Media Arts Faculty

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Bates, Kyle, Assistant Professor, DMA, California Institute of the Arts; MFA, Mills College. Sound art and recording, electronic music and recording media, media arts, sound and video performance, film and video game scoring, neurodivergent experience, sonic metaphor, autofiction, installations, and experimental media.

Brooten, Lisa B., Associate Professor, Media Studies, Ph.D. Ohio University, 2003; 2002. Media and globalization, gender, alternative media, social movements, political communication, interpretive/critical research methods, ethnography.

Freivogel, William H., Professor, Media Law, J.D., Washington University Law School, 2001; 2006. Journalism, media law, public affairs and policy.

Han, Dong, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois. Media and cultural industries, market relations in media sectors, media and communications research, television and new media, international communication.

Kapur, Jyotsna, Professor, Cinema Studies, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1998; 1998. Feminist and Marxist analysis of media, globalization, children’s film and consumer culture, documentary and ethnographic film, the German and Japanese new wave and Indian cinema.

Karan, Kavita, Professor, Advertising and Marketing, Ph.D., University of London, 1994; 2009. Political communication, advertising and market research, international communication, media and children, health communication.

Kreider, Wago, Associate Professor, Media Production, M.F.A., Rutgers University, 2002; 2006. Experimental and documentary media production, sound studies and production, cinematic histories, architectural and environmental studies.

Lescelius, Bridget, Associate Lecturer, M.B.A., Virginia Institute and State University, Pamplin College; Public Relations, M.S, Boston University. Advertising and marketing strategy, public relations, market research, communications planning, branding, client relations, tourism and economic development marketing, integrated marketing communications.

Lewison, Sarah, Associate Professor, Media Production, M.F.A., University of California, San Diego, 2001; 2007. Video art, social movements, environmental media, installation, live art and performance.

Malloy, Lisa, Assistant Professor, M.F.A., University of Illinois Chicago, 2025. Filmmaking and artistic practice, collaborative and place-based cinema, speculative narrative, archival media, sound and off-screen space, landscape and more-than-human worlds, documentary and ethnographic film, screenwriting and production. 

Motyl, H. D., Associate Professor and Interim Dean, Media Production and Screenwriting, M.F.A., Northwestern University, 1990; 2007. Film/Video production and screen writing, narrative, gay representation.

Needham, Jay, Professor, Audio Production, M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, 1989; 2003. Video, film, digital audio production, and electro-acoustic music.

O’Brien-Takahashi, Heather M., Assistant Professor, MFA, California Institute of the Arts. Expanded cinema and psychoanalysis, essay and experimental film, decoloniality, installation, video art, photography, third cinema, gender studies, and queer theory.

Padovani, Cinzia, Associate Professor, Media Studies, Ph.D. University of Colorado, 1999; 2005. Historical approaches to political economy, public service broad-casting, international communication, social movements and the media.

Sphar, Robert, Associate Professor and Interim Chair Department of Radio, Television, and Digital Media, Media Arts, M.F.A., Parsons School of Design, New York City, 1991; 2009. Explores the Internet using code-based automated art, live art performance, drawing, painting, sculpture and time-based media.

Thompson, Jan, Professor and Director of the School of Journalism and Advertising, Documentary Production, M.G.S., Roosevelt University, 1988; 2000. Video production, documentary, sports production.

Wall, James, Senior Lecturer, Media Management, M.A., B.S., Southern Illinois University, 2004, 1996. Electronic media marketing and management, broadcast sales and marketing, media management, broadcasting industry leadership, communication policy, community radio.

Zhou, Hong, Associate Professor, Cinema Production, M.F.A., York University, Toronto Canada, 2000; 2008. Film and video production, cinematography, Chinese cinema, surrealist cinema.