Advisory Board Faculty
Director of Film Studies
Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor
Associate Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
crwarner@email.unc.edu
Office: Greenlaw 439
Expertise and Interests: Film Aesthetics / Film Theory / Histories of Cinema (European, North American, East Asian) / Digital Media / Genre Studies (Horror, Suspense, Dark Comedy) / Essay Film and Documentary / Global Art Cinema / Sound Studies
Website: https://rickwarner.web.unc.edu
Department of Communication
brownwa@live.unc.edu
Office: 109 Bingham Hall
Expertise and Interests: Media Production, including Essay Film and Documentary, Video Installation, and Photography
Website: http://www.heybillbrown.com
Associate Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
gflax@email.unc.edu
Office: Greenlaw 508
Expertise and Interests: Film Theory / Genre Theory / Classical and Post-Classical American Cinema / Postcolonial Theory / Narratology / Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory / Art History and Aesthetics / Psychoanalysis
Professor of the Practice
Department of Communication
goodwinj@unc.edu
Expertise and Interests: Screenwriting, Media Production, Theater
website: https://www.joygoodwin.com
Department of Art
gruffat@unc.edu
Expertise and Interests: Media Production, including Experimental Video and Animation, Media-enhanced Performance, Participatory Public Art, and Immersive Installation
website: https://www.sabinegruffat.com
Department of Communication
jhaslett@unc.edu
Office: Swain 205
Expertise and Interests: Media Production, including Personal Documentary and Essay Film
website: http://juliahaslett.com
Associate Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Associate Director, Film Studies
mlj@email.unc.edu
Office: Greenlaw 518
Expertise and Interests: American Cinema / History of Moviegoing, Exhibition, and Reception / Nontheatrical Film / Documentary / Moving Image Archives / Early Cinema / Silent Cinema / Regional & Local Film / Amateur Film / Media Archaeology
Department of English and Comparative Literature
shayne@email.unc.edu
Office: Greenlaw 424
Expertise and Interests: Genre (Horror and Gothic) / Critical Theory / Film in Relation to Other Media / Aesthetics / City Film / Film and the Middle Ages
Department of Romance Studies
hmelehy@unc.edu
Office: Dey Hall 224
Expertise and Interests: History of French Cinema / New Wave Cinema / Critical Theory / Film in Relation to Literature
Media & Design Center
freddie@email.unc.edu
Office: Media & Design Center, Undergraduate Library
Department of German & Slavic Languages & Literatures
ipoll@email.unc.edu
Office: Dey 420
Expertise and Interests: History of Film Theory / Intersections of Film, Science, and Philosophy / Aesthetic Theory / European Cinema / Genre Studies (Melodrama)
Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Office: Battle 2014
Expertise and Interests: African American Cinema / Early Cinema / Film Performance / Film Historiography
Department of American Studies
mmrobins@unc.edu
Office: Greenlaw 529
Expertise and Interests: American Cinema / Black Critical Theory / Genre Studies (Detective Fiction and Film Noir) / Gender and LGBTQ Studies
Associate Professor
Department of Asian Studies
yshemer@email.unc.edu
Office: New West 109
Expertise and Interests: Israeli and Middle Eastern Cinema / Gender and Ethnicity
