Experts List
Experts - Broadcasting & Cinema
Geoffrey Baym
Associate Professor, Media Studies
PhD University of Utah
(919) 323-2892, gdbaym@uncg.edu
- Television News
- Satire and "Fake News" (eg The Daily Show and The Colbert Report)
- Politics and Entertainment
Frank Donaldson
Lecturer, Media Studies
MA The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(336) 334-4146, frank_donaldson@uncg.edu
- Entertainment Industry Trends
- Local Radio & Television
Emily Edwards
Professor, Media Studies
Director, Center for Creative Writing in the Arts
PhD The University of Texas at Austin
(336) 334-4135, ededward@uncg.edu
- Popular Media, Media Writing & Production
- Media violence, morbid curiosity and pop culture
- Creative Writing
James Fisher
Professor & Department Head, Theatre
MFA The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(336) 334-4112, ajfisher@uncg.edu
- Topics Relating to Theater & Drama
- American Film
- The UNCG Theatre Program
Anthony N. Fragola
Professor, Media Studies
Atlantic World Research Network
MFA University of Southern California
(336) 334-4138, afragola@uncg.edu
- Italian Cinema and Literature
- Movies in General
- Mafia - Politics, Economics, Relationship to Sicilian and Italian Mafias
Michael Frierson
Associate Professor, Media Studies
PhD University of Michigan
(336) 334-5360, frierson@uncg.edu
- History of Animation
Ana Hontanilla
Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Washington University in St. Louis
(336) 210-6866, amhontan@uncg.edu
- Spanish Literature
- Spanish Culture
- Spanish Films, History, and Politics
Brett Ingram
Associate Professor, Media Studies
MFA The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(336) 675-5698, bringram@uncg.edu
- Documentary Filmmaking
- Filmmaking in General
Arndt Niebisch
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Johns Hopkins University
(443) 604-1752, a_niebis@uncg.edu
- Science, Technology and Culture
- Media Theory
- European Avant-Garde
Kimberlianne Podlas
Assistant Professor, Media Studies
JD State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law
(716) 903-6373, k_podlas@uncg.edu
- Topics in U.S. Law: Copyright, FCC, Courts
- The Law in Pop Culture and on TV: the CSI Effect, Judge Judy, Reality TV
- Humor and Satire
- The Media: TV, Film, Digital/Internet
Susanne Rinner
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Georgetown University
(336) 256-1159, s_rinner@uncg.edu
- German Literature, Film, & Cultural Studies
- The Sixties
- Women Writers in German Speaking Countries
- Contemporary Germany
Roch C. Smith
Professor Emeritus, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Emory University
(336) 282-3734, rochsr@earthlink.net
- Twentieth and Twenty-first Century French literature and Film
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (French author and filmmaker), Metafiction, and the French New Novel
- Andre Malraux (French novelist and former Minister in DeGaulle's cabinet)
- Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism
- Literature and Society
- Quebec
Joan M. Titus
Assistant Professor, Composition, Ethnomusicology, Musicology and Theory
PhD The Ohio State University
(336) 334-3301, j_titus@uncg.edu
- Music and Film
- Music and World Politics
- Music and Cultural Policy
- Music and Russia; and Music and North Africa
Stephen R. Yarbrough
Professor, English
PhD Pennsylvania State University
(336) 334-3970, sryarbro@uncg.edu
- Rhetorical theory
- Media Responsibility