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Graduate Student Profiles

MFA

Sally Bergom

Sally Bergom

MFA Screenwriting Student; Used to work for Martha Stewart Living.

Zachary Gonzalez-Landis

Zachary Gonzalez-Landis

He has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and Second City Toronto.

Hammad Rizvi

He has lived in Saudi Arabia; used to work for the Boeing Company and has a degree in Marketing and Finance.

Andy Irvine

Andy Irvine

Interests: Love, horse racing and Oedipus. Born in Dallas, Texas.

Jordan Kerfeld

Jordan Kerfeld

He used to work for the Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, and for Vision Teleproduction, Inc.: Kansas City, MO.

Britta Lundin

Britta Lundin

Interests: small towns, adolescent sexuality, puns, and spaceships.

Evan Roberts

Evan Roberts

Interests: Queer stories, the Middle East, Urban redevelopment. He has contributed to the New York Times, Apple, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a freelance audio producer.

Annie Silverstein

Annie Silverstein

Annie directed the feature documentary March Point (Independent Lens 2008) and is founder of the NATIVE LENS program.

Alex Yalen

Alex Yalen

Interests: spy fiction, dystopian fiction, anti-heroes, German expressionism and the history of rock'n'roll and the electric guitar

PhD

Claire Shinhea Lee

Interests: Audience Studies, Cultural Studies, Postfeminism, Children and Media (Media Literacy), Space and Diaspora (Immigration)

Manuel Aviles

Manuel Aviles

Interests: Race and Media, Latino/a and Spanish Caribbean Studies

Morgan Blue

Interests: girls' media culture, youth media production and literacy, constructions of childhood and adolescence in popular U.S. media, post-feminist discourses, and feminist criticism

Alex Cho

Alex Cho

Interests: Digital media, social media, counter-publics, queer theory, critical race theory, ethnography, psychoanalysis.

Jacob Hustedt

Jacob Hustedt

Interests: Globalization, Media and Social Change, Queer Theory

Lokei Kaimana

Lokei Kaimana

Interests: American cinema post 1990, Queer narratives, Historiography, Race and representation

Jessalyn Keller

Jessalyn Keller

Girls' media culture, third wave feminism, post-feminism discourses, ethnography, internet cultures, celebrity, the body in media

 

Yi Lu

Yi Lu

Interests: China Media Industry and Chinese Commercial Cinema

Al Martin

Al Martin

Interests: Sexuality in Media, Race in Media, Television Studies, Representation; He is also President and founder of What Works Public Relations, an Austin-based marketing communications firm.

Daniel Mauro

Daniel Mauro

Interests: Amateur motion picture production and exhibtion; Home movies and associated social practices; Documentary representation and ethics; Exploitation and cult cinemas

William Moner

William Moner

He was an instructor, of Web Design and Interactive Media at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (2005 - 09).

Michael Nevradakis

Michael Nevradakis

He is currently working on "Government-Sanctioned Anarchy: Greece's Chaotic Airwaves," an article describing the current state of the radio industry in Greece.

Jeremiah Spence

Jeremiah Spence

He is the founder and editor of the peer-reviewed, online, academic publication: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research.

Colin Tait

Colin Tait

Interests: Steven Soderbergh, Robert De Niro, and Representations of the 1970s in Contemporary Film and TV.

Jacqueline Vickery

Interests: Social and cultural aspects of digital media, youth cultures, feminist media theory, domestication and appropriation of technology within the home and family structures, qualitative research methods.

Adam Williams III

Adam Williams III

He is the Co-Founder/Director of Events of the Black Media Council (BMC) organization. His research focuses on various aspects on Race, Identity, and the Media, especially as they intersect with Blackness and Masculinity.

MA

Jonathan Daniels

Jonathan Daniels

Interests: New Media and Politics / Political Narrative creation and dissemination

Kristin Gamez

Kristin Gamez

Interests: Hollywood Film History in relation to celebritism, excess, and death. Also interested in low income youth media non-profit programs as a creative outlet.

Kenji Hseih

Kenji Hsieh

He has worked for four years for Wei Chung Go Entertainment Co. and then Pink Entertainment Co, in Taipei, Taiwan.

Shanshan Jin

Shanshan Jin

Interests: Global Media, Gender and the Media

Taylor Miller

Taylor Miller

Interests: Sexuality and Sexual Identity on TV

Tisia Saffold

Tisia Saffold  

Interests: Media, Blackness, Black representations( historical and present), stereotypes, Black sexuality, hip hop and popular culture, the presence of minorities in the media at large.

Brittany Shelton

Brittany Shelton

Interests: Contemporary Film and Television Criticism, New/Social Media and Fan Cultures

John Theofanis

John Theofanis

Interest: New American Cinema

Judy Thomas

Judy Thomas

She has run her own dvd/video/interactive production company here in Austin since 1986, SageBrush Media.