Department Chair

Nina K. Martin, Professor of Film Studies, Department Chair of Film Studies

Nina K. Martin

Professor of Film Studies, Department Chair of Film Studies

Feminist film and cultural studies • The impact of film and TV on feminist discourses


Faculty

Ross W. Morin, Professor of Film Studies

Ross W. Morin

Professor of Film Studies

(Sabbatical Fall 2025)

Film and video production • Screenwriting • Cinematography • Editing • Directing • Film theory and practice • History of the documentary • History of experimental cinema


Stacy Jameson

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film Studies


Staff

Aimee Couture

Academic Department Assistant

, Technician

Greg Surman

Technician


Associated Faculty

James Austin, Associate Professor of French, Chair of the French Department

James Austin

Associate Professor of French, Chair of the French Department

Proust • French film


Luis M. Gonzalez, Professor of Hispanic Studies

Luis M. Gonzalez

Professor of Hispanic Studies

Peninsular literature • Spanish film studies • Spanish cultural studies • Culture and ideology


Karolin Machtans, Associate Professor of German Studies

Karolin Machtans

Associate Professor of German Studies

20th and 21st century German literature and film, with a special focus on post-1945 German history and culture, minorities and transnationalism • Post-1945 German history and culture • German-Turkish relations • Muslims in Germany • Minorities in Germany • Holocaust studies • Literary theory


Paola Sica, Professor of Italian, Chair of Italian Studies

Paola Sica

Professor of Italian, Chair of Italian Studies

Italian culture in comparative context (especially literary and visual representations from late 19th century through the contemporary era, with emphasis on modernism and avant garde) • Gender studies • Critical theory • Translation and transculturation • Language pedagogy


Janis Solomon, Lucretia L. Allyn Professor Emeritus of German, Director of Film Studies Program 2002-2006

Janis Solomon

Lucretia L. Allyn Professor Emeritus of German, Director of Film Studies Program 2002-2006

German baroque literature • Expressionism • Film studies