Peter Alilunas, Associate Professor        
Research Interests: Sexuality, gender, pornography, adult film history, technology, regulation, censorship, exhibition, spectatorship

Michael Aronson, Associate Professor        
Research Interests: Early and transitional cinema (particularly the 1910s), exhibition and moviegoing culture, and lots of digital stuff

Michael Allan, Associate Professor        
Research Interests: Debates in world literature, postcolonial studies, literary theory, as well as film and visual culture, primarily in Africa and the Middle East

Michael Bray, Senior Instructor I       
Research Interests: Art and technology

Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor        
Research Interests: Postcolonial theory and literature, South Asian visual and cultural studies, cinema studies, comparative media studies, feminist studies

Erin Hanna, Associate Professor        
Research Interests: Overlaps and interactions between the media industries and fans, the San Diego Comic-Con, media industry promotion, histories of fandom and popular culture, Canadian film and television, media industry studies, fan studies, television studies, and feminist media studies.

Masami Kawai, Assistant Professor        
Research Interests: Directing, screenwriting, producing, and independent filmmaking

Dong Hoon Kim, Associate Professor        
Research Interests: Korean film, media and culture, East Asian cinema, early cinema, visual culture, and film and media spectatorship

Gabriela Martínez, Professor        
Research Interests: Media studies and journalism, ethnographic and social documentaries, international communication and the political economy of communication; Latin America and historical, political, cultural, and economic connections highlighting the longstanding connection of the region to other countries and continents around the globe

Kevin E. May, Career Instructor        
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Allison McGuffie, Career Instructor        
Research Interests: Film theory and history, African cinemas, gender and sexuality in Cinema, trans* and cinema, international nonprofit media industries, health communication media, political economy of international aid, transnational feminist studies, postcolonial theory, queer theory, video game critical studies, ethnographic film, third world cinema, ideology and cinema

HyeRyoung Ok, Career Instructor        
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Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Associate Professor        
Research Interests: Media studies, race/ethnicity, dance, mainstream popular culture, media hairstyles, the representation of race, dance and sexuality in film, archival research and media production

Alissa Phillips, Career Instructor        
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Ari Purnama, Assistant Professor        
Research Interests: Global South Cinemas; Film Aesthetics and Cultural Specificity; Film/Media as Practice; Film and Race Relations; Film and Sustainable Development; and Film Technology (Virtual Production and AI Filmmaking).

Philip Scher, Department Head & Professor of Anthropology and Folklore        
Research Interests: Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora, with primary research interests in the politics of heritage and cultural identity, popular and public culture, tourism and transnationalism

André Sirois, Senior Instructor        
Research Interests: Intellectual property law, subcultural studies, pop culture, and hip hop studies

Daniel Gómez Steinhart, Associate Professor        
Research Interests: Global Hollywood history, production studies, film aesthetics, US independent film, and contemporary global art cinema

Colin Williamson, Assistant Professor        
Research Interests: Animation, special effects, and nontheatrical film; early cinema’s place in international histories of art, science, and technology; the history of film theory, representations of the landscape in American cinema, media archaeology, and experimental uses of film and media archives.