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Elizabeth Stephens

Professor

estephe@ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: Art, Film, Environmental Justice, Social Justice


Biography, Education and Training

  Beth Stephens is an artist, and filmmaker with a Ph.D. in Performance Studies.    Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021) for her current film project with Annie Sprinkle, Playing with Fire, an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission (2022), a Fleishhacker Foundation grant (2022) and the publication of Assuming the Ecosexual Position— the Earth as Lover published by the University of Minnesota Press. In 2021 the ... more »

Bruce A Thompson

Bruce A Thompson

Jewish Studies Academic Advising Coordinator, Continuing Lecturer

History Department, Literature Department

Areas of expertise: California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Stanford University


Areas of expertise: History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Yale University B.A., UC Santa Cruz


Areas of expertise: Art, Film, Digital Arts


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Allan Langdale

Senior Lecturer

allanlangdale1@gmail.com

8057225731


Areas of expertise: Italian Studies, Ancient World / Classics, Archaeology, Film, Art Criticism, History of Art and Visual Culture, Mediterranean Studies, Visual Culture


Biography, Education and Training

Allan Langdale specializes in the art and architecture of the eastern Mediterranean, including Italy, Turkey, and Cyprus. Allan received his PhD in Italian Renaissance art history and the historiography of art history from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has also taught courses in film and film theory at UC Santa Barbara. Other courses include Prints and Print Culture, the Art & Architecture of India, and Byzantine Art & Architecture. Allan is also a photographer and di... more »


Areas of expertise: Ancient World / Classics, Literature, Middle East Studies, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Globalization, Film, Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies and Judaism


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Yale University (Comparative Literature) B.A. Yale University (Art History; Italian Literature)

B Ruby Rich

B Ruby Rich

Professor, Film and Digital Media Department, Social Documentation MFA Program

Film and Digital Media Department

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B RUBY RICH

PROFESSOR, CRITIC, SCHOLAR, EDITOR

brrich@ucsc.edu

415-287-0306


Areas of expertise: Aesthetics, Film, Latin American and Latino Studies, Personal and Social Identities, Digital Media, Contemporary Art, Documentary Studies, Feminist Studies, LGBT+, Cultural Studies


Biography, Education and Training

B. Ruby Rich is a Professor of Film and Digital Media, specializing in the Social Documentation graduate program. She is also Editor of Film Quarterly (UC Press), the oldest film journal in the U.S. With a long history in film festival curating, museum exhibition, and public philanthropy before entering academia, she continues to participate in panels and juries at such major film festivals as Sundance, Toronto, and Provincetown. She is the author of New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut (1998) a... more »


Areas of expertise: Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Jennifer Horne

Assistant Professor

jenny@ucsc.edu

831 459 2142


Areas of expertise: Film, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Archives, Archival Practices, Critical Theory, Feminist Studies, Documentary Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Jennifer Horne's area of expertise is nontheatrical film and media, with an emphasis on the history of the factual, educational, film in governmental and institutional streams of activity. Her research interests span media citizenship, the history of institutional uses of film/video, media archaeologies, film exhibition histories, areas of film preservation and archiving that shape our understanding of film culture, and all aspects of these areas which touch gender and feminist history. Her publ... more »

Shelley Stamp

Shelley Stamp

Professor of Film and Digital Media

Film and Digital Media Department

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Shelley Stamp

Professor of Film and Digital Media

stamp@ucsc.edu

831-459-4462


Areas of expertise: Film, Film History, Film Preservation and Film Archiving, Feminist Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University B.A., Cinema Studies, University of Toronto


Areas of expertise: Italian Studies, Film, History, Literature, Ethnomusicology


Biography, Education and Training

A native of Italy, I graduated from the University of Bari, Italy, with a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature, majoring in English. I taught for several years at UC Davis and then moved to UC Santa Cruz where I have been teaching all levels of Italian for over two decades.  I have an immense dedication for teaching, one of my goals is to provide my students with language skills that they may not encounter in the textbook. This includes using idioms and common catch phrases/words. I ... more »

Dorothy R Santos

Dorothy R Santos

Assistant Professor of Teaching

Art Department

Areas of expertise: Archives, Archival Practices, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Audio Culture, Community-based Research, Contemporary Art, Film, Visual Culture, Writing


Biography, Education and Training

Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. (she/they) is a Filipino American storyteller, poet, artist, and scholar. She earned her Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media with a designated emphasis in Computational Media and a certificate from the Science and Justice Research Center from the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Eugene Cota-Robles fellow. She received her Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology... more »


Areas of expertise: Documentary Film, Documentary Studies, Film, Television, American Cinema, Screen Acting and Performance


Biography, Education and Training

Jonathan Ayon Alonso is a Mestizo (Comcáac/Nahua-Salvadoreño/Xicano) writer/director/editor whose work explores the Mestize/Latine-“American” experience with a critical focus on broken Indigenous kinship systems, internalized racism, cultural xenophobia, Ulysses syndrome, and generational trauma. He earned a B.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State and an MFA in Documentary from Stanford University and his work has earned him recognition and support from Francis and Roma... more »


Areas of expertise: Film, Documentary Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Selmin Kara is an Acting Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media Studies at UCSC. Her primary research interests are digital aesthetics and ecological sensibilities in cinema as well as the use of sound and new technologies in contemporary documentary. She is the co-editor of Contemporary Documentary (2015) and Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision (2021). Her work has also appeared in Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st Century Film,&... more »

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