Authors

Dr. Jaimie Baron is the author of two books, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (2020) as well as numerous essays. She is the director of the Festival of (In)appropriation and co-editor of the Docalogue website and book series. She currently lectures in Film and Media at UC Berkeley.

Christine Becker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame specializing in film and television history and media industry studies. Her book It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television (Wesleyan University Press, 2009) won the 2011 IAMHIST Michael Nelson Prize. She is a co-host and co-producer of Aca-Media, the official podcast of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Lauren S. Berliner is an Associate Professor of Media & Communication Studies at University of Washington Bothell where she teaches courses in digital media studies and visual culture. She is the author of the book Producing Queer Youth: The Paradox of Digital Media Empowerment (Routledge, 2018), co-editor of Feminist Interventions in Participatory Media: Pedagogy, Publics, Practice (Routledge, 2018), and has published multiple book chapters and articles in journals such as JCMS, Feminist Media Histories, and Alphaville.

Nilanjana Bhattacharjya teaches at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on music and narrative, music and identity in the South Asian diaspora, popular Hindi films, and doing video criticism. Her writing and video essays have appeared most recently in Framework, Film Quarterly: Quorum, Jump Cut, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, and [in]Transition as well as in Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India (2021) and Scattered Musics (2021).

Bronwyn Coate is Associate Professor in Economics based in the School of Economics, Finance & Marketing at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on economic aspects of the arts and culture including film and media industries.

Beth Corzo-Duchardt is a lecturer in the Television, Film and Media Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles. Her essays have appeared in Screen and Feminist Media Histories.

Lauren McLeod Cramer is Assistant Professor in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. A founding member of the liquid blackness research project, Lauren is co-editor of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Black Camera, the LA Review of Books, and ASAP/J’s “black one shot” series. Currently, Lauren is writing a book on black spatiality and hip-hop visual culture.

Glyn Davis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. His recent publications include Queer Print in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2022, co-edited with Laura Guy), The Richard Dyer Reader (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2023, co-edited with Jaap Kooijman), Pop Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2024, co-edited with Tom Day), and a contribution to the BFI Film Classics series on Rebel Without a Cause (2025).

Nick Davis is Associate Professor of English and of Gender & Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University, where he also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Radio/TV/Film. His scholarship typically analyzes narrative films from the 1980s to the present day through concepts developed in queer and feminist studies or in other branches of critical theory. He has also worked for three decades as a freelance film critic, associate festival programmer, and magazine writer.

Allyson Nadia Field is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film & The Possibility of Black Modernity (2015) and Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss that Changed Film History (2026). She is also co-editor with Jan-Christopher Horak and Jacqueline Stewart of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (2015) and with Marsha Gordon of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (2019).

Terri Francis is an author, professor, and film curator based in Miami, Florida. A past director of the Black Film Center & Archive, Dr. Francis is the author of Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism (2021) and she is an associate professor in the School of Communication at the University of Miami. Her writing appears in SEEN, Another Gaze, and LitHub, as well as Feminist Media Histories, Film History, and Black Camera.

Tejaswini Ganti is Professor of Anthropology and core faculty in the Program in Culture & Media at New York University. She has been conducting research about the social world and filmmaking practices of the Hindi film industry since 1996 and is the author of Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry (Duke University Press, 2012) and Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema (Routledge, 2004; 2nd ed. 2013; 3rd ed. 2026).

Chiara Grizzaffi is Assistant Professor at IULM University in Milan. She is the author of I film attraverso i film: Dal “testo introvabile” ai video essay and co-curator of Mino Guerrini: Storia e opere di un arcitaliano. Her essays and video essays appear in the journals L’avventura, [in]Transition, Imago, Bianco e Nero, Cinergie, The Cine-Files, Comunicazioni sociali, as well as numerous edited collections. She is co-editor of [in]Transition.

Katherine Groo is an associate professor of film and media studies at Lafayette College. Her essays have appeared in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Framework, Discourse, and Frames, as well as numerous edited collections. She is the author of Bad Film Histories: Ethnography and the Early Archive (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and co-editor of New Silent Cinema (Routledge/AFI, 2015).

Dale Hudson is Associate Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi. His publications include Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (2015) and Documentary Habitats: Transmedia Ecologies (2026), coauthored with Patricia R. Zimmermann; Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods (2017); and Reorienting the Middle East: Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean Meet (2023), coedited with Alia Yunis.

Henry Jenkins is Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Art, Education and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He is senior editor at Pop Junctions and cohost of the How Do You Like It So Far podcast. He is currently co-authoring the Frames of Fandom series, a series of fifteen books on various aspects of fandom studies with Robert Kozinets and co-editing the Global Handbook on the Civic Imagination.

Derek Johnson is Professor and department chair in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries as well as Transgenerational Media Industries: Adults, Children, and the Reproduction of Culture.

Olivia Khoo is Professor and Head of Film, Screen and Culture at Monash University. She is the author of The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity (Hong Kong University Press, 2007) and Asian Cinema: A Regional View (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).

Bridget Kies is Associate Professor of Film Studies and Production at Oakland University, where she also serves as faculty fellow for AI and teaching at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. With Mel Stanfill, she is co-author of an essay on AI and copyright in the journal Teaching Media and the book Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies.

Melanie E.S. Kohnen is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies at Lewis & Clark College. Her research examines contemporary media industries, audiences, and digital platforms, connecting the micro-level of media events, like the site-specific experiential marketing at San Diego Comic-Con, to macro-levels of cultural forces, including the platform economy and the algorithmic processing of human experience.

Alicia Kozma is Director of Indiana University (IU) Cinema and Affiliate Faculty in IU’s Media School. She specializes in the everyday work of the media. This includes a dual focus on, first, how the film industry runs, the composition of industry employees, and the form and function of their labor; and second, the industrial, financial, and technological evolutions of film exhibition and its impacts on the broad independent film ecosystem.

Virginia Kuhn is Professor of Cinema in the Division of Media Arts + Practice in the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Her work centers on visual and digital rhetoric, feminist theory, and algorithmic research methods. She has edited several digital and print-based anthologies since defending one of the first media-rich digital dissertations in the US in 2005. Kuhn directs an undergraduate honors program and a graduate certificate in digital media and culture.

S. Heijin Lee is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her forthcoming book, The Geopolitics of Beauty: Transnational Circulations of Plastic Surgery, Pop, and Pleasure, maps the convergence of pop culture and plastic surgery in South Korea. Lee is co-editor of Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia (NYU Press) and Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea (University of Hawai’i Press).

Alice Leppert is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Ursinus

College. She is the author of TV Family Values: Gender, Domestic Labor, and 1980s Sitcoms (Rutgers University Press, 2019). She serves as co-editor of Celebrity Studies and as book review editor for Film Criticism.

Ramon Lobato is Professor of Digital Media at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. A media industries scholar with a special interest in video, Ramon is the author of books including Netflix Nations (NYU Press, 2019), The Informal Media Economy (Polity, 2015, with J Thomas), Shadow Economies of Cinema (British Film Institute, 2012), and the forthcoming monograph Hardware with NYU Press.

Jennifer Malkowski is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Smith College. They are the author of Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary, co-editor of Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games, and co-editor of the book series Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture. Their work appears in Cinema Journal, Jump Cut, Film Quarterly, American Literature, and they currently serve as Associate Editor for the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

Tijana Mamula is a filmmaker, writer and translator. She is the author of Cinema and Language Loss: Displacement, Visuality and the Filmic Image (Routledge, 2013), editor of Forms of Multilingualism (Screen, 2018), and co-editor of The Multilingual Screen: New Reflections on Cinema and Linguistic Difference (Bloomsbury, 2016). Currently completing a second, practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Newcastle University, Mamula writes and translates for NERO Editions and occasionally teaches Film Studies at John Cabot University, Rome.

Monika Mehta is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University. She is the author of Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema (University of Texas Press 2011; Permanent Black 2012). She has co-edited Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of Korea and India (University of Hawai’i Press, 2019) and Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India: Shooting Stars, Shifting Geographies and Multiplying Media (Routledge, 2020).

Jeffrey Romero Middents is Associate Professor of Literature and Faculty Director of the Honors Program at American University in Washington, DC. He teaches and publishes (in written and video formats) about transnational film and literature from the 20th and 21st centuries, largely concentrating on works from Latin America. He is currently working on a manuscript on Mexican-born director Alfonso Cuarón.

Jasmine Mitchell is Associate Professor of Puerto Rican and Latin Studies at Brooklyn College-City University of New York. She is the author of Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media (2020). Her scholarship has been featured in academic and popular media outlets, from Comparative Migration Studies and Social Sciences to Newsweek and The Hill. Her scholarly specialties include race and gender representation in popular culture, mixed-race, African-Americans and Afro-Brazilians, black feminisms, and race and sports.

Rahul Mukherjee is Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media at University of Pennsylvania. He is author of the books Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty (2020) and Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution (MIT Press, 2026). He has published in Science, Technology & Human Values, Critical Inquiry, and co-edited a special issue on super apps for Media, Culture & Society.

Osarugue Otebele is a PhD Candidate in Film and Media Studies at UC Berkeley. She researches and writes on global film aesthetics and fandom practices.

TreaAndrea M. Russworm is the Microsoft Endowed Chair and Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California. Russworm is the author of Blackness is Burning, a co-editor of the collections Gaming Representation and Theorizing Tyler Perry, and a Series Editor of Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture (Duke University Press). Since 2016 she has served as the founder and director of the Radical Play Lab, a community-based game design and research lab.

Leah Shafer is Associate Professor in the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Her writing on media studies pedagogy appears in The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Feminist Interventions in Digital Pedagogy, Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, and Teaching Media Quarterly. A scholar/artist/producer, her experimental documentary Declaration of Sentiments Wesleyan Chapel is in the permanent collection of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park.

Kirsten Stevens is Senior Lecturer in Arts and Cultural Management at the University of Melbourne. She researches film festivals, the impacts of streaming on national screen industries, and women’s film practice and history. She is the author of Australian Film Festivals: Audience, Place and Exhibition Culture (2016) and has taught extensively across film and screen, media studies, and arts management courses. She is co-founder and deputy director of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival.

Jasmine Nadua Trice is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her book, City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila Film Culture was published by Duke University Press in 2021. Her second, in-progress book project, Practices of Futurity: Spatial Transformation in Southeast Asian Film Cultures, is coauthored with Dr. Philippa Lovatt of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Deb Verhoeven is Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics at the University of Alberta. Her research concerns the use of data and digital infrastructure to create more equitable and inclusive worlds.

Carol Vernallis’s books include Experiencing Music Video, the first to articulate a theory of how music, lyrics and image can be placed in relation (CUP, 2004), Unruly Media, which accounts for a new mediascape driven by intensified audiovisual relations (OUP, 2013), and The Media Swirl which further explores this landscape (Duke, 2023). She is co-editor of four volumes on audiovisual aesthetics. She is an affiliated research professor at University of Minnesota and a series editor for Bloomsbury.

Holly Willis is a writer and photographer who teaches at the School of Cinematic Arts at University of Southern California. Her writing moves across arts journalism, creative nonfiction, poetry, and academic prose, and her photography explores the materiality of the image in a digital world. She has published two books about cinema, edited two collections of essays related to new media, and contributed to a variety of journals, from Variety to River Teeth and carte blanche.

Julie Ann Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim served as Associate Professors in the Communication Arts department at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA until 2021. During that time, they published Mothering Through Precarity: Women’s Work and Digital Media, as well as numerous articles. Julie is also the author of Neoliberalism, and Emily is the author of Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity. In 2021, both resigned their positions; Julie to serve as the Executive Director of Common Roots, a nonprofit creator of affordable housing in Meadville, PA, and Emily to contribute to her family’s long-running construction company and steward the family farm.

Kyle Wrather holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from Georgia State University, where his thesis examined network neutrality regulation. His published work explores podcasting audiences and engagement. He also holds bachelor's degrees in English Literature and Communication from Mississippi State University. After pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Texas at Austin, he transitioned to work in industry.

Dr. Fan Yang is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and faculty affiliate in the Asian Studies Program and the Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is the author of Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements (2024) and Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization (2016). An interdisciplinary scholar, Yang works at the intersection of media/cultural studies, globalization, and contemporary China.

Patricia R. Zimmermann was Charles A. Dana Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College and director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Her books include Open Spaces: Openings, Closings, and Thresholds of Independent Public Media (2016), The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Film (2017), Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice (2018), Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics (2019), Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar (2021), and Documentary Habitats: Transmedia Ecologies (2026).