Media Arts + Practice Faculty List
Holly Willis
Professor of Cinematic Arts
hwillis@cinema.usc.edu
Kiki Benzon
Associate Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts
Research areas: Interactive Media, Transmedia Entertainment, Digital Culture, Critical Theory, Games Studies, Media Arts and Practice
kbenzon@cinema.usc.edu
Michael Bodie
Associate Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts
mbodie@cinema.usc.edu
Mark Bolas
Professor of Cinematic Arts
Director INIT Lab
Media Arts + Practice Division, Ph.D. Advisor
mbolas@cinema.usc.edu
Vicki Callahan
Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts
Research areas: Film and Media History, Feminist Studies, Digital Culture, Media Strategies for Social Change, and Public Scholarship
vcallahan@cinema.usc.edu
John Carpenter
Adjunct Associate Professor
johncarp@usc.edu
Carrie Chen
Adjunct Assistant Professor
chencarr@usc.edu
Jesse Damiani
Adjunct Assistant Professor
jsdamian@usc.edu
Don Edler
Adjunct Associate Professor
dedler@usc.edu
Ana carolina Estarita guerrero
Adjunct Assistant Professor
estarita@usc.edu
Scott Fisher
Professor
Director, USC Mobile & Environmental Media Lab
Founding Chair, Interactive Media Division
sfisher@cinema.usc.edu
Stephen Fogg
Adjunct Assistant Professor
sfogg@usc.edu
Pablo Frasconi
Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts
pfrasconi@cinema.usc.edu
Sergei Gepshtein
Research Adjunct Professor
sergei.gepshtein@usc.edu
Marientina Gotsis
Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts
mgotsis@cinema.usc.edu
Pete Hawkes
Adjunct Associate Professor
petehawkes@gmail.com
Evan Hughes
Associate Professor of Cinema Practice
Interim Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion
Media Arts + Practice Division
ehughes@cinema.usc.edu
Aniko Imre
Professor of Cinematic Arts
Division of Cinema & Media Studies; Media Arts + Practice Division, PhD Advisor
Research areas: Global media studies, studies of European and (post)socialist media, critical feminist, race and nationalism studies, postcolonial studies, critical data, platform and surveillance studies, media industry studies
imre@usc.edu
Henry Jenkins
Provost’s Professor
Media Arts + Practice Division, Ph.D. Advisor
Research areas: New Media Literacies, Transmedia, Fandom, Gaming, Convergence Culture, Civic Media
hjenkins@cinema.usc.edu
Jeanne Jo
Adjunct Assistant Professor
jeannejo@usc.edu
David Johnson
Associate Professor of Practice
djohnson@cinema.usc.edu
Aisling Kelliher
Visiting Associate Professor
akelliher@cinema.usc.edu
Andreas Kratky
Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts
Chair, Media Arts + Practice Division
akratky@cinema.usc.edu
Virginia Kuhn
Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts
Media Arts + Practice Division
Associate Director, Institute for Multimedia Literacy
vkuhn@cinema.usc.edu
Alexander Mcdowell
William Cameron Menzies Endowed Chair in Production Design
Media Arts + Practice Division
The William Cameron Menzies Endowed Chair in Production Design
amcdowell@cinema.usc.edu
Tara Mcpherson
Professor
Division of Cinema & Media Studies; Media Arts + Practice Division, Ph.D. Advisor
Research areas: Digital Media, Digital Humanities and Publishing, Early Software Histories, Gender Studies
The HMH Foundation Endowed Chair for the Study of Censorship in Media
tmcphers@usc.edu
Harvest Moon
Adjunct Assistant Professor
harvestm@usc.edu
Tatiana Mulry
Adjunct Associate Professor
Media Arts + Practice Division
tmulry@usc.edu
Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts
gpeterslazaro@cinema.usc.edu