Faculty And Staff

Michele Cao-Danh, Ph. D., Boston University
World Languages Center
Area of Speciality: French Film
Courses: French Film

Michael Dow, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Areas of Speciality: American Film, Animation Theory and History, Cultural Studies, Film and Social Psychology, 1950s Cinema, Alfred Hitchcock
Courses: American Film Survey, American Animation, Survey of the Still and Moving Image, Modern Film, Film Analysis
Credits/Research: Numerous book and conference reviews. Currently working on dissertation, "The Death of the Chase: The Social Psychology of the Post-World War II American Animated Cartoon," as well as a study of the sociocultural symbolism of the secondary characters on "The Simpsons."

Anne Fleche, Ph. D., Rutgers University
Department of English
Area of Speciality: Film Theory, American Film
Courses: Film Theory, Lesbian and Gay Film

David Grotell, MFA, Columbia University
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Area of Speciality: Film and Video Production, Screenwriting, Film Analysis, Film Theory, Film and Ideology
Courses: Video Production, Screenwriting, Film Analysis, Film Theory, Marxism and Film
Credits: Director of numerous films exhibited at Sundance, Austin Heart of Film Festival, and elsewhere, including Scrub Me Mama, Melvyn Schmatzman, Freudian Dentist, Nanibaa, Man of the Dawn, Milgrim's Pilgrim, and others.

Gerald Herman, M. A., Northeastern University
Department of History
Courses: History and Film; War and Film; Film Production
Credits: Producer and author of numerous educational video programs, author of numerous articles on history and media.

Rei Inouye, Ph. D., Temple University
World Languages Center
Courses: Japanese Film
Credits: Author of articles on Japanese popular culture.
Emily Fox Kales, Ph. D., Tufts University
Department of Psychology
Courses: Psychology and Film
Credits: Clinical Psychologist, McLean Hospital, film editor of the journal Gender and Psychoanalysis; frequent guest on network television.

Matthew McDonald, PhD, Yale University
Department of Music
Courses: Music in Film
Publications/research: Essays on the music of Ives and Stravinsky; narrative in music; and music and sound in the films of Robert Bresson.

Harlow Robinson, Ph. D. University of California-Berkeley
Department of Modern Languages
Courses: Russian Film; Film Music; Modernism
Credits: Author of Letters of Sergei Prokofiev; of The Last Impresario: The Life, Times and Legacy of Sol Hurok; and of Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography. Writes frequently for The New York Times, Opera News, Dance Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and National Public Radio's Performance Today; frequent guest on public radio.

James Ross, James Ross, M. A., American University
School of Journalism
Courses: American Jewish Film; The Journalist in Film
Credits: Author of Escape to Shanghai: A Jewish Community in China; Caught in a Tornado: A Chinese American Woman Survives the Cultural Revolution; and Fragile Branches: Travels Through the Jewish Disapora. Co-editor of From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trials.

Kumarini Silva, Ph.D., University of Oregon
Department of Communication Studies
Courses: South Asian Diasporic Film
Credits: Essays on global and international media, Brown as identity and identification.

Alan West-Duran, Ph. D. New York University
Department of Modern Languages
Courses: Latin American Film
Credits: Author of poetry and of books and essays on Cuban literature, music, and Latin American literature and film.