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specializes in videographic criticism, feminist film theory, aging studies, adaptation theory, Iberian and Latin American cinemas.

Barbara Zecchi

Barbara Zecchi ​​​​​​​is the Program Director for Film Studies at UMass Amherst.

Barbara Zecchi

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

Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson is a Senior Lecturer for Film Studies at UMass Amherst

Kevin Anderson
Felicity Aulino

Felicity Aulino is an ethnographic filmmaker teaching Film Studies at UMass Amherst

Felicity Aulino

Assistant Professor, Art

Hallie Bahn

Hallie Bahn is an assistant Professor of Art at UMass Amherst.

Hallie Bahn

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

Anne Ciecko

Anne Ciecko is an associate professor of Communication and director of the Graduate Certificate in Film Studies at UMass Amherst.

Anne Ciecko

Assistant Professor of Communication and Film Studies

Professor Ayanna Dozier

Ayanna Dozier is an artist-writer whose work examines transactional intimacy in film and culture, paying close attention to women of color’s contributions to these histories.

Professor Ayanna Dozier

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

Bruce Geisler

Professor Geisler specializes in screenwriting and documentary filmmaking, with an award-winning body of work in both fields.

Bruce Geisler

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

Olga Gershenson

Professor Gershenson specializes in Israeli and Soviet film, as well as horror

Olga Gershenson

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

Maria Ivanova

Professor Ivanova specializes in German Cold-War-Era film

Maria Ivanova

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

Susan Jahoda

Professor Jahoda (adjunct) specializes in performance and research-based collaborative and interdisciplinary projects

Susan Jahoda

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

Greeley A. Kyle

Professor Kyle (adjunct) specializes in broadcast journalism, and its technical aspects

Greeley A. Kyle

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

Don Levine

Professor Emeritus Levine specializes in avant-garde theater/film and gender studies

Don Levine

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

Andrea Malaguti

Professor Malaguti specializes in post-WW2 Italian film

Andrea Malaguti

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

Patrick Mensah

Professor Mensah specializes in Francophone literature and African cinema

Patrick Mensah

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

Christopher Couch

Professor Couch specializes in Latin American film

Christopher Couch

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

Daniel Pope

Professor Pope specializes in French, Italian, and American cinema

Daniel Pope

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

Shawn Shimpach

Professor Shimpach specializes in genre theory and the cultural history of film and television

Shawn Shimpach

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

Jonathan Skolnik

Professor Skolnik specializes in German, Judaic/Near-Eastern studies, and exile cinema

Jonathan Skolnik

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

Barry Spence

Professor Spence specializes in analyzing the relationships between film, theater, and literary fiction

Barry Spence

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

Jeremi Szaniawski

Professor Szaniawski specializes in Belgian and Polish cinema, as well as Polish language studies more broadly

Jeremi Szaniawski

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

Jacqueline Urla

Professor Urla specializes in the intersection of film and visual anthropology, with specific focus on indigenous media

Jacqueline Urla