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Film and Media Studies

Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
Social Sciences & Media Studies 2433
Telephone: (805) 893-2347
E-mail: admin@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
Website: www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
Department Chair: Peter Bloom


 
Faculty
Allison Anders, BA, UC Los Angeles, Professor (film production, music genres and film)
Peter Bloom, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Professor (early visual media culture, international film theory and histories, French and Francophone cultural studies, African studies, and post-colonial media)
Anna Brusutti, Laurea, University of Padua, Italy, Continuing Lecturer (Italian cinema)
Alenda Chang, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (environmental media, game studies, digital media, science and technology studies, sound studies)
Mona Damluji, PhD, UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor (Cultural Studies of Energy; Film and Media Studies; Urban Studies; and Middle East Studies)
Jennifer Holt, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Associate Professor (media industry studies, policy and regulation, media history)
Chris Jenkins, MA, Stanford University, Continuing Lecturer
Ross Melnick, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Professor (Film and Media History, Archive Theory and Practice, Media Industry Studies, Film Exhibition, Early Media Convergence)
Lisa Parks, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor
Constance Penley, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (film history and theory, media studies, literary and rhetorical studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, science and technology studies, contemporary art)
Patrice Petro, PhD, University of Iowa, Professor (film and media history, criticism, and theory; theories of modernism/modernity, globalization and technology; feminism and critical theory)
Bhaskar Sarkar, PhD, University of Southern California, Professor (globalization and culture, post-colonial media theory, Indian cinema, Chinese cinema, trauma and history, risk cultures)
Laila Shereen Sakr, PhD, University of Southern California, Associate Professor (Art & Technology, Media Theory/Practice, Middle East Studies, Feminist Technologies, Digital Activism)
Greg Siegel, PhD, Univeristy of North Carolina, Associate Professor (media studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies)
Cheri Steinkellner, Continuing Lecturer
Cristina Venegas, PhD, University of Southern California, Associate Professor (Latin American and Latino media, international cinema, and digital media technologies)
Althea Wasow, Assistant Professor
Naoki Yamamoto, PhD, Yale University, Associate Professor (Film and Media Theory, Japanese Film Theory, Japanese Cultural and Visual Studies, Asian Cinemas)

 
Emeriti Faculty
Michael Curtin, PhD, University of Wisconsin (globalization, screen industries, cultural geography, media history, media and cultural theory, new media, documentary)
Anna Everett, PhD, University of Southern California (film and television history and theory, Black film, digital media technologies)
Richard Hebdige, MA, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Joint Appointment: ART
Janet Walker, PhD, UC Los Angeles
Charles Wolfe, PhD, Columbia University

 
Affiliated Faculty
Jacqueline Bobo, PhD (Feminist Studies)
D. Ines Casillas, PhD (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Kip Fulbeck, MFA (Art)
Mireille Miller-Young, PhD (Feminist Studies)
David Novak, PhD (Music)
Rita Raley, PhD (English)