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: Tuesday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. and by appointment

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
Advising Office hours: Wednesday, 9:30am - 12:30pm
Regular Office hours: Tuesdays, 1:00 - 2:30pm

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.

e-mail: llensing@wesleyan.edu
office: Fisk Hall 405, x3379
office hours: By appointment only

Steve Collins
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: Thursday, 1:00 - 2:30pm

Michael S. Roth
President

          office: President's Office
          office hours: 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Visiting Professor

Katja Straub
Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies

           Katja Straub is an artist, writer and filmmaker who is trying to find images for the invisible. Her films have screened at venues like the Museum of Modern Art, Ann Arbor,
           The Viper Base in Switzerland, and the Museo Nationale Reina Sofia in Madrid. Her first short essay film All White People Are French received the Special Jury Award
            at SXSW and her magic realist thesis film Martha made it in the semi-finals of the Student Academy Awards.

            email: kstraub@wesleyan.edu
            Office Hours: Wednesday, 2:00 - 3:00 pm

            Katja Straub Filmmaker
            www.rocketfilm.de   

Matt Kushner
Visiting Instructor in Film Studies

                Matt Kushner received his BA at Wesleyan in Film Studies and his MS from NYU in Digital Imaging and Design. He teaches Animation in the Digital Age and works as a
                freelance animator and web designer in New York City. Matt's website is www.mattkushner.com.

                email: mkushner@wesleyan.edu
                Office Hours: by appointment only

       
Adjunct Faculty

Jacob Bricca
Adjunct Professor in Film Studies