2009-10 Lecturers
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Jesse Fankushen, MA in Social Documentation from UC Santa Cruz (2007), was a member of the first-ever class of this graduate program. His thesis was a documentary video examining social and cultural issues faced by professional Hammond organists. Work includes as an assistant editor on an Academy Award nominated documentary, as well as for the Bay Area Video Coalition and the program Forum on KQED-FM. Research interests include film noir and soul-jazz. Teaching Winter Quarter - Film 20P, Introduction to Production Technique. Lindsay Kelley is an artist and writer currently researching bioart, fringe foods, and uncommon modes of food preparation and ingestion. She has exhibited and published in the United States, Canada, and Australia. She recently completed a dissertation in the History of Consciousness Department at University of California Santa Cruz about food, biotechnology, and contemporary art, focusing on artists who use biological processes or "wet ware." She also holds a MFA in Digital Art and New Media from UCSC. Kelley is a video maker with extensive experience working for a variety of internet concerns. Jaime J. Nasser received his PhD in Film and Television Studies from the Critical Studies Division in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California in 2008. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the same school where he recently completed editing a special issue of USC's Journal of Film and Television Criticism, Spectator, titled "Building Walls in a Borderless World: Media and Human Mobility Across Divided Spaces." He is currently working on a book manuscript based on his dissertation titled: "Exporting Tears and Fantasies of (under)Development: Television Genres and Nationalism in Mexico After World War II." Suzanne Scott is a doctoral candidate in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. She is currently writing her dissertation, titled "Branding Fandom: The Politics of Mainstreaming Geek Culture," examining the gendered impact of convergence culture's embrace of the fanboy as a power demographic. Her work has been published in the collection Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica, and the online journal Transformative Works and Cultures. In addition to serving on the symposium editorial board for Transformative Works and Cultures, she was named a HASTAC scholar in 2008 and was awarded the Mary Pickford Scholarship in 2009. Drew Todd received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, with a doctoral minor in Art History. He has published on a variety of topics within film studies, including dandyism and cinema, crime films, history of film technology, and the poetics and politics of Satyajit Ray's cinema. He is currently completing a book on what he terms, "Art Deco Hollywood." In addition to lecturing on film topics in UCSC's Film and Digital Media Department, he teaches at San José State University. When he is not teaching or writing, or conducting research in any of California's splendid film archives, Drew is ideally camping in the Sierras, watching Buñuel, or playing duplicate bridge. Teaching Winter Quarter - Film 194A, Film Theory Seminar: Surrealism-Practice, Theory, and Criticism. Natasha V. studied screenwriting at Columbia University in New York, earned an MFA in Cinema production from SFSU, and both BA & MA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. Her creative interests focus on problems in writing for the female Protagonist as well as alternative narrative structures. Natasha won a national screenwriting competition and was invited to submit scripts to the Sundance Lab three years running. She has also written for magazines, museums, and the music business. Greg Youmans recently earned his Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness program at UC Santa Cruz. His doctoral research focused on gay and lesbian activist and experimental filmmaking of the late 1970s, in the context of the mobilization of the religious right, the nascent moral panic around child sexuality, and the channeling of gay and lesbian politics into a liberal, rights-based agenda. He is currently developing his dissertation into a book, as well as preparing a series of journal articles pertaining to U.S. and French queer, activist, and experimental media more broadly. Youmans is also a film and video maker and programmer. His current project, a video collaboration with Chris Vargas, screened this past year at festivals in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. |