Faculty

Core Faculty

Name	Title/Interest	Email
Catherine Benamou	Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Hispanophone and Lusophone cinema and television, U.S. Latino media, Orson Welles and maverick cinema, transnational flows, spectatorship, Cinematic memory and cultures of preservation Published Books	cbenamou@uci.edu
Desha Dauchan	Associate Professor of Teaching Interests: Media and Activism, African-American Film, African Diaspora Cinema, Screenwriting & Film Production	ddauchan@uci.edu
Sohail Daulatzai	Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: African American studies, Postcolonial Theory, Race, Hip Hop, Muslim Diasporas Published Books	sdaulatz@uci.edu
Arcelia Gutierrez	Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Latinx media studies, media activism, media policy, industry studies	arceliag@uci.edu
Bambi Haggins	Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Black African-American Comedy in Film, Television History, Digital Media and Performance, Comedy as Social and Political Discourse, African-American Studies, American Studies Published Books	bhaggins@uci.edu
Kristen Hatch	Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Director of Visual Studies Interests: American Film History, Stardom, Histories of Race, Gender and Sexuality, Childhood, Melodrama Published Books	khatch@uci.edu
Lucas Hilderbrand	Department Chair and Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Queer Cultures and Media, Cultural Studies, Documentary, Pornography, Popular Music, Video Art, Histories of Technology Published Books	lucas.h@uci.edu
Victoria E. Johnson	Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Television, Critical Race Theory, Sound, Media Policy, Sport Published Books	v.e.johnson@uci.edu
Meryem Kamil	Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: new media studies, postcolonial studies, Palestine/Palestinian social movements, ethnic studies, American studies Published Books	mkamil@uci.edu
Peter Krapp	Professor of Film and Media Studies; English; Informatics; Music Interests: Secret communications and cybernetics (cryptologic history), Cultural memory and media history (games and simulations, history of computing), Aesthetic communication (title design, film music) Published Books	krapp@uci.edu
Keiji Kunigami	Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Brazilian cinema, Japanese cinema, critical race studies, critical theory, decolonial theory, Asian-Latin American Studies	akunigam@uci.edu
Catherine Liu	Professor of Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature Interests: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Culture Wars, Frankfurt School, Historiography of Critical Theory/Cultural Studies, Surveillance, Cold War Culture and Neoliberalism Published Books	catherine.liu@uci.edu
Glen Mimura	Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Minoritarian and Political Film, Media and Race, Popular Culture and Social Movements Published Books	gmimura@uci.edu
Philana Payton	Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Black film and television history, black popular culture, performance studies, classical Hollywood, stardom, women and gender studies, black studies, queer studies	paytonp@uci.edu
Allison Perlman	Director of Undergraduate Studies for Film and Media Studies; Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and History Interests: History of Broadcasting, American Social Movements, Media Law and Policy, Media Activism, Popular Memory Published Books	aperlman@uci.edu
Fatimah Tobing Rony	Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Narrative and Documentary Film Production, Visual Biopolitics, History and Theory of Ethnographic Film, Transnational Cinema, Postcolonial Studies, Feminist Film Theory, Visual Studies Published Books	fatimah@uci.edu
Bonnie Ruberg	Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Digital Media, Game Studies, Technology, Queer Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Gender Studies, Video Games, Feminism, Digital Humanities Published Books	bruberg@uci.edu
Braxton Soderman	Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Digital and New Media Studies, Video Games, Networks, Digital Art & Electronic Literature Published Books	asoderma@uci.edu