Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Brian Amsden Visiting Assistant Professor	bamsden@indiana.edu 856-1365 Office: 219	argumentation and public deliberation, the relationship between liberal-democratic political theory and rhetorical style, rhetoric and law, freedom of speech, and conflicts over the civil and political rights of youth
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 Office: 229	transnational or global film and media studies; film and media co-production; film and media’s intersection with space, place, and location; East Asian film and media; Japanese and Chinese language film and media; inter-Asia cultural studies; memory and film/media; "new" media and globalization; film and media theory and criticism.
Ellizabeth Ellcessor Assistant Professor	eellcess@indiana.edu 855-4379 Office: 243	Digital and social media, participatory culture, celebrity and performance of the self, the intersectional study of disability, television studies, the construction of the public, and cultural 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	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 Department Chair	klinger@indiana.edu 855-7282 Office: 261	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: 233	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-democratic public culture, and the fragmentation of liberalism in the U.S. at the end of the 20th century
Joshua Malitsky Associate 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; 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: 241	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: 251	phenomenology of the natural environment in expressive and popular culture; interpersonal communication; intersections of community and identity in education
Susanne Schwibs Lecturer Production	sschwibs@indiana.edu 855-2217 Office: 283	Film production
Susan Seizer Associate Professor	sseizer@indiana.edu 856-1986 Office: 223	Cultural anthropology; performance studies; comedy in the U.S. & India; humor in use; social stigma; diasporic Indian feminist film; ethnographic methods
Jon Simons Associate Professor	simonsj@indiana.edu 856-0896 Office: 213	image cultures, political imagery, politics and popular culture, aesthetics and politics, Israeli public culture, Israeli peace movement, contemporary 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
Jason Sperb Visiting Assistant Professor	jsperb@indiana.edu 856-4928 Office: 258	US Postmodern Culture, Industry Studies, Film and Nostalgia, Audience Reception, Digital Cinema, Race in the Media, Disney History, Leisure Culture, Film Authorship
Ted Striphas Associate Professor	striphas@indiana.edu 856-7868 Office: 239	the history of media and technologies of communication, 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	American film history and historiography, non-theatrical cinema, moviegoing and film exhibition, genre, Japanese cinema, representation of Japan in American culture