John Schott teaches courses in Site-Specific Media, Digital Photography, Graphic Design and Film and Visual Studies.  Every other spring term he leads a popular off-campus studies program exploring New Media practice and theory in Europe.

Curriculum Vita

Carol Donelan teaches Film History I and II, Film Genres, Film Noir, The Melodramatic Imagination, Moviegoing and Film Exhibition, and Film Theory.  Her research interests include melodrama as a mode of visual storytelling for popular audiences and the cultural history of moviegoing and film exhibition.  She has co-curated an exhibition on Modernizing Melodrama in the Carleton Art Gallery and written a book that connects local history with national trends in film distribution and exhibition, Electric Theater: The Emergence of Cinema in Northfield, 1896-1917.  Currently she is researching the history of the Audubon Screen Tours and contemplating the strange and surprisingly complex patterns of meaning-making in the Twilight Saga films.

Jay Beck teaches Film History III, Contemporary Global Cinemas, American Cinema of the 1970s, American Film Comedy, Spanish Cinema, Rock ‘n’ Roll in Cinema, Film Sound Studies, and Sound Design. His research includes work on film sound, interdisciplinary sound studies, popular music studies, American cinema, Spanish cinema, genre studies, the Western, film technology, and radio studies. He has recently co-edited two book collections – Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound (with Tony Grajeda) and Contemporary Spanish Cinema and Genre (with Vicente Rodríguez Ortega) – and his dissertation, “A Quiet Revolution: Changes in American Film Sound Practices, 1967-1979,” received the 2004 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Dissertation Award.

Laska Jimsen teaches film production courses in a variety of genres, including Digital Foundations, Nonfiction, Fiction, Animation and Advanced Production Workshop.  She works across nonfiction forms from video documentary to artisanal 16mm filmmaking and animation. The 16mm print of her film "Miss Rose Fletcher: A Natural History" has screened at the MadCat, Athens, and Iowa City Experimental film festivals as well as the Moles Not Molars and Emergency reading series in Philadelphia and Structuring Strategies at CalArts. Laska’s credits as Associate Producer and Researcher include programming for the BBC, Channel 4, and PBS, including The American Experience and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Paul Hager teaches Digital Foundations, Community Video and Television Studio Production.  He is the head of Northfield's community television station [NTV] and was formerly the mayor of Northfield.

Documentary filmmaker Cecilia Cornejo teaches Digital Foundations for CAMS.  Her latest film, Song of the Apprentice, was recently screened at the Minneapolis-St Paul International Film Festival.

Vern Bailey 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 aesthetics, and many generations of students remember fondly his wonderful auteur classes in Hitchcock, Bergman, Antonioni, Renoir and Capra, among others. Vern taught his last class for the Department in 2004, but is still happy to discuss film.  He is sometimes available for consultations in the coffee shop downtown.

POSC 203. Political Communication: Election Campaign Advertising and Public Opinion

POSC 204. Media and American Politics: Special Election Edition

POSC 220. Politics and Political History in Film

POSC 303. Political Communication: Election Campaign Advertising and Public Opinion

THEA 320. Live Performance and Digital Media

SPAN 250. Spanish Cinema

LCST 245. Introduction to Critical Methods: Structure, Gender, Culture

ENGL 245. Bollywood Nation

AMST 226. Latinas in Hollywood

ARTH 240: Art Since 1945

ARTS 286. Legacies of the Avant-Garde

ENGL 100. Shakespeare on Film

GERM 219. German Film after World War II

CAMS 232. Cinema Directors: Tarkovsky

CAMS 234. Cinema Directors: Sokurov

CAMS 237. Cinemas & Contexts: Russian Film

CAMS 239: Cinemas & Contexts: East European Film

PHIL 229. Philosophy of Film and Emotion

ENGL 362. Narrative Theory

ARTH 171. History of Photography

FREN 250. Film and Society in Mali

ENGL 247. The American West

ENGL 248. Visions of California

CAMS 217. Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspectives on French and German Cinema

ARTS 140. The Digital Landscape

ARTS 141. Experimental Photography

ARTS 238. Photography I

ARTS 240. Intro to Film and Digital Photo

ARTS 339. Advanced Photo: Digital Imaging

ARTS 340. Advanced Film and Digital Photo

MUSC 115. Music and Film

CAMS 242. Sound and Music in New Media

CAMS 217. Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspectives on French and German Cinema

CAMS 233. The French Cinema

JAPN 231. Japanese Cinema

CHIN 240. Chinese Cinema

ENGL 243. Text and Film