CORE FACULTY
Devin Orgeron
Director of Film Studies
Associate Professor, English
Office: 202A 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 is the author of Road Movies: From Muybridge and Melies to Lynch and Kiarostami (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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Ora Gelley
Assistant Professor, English
Office: 280 Tompkins;
515-0364
Dr. Ora Gelley joined the NCSU Film Studies faculty in the fall 2008 semester, teaching Italian National Cinema and Film History to 1940. 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. Ora received a stipend grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the summer of '09 to do research in Rome for her book 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
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
Andrea
Mensch's web page for Writing About Film
Andrea
Mensch's web page for Introduction to Film
Marsha Orgeron
Associate Professor, English
Office: 202 Tompkins; 515-4149
Since joining the film studies faculty in 2002, Marsha Orgeron has taught courses in Women & Film, 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 is the author of Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age (2008) and numerous articles in such journals as The Velvet Light Trap, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, and The Moving Image.
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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
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
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Jim Alchediak
Senior Lecturer, Communication
Office: 101-A Winston Hall; (919) 515-9740
Professor Alchediak has taught a variety of media courses since joining the Communication Department in 1979. An active educational video producer, his geography series Living in Our World has been distributed internationally. Professor Alchediak regularly teaches Digital Video Production (Com 357) and Advanced Video Production (Com 437).
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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 (Eng 433) and advanced screenwriting (Eng 492).
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Patrick FitzGerald
Associate Professor, Art & Design
Office: 276 Tompkins; (919) 515-4129
Professor FitzGerald's multimedia work has been exhibited across the United States and Japan. As director of the IntelliMedia Initiative for the College of Design at NCSU, FitzGerald's research and teaching span the full range of multimedia production, from digital video to interactive 3D animation. Professor FitzGerald has received national and international awards for his digital illustrations. He teaches Digital Imaging (ADN 219) and an Animation Seminar (ADN 289).
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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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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. Dr. Stein regularly teaches Introduction to Film Production (Com 344), which is a requirement for Film Stuides majors.
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