Core Faculty
CLAIRE SISCO KING
Chair of Cinema & Media Arts
Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Cinema & Media Arts
Email: claire.s.king@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003B
Specializations:
- Critical Cultural Studies
- Rhetoric
- Intersectional Feminism
- Celebrity
- Trauma
JONATHAN WATERS
Associate Chair of Cinema & Media Arts
Curator of International Lens (iLens)
Principle Senior Lecturer of Cinema & Media Arts
Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education
Email: j.waters@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003E
Specializations:
- Production
- Film
- Cinematography
- Directing
- Screenwriting
JONATHAN RATTNER
Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Arts and Art
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Cinema & Media Arts
Email: jonathan.l.rattner@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003D
Specializations:
- Documentaries
- 16mm
- Art Cinema
- Cinematography
- Experimental Filmmaking
Jad Abumrad
Distinguished Research Professor of Cinema & Media Arts and Communication of Science and Technology
Email: jad.abumrad@vanderbilt.edu
Specializations:
- Creative writing
- Music composition
- Broadcast journalism
- Audio storytelling
- Podcasts
MICKEY CASAD
Senior Lecturer of Cinema & Media Arts
Executive Director of Vanderbilt’s Center for Digital Humanities
Email: m.casad@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Digital Humanities Center
Specializations:
- Digital Humanities
- Race, Gender, and Technology
- Digital Archives
- Cultural Memory
- Posthumanism
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
IGGY CORTEZ
Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Arts and English
Coordinator of Film Theory and Visual Culture Seminar
Email: cesar.ignacio.r.cortez@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003C
Specializations:
- World Art Cinema
- Digital Media Ecologies
- Queer Theory
- Comparative Critical Race Studies
- American Independent Film
CARMINE GRIMALDI
Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Arts
Email: carmine.grimaldi@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003A
Specializations:
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Film Production
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Documentary and Hybrid Cinema
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Critical Media Practice
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History of Media, Technology, and Science
JENNIFER FAY
Chair of of the Department of English
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
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Machinima
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Libretto
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Virtual Reality
LUTZ KOEPNICK
Max Kade Foundation Chair of German Studies
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)
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
James McFarland
Associate Professor of German, Russian, and East European Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies for German, Russian, and East European Studies
Email: james.mcfarland@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Furman 119
Specializations:
- Idealist philosophy
- Nietzsche
- Critical theory
- Film
- Modernism
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:
- History of science, with an emphasis on the physical sciences
- History of technology
- Intellectual & cultural history
- Communication of science and technology