Michelle Monk

Department Administrator

E-mail: michelle.monk@austin.utexas.edu
Office: CMB 6.118
Phone: 512-471-4058

Michelle Monk assists the Department Chair, managing all of the administrative functions of the Department.  She is responsible for the instructional budget, course scheduling, human resource management, department scholarships and internships, faculty promotion and award nominations, and miscellaneous projects of all kinds.  Michelle also works closely with the communications coordinator to develop department publications and large-scale events and acts as a liaison with the College's academic advisors for academic planning and course management.

Michelle comes to RTF after 10 years spent in academic advising and undergraduate retention programs. She has a BA in Sociology from Texas A&M University and a M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from UT. Michelle enjoys working in an environment that allows her to work independently and to feed the part of her that favors activities which require her to organize, plan, and strategize. Working with the talented faculty, staff and students in RTF is a pleasure for her and she is enjoying the friendships she has developed.

In her free time, Michelle likes to spend time with friends and work around her condo. She has a cat named Aggie and a lively dog named Sprite, and has a large extended family mostly concentrated in Texas and Washington, D.C.

Bert R. Herigstad

Administrative Associate/Office Manager

E-mail: berth@mail.utexas.edu

Office: CMA 6.118
Hours: M-F 7:45am -4:45pm
Phone: 471.4191

Bert has been with the Department of Radio-Television-Film since the fall of 1997.  He is the office manager and handles many routine administrative tasks.  Bert is most proud of meeting a troubled student or faculty member and leaving them with hope.

Charmarie Burke

Graduate Coordinator

E-mail: char.burke@austin.utexas.edu

Office: CMA 6.116
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: 471.3532

Char handles all things related to graduate students in RTF.  She comes to us from the Department of Astronomy at UT where she was the graduate coordinator for three years.  Before that she was a graduate coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for many years.   

Char is very happy to be working on the UT campus where she got her Bachelors in Biology and then worked for six years.  She did move away and got her Masters in Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  But, then she moved back to her adopted hometown of Austin (or close anyway, in Cedar Park). 

At home Char has a husband, a daughter and a cat; she loves to read, quilt and hang out at the neighborhood pool.

Noe Gonzales

Undergraduate Advisor

E-mail: noe.gonzales@austin.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 4.140
Phone: 475-6740

Noe Gonzales has over 13 years of advising experience within the University of Texas system (10 years of those right here in the College of Communication).

A graduate of the University of Texas (BA in English in 1995) and University of Texas at San Antonio (MA In Bicultural/Bilingual Studies 2001), Noe has devoted his life to assisting students in finding their way to UT Austin after high school. One of his primary duties for the College of Communication has been to work with our UT Office of Admissions and to visit with prospective RTF students from around the state and nation to inform them of our top rated RTF program.

As an RTF advisor, Noe loves the fact that he gets to work with students who share his love for movies and filmmaking and he lists his pop culture references and influences as The Beatles, Spaghetti Westerns, Star Wars, Three's Company, Three Stooges, Gojira (Godzilla), Looney Tunes, and Magnum PI. His favorite directors are Sergio Leone, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright and his favorite actor is Clint Eastwood.

Stephen Salisbury

Communications Coordinator

E-mail: stephen.salisbury@austin.utexas.edu

Office: CMA 6.114
Hours: M-F 9-6 pm
Phone: 512.471.6617

Stephen manages all content updates for the RTF website, coordinates the summer camps, and produces promotional materials for departmental events.

Gloria Holder

Department Accountant

E-mail: gholder@mail.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.118
Hours: M-F 9-5:30 PM
Phone: 471.4136

Gloria is the full-time accountant and purchaser for the Department. In addition, she is the RTF liaison for shipping, film processing, and risk management issues. She also handles travel and honorarium for Master Classes and conferences hosted by RTF. She handles department grants and is a member of NCURA. Gloria is active in the College's Purchasing & Accountants Coalition (PAC) peer group and is a co-chair of The University's Town Meeting forum. She has been in the RTF Department since 1996.

Her favorite television series is "The Simpsons." The "Wizard of Oz" and "Aliens" are two of her favorite movies. "Lonesome Dove" is her favorite mini-series. "Survivor" remains her favorite reality show. A retired Girl Scout leader, she still collects patches and she enjoys outdoor cooking, hiking, and camping with her husband, daughter, and their two dogs Quintin & Elvis.

Lee Sparks

Media Librarian/Projectionist

E-mail: roybatty@mail.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 5.130
Hours: M-F 10-5 PM
Phone: 471.1906

Lee, a 1997 Summa Cum Laude graduate of RTF, has served as the Director of the RTF Media Library since 1998. In addition to serving the RTF Graduate and Faculty communities, he also coordinates RTF film and video class screenings and is the RTF Media Library purchasing agent.

Recreationally, Lee is an avid consumer of American comic books and hates the pretentious term 'graphic novel.'  When not enjoying genre films from other countries he cleans up after his three cats.

Jeffrey Marsh

Undergraduate Advisor

E-mail: jmarsh@austin.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.117
Hours: M-F 9-5 PM
Phone: 471-4202

Jeffrey Marsh is a Senior Academic Advisor and has been at UT-Austin since 2008 (formerly with the Department of Government).  Originally from Georgia, he received a B.S. in Political Science and an M.A. in English.  Before moving to Austin, he taught college-level RHE 306 classes.  He has lived in various places such as Charleston, South Carolina, Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Los Angeles, California.

His interests include indie music, screenwriting, and politics.  He also enjoys playing soccer and golf.  If you really want to impress him, name-drop a great band or song you’ve been listening to recently…

Jay Williams

Undergraduate Advisor

E-mail: jay.williams@austin.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 4.130
Phone: 471.1553

Jay has been an academic advisor in the Office of Student Affairs for more than 20 years and now mainly advises RTF students. He has a BS in Education as well as a Bachelor of Journalism from UT, plus he's completed a large number of RTF courses, mainly focusing on screenwriting.

Through the years he's tried to experience as much as possible if for no other reason than to enhance his writing (plus he doesn't like to sit still for long).   So he has served in the Army as an infantry paratrooper; earned his private pilot's license; learned scuba while in HS; traveled to places such as Australia, Scotland, Panama and Alaska; and frequently visits the Great American Beer Festival and any national park that will let him in.

Jay also works as a free-lance writer and has had short stories and articles published in a wide variety of small magazines and newspapers. To see some of his pix and learn more about him, visit his Facebook page. If you ever visit Jay's office, you'll realize he's nuts about Sci Fi and hockey.   So whatever you do, don't bring up the latest romantic comedy.

Sarah Gonzalez

Product Resource Center Manager

E-mail: cage@austin.utexas.edu
Office: The Cage, CMB 2.107
Phone: 471.2478

Sarah graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 with a Bachelors of Science in Radio-TV-Film production with a concentration in Women and Gender studies. On top of working at University of Texas at Austin in the department of Radio-TV-Film's Production Resource Center, fondly know as The Cage, she also works at a local non-profit, REEL WOMEN as the Executive Administrative Assistant. She teaches at Travis High School through the Austin Film Society's Film Mentoring Program where she runs an afterschool film club that focuses on making shorts. She is a regular freelancer with the Austin commercial production company, Upstream Visual, and has been a major part of Mister Films Productions, a local narrative production company, which made a popular web series called The Andrew and Matt Show. She has interned for various companies in Austin including Mopac Media and SXSW. In high school she attended two magnet schools in San Antonio, TX. The International School of the Americas gave her an honors education with an international relations focus and at the North East School of the Arts she studied Cinema & Animation under the supervision or George F. Ozuna. When she was 16 she wrote and directed a short, Store Hours, that was later bought by HBO Family's 30 by 30 Kid Flicks and played at the AFI Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. While at UT she was very involved many student shorts in various positions. Though she has experience in most fields of filmmaking, her main focuses are camera work, lighting and producing.  Lately she has been taking time to write. Currently she is producing a UT MFA thesis film and is doing pre-production on several short films.