Faculty

Faculty

Barbara Zecchi, Professor, Director of Film Studies, UMass Amherst

Barbara Zecchi

Department Head - Zecchi specializes in videographic criticism, feminist film theory, aging studies, adaptation theory, Iberian and Latin American cinemas

bzecchi@umass.edu

(413) 545-3659

Personal Website


Integrative Learning Center S443


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bzecchi@umass.edu

(413) 545-3659

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Integrative Learning Center S443


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Barry Spence

Barry Spence

Senior Lecturer, Film Studies, Chief Undergraduate Advisor, Undergraduate Program Director -- transnational arthouse cinema, film theory, modernist film, narrative theory & poetics

bspence@umass.edu

(413) 577-2318


Integrative Learning Center S447


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bspence@umass.edu

(413) 577-2318


Integrative Learning Center S447


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Daniel Pope

Daniel Pope

Senior Lecturer, Film Studies, Undergraduate Advisor --- National and Transnational Cinemas, Questions of film realism, New Media film criticism

daniel@umass.edu

(413) 545-3659



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Anne Cieko

Anne Ciecko

Associate Professor, Communication, Graduate Certificate Director -- Cinemas of the Global South; international co-productions; diasporic audiences; international transmedia stardom

Mariana Ivanova, German and Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst

Mariana Ivanova

Associate Professor of German Film and Media & Academic Director of the DEFA Film Library

mzivanova@umass.edu

(413) 545-6672


509 Herter Hall


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mzivanova@umass.edu

(413) 545-6672


509 Herter Hall


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Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson

Senior Lecturer, Communication -- Visual anthropology and Ethnographic filmmaking; Reality Television, Documentary Film, and Medical Anthropology

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N.C. Christopher Couch

Senior Lecturer, Comparative Literature -- Latin American art; Graphic Novel and Comic Art

nccouch@complit.umass.edu

(413) 577-1309


325 Herter Hall


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nccouch@complit.umass.edu

(413) 577-1309


325 Herter Hall


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Bruce Geisler

Bruce Geisler

Senior Lecture, Communication -- video production, screenwriting, and documentary filmmaking.

Olga Gershenson

Olga Gershenson

Professor – Israeli cinema, Holocaust cinema, Soviet film, Horror genre

gershenson@umass.edu

(413) 545-2550

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730 Herter Hall


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gershenson@umass.edu

(413) 545-2550

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730 Herter Hall


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Susan Jahoda

Susan Jahoda

Professor, Art -- video, photography, text, performance, installation and research based collaborative projects

sej@art.umass.edu

(413) 545-6803

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Studio Arts Building 257


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sej@art.umass.edu

(413) 545-6803

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Studio Arts Building 257


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Greeley A. Kyle

Greeley A. Kyle

Lecturer, Journalism -- reporting, interviewing, writing, visual storytelling, ethics and broadcast news

gkyle@umass.edu

(413) 545-8779


S439 Integrative Learning Center


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(413) 545-8779


S439 Integrative Learning Center


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Kathryn Lachman, Professor & Director of Comparative Literature Graduate Program, UMass Amherst

Kathryn M. Lachman

Full Professor, Comparative Literature -- Contemporary French and Francophone film. 

klachman@umass.edu

(413) 545-6703


320 Herter Hall


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klachman@umass.edu

(413) 545-6703


320 Herter Hall


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Andrea Malaguti, Assistant Professor, UMass Amherst

Andrea Malaguti

Associate Professor, Italian Studies -- Post-WWII Italian Film and Film Theory

malaguti@frital.umass.edu

(413) 545-6317

Video Profile


307 Herter Hall


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malaguti@frital.umass.edu

(413) 545-6317

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307 Herter Hall


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Patrícia Martinho Ferreira

Assistant Professor of Portuguese, Lusophone Literature and Film

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409 Herter Hall


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409 Herter Hall


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Patrick Mensah, Associate Professor, UMass Amherst

Patrick Mensah

Associate Professor, French and Francophone Studies --African Film and Culture

pmensah@frital.umass.edu

(413) 545-6694


315 Herter Hall


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pmensah@frital.umass.edu

(413) 545-6694


315 Herter Hall


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Shawn Shimpach

Shawn Shimpach

Director, Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival - Associate Professor, Communication -- Cultural history of film, television, and media; genre theory and screen genres

Jonathan Skolnik, Professor, UMass Amherst

Jonathan Skolnik

Associate Professor, German Studies -- German-Jewish Studies Exile Cinema and Literature Holocaust memory/Trauma studies Intellectual History

Jeremi Szaniawski

Jeremi Szaniawski

Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Amesbury Professor of Polish language and culture -- Polish cinema, Belgian cinema, Auteur and auteur legacy studies, Film and Philosophy, Screenwriting

Jacqueline Urla

Jacqueline Urla

Professor, Anthropology -- visual anthropology with special interests in ethnographic film and indigenous media.

Hallie Bahn

Assistant Professor, Art


Studio Arts Building 223


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Studio Arts Building 223


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David Bendiksen

Instructor - 16mm Filmmaking

Will DiGravio

Instructor Online Program - Film Editing

Nefeli Forni

Instructor Online Program -Film Production

Patricia Montoya

Instructor Online Program- Filmmaker

Barton Byg, Professor Emeritus, Founding director of DEFA Film Library, German and Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst

Barton Byg

Professor Emeritus - Founding Director of the DEFA Film Library

byg@german.umass.edu

(413) 545-6671


523 Herter Hall


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byg@german.umass.edu

(413) 545-6671


523 Herter Hall


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Catherine Portuges

Catherine Portuges

Professor Emerita- Founding Program Director and Founding Curator of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival

Don Levine, Associate Professor, UMass Amherst

Don E. Levine

Professor Emeritus - Comparative Literature -- avant-garde film and theory, include melodrama; film noir; psychoanalytic theory; gay and gender studies

delevine@llc.umass.edu

(413) 545-5810


328 Herter Hall


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delevine@llc.umass.edu

(413) 545-5810


328 Herter Hall


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Martin Norden

Martin Norden

Professor, Communication -- Film history/theory/criticism and screenwriting

Barbara Zecchi

Director | Graduate Certificate in Videographic Criticism

Johannes Binotto

Instructor | Graduate Certificate Videographic Criticism

Catherine Grant

Instructor | Graduate Certificate Videographic Criticism

Evelyn Kreutzer

Instructor | Graduate Certificate Videographic Criticism

Dayna McLeod

Instructor | Graduate Certificate Videographic Criticism