Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS

Karen Bowdre Assistant Professor	kmbowdre@indiana.edu 855-0530 Office: 235	African American Film, Critical race and gender studies
Carolyn Calloway-Thomas Associate Professor	calloway@indiana.edu 855-0524 Office: 249	African American public discourse and intercultural communication
Stephanie DeBoer Assistant Professor	sdeboer@indiana.edu 856-3708 Office: 251	Japanese and Chinese language film and media; global media studies; inter-Asia cultural studies; memory and transnational film/media; critical approaches to digital media in the context of globalization
Alexander Doty Professor Department Chair	alexdoty@indiana.edu 855-7282 Office: 261	GLBTQ and feminist film theory, criticism and history; reception theory; film authorship; television studies; American cinema; melodrama; the film musical; horror films; and star studies.
Ilana Gershon Associate Professor	igershon@indiana.edu 856-3728 Office: 215	Anthropology of democracy, indigenous self-representation; U.S. ethnic formations; globalization
Jane Goodman Associate Professor	janegood@indiana.edu 855-3232 Office: 227	Performance and civic life; colonial and postcolonial formations; theater, music, and poetry, with emphasis on the Middle East, North Africa, and France
Mary L. Gray Associate Professor	mlg@indiana.edu 855-4379 Office: 243	Intersections of new media, social movements, and cultural identity; social theory and ethnography of gender and sexuality; sociology of youth and public culture
Joan Hawkins Associate Professor	jchawkin@indiana.edu 855-1548 Office: 211	post-World War II American and French film culture, theories of high and low culture, European and American film history, film theory, horror cinema, experimental film, the avant-garde, theater and performance art
Robert Ivie Professor	rivie@indiana.edu 855-5467 Office: 247	rhetoric as a mode of political critique and cultural production, with an emphasis on democracy and war
Barbara Klinger Professor	klinger@indiana.edu 855-1796 Office: 225	U.S. cinema; film exhibition and reception; fan studies; cinema and new media; film and convergence culture; gender studies; media theory and criticism
Susan Lepselter Assistant Professor	slepselt@indiana.edu 856-3878 Office: 285	American popular culture, social theory, semiotics, narrative, poetics, native American studies
John Lucaites Professor	lucaites@indiana.edu 855-5411 Office: 245	the relationship between rhetoric and social theory in the context of the relationship between race and identity, the impact of visual rhetoric on U.S. liberal-demoncratic public culture, and the fragmentation of liberalism in the U.S. at the end of the 20th century
Josh Malitsky Assistant Professor	jmalitsk@indiana.edu 856-0405 Office: 217	documentary history, theory, and criticism; non-fiction film and nation-building; intersections between documentary, ethnographic film, and the avant-garde; early Soviet cinema; Cuban cinema; West African cinema; realism; and sports media
Michael T. Martin Professor	martinmt@indiana.edu 855-6427 Office: 209	diasporic and émigré formations, transnational migration, diasporic and postcolonial film
Phaedra Pezzullo Associate Professor	pezzullo@indiana.edu 855-2106 Office: 223	environmental communication, environmental justice studies, tourist studies, social movements, gender studies, qualitative research, performance, rhetoric & public culture, and cultural studies
Jennifer Meta Robinson Senior Lecturer Director of C122	jenmetar@indiana.edu 855-4607 Office: 275	environment and community, sense of place, folklore and performance studies, scholarship of teaching and learning
Susanne Schwibs Lecturer Production	sschwibs@indiana.edu 855-2217 Office: 283	Film production
Susan Seizer Associate Professor	sseizer@indiana.edu 856-1986 Office: 241	Cultural anthropology, ethnographic narrative, stigma in social theory, humor in use, performance studies
Jonathan Simons Associate Professor	simonsj@indiana.edu 856-0896 Office: 239	the connection between politics and popular, mediated aesthetics by addressing arguments against the aestheticization of politics common in much critical political and cultural theory
Cynthia Duquette Smith Senior Lecturer Director of C121	cds@indiana.edu 855-5307 Office: 221	the rhetoric of American architecture, public memory, and memory spaces
Ted Striphas Assistant Professor	striphas@indiana.edu 856-7868 Office: 213	the history of media and technologies of comunication, cultural studies, and the philosophy of communication
Robert Terrill Associate Professor	rterrill@indiana.edu 855-0118 Office: 231	African American rhetoric, rhetorical criticism of popular film, and discourses of dissent
Gregory Waller Professor	gwaller@indiana.edu 855-5721 Office: 216	film and culture studies