Faculty Directory

Research Areas: Media Theory, Digital Rhetoric, Posthumanism, Social Media, Media Infrastructure, Game Studies, Professional-Technical Communication, Digital Pedagogy

Research Areas: Electronic Literature; VR; Intermedia Performance; Intelligent Agents in Media

Research Field: Emerging Practices

Research Areas: Research Areas: film history, theory, and criticism; national/Korean cinema; film censorship/regulation; race and ethnicity in U.S. film and television; Netflix and globalization

Research Topics: Christina Corfield’s work deals with modes of popular cultural production and their methods of representing history, specifically focusing on the discourses raised by the role of technology in their spectatorship. Focusing on the rise of industrialization and popular culture in the 19th century, Corfield’s current research involves reconsidering the Pony Express as both communications technology and cultural artifact of the American popular imagination.

Research Areas: Documentary film production and studies; ethnographic media; ethnography; visual anthropology; emerging interactive documentary; nonfiction ethics; collaborative and participatory media practices; Alaska Native communities; Indigenous heritage and sovereignty with a focus on the practices and ethics of filming across cultural and social boundaries

Research Areas: Film Directing and Producing, Cinematography, Photography, Podcasting, Screenwriting, Environmental Studies, Environmental Justice, Environmental Media, Art and Activism, Storytelling and Social Change, Community Collaboration and the Ethics of Media Representation.

Research Areas: electroacoustics; physical computing; creative coding; experimental practices and performance with attention to digitally mediated experiences

Research Areas: Cinematic landscape and the technological sublime; Experimental and Documentary Filmmaking; Audio Field Recording; Montage; the Archive

Research Topics: Drawn to ideas of flight, escape, and poetic blur, Jenson Leonard’s work takes form out of the collapsed context of the internet—often critiquing its slippage of meaning and techno-capital excess more generally, while pointing out its attraction at the same time.

Research Areas: music composition; interactive performance systems; sound art/design; algorithmic strategies, digital signal processing

Research Areas: New Media; Film and Media Theory; Critical Theory

Research Topics: Live Animation; Stereoscopy; Cinematic Shadow Theater; Contemporary Puppetry; Emerging Media; Virtual Reality

Research Areas: Game Studies, Game Design and Development, Digital Media, Queer and Feminist Studies, Social Justice, Narrative, Community Storytelling, Cognitive Humanities, Digital Humanities, Virtual Reality

Research Areas: Virtual Reality; Game Studies

Research Topics: Computer-assisted music composition; formalized music; non-idiomatic free improvisation; new physical interfaces for creating music; music and audio visualization; and robotic instruments.

Research Areas: Documentary Theory and Practice; Media and Activism; Intersectional Politics and Aesthetics; History of the Interview; Labor

Research Topics: Experimental and emerging media arts; digital culture; audiovisual practice; feminist science studies; posthumanism; elemental media; energy histories; environmental humanities; petrocultures; community practices; speculative fiction and praxis as approaches to meaning making.

Research Areas: Hybrid cinema; new narratives; alternative fiction & non-fiction; personal essay film and inventive approaches to storytelling

Research Topics: Ethical media practices discourse, responsible and engaged storytelling, including works of fiction, experimental work, video art works and emerging frameworks, media technologies, and formats.; Exploring new forms and functions of storytelling using emerging technologies and cross-platform frameworks. ;The philosophical, psychological and ethical impact of film, and media arts within society at large. ;The role of media arts as memory archive and as an educational tool in relationship to aging, end of life, disabilities and new identity constructs. ;The evolution of culture through media arts; including impact producing and outreach measuring using time-based media and new technologies.