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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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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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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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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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Andrea Mensch's web page for Literature and Film
Andrea Mensch's web page for Introduction to Film

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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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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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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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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