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Anderson, Tim (email)

  • Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Popular music

Aslinger, Ben (email)

  • Assistant Professor at Bentley University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Games, music, queer media

Baschiera, Stefano (email) (website)

  • Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, School of Creative Arts
  • Academic Areas of Interest: European Horror Genre production, Italian production of the 1960s – 1970s, streaming distribution

Baoill, Andrew Ó (email)

  • Assistant Professor at Cazenovia College
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Community radio

Baron, Cynthia (email)

  • Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Performance and industry studies

Bernard, Mark (email)

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Johnson C. Smith University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Marketing, home video

Bowdre, Karen (email)

  • Professor at Indiana University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Production studies, romantic comedies, British TV

Carman, Emily (email)

  • Assistant Professor at Chapman University, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
  • Academic Areas of Interest: historical media industries–specifically Hollywood/the Studio system, talent negotiations/contracts, stardom/celebrity

Carstocea, George (email)

  • Doctoral student, University of Southern California
  • Academic Areas of Interest: TV comedy, animation

Chan, Cindy (email)

  • Assistant Professor at Taipei National University of the Arts
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Chinese language cinemas

Christian, Aymar Jean (email) (website)

  • Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, Communication
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Online/web video (series, award shows, networks), television, independent media

Connor, J.D. (email)

  • Assistant Professor, Yale University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Hollywood economics

Craig, David (email)

  • Senior Lecturer, University of Southern California
  • Academic Areas of Interest: TV and media industries, media pedagogy

Curtin, Michael (email)

  • Professor at University of California Santa Barbara
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Globalization, screen industries, cultural geography, media history, media and cultural theory, new media, documentary

DeBoer, Stephanie (email)

  • Assistant Professor, Indiana University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Creative industries, film co-production, new media/new media arts

deWaard, Andrew (email)

  • Doctoral student, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Media industries, transmedia, convergence, political economy

Donoghue, Courtney Brannon (email)

  • Assistant Professor, Oakland University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Global media, Brazil, Conglomerate Hollywood

Drake, Phil (email)

  • Reader in Film, Media, and Culture, Middlesex University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Media law, industry behavior, media economics

Fratini, Dawn (email)

  • Graduate student, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Academic areas of interest: M.P. engineers and techs through 1970

Giggey, Lindsay (email)

  • Graduate student, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Academic Areas of Interest: reality TV, celebrity, labor, branding

Griffin, Hollis (email)

  • Assistant Professor at Denison University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: media industries, political economy, queer Studies, gender studies, critical theory

Harris, Ben (email)

  • Doctoral student, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Academic Areas of Interest: International distribution, local language production

Havens, Tim (email)

  • Associate Professor, University of Iowa
  • Academic Areas of Interest: TV studies, media distribution

Hill, Erin (email) (website)

  • Doctoral Candidate at UCLA
  • Academic Areas of Interest: LA-based TV and film industry production and history, women in media production, below-the-line labor

Hoyt, Eric (email)

  • Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Digital media production, the Digital Humanities, and the past, present, and future of the media industries

Johnson, Catherine (email) (website)

  • Lecturer in Culture, Film, and Media at University of Nottingham, UK, Department of Culture, Film and Media
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Television industries in the US and Europe, branding, global promotional screen industries, television in the digital era, television history

Johnson, Derek (email)

  • Assistant Professor, Media & Cultural Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Creative identities, production culture, franchising, licensing, kids’ media, fan labor, television, video games, comics

Loist, Skadi (email)

  • University of Hamburg
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Film festival studies

Lu, Yi (email)

  • Doctoral Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Chinese film industry, US-China co-production, East Asia, transnational cinema

Kemper, Tom (email)

  • Instructor, Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Classical Hollywood, contemporary Hollywood, talent agents

Kidman, Shawna (email)

  • Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California
  • Academic Areas of Interest: comic book industry

Kohnen, Melanie (email)

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, New York University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Transmedia, web series, sexuality and race

Kompare, Derek (email)

  • Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Media textuality/technology, comics, video games, cult media, globalisation, curriculum/administration

Marzola, Luci (email)

  • Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Early Hollywood, technology, below-the-line labor

McDonald, Paul (email)

  • Professor of Creative Industries at University of Nottingham, UK, Department of Culture, Film and Media
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Film distribution, Film marketing, Business of home entertainment, Business of film stardom

McNutt, Myles (email)

  • Doctoral candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Academic Areas of Interest: space/place, production culture, TV textuality

Meyers, Cynthia B. (email) (website)

  • Associate Professor at College of Mount Saint Vincent, Bronx, NY
  • Academic Areas of Interest: advertising industry, advertising history, broadcasting history, radio history, television industry, new media, new media business models, changes in television industry structure & business models

Miller, Jade (email)

  • Assistant Professor, Marymount Manhattan College
  • Academic Areas of Interest: global media, geography of media industries, global cities, production/distribution and cities

Mitchell, Sarah Dillard (email)

  • PhD Student, Indiana University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Film festivals

Myers, Andrew (email)

  • Graduate student, University of Southern California
  • Academic Areas of Interest: copyright, new media, Hollywood production culture

Nelson, Elissa (email)

  • Academic Areas of Interest: genres, digital distribution

Overpeck, Deron (email)

  • Assistant Professor at Auburn University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: American film industry since 1960, exhibition, trade organizations

Owczarski, Kimberly (email)

  • Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University, Film-Television-Digital Media
  • Academic Areas of Interest: franchises; conglomeration; and marketing

Pardo, Alejandro (email) (website)

  • Head of Production Studies at University of Navarra (Spain), Department of Film, TV & Digital Media
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Spanish and European production studies Hollywood-Europe cooperation and competition

Perren, Alisa (email) (website)

  • Associate Professor at Georgia State University, Department of Communication
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Contemporary Hollywood; US film and TV industry history; Hollywood film & TV distribution practices and production cultures

Petersen, Anne Helen (email) (website)

  • Visiting Assistant Professor at Whitman College
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Star studies, Hollywood industry studies, Celebrity gossip

Phillips, Wyatt (email)

  • Graduate student at New York University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Early cinema, 19th – 20th turn-of-the-century media, media industries/landscapes

Provencher, Ken (email)

  • Doctoral candidate, University of Southern California
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Hollywood-Japan connections, transnational media, East Asia

Punathambekar, Aswin (email) (website)

  • Assistant Professor at University of Michigan, Department of Communication Studies
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Globalization, South Asia, Bollywood, media convergence, media industry history

Redvall, Eva Novrup (email) (website)

  • Assistant Professor at University of Copenhagen, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
  • Academic Areas of Interest: European production studies, creative collaborations, screenwriting studies, television drama production, writer’s rooms.

Russo, Alex (email)

  • Associate Professor at Catholic University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Historical media industries, radio, television, sound studies

Santo, Avi (email)

  • Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Licensing, merchandising, work cultures

Schatz, Tom (email)

  • Professor at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Academic Areas of Interest: American film and media history

Sebok, Bryan R. (email)

  • Assistant Professor at Lewis & Clark College, Media Studies
  • Academic Areas of Interest: digital technology innovation, 3D technology and diffusion, home entertainment culture, technology shifts in Hollywood history, including widescreen, color, 3D, sound

Seiter, Ellen (email)

  • Professor, University of Southern California
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Copyright, trademark, television

Szczepanik, Petr (email)

  • Associate Professor, Masaryk University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Production studies, (post)Socialist Cinemas

Tait, R. Colin (email) (website)

  • Doctoral Candidate at University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio-Television-Film
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Robert De Niro and Steven Soderbergh, as well as Film and TV Genres, and the Contemporary Hollywood Industry

Tinic, Serra (email)

  • Associate Professor at University of Alberta
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Global media, production cultures, TV studies

Tryon, Chuck (email) (website)

  • Assistant Professor at Fayetteville State University, English
  • Academic Areas of Interest: digital delivery (i.e, Netflix, Redbox, streaming video), 3D films, and American independent films

Tussey, Ethan (email)

  • Assistant Professor at Georgia State University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: new media, television, convergence, media industries, sports

Tzioumakis, Yannis (email)

  • Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Independent cinema, Hollywood film within entertainment conglomerates

Van de Vÿver, Lies (email)

  • Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Ghent
  • Academic Areas of Interest: New cinema history

Van Gorp, Jasmijn (email)

  • Post-doctoral Researcher at Utrecht University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Television, digital archives

Vernallis, Carol (email)

  • Lecturer at Stanford University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Contemporary audiovisual aesthetics, YouTube, music video and postclassical cinema

Vonderau, Patrick (email)

  • Lecturer, Stockholm University
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Digital distribution and production

Wiggins, Benjamin (email)

  • Doctoral candidate, University of Minnesota, American Studies
  • Academic Areas of Interest: Entertainment insurance, African-American cinema, Risk, Culture Industry