Chair, German & Russian Studies
Professor Schulte-Sasse's areas of specialization include German and American film, German literature, and the analysis of American political discourse. She teaches in the cinema studies (most recently Nazi Cinema and Film and the Fantastic), eighteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, and the German language. She also likes journalistic writing, and publishes occasionally for Scripps-Howard News Service or for the Star-Tribune.
Howard Sinker, Sports Coordinator, Star Tribune, and Sports Commentator, Minnesota Public Radio, Visiting Instructor, Humanities & Media & Cultural Studies
Howard Sinker, a graduate of Macalester, teaches news reporting. He has authored a chapter in the textbook Real Sports Reporting and has run workshops for journalists with the DART Center for Journalism and Trauma and the Poynter Institute's National Writers Workshops
Doug Stone, Visiting Instructor, Humanities & Media & Cultural Studies
Doug has been a journalist for print and broadcast, a U.S. Senate press secretary, a college relations director at Macalester from 1993-2008, a press secretary for a major education union, a journalism teacher for 16 years, and a freelance writer and consultant. An award-winning reporter at the Minneapolis Tribune from 1971-1981 Doug covered everything from police to general assignment to legal affairs. From 1981-1990 he worked at WCCO-TV as assignment editor and then assistant news director, and supervised the newsroom’s political coverage. He was the late Sen. Paul Wellstone’s first Washington, D.C., press secretary from 1991-1993. Doug is currently a communications and media consultant and a freelance writer and writes a blog for the StarTribune.com/yourvoices web page.
Beth Severy-Hoven, Associate Professor and Chair, Classics
Professor Severy-Hoven specializes in Roman history and the history of women in the ancient Mediterranean. She has published a book on the development of Rome's first imperial family, Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire (Routledge 2003). Her more recent work involves the wall painting in a house in Pompeii, and the roles of women in different dynasties of the Roman empire. Her recent courses include Elementary Latin, Homeric Greek, Roman History, the Junior/Senior Seminar in Classics, and the First Year Course Amazons & Aristotle. Professor Severy-Hoven also supervises the January in Rome program.
Joelle Vitiello, Associate Professor, French and Francophone Studies
Joëlle Vitiello, associate professor, and Department chair, teaches 20th century French literature, Francophone Studies, Cultural Trends in Contemporary France, and French at all levels. Her specialization is in contemporary writing by women. She co-organized the first international Women In French Conference.
James von Geldern, Professor, Russian and International Studies
Prof. von Geldern's primary interests are in Russian and Soviet popular culture and cultural history, comparative studies in revolutions and commemoration, international law and legal frameworks, and cultural studies. His most recent project is a website called Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, featuring archival video, music and audio, and texts from Soviet history. The site, which he compiled with Lewis Siegelbaum of Michigan State University, was funded by the NEH and won the MERLOT Classics Award.
Chris Wells, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and History
Chris Well's interests include Environmental history; United States since 1877; U.S. cultural and intellectual history; history of technology; urban history. Prof. Wells' current book project, Car Country, focuses on the cultural and environmental ramifications of the decision to reorient the American landscape around near-universal automobile ownership in the decades before 1960.
John Kim, Assistant Professor
Michael Griffin, Visiting
Genevieve Yue, Consortium for Faculty Diversity Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Howard Sinker, Sports Coordinator, Star Tribune, and Sports Commentator, Minnesota Public Radio, Visiting Instructor, Humanities & Media & Cultural Studies
