Film and Media Studies Faculty

Department of English

• Don Ault
  Romantic Poetry (William Blake), Literature & Mathematics, Literary Theory, Comics & Animation (Carl Barks, Disney)
• Roger Beebe
  Film and Video Production, Popular American Cinema(s), Critical Theory, Cultural Studies
• Richard Burt
  Shakespeare & Renaissance Drama; Film, Mass Media & Digital Media; Literary & Media Theory
• Terry Harpold
  Digital Culture, New Media Theory & Criticism, Psychoanalysis
• Scott Nygren
  Film & Media Studies, Video Production, Media & Cultural Studies, Film & Literature
• Amy Abugo Ongiri
  African American Literature & Culture, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender & Sexuality
• Maureen Turim
  Film History & Theory
• Robert Ray
  Film, Critical Theory, World Literature, Poetry Writing, Popular Music
• Mark Reid
  Black Literature & Film Studies, Cultural Studies, African Diasporic Studies, Black Feminism & Gender Studies
• Gregory Ulmer
  Comparative Literature & Theory, Pop Culture, Media Studies, Computers & Writing

Affiliated Faculty offering courses cross-listed in English

• Nora Alter, Department of German and Slavic Studies
• Sylvie Blum-Reid, Department of Romance Languages and Literature
• Barbara Mennel, Department of German and Slavic Studies
• Mary Watt, Department of Romance Languages and Literature

Other Affiliated Faculty

• Alexander Alberro, School of Art and Art History
• Max Becher, School of Art and Art History
• Keith Bullivant, Department of German and Slavic Studies
• Marsha Bryant, Department of English
• Allan Burns, Department of Anthropology
• Jeffrey Hurt, Department of Education
• Joseph Murphy, Department of African and Asian Languages and Literature
• Andrea Robbins, School of Art and Art History
• Carlos Rojas, Department of African and Asian Languages and Literature
• Bill Tilson, Department of Architecture
• Judith Williams, Department of Theater
• David Young, Department of Theater

Graduate work in Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida takes place within the English Department, whose general guidelines (including qualifying exams) students follow.  The Department offers a Film and Media Studies track, leading to a Ph.D. in English.  For information on this track and its faculty, follow the highlighted links.

This humanities context provides film students with a wide array of emphases, including film and video production; we encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the cinema.  Recent topics in English Department graduate film seminars have included historiography, feminism and popular culture, Japanese cinema, cinephilia, avant-garde practice, desire and representation, melodrama, African-American cinema, and the French New Wave. Faculty in other departments frequently offer courses in national cinemas and literatures, and other graduate courses (particularly those offered by the School of Art) attract our students.

The University's audio/visual library houses a collection of 1,200 16mm films, 3,000 video tapes, 1,000 laserdiscs, and 800 DVDs, all of which are available to graduate film students for studying and teaching.  Production facilities include a fleet of digital video (miniDV) and 16mm film cameras as well as three suites of Macintosh G4 edit stations.  For a full list of holdings and equipment, see the highlighted links. The graduate students have their own informal film studies group with frequent screenings and other events to expand their engagement with film outside of the classroom.

Most of our Ph.D. and M.A. students receive some form of financial aid, typically as a Teaching Assistantship in the Department's lower-level film and media courses.  In the past decade, Florida graduate students have been hired at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University, UC-Riverside, UC-Irvine, Bucknell University, Rhodes College, Kalamazoo College, the University of South Florida, and Penn State--York.