Core Faculty
Jennifer Fay
Chair, Cinema & Media Arts
Professor, Cinema & Media Arts and English
Graduate Faculty, German Studies
Coordinator, Film Theory and Visual Culture Seminar
Email: j.fay@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003B
Specializations:
- Transatlantic Film and Media Theory
- Media Aesthetics and Politics
- Environmental Humanities
- Comparative Film Histories
Jonathan Waters
Associate Chair, Cinema & Media Arts
Curator, iLens
Senior Lecturer, Cinema & Media Arts
Email: j.waters@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003E
Specializations:
- Production
- Film
- Cinematography
- Directing
- Screenwriting
Alejandro Acierto
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Digital Art and New Media
Email: alejandro.t.acierto@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Ingram Studio Arts Building Room 212
Specializations:
- Electronic Visualization
- Digital Art
- Contemporary Music
- Sound Art
- Installation Art
Mickey Casad
Senior Lecturer, Cinema & Media Arts
Coordinator, Vanderbilt 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, English and Cinema & Media Arts
Director, 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
Mellon Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Arts
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
Krista Knight
Writer in Residence, Cinema & Media Arts and Theatre
Email: krista.knight@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Neely 206
Specializations:
- Playwriting
- Screenwriting
- Stage and Screen
- Storytelling
- Media for Young Audiences
LUTZ KOEPNICK
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, German and Cinema & Media Arts
Department Chair, GREES
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
Jim McFarland
Associate Professor, German and Cinema & Media Arts
Director of Undergraduate Studies, GREES
Email: james.mcfarland@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Furman 119
Specializations:
- Idealist Philosophy
- Nietzsche
- Critical Theory
- Film
- Modernism
Andrea Mirabile
Associate Professor, Italian and Cinema & Media Arts
Email: andrea.mirable@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Furman 224
Specializations:
- Italian Cinema
- French Cinema
- Visual Theory
- Word and Image
- Ekphrasis
Jonathan Rattner
Associate Professor, Cinema & Media Arts and Art
Email: jonathan.l.rattner@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003D
Specializations:
- Documentaries
- 16mm
- Art Cinema
- Cinematography
- Experimental Filmmaking
sahar Sajadieh
Post-doctoral Scholar, Cinema & Media Arts and CMAP
Email: sahar.sajadieh@vanderbilt.edu
Specializations:
Helen Shin
Assistant Professor, English and Cinema & Media Arts
Email: haerin.shin@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 412 Benson Science Hall
Specializations:
- Posthuman
- Digital Media
- Science Fiction
- Artificial Intelligence
- Asian Studies
- Asian American Studies
Claire Sisco King
Associate Professor, Communication Studies and Cinema & Media Arts
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Communication Studies
Email: claire.s.king@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 220L Edgehill
Specializations:
- Critical Cultural Studies
- Rhetoric
- Intersectional Feminism
- Celebrity
- Trauma