Faculty
| FACULTY MEMBER | CONTACT | RESEARCH AREAS |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Anderson Associate Professor |
anderso@indiana.edu 855-5914 Office: 209 |
media industries and the history of movies, radio, television, and advertising in the United States |
| 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 M. Doty Professor |
alexdoty@indiana.edu 856-4928 Office: 246 |
GLBTQ film and media studies, Gender studies |
| Ilana Gershon Assistant 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 Assistant 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 |
| Michael Kaplan Assistant Professor |
mikaplan@indiana.edu 856-1365 Office: 219 |
problems of political agency specific to late modernity; the discursive production and representation of democratic citizenship in the cultural public sphere; and the implications of post-structuralist theory for critical rhetorical, media and cultural studies |
| 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 |
| 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, gender and narrative theory, 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 Department Chair |
gwaller@indiana.edu 855-7282 Office: 261 |
film and culture studies |
| William Wiethoff Professor |
wiethoff@indiana.edu 855-9046 Office: 233 |
the history of rhetorical theory, especially during the classical and medieval periods, and on the rhetorical criticism of legal discourse |



