Dr. Jeffrey Adams is an Associate Professor of Film Studies and German. Dr. Adams offers genre, auteur, and critical writing courses in the Film and Television Studies Concentration including BCN 528 Studies in Media Genres: Film Noir. His interests in film studies include film noir, German new wave cinema, Weimar expressionism (horror), and literary adaptation. Dr. Adams has a PhD in German from Northwestern University and has done undergraduate and graduate work at German universities in Göttingen and Stuttgart. His scholarly interests range from film criticism to German and European literary history, philosophy (German Idealism, Nietzsche, existentialism), and psychoanalysis. His book publications on German literature include Eduard Mörike's Orplid. Myth and the Poetic Mind, Mörike's Muses. Critical Essays on Eduard Mörike (ed.), and Mimetic Desire. Narcissism in German Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism (co-ed.). He has published articles on Goethe, Kafka, Freud, and Patrick Süskind in journals such as The German Quarterly, The Germanic Review, and Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift. His latest publication is "Orson Welles' The Trial: Film Noir and the Kafkaesque" in College Literature.

Matthew Barr has always had a deep interest in filmmaking: he made his first 16mm film with a Bell & Howell wind-up camera when he was thirteen. He holds a BA from San Francisco State College and an MFA from UCLA in film production. He has worked as a still photographer, been a freelance screenwriter, worked on an organic farm, driven a rig cross country, and spent five seasons with a traveling carnival show.

As a screenwriter, he co-wrote the scripts for two movies produced in Hollywood, Deadly Blessing (1981) and The Forgotten (1989), as well as other scripts that were optioned but never saw the light of day. While teaching at the University of Miami In 1990, he moved into documentary production with Crimes of Hate, a film produced in conjunction with the Anti-Defamation League as a training tool for police departments in recognizing and combating hate crimes.

In 1999, Barr completed Carnival Train, a feature length documentary about carnival life. In 2006, Barr released Wild Caught, a feature length documentary about commercial fishermen. Wild Caught has screened at the Asheville Film Festival, RiverRun International Film Festival and other festivals. He has taught film production at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro since 1994. Together with his wife, Cornelia Wright Barr, he founded the Unheard Voices Project in 2006.

Geoffrey Baym teaches and writes about broadcast journalism, media theory, and political discourse. Trained as journalist at Northwestern University's Medill School of journalism, he worked in a variety of media and newsrooms, including KSL-TV, Salt Lake City, before receiving his Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of Utah.

Baym's current scholarship focuses on emerging forms of broadcast journalism and the melding of genres of news and entertainment. He has written journal articles and book chapters investigating The Daily Show (in the journal Political Communication), MTV News (forthcoming in Journalism Studies), and the Colbert Report. His work also has appeared in the Journal of Communication, Journalism, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, the Western Journal of Communication, and the Journal of Communication Inquiry.

Currently he is writing an article examining Stephen Colbert's Better Know a District segment and has begun work on a book that expounds on the emergence of infotainment and the cultural turn toward discursive integration.

Jack Bonney is the first full-time General Manager of WUAG, UNC Greensboro's student-operated radio station. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Bonney is a spring 2002 graduate of the Broadcasting and Cinema Department at UNC Greensboro. He has worked at college radio stations in Bel Air, Maryland; Hull, England; and Greensboro. In Greensboro he has served at both WQFS (Guilford College) and WUAG. At WUAG, Bonney began as a disk jockey in 1998 and earned the position of Music Director in 2001. The General Manager's position was provided by the University Provost and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences as part of an upgrading of the radio station. The General Manager is assigned as a Research Associate in the Department of Broadcasting and Cinema and serves as that Department's representative to Artslink, the University's newly initiated collaborative arts and entertainment office.

Frank Donaldson (MA), Lecturer, is a former broadcast journalist and sports color commentator who teaches a variety of courses in the Media Studies program including Introduction to Media Studies and Development of Broadcasting. In addition, he teaches radio and television announcing, sportscasting, broadcast programming, media organization and management, and has recently added situation comedy writing to the list. Frank serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Internship Program for the Department. Twice a year Frank travels to Los Angeles where contacts in the television industry allow him to observe the production of television programs. Frank has been the guest of the executive producers for Friends, Home Improvement, Third Rock from the Sun, Working, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Talk Soup, Spin City, Will and Grace, and That 70's Show. On occasion Frank has been able to have students accompany him to visits to the set. Frank also works with alumni relations for the Department holding alumni dinners in New York City and Los Angeles.

Emily D. Edwards is an associate professor of broadcasting and cinema at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She received her Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1984. She has been a television news reporter, producer, copywriter and television creative services director for NBC and ABC affiliates in Alabama and Tennessee. Her book, Metaphysical Media: Occult Experience in Popular Culture (Southern Illinois University Press, November 2005) is an in-depth discussion of media presentation of a wide spectrum of the occult - everything from urban legends reported in the media following the September 11th attacks to examination of the media viewing as an out of body experience. Her book also serves as a comprehensive sourcebook of movies and television programs that deal with supernatural characters and themes. The producer or director of more than fifteen films, Edwards has also published articles on documentary filmmaking, popular music, the occult and popular culture in journals such as The Journal of Film and Video, TDR, Southern Speech Communication Journal, Southern Folklore, Sex Roles, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Journal, Popular Music and Society, and The International Documentary Association Magazine, among others. She has contributed chapters to books such as Current Research in Film, Hauntings and Poltergeists, and Adolescents and Their Music.

Edwards screenplays have received Awards of Excellence in blind, juried review in the 2003 and 2005 International BEA Festival of Arts in the Faculty Screening Writing Competition. She has also re-ceived awards for screenwriting in the University Film and Video Production Screenwriting competi-tions, Twin Rivers, and Bare Bone International Screenwriting competitions among others. Her docu-mentary and narrative films have received awards from UFVA Faculty competitions, The George Lind-say Film Festival, Bare Bones International Film Festival (among others) as well as screenings through festivals and television broadcasts nationwide.

Anthony Fragola, Professor, has a BA from Columbia University, an MA from UNC Chapel Hill in Comparative Literature, and a MPW (Master of Professional Writing) from the University of Southern California. He teaches primarily in the area of screen writing, auteur directors--European filmmakers, and various genre courses such as Literature and Film. He has published two books: The Erotic Dream Machine: Interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet on his Films, co-authored with Roch C. Smith, and a collection of short stories, Feast of the Dead. His short stories have appeared in literary magazines both in the US and abroad, including England and Malaysia; and several have been aired on the BBC World Service Short Story Series. His fiction has also won awards, including The Greensboro Review literary award and the Aniello Lauri Award from Voices in Italian Americana. He has published scholarly articles in a variety of journals, including Symposium. The New Novel Review, and Film/Literature Quarterly. His films and videos have been aired on UNC-TV and shown in festivals such as the Melbourne International Film Festival. His current research interests include interactive digital narratives.

Michael Frierson (PhD) is an Associate Professor in Broadcasting and Cinema. He teaches film production, history, and theory, and has produced short clay animated films for Children's Television Workshop and Nickelodeon. He is the author of Clay Animation: American Highlights 1908 to the Present (New York: Twayne, 1994), which won the McLaren-Lambart Award from the National Film Board of Canada for the Best Scholarly Book on Animation for 1995. Frierson recently taught a clay animation workshop at the Netherlands Institute for the Animated Film and is currently completing an hour-long documentary about the FBI's counterintelligence program against the KKK in North Carolina during the 1960s.

Christopher Holmes is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Broadcasting and Cinema at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, having earned his MFA in Film and Video Production there in 2005. His short film Fence Dogs was awarded 1st Prize at the 2005 James River Film Festival in Richmond, VA, and his work has been featured in a wide range of festivals throughout the world, including the Milano Film Festival in Italy, the IndieMemphis Film Festival, the Anchorage International Film Festival, and several others. His films have also been featured several times on PBS programs in both North Carolina and South Carolina. Christopher earned a BA in Electronic Media Production at the University of Akron, where he was awarded the university's Sam Ella Dukes Memorial Poetry Prize in 2001. Currently recovering from career-threatening "Tommy John" elbow surgery, Christopher hopes to one day pitch again in the major leagues.

Formerly an electrical engineer on the Space Shuttle Main Engine Program, Brett Ingram exchanged his pocket protector for a movie camera in 1990 and has never looked back. His short documentaries and animated films have won 30 awards collectively and have screened at more than 150 festivals and museums internationally.

Ingram's first documentary feature, Monster Road - about the life and work of legendary Seattle animator Bruce Bickford - premiered at the 2004 Slamdance Film Festival where it won "Best Documentary." Monster Road eventually screened at more than 85 festivals and museums in fifteen countries, winning sixteen awards, before screening on Sundance Channel (2005-07).

Ingram has twice been awarded a Film/Video Artist Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council (1995 and 2002). In 2007 he was awarded a Fellowship in Filmmaking from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Ingram is currently working on a feature documentary, entitled Rocaterrania - a portrait of Raleigh scientific illustrator and visionary artist Renaldo Kuhler.

John Lee Jellicorse's love for movies began with Saturday afternoon triple-features (and a memorable early encounter with the Italian film, Bitter Rice). He acquired his first 16 mm camera and projector when he was eleven, but film schools were too expensive or too far away; and so he went through undergraduate and graduate school in communications (PhD, Northwestern University, 1967) and has spent most of his career in academic curriculum development and administration in the field of communication and theatre. As Film Studies Coordinator, he taught the first four courses in the film studies curriculum at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He came to UNC Greensboro in 1974 as Professor and Head of the Department of Communication and Theatre and founded the Broadcasting / Cinema Division in 1975. On leave from UNCG in 1991-94, he served as founding Dean of the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University. His special interest is documentary history and theory, which he has taught since 1972, especially nonfiction in the early silent era.

Dr. Seung-Hyun Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She received her Ph.D. in Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008. She has been a reporter for a monthly magazine on cable TV and a weekly newspaper on politics in Seoul, Korea. She has also taught Korean language and culture and video journalism of technology art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Her main research areas include the impacts, roles and users of digital and interactive media, such as the Internet, digital television and mobile multimedia, in the social, national, and international context; online journalism and citizen journalism; new media use; health communications; and community. She particularly focuses on mobile multimedia use and mobile TV, which was the subject of her doctoral dissertation and expertise area, and the research project awarded grants from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in 2006.

She teaches ‘Digital Media’ and ‘Online Journalism,’ including a webpage creation. She is expanding her teaching and researching area into mobile journalism and citizen journalism for local communities as well as global media use, particularly international mobile multimedia use in developed and developing countries. Currently she is writing an article on mobile technology convergence for a book chapter.

Beyond her teaching and researching, she is also interested in advising students for study abroad, creating global institutional linkages, and serving for education, information delivery, and multicultural environment of local communities.

Prior to entering academia full-time, Podlas practiced constitutional and criminal law in New York. During that time, she argued more than 100 cases, including several in the state's high court. She later taught and worked on higher education reform in post-communist Romania where she developed both an expertise in international business law and one of the region's first clinical education programs.

In 2004, Podlas joined the Department of Broadcasting & Cinema. She is presently an Assistant Professor of Media Law and the Director of the Carolina [International] Film & Video Festival. Consistent with her teaching and scholarly interests, Podlas is also on the Board of Directors of North Carolina's ACLU.

Podlas has published more than 25 refereed articles and several teaching resources. Much of this work appears in the specialized entertainment and media law journals of Fordham, Seton Hall, Loyola, Cardozo, and Villanova, and has been referenced in dozens of sources. Her scholarship begins at the intersection of pop culture and law and considers the media's influence on the public's understanding and respect of law.

Podlas's honors include: the Broadcast Education Association's National Paper Competition Award, regional paper awards, a "Junior Scholar" recognition, a Western New York Trial Lawyer's Association Award, a Fulbright, a Fellowship to the Office of US Senate Legal Counsel, and a Civic Education Project Fellowship.

After an extensive professional career in radio (WTMR-AM) and television (WYOU-TV, WGGT-TV, WCTI-TV), Ken Terres moved into the academic world as the Television Studio Production Manager at North Carolina A & T State University (1991-97). He joined the Broadcasting and Cinema faculty in March of 1997 as the Engineer and Facilities Manager for the Department of Broadcasting and Cinema. Recent accomplishments include the conversion of Carmichael 05 into a sixteen station digital editing laboratory (Final Cut Pro), re-engineering of the Carmichael Building main TV studio to support production of UNCG Today, and renovations and upgrading to the equipment check-out room, including implementing a computer-based records system.