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
Principle Senior Lecturer, 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, Cinema & Media Arts and Art
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Email: jonathan.l.rattner@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003D

Specializations:

• Documentaries
• 16mm
• Art Cinema
• Cinematography
• Experimental Filmmaking

Mickey Casad

Senior Lecturer, Cinema & Media Arts
Executive Director, 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

Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Arts and English

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, Cinema & Media Arts

Email: carmine.grimaldi@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Buttrick 003A

Specializations:

• Film Production
• Documentary and Hybrid Cinema
• Critical Media Practice
• History of Media, Technology, and Science

Krista Knight

Writer in Residence, 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

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.mirabile@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Furman 224

Specializations:

• Italian Cinema
• French Cinema
• Visual Theory
• Word and Image
• Ekphrasis

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