Curriculum Vita

Carol Donelan teaches courses in film history and theory, film modes and genres, directors, national cinemas and television studies. She has published articles on the politics of gender in cinema and on the implications of teaching film theory in a post-film, post-theory era. Her research interests include melodrama and the history of moviegoing and film exhibition in small towns and rural areas.

Thomas Pope teaches Screenwriting. His first book, Good Scripts, Bad Scripts (Random House), examined good and bad screenwriting in 25 of the best and worst films ever written. His second book, Future Film: Predicting the Future of Screenwriting, is currently being sent to publishers. It details Pope's analysis of where screenwriting has been, where it is today, and where he thinks it is headed in the future. He teaches full-time at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he has taught Beginning and Advanced Screenwriting, Film History, Science Fiction Film, The Western, Kubrick, Hitchcock, and Film Analysis and Contemporary Film Studies. He currently is co-producer on Sweet Land, an independent film directed by Ali Selim, starring Alan Cumming, John Heard, Lois Smith and Ned Beatty.

Paul oversees the Cinema & Media Studies Media Lab, and teaches a variety of classes in media production. He is the head of Northfield's community television station [NTV], and has served as the mayor of Northfield.

Vern is a much-admired Professor of English with a passion for film. In the mid-'70s he instituted the first cinema class at Carleton and helped organize the Carleton Film Society. In recent years nearly half the courses he taught were on film history and esthetics, and many generations of students remember fondly his wonderful auteur classes in Hitchcock, Bergman, Renoir and Capra, among others. Vern taught his last class for the Department in 2004.

Barbara's Media and Politics class looks at popular representations of governance in film and television (e.g. films like The Manchurian Candidate and All the President's Men) as well as the uses of media by government; it also looks specifically at television news coverage of elections as well as candidate communications (especially television and radio advertising) using mass media. In addition, most of her feminist theory and multiculturalism courses have a media component where students look at representations of gender, sexuality, and race in mass media and popular culture. She publishes and presents in the area of media and politics. Examples include “Local News Coverage in a 'Social Capital' Capital: Election 2000 on Minnesota's Local News Stations,” Political Communication. Forthcoming (with Dean Alger, Daniel Stevens, and John Sullivan); "Principles, Partisanship, and Perceptions of Political Advertising" (with Dan Stevens, John Sullivan, and Dean Alger) Under review. 2005; and “Insights from Film into Violence and Oppression,” European Political Science. 1:2 (spring) 2001, 49-52.

Jorge teaches courses in modern Spanish literature, Trans-Atlantic literature, Contemporary Spanish Film as well as language courses. He is interested in the relationship between the rise of the city and its representation in cinematographic images. His Contemporary Spanish Film course is a survey of Spanish Cinema from the middle of the 20th century until the present. He is currently researching the representation of the "beloved" in Pedro Almodovar's films and is linking it with the representation of the beloved in classic poetry.

Diane’s classes include European Women Filmmakers, Russian and Soviet Film, and Introduction to Russian Culture & Society. Her research interests include the History of Russian Cinema and Russian-Soviet Film Theory, the Semiotics of Cinema (esp. Tartu School), Gender and Cinema, and European Cinema-History & Theory. Diane has published extensively on Russian and Eastern European Film Studies. Currently she is working on an article titled "Who Sank/ The/ /Russian Ark/ or How Bad Subtitles Unmake Good Films." Carleton Russian web page.

Baird Jarman, Assistant Professor of Art History, offers courses in the history of American and European art, architecture, and visual culture spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He teaches a class in The History of Photography for the Cinema and Media Studies Department. His dissertation investigated the chivalric iconography of The Quest of the Holy Grail murals in the Boston Public Library, and he continues to research chivalric imagery in American popular culture of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, for instance in the films of D. W. Griffith. He has guest lectured on American cinema of the silent era in the film history survey, and has served as a judge for DVD Fest, and serves on the college's Committee on Visuality.

Cherif (Ph.D., University of Georgia) teaches Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean, as well as advanced languages courses. A native of Mali, Mr. Keïta has published books and articles on both social and literary problems in contemporary Africa. His special interests include the novel and social evolution in Mali, Oral tradition, and the relationship between music, literature and culture in Africa. He is the author of Massa Makan Diabaté (L'Harmattan, 1995) and Salif Keita: L'oiseau sur le fromager (Le figuier, 2001). He is presently completing a documentary film entitled "Oberlin-Inanda: In Search of John L. Dube", about the life of the first President of the African National Congress in South Africa and the US at the end of the 19th century. Mr Keïta also leads a Carleton Francophone off-campus studies program to Mali every other year. He is the Director of French and Francophone Studies at Carleton.

Associate Professor; Université de Nantes, licence en lettres modernes et philosophie; Stanford, M.A., Ph.D. Goethezeit, History of Ideas, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries, Postwar German Literature, The German Bildungsroman, German Film. Along with professor Dana Strand, Sigi teaches a comparative course on French and German Cinema.

RONALD RODMAN (Director of Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Theory, Low Brass) received the B.Mus.Ed. from Indiana University, the M.M. degree in Theory from Georgia State University, and the Ph.D. in Music Theory from Indiana University. His research interests include Schenkerian analysis, musical semiotics, and music and the media. Dr. Rodman has contributed articles on analysis of film and television music to the College Music Symposium, Journal of Music Theory, and Indiana Theory Review, as well as to the books Music and Cinema, The Continuum Guide to Media, and Changing Tunes.

Linda Rossi (University of Minnesota, B.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, M.F.A.) teaches photography, digital photography and the Junior Seminar Critical Issues in Contemporary Art. Her work is primarily in large-scale photo installation including video and sculpture to illuminate both historical and current issues. She has received numerous Jerome, McKnight and Minnesota State Arts grants. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the Strogonvo Palace, Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran.

Her work can be viewed in the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Dana Strand, professor of French in the Romance Languages Department, team teaches a comparative course on French and German Cinema with Sigi Leonhard of the German section. In addition, she offers a survey course on French film as well as a course, entitled Cinema and Society, that uses film as a window onto French culture. Having published articles on the films of Claire Denis and on the uses of history in film, she is currently working on a book of essays on place and identity in contemporary French literature and film.

Noboru Tomonari teaches Japanese Cinema in Cinema & Media Studies. He is preparing a course on Japanese anime, as well as director studies of Kurosawa and Ozu. Prof. Tomonari is researching the representation of minorities in Japanese films, and has written papers on zainichi (resident Koreans in Japan) in cinema. He is currently working the film adaptations of novels by Nakagami Kenji, who was born a burakumin, Japan's underclass that still receives much discimination. With his Japanese language students, he is creating English subtitles for the documentary Zainichi: The Koreans in Postwar Japan (1997).