Primary Faculty

CLAIRE SISCO KING

Professor, Communication Studies
Chair, Cinema and Media Arts
Chair, Theatre

Email: claire.s.king@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003B

Specializations:

Critical Cultural Studies
Rhetoric
Intersectional Feminism
Celebrity
Trauma

JONATHAN WATERS

Principal Senior Lecturer of Cinema & Media Arts
Curator of International Lens (iLens)
Associate Chair of Cinema & Media Arts

Email: j.waters@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003E

Specializations:

Production
Film
Cinematography
Directing
Screenwriting

MARIAH KRAMER

Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Faculty Advisor of POINT OF VU Student Film Festival
Cinema & Media Arts

Email: mariah.kramer@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003A

Specializations

Film Festivals
Festival programming
Documentaries
Production
Independent Film

JAY CLAYTON

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Cinema & Media Arts
Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy

Email: jay.clayton@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Curb Center

Specializations:

Game Studies
Video Gaming
Transmedia
Remediation
Communication of Science

Sasha Crawford-Holland

Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Arts

Email: sasha.crawford-holland@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003F

Specializations:

Film and Media Theory
Digital Media
Environmental Humanities
Documentary Film and Activist Media
Social Justice and Technology

JENNIFER FAY

Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Cinema & Media Arts
Professor of English and German Studies
Coordinator of Film Theory and Visual Culture Seminar

Email: j.fay@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Benson 332

Specializations:

Transatlantic Film and Media Theory
Media Aesthetics and Politics
Environmental Humanities
Comparative Film Histories

KRISTA KNIGHT

Writer in Residence for Cinema & Media Arts and Theatre

Email: krista.knight@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Neely 206

Specializations:

Playwriting and screenwriting
Stage and Screen
Storytelling
Media for Young Audiences
Machinima
Libretto
Virtual Reality

Professor of Cinema & Media Arts
Chair of the Department of German, Russian, and East European Studies
Director of the Program in Comparative Media Analysis and Practice (CMAP)
Max Kade Foundation Chair of German Studies

Email: lutz.koepnick@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Furman 121A

Specializations:

Media Art
Art Cinema
Sound and Video Installation Art
Aesthetic Theory
Media Theory
German Film History

ANDREA MIRABILE

Associate Professor of Italian and Cinema & Media Arts

Email: andrea.mirabile@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Furman 224

Specializations:

Italian Cinema
French Cinema
Visual Theory
Word and Image
Ekphrasis

OLE MOLVIG

Assistant Professor of History, Communications of Science and Technology, and Physics
Founder of the emergent technology lab at the Wond’ry
Curator of the Garland Historical Scientific Instruments Collection

Email: ole.molvig@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Benson Hall 121

Specializations: