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Cinema and Media Studies

  • Phone: (507) 222-5567

Faculty

John Schott
James Woodward Strong Professor of the Liberal Arts
Off Campus: Spring 2013, Spring 2014
Phone: x4025

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
Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
Chair of Cinema and Media Studies
Phone: x5779

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
Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
Off Campus: Fall 2013
Phone: x4130

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
Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
Phone: x7679

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
Adjunct Instructor in Cinema and Media Studies
Phone: x5926

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.

Cecilia Cornejo
Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
Phone: x7298

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.

Emeriti Faculty

Vern Bailey
Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor of English, Film and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus
Phone: x4322

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.

Staff

Paul Bernhardt
Audio and Visual Technical Director
Marla Erickson
Administrative Assistant in Cinema and Media Studies
Anna Swanson ’12
Educational Associate for Cinema and Media Studies
Elizabeth Schott
CAMS Off-Campus Study Program Assistant
Phone: x5567

Other Faculty Involved in Cinema and Media Studies

Barbara Allen
Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences
Director of Women's and Gender Studies
Professor of Political Science
Off Campus: Winter 2014 through Spring 2014
Phone: x4084

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

Roger Bechtel
Associate Professor of Theater
Phone: x5479

THEA 320. Live Performance and Digital Media

Jorge Brioso
Associate Professor of Spanish
Chair of Spanish
Off Campus: Fall 2013 through Winter 2014
Phone: x5986

SPAN 250. Spanish Cinema

Scott Carpenter
Professor of French
Off Campus: Spring 2013, Spring 2014
Phone: x4235

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

Arnab Chakladar
Assistant Professor of English
Off Campus: Winter 2014
Phone: x5547

ENGL 245. Bollywood Nation

Adriana Estill
Associate Professor of English and American Studies
Phone: x7498

AMST 226. Latinas in Hollywood

Ross Elfline
Assistant Professor of Art History
Phone: x5545

ARTH 240: Art Since 1945

ARTS 286. Legacies of the Avant-Garde

 

Pierre Hecker
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: x4489

ENGL 100. Shakespeare on Film

Kai Herklotz
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
Phone: x5558

GERM 219. German Film after World War II

Diane Nemec Ignashev
Class of 1941 Professor of Russian and the Liberal Arts
Off Campus: Spring 2013
Phone: x4236

CAMS 232. Cinema Directors: Tarkovsky

CAMS 234. Cinema Directors: Sokurov

CAMS 237. Cinemas & Contexts: Russian Film

CAMS 239: Cinemas & Contexts: East European Film

Sarah Jansen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Phone: x7997

PHIL 229. Philosophy of Film and Emotion

Susan Jaret McKinstry
Helen F. Lewis Professor of English
Off Campus: Spring 2013
Phone: x4325

ENGL 362. Narrative Theory

Baird Jarman
Associate Professor of Art History
Phone: x7025

ARTH 171. History of Photography

Cherif Keita
Professor of French
Phone: x4433

FREN 250. Film and Society in Mali

Michael Kowalewski
McBride Professor of English and Environmental Studies
Phone: x4323

ENGL 247. The American West

ENGL 248. Visions of California

Sigi Leonhard
Professor of German
Off Campus: Fall 2013
Phone: x4241

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

Linda Rossi
Associate Professor of Art
Chair of Art & Art History
Phone: x5453

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

Ronald Rodman
Dye Family Professor of Music and Director of the Carleton Symphony Band
Phone: x4359

MUSC 115. Music and Film

CAMS 242. Sound and Music in New Media

Dana Strand
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of French and the Humanities
Off Campus: Spring 2013
Phone: x4126

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

CAMS 233. The French Cinema

Noboru Tomonari
Associate Professor of Japanese
Off Campus: Spring 2013
Phone: x5955

JAPN 231. Japanese Cinema

Hong Zeng
Assistant Professor of Chinese
Off Campus: Spring 2013
Phone: x5437

CHIN 240. Chinese Cinema

Kofi Owusu
Professor of English
Chair of English
Phone: x4319

ENGL 243. Text and Film