Department Chair
Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
Mary Desjardins received her PhD in Cinema-TV from USC. Before coming to Dartmouth, she taught at UC Santa Barbara and UT Austin. Articles in journals, such as Film Quarterly, Camera Obscura, The Velvet Light Trap, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vectors, and The Spectator. She also has book chapters in Television, History, and American Culture; Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting and Desire; Headline Hollywood: 100 Years of Film Scandal; Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture; Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism; and Questioning the Media. A recent collection of essays on Marlene Dietrich, Dietrich Icon, which she co-edited with Gerd Gemunden, was published by Duke University Press in 2007. Her forthcoming book is Recycled Stars: Female Stardom in the Age of Television and Video. Mary is also on the planning board of Console-ing Passions: Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism, and on the advisory board for “She Made It: Women Creating Television and Radio,” a permanent collection at the Paley Center for Television and Radio. Areas of teaching specialty include: media history, film and television stardom, feminist theory, gender and the media, feminist filmmaking, melodrama.
Office: 308 Wilson Hall
Phone: (603) 646-0237
Mary.Desjardins@Dartmouth.edu
Senior Lecturer, Film & Media Studies
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Jim Brown received his MFA from New York University's Graduate School of Film and Television in 1981. He worked as a freelance director - cinematographer in New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles, and ran his own film and video company, True North Productions, out of New York and Vermont. His experience includes narrative, documentary, industrial, music videos and commercials. He began teaching at Dartmouth in 1990. His special interests are independent filmmaking and cinematography. He teaches both the introductory and advanced film production courses as well as a course on directing actors for film and a course on the history of American independent filmmakers. FS. 31, FS. 32, FS. 41 and FS. 11.
Office: 109 North Fairbanks
Phone: (603) 646-8784
James.E.Brown@Dartmouth.edu
Lecturer, Film & Media Studies
Karen Beavers received her Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 2008. Her work considers how the U.S. media industries engage with international debates on race, culture, and politics. Her dissertation, "Lead Man Holler: Harry Belafonte and the Culture Industry," looks at how African Americans were able to represent a diasporic black aesthetic and politics in the music, film, and television industries of the 1950s and 1960s.
Office: 215 Wilson Hall
Phone: (603) 646-3835
Karen.Beavers@Dartmouth.edu
Audio Visual Specialist, Department of Film & Media Studies
Peter Ciardelli received his BA in Theater from the University of Vermont and his MFA in Media Studies (Film Production) from the University of New Orleans. He has worked on music video, commercial, television and feature film projects in a variety of capacities including prop master and assistant film editor.
Office: 109AA North Fairbanks
Phone: 603 (646-3132)
Peter.A.Ciardelli@Dartmouth.edu
Department Administrator, Film & Media Studies
Cheryl Coutermarsh is the Administrative Assistant for Film and Television Studies. Please contact Cheryl for any information about the department.
Office: 319 Wilson Hall
Phone: (603) 646-3402.
Cheryl.Coutermarsh@Dartmouth.edu
Visiting Professor, Film & Media Studies, MALS, AMES
Guest Professor of Animation at Beijing Film Academy
David Ehrlich studied at Cornell University, UC-Berkeley and Columbia University. His 1978 work OEDIPUS AT COLONUS was the first animated hologram ever shown at festivals in Annecy and Zagreb. His award- winning abstract films are held in the collections of MOMA, Pacific Film Archive, the ASIFA Archive in Berlin and the International Animation Library in Tokyo. Ehrlich has produced many international animation collaborations, including the 1987 ACADEMY LEADER VARIATIONS, which won a special jury prize at Cannes. Ehrlich has been on the Executive Board of ASIFA (The International Animators Association) since 1988 and served as Vice-President of that organization for six years. He teaches courses in Animation Production, Animation History, Asian Animation, Chinese Film (with Prof. Mowry), Music and Animation (with Prof. Dong), and Representation of the Creative Artist in Film.
Office: 224 Clement Hall
Phone: (603) 646-3148
David.G.Ehrlich@Dartmouth.edu
Professor Ehrlich's Website
Professor, Film & Media Studies
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities
Mary Flanagan, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College, is an artist, designer, and theorist who investigates everyday relationships in light of contemporary technology, with a particular interest in games and play. Flanagan's digitally driven artworks and installations have been shown internationally at venues including the Laboral Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, SIGGRAPH, Beall Center, Steirischer Herbst, Ars Electronica, Artist's Space, The Guggenheim New York, Gigantic Art Space, and others. Her over 20 essays and articles on digital culture have appeared in periodicals and books, and her own books in English include reload: rethinking women + cyberculture (with A. Booth, MIT 2002), re:SKIN (with A. Booth, MIT 2007), and Critical Play (MIT 2009).
Flanagan also prioritizes her role as an activist designer, founding and directing the Tiltfactor Laboratory, a research and creation lab dedicated to socially conscious games and software development. She created the first internet adventure game for girls, The Adventures of Josie True, in the 1990s and has helped change the discourse on gender, gaming, and technology. One of her current efforts, Values at Play, is dedicated to developing innovation techniques which support human values in the game design process in order to fully realize the potential of games to shape learning, power, and social change. Flanagan is a MacDowell Fellow and the PI or Co-PI on six National Science Foundation awards. She holds an MFA in Film and Video and a Ph.D. in Computational Media with a focus on game design from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and is a Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies.
Office: 301 North Fairbanks
Office Phone: (603) 646-1008
Studio: 304 North Fairbanks
Studio Phone: (603) 646-1007
Mary.Flanagan@Dartmouth.edu
www.maryflanagan.com
www.tiltfactor.org
www.valuesatplay.org
Professor, German Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Comparative Literature
Gerd Gemünden is the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities. He studied German, English and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon (Ph.D. 1988). His specialties include Critical Theory and cultural studies, 20th Century German literature, and the history and theory of German cinema. He is the author of Die hermeneutische Wende: Disziplin und Sprachlosigkeit nach 1800 (1990); Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination (1998). His volumes as editor include Wim Wenders: Einstellungen (1993); The Cinema of Wim Wenders (1997); Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections (2002); and Dietrich Icon (2007); as well as special issues of New German Critique on the director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and on Film and Exile. His most recent book is A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Film (published in Austria as Filmemacher mit Akzent: Billy Wilder in Hollywood). He is currently working on a study of German exiles and émigrés in Hollywood, 1933-1948, and preparing an international conference on Siegfried Kracauer, to take place at Dartmouth in the fall of 2008. For more information, see: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/events/2008/kracauer.html
Office: 6084 Dartmouth Hall
Phone: (603) 646-2491
Gerd.Gemunden@Dartmouth.edu
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~german/faculty/gemunden.html
Professor, Film & Media Studies, Women's Studies, Comparative Literature
Amy Lawrence has taught at Dartmouth since 1988. She teaches the Introduction to Film Course, film history, and courses on women and film, film sound, musicals, British film and television, 50s melodrama, avant garde film, animation history, and film theory. She has written on sound in film, feminist film issues, Hollywood stars, and contemporary animation. She also makes animated films.
Office: 318 Wilson Hall
Phone: (603) 646-3834.
Amy.Lawrence@Dartmouth.edu
Visiting Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
Bill Phillips is a screenwriter who has worked for most of the major Hollywood studios, networks and cable companies and has directed one feature. He's been a member of the Writers Guild since 1980. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1971 as a Senior Fellow in Film and received an MFA from USC in 1973. At Dartmouth, he teaches screenwriting I and II, a Freshman Seminar in Screen Adaptation, and Screenwriting in the MALS program.
William.F.Phillips@Dartmouth.edu
Visiting Professor, Film & Media Studies
Joanna E. Rapf is a Professor of English and Film & Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma, but since 1978, has regularly taught as a Visitor at Dartmouth. Her father, Maurice Rapf '35, was a screenwriter and Emeritus Director of Film Studies here. Her grandfather, Harry Rapf, was one of the three founders of MGM. Joanna, who received her Ph.D. from Brown University, has published books on Buster Keaton, "On the Waterfront," and Sidney Lumet, along with numerous articles and essays.
Phone: (603) 646-3402
Joanna.E.Rapf@Dartmouth.edu
Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
Jeffrey Ruoff is a film historian and documentary filmmaker. He teaches production courses in documentary and experimental videomaking, history courses on the French New Wave, North African cinema, documentary and ethnographic film as well as survey courses on international cinema. An American Family: A Televised Life, his study of the 1973 public television series, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2002. His anthology Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel was published by Duke University Press in 2006. His films and videos, including Hacklebarney Tunes: The Music of Greg Brown (1993) and The Last Vaudevillian (1998), have been shown at festivals and on television in the United States and abroad. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and an M.F.A. from Temple University.
Office: 213 Wilson Hall
Phone: (603) 646-1553
Jeffrey.K.Ruoff@Dartmouth.edu
Professor Ruoff's Website
Student Videos
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Film & Media Studies
Pavitra Sundar is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Film and Media Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. She received her doctorate in Women’s Studies and English from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation “Sounding the Nation: The Musical Imagination of Bollywood Cinema” examined the construction of gender, sexual, and national identity in contemporary Hindi film and film music. She has published her work on femininity and vocality in the journal Meridians.
Sundar’s research and teaching interests span Indian cinema, postcolonial literary and cultural studies, and U.S. third world and transnational feminisms. Prior to moving to Hanover, Sundar taught at the University of Michigan and Oberlin College. Her courses at Dartmouth College this year will cover the History of Bollywood Cinema and Women and Popular Media in India.
Office: 370 Halderman Hall
Phone: (603) 646-0896
Pavitra.Sundar@Dartmouth.EDU
Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
Mark Williams received both of his graduate degrees in Critical Studies from The School of Cinema-Television at The University of Southern California. He has previously taught at USC, Loyola Marymount, UC Santa Barbara, and Northwestern. His courses at Dartmouth include surveys of U.S. and international film history, television history and theory, and new media history and theory. He has published in a variety of journals and anthologies, including New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality; Collecting Visible Evidence; Dietrich Icon; Television, History, and American culture : Feminist Critical Essays; and Living Color: Race, Feminism, and Television. He directed the Leslie Center Humanities Institute entitled Cyber-Disciplinarity. In conjunction with the Dartmouth College Library, he is the founding editor of an e-journal, The Journal of e-Media Studies. With Adrian Randolph, he co-edits the book series Interfaces:Studies in Visual Culture for the University Press of New England. His book Remote Possibilities, a History of Early Television in Los Angeles, will be published by Duke University Press.
Office: 317 Wilson Hall
Phone: (603) 646-3836
Mark.J.Williams@Dartmouth.edu
