Marsha Orgeron
Director of Film Studies
Associate Professor, English
Office: 216 Tompkins; 515-4149
Since joining the film studies faculty in 2002, Marsha
Orgeron has taught courses in 1950s American Film, Studio Era Hollywood, Warner
Bros. in the Golden Age, The Musical, History of Film to 1940, African
American Film, International Crime Film, Introduction to
Film, and Film & Literature.
Her research interests include stardom and movie fan culture through
the studio era; the birth and decline of the Hollywood studio
system; Sam Fuller, Ida Lupino, and
other independent filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s; orphan films, especially of the educational variety; and
the intersections between film and other art forms, such
as literature.
Dr. Orgeron has published a book, Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age, with Wesleyan University Press (February 2008). Her articles can be found in the journals The Velvet Light Trap, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal,
The Moving Image, American Literature, Framework, Quarterly Review of Film & Video, College Literature, COIL,
and Canadian Review of American Studies, as well as in the book The Image and the Witness (London: Wallflower, 2007).
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Marsha Orgeron
Wilton Barnhardt
Director of Creative Writing and Associate
Professor, English
Office: 276 Tompkins; (919) 515-4129
Dr. Barnhardt is the author of three novels
(Show World, Gospel, and Emma Who
Saved My Life) and numerous short stories and essays.
He teaches screenwritng and advanced screenwriting.
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Ora Gelley
Assistant Professor, English
Dr. Ora Gelley will be joining the NCSU Film Studies faculty in the fall 2008 semester. Dr. Gelley holds a Ph.D. in English (cinema and media studies emphasis) from the University of Chicago with post-doctoral teaching experience at Dartmouth College, Tulane University, and Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Her teaching interests include Italian, German, French, Turkish, and Dutch Cinema; Stardom in Hollywood and Europe; Film Theory; Women and Film; Holocaust Representation; and Film and Literature. Her work has been published in Film Studies, Critical Inquiry, Film Criticism, and Cinema Journal. She is currently completing a book manuscript, Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini’s Italy: Stardom and the Politics of Neorealism.
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Joe Gomez
Professor, English
Office: 209 Tompkins; (919) 515-4169
Dr. Gomez founded the Film Studies program
at NCSU in 1988. His research areas include British Cinema
and Film and Literature. He has written books on Ken Russell and Peter Watkins and recently recorded commentary
tracks for the DVD releases of Watkins' Punishment Park and The Gladiators. As part of a phased retirement arrangement, Professor Gomez will only teach one semester each year through the 2009-10 school year.
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Gomez
Jorge Mari
Associate Professor,
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Office:
Withers 217
Dr. Marí's research has focused mostly on 20th & 21st-centuries Spanish cultural studies and Spanish cinema, as well as intermedial studies (film-lit interactions) and Spain-U.S. relations. He is the author of Lecturas espectaculares (2003), a book on the manifestations of cinema in the contemporary Spanish novel. Dr. Marí has taught at Duke University and at the Université de Lyon (France) and has lectured internationally on Spanish culture, literature, and Trans Atlantic cinemas (Spanish, Latin American, and U.S.). He has been a member of the organizing committee of the Latin American Film & Video festival of North Carolina since 1997. Dr. Marí's next book, a study of the political, artistic, and cultural relations of Spain and the U.S.A., is set to appear by the end of 2008.
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Mari
Andrea Mensch
Senior Lecturer, English
Office: G116 Tompkins; (919) 515-5026
Professor Mensch has taught in the NCSU Film Studies program
since 1993. Her specialties include European Cinema and
New German Cinema.
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Mensch
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Devin Orgeron
Associate Professor, English
Office: 280 Tompkins; 515-4138
Professor Devin Orgeron teaches courses in Film Theory, Film
History Since 1940, The New American Director, International
Film and Realism, Documentary, and The French New Wave. He also teaches
a range of director-focused courses covering filmmakers
such as Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Howard
Hawks, and the Coen Brothers. Dr. Orgeron researches and
writes about cinema and mechanical mobility; cinematic masculinity;
contemporary American cinema; film authorship; realism; advertising and commercial images; educational films; and postmodernity. He also collects, shows, and writes about home movies
form the 1940s-1960s.
Dr. Orgeron has published a book, Road Movies: From Muybridge and Melies to Lynch and Kiarostami, with Palgrave Macmillan (December 2007). His articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, The Velvet Light Trap, The Moving Image, The Journal of
Film and Video, CineAction, College Literature, Post Script, and Film Quarterly.
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Devin Orgeron
Maria Pramaggiore
Professor, English
Office: 233 Tompkins; (919) 515-4109
Dr. Pramaggiore teaches courses in film theory, feminist
film theory, the horror film, Irish national cinema, and
screenwriting. Her research interests include gender and
sexuality in cinema, and Irish and African American cinemas.
In addition to numerous journal articles and film reviews,
she co-edited Representing Bisexualities: Subjects and
Cultures of Fluid Desire (NYU, 1996) and co-authored
Film: A Critical Introduction (Laurence King, 2005)
with Tom Wallis. She has also written two books, Identifying Others and
Performing Identities: Irish and African American Cinema,
1980-2000 (SUNY Press, 2007) and Neil Jordan (University
of Illinois Press, forthcoming).
Dr. Pramaggiore won a Fulbright Fellowship to teach and
conduct research at University College, Cork in Ireland
in 2007.
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Pramaggiore
Cole Russing
Adjunct Professor, English
Cole Russing holds two BA degrees from NCSU and an MFA from the University of Southern California School of Cinema Television. He will be teaching Screenwriting courses in the Summer and Fall 2008 semesters for the Film Studies Program at NCSU.
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Sarah Stein
Associate Professor, Communication
Office: 201 Winston ; (919) 515-2450
Prior to joining the faculty at NCSU in 1995, Dr. Stein
worked in documentary filmmaking for 25 years and has edited
a number of award winning films, including two that won
Academy Awards and one that won an Emmy. She has taught
film production at NYU's film school and at the University
of Iowa.
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Stein.
Tom Wallis
Senior Lecturer, English
Office: G116 Tompkins; (919) 515-5026
Professor Wallis has taught film and composition at NCSU
since 1994. His interests include directors Martin Scorsese
and Jim Jarmusch, film sound, and films of the 1970s. He
is the co-author of Film: A Critical Introduction
(2005).
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Wallis
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