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Film Studies Dept. Faculty
Jeanine Basinger, Chair
Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and American Studies
Founder/Curator of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives
Jeanine Basinger is the author of nine books, including Silent Stars (1999). Her areas of specialization include the history of American cinema, the film industry, auteurs, and genres.
e-mail: jbasinger@wesleyan.edu
office: Center for Film Studies rm. 152, x2220
office hours: Wednesdays, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. and by appointment
Lisa Dombrowski
Associate Professor of Film Studies
Lisa Dombrowski has submitted a manuscript for publication, If You Die, I’ll Kill You! Samuel Fuller In and Out of the Studio System. Her areas of specialization include aesthetics, the American film industry, independent cinema, art cinema, and contemporary East Asian cinema.
e-mail: ldombrowski@wesleyan.edu
office: Center for Film Studies rm. 154, x3236
office hours: On Sabbatical
Scott Higgins
Associate Professor of Film Studies
Scott Higgins has a book manuscript under review, Harnessing the Rainbow: Technicolor Aesthetics in the 1930s. His areas of specialization include aesthetics, silent and classical cinema, narrative theory, genre, and technology.
http://shiggins.web.wesleyan.edu/My%20Home/
e-mail: shiggins@wesleyan.edu
office: Center for Film Studies rm. 156, x3176
office hours: Wednesday, 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. and by appointment
Leo A. Lensing
Professor of German Studies
Leo Lensing is the co-editor of The Anarchy of the Imagination
(1992), a collection of the essays and interviews of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
His other work includes essays on the relationship between film and literature
during the 1920s and 1930s and articles fro the Encyclopedia Americana
on Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Wim Wenders. His essay on Fassbinder the
writer, "Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wunderkind," recently appeared in the
Times Literary Supplement. He regularly teaches courses on the New German
Cinema.
Adjunct Faculty
Jacob Bricca
Adjunct Professor in Film Studies
Jacob Bricca has directed digital videos and has edited fiction and documentary films, including Lost in La Mancha (2002). He teaches Sight and Sound and supervises senior digital videos and 16mm films.
e-mail: jbricca@wesleyan.edu
office: Center for Film Studies rm. 158, x3083
office hours: Tuesday, 12:30 p.m. -2 p.m. and by appointment
Steve Collins
Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies
Steve Collins is a writer/director
specializing in his own brand of melancholy comedy. He has made
several award winning shorts that have played Tribeca, Seattle, SXSW, Clermont-Ferrand,
New York Short film Expo, Boston Independent. His most recent work is the
feature film "Gretchen" which won the Los Angeles Film Festival, will be
broadcast on the Sundance Channel, and is being theatrically distributed by
Watchmaker films.
e-mail: bungalow16@yahoo.com
office: Center for Film Studies rm.
160, x3492
office hours: Wednesday, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. and by appointment
Affiliated Faculty
Irene Aleshkovsky
Adjunct Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature
Akos Ostor
Professor of Anthropology
Elizabeth Traube
Professor of Anthropology
Administration
Lea Carlson
Assistant Director
office: Center for Film Studies rm. 162, x3542
e-mail: lcarlson@wesleyan.edu
Joyce Heidorn
Administrative Assistant
office: Center for Film Studies, x2220
e-mail: jheidorn@wesleyan.edu
Marc Longenecker
Programming and Technical Manager
office: Cinema Archives, x3996
e-mail: mlongenecker@wesleyan.edu
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