ADVISORS and CONTRIBUTORS
Robert P. Kolker Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Maryland and and on-line Lecturer Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, has been teaching and writing about film for more than 30 years. One of the foremost scholars on film, Kolker is author of twelve film study books, including Film, Form, & Culture which includes a CD-ROM of moving images as text. His approach “Teaching film is about getting control of the image and handing that control over to students” and his broad humanities perspective informs the overall content.
Barry Keith Grant is a professor of film studies and popular culture at Brock University. He is the author or editor of twenty books, including Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader (2007), Film Genre: Film Iconography to Ideology (2007), Film Genre Reader (2003) and The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (1996), and his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He edits the Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television series for Wayne State University Press and the New Approaches to Film Genre series for Wiley Blackwell.
Shari Tishman is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Project Zero and lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on the development of thinking and understanding, the role of close observation in learning, and learning in and through the arts. She currently co-directs Agency by Design, a project related to the maker movement that is investigating the promises, practices and pedagogies of maker-centered learning. She also co-directs Out of Eden Learn, an online learning community, currently found in over 700 classrooms worldwide. Past notable projects include Visible Thinking, a dispositional approach to teaching thinking that foregrounds the use of thinking routines and the documentation of student thinking, and Artful Thinking, a related approach that emphasizes the development of thinking dispositions through looking at art.
Hazel Clark teaches fashion studies and design studies at the Parsons School of Art and Design History and Theory. She currently serves as Research Chair of Fashion, supporting fashion practice studies, history, theory, and criticism. Professor Clark holds a PhD in design history, and a first degree in Fine Arts. Her scholarship has focused on uncovering new perspectives, cultures and geographies for the study of fashion and design.
Her scholarly articles and books include: Old Clothes, New Looks: Second Hand Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2005), The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, and Globalization (Routledge, 2009), Design Studies: A Reader (Bloomsbury, 2009), Fashion Curating: In the Museum and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Mark Lipton is an Associate Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. He is an advocate for media literacy and is currently working with social media to advocate for Ontario public school teachers. His current work with the Media Education Project is funded by the Canadian Council on Learning and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. This research considers how Canadian teachers engage with media and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the classroom to assess how ICTs function within a broader context of teaching and learning. Lipton directed the Media Ecology program at New York University, taught at the Harvey Milk High School in New York City, held the Mellon Fellowship in Visual Literacy at Vassar College and was the recipient of a Ford Foundation grant.
Eileen Leonard, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Vassar College, has taught in several multidisciplinary programs and was involved in curricular innovations such as the development of the Women’s Studies Program, and construction of a Native American Studies correlate within American Studies. Her teaching and research emphases include social theory, the impact of technology on women, and the social construction of crime and punishment. She is the recipient of a Mellon Grant and the author of four books, one of which has been honored as the American Sociological Association’s “Distinguished Scholar” selection in Criminology.
Mary Lyndon (Molly) Shanley is Professor Emeritus, Political Science on the Margaret Stiles Halleck Chair at Vassar College. She teaches courses in political theory; gender, politics and law; and bioethics and human reproduction. Dr. Shanley has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
John Murphree is a composer, sound installation artist and associate professor of composition and music theory at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. He is also the founder of Boston Gongs, a custom percussion fabrication studio.
Rebecca Marchand is professor of music history at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She teaches undergraduate music history, the courses writing about music and communicating about music, and graduate seminars. Marchand also directs the graduate Music History Writing Center at Boston Conservatory. A founding member of the Haydn Society of North America, Marchand also served as the president of the New England chapter of the American Musicological Society.
Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law at American University’s Washington College of Law and Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic.
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