Film/Television, Ethics, Screenwriting, Music, Religion, Philosophy, Adaptation
documentary film, fiction film directing, transmedia, social issue media production
Media ownership, telecommunication/media policy, media political economy, media representation of marginialized groups (race,gender, religion, etc...), popular culture
Global media and television studies, Middle East and Arab media studies, visual culture studies, urban studies, infrastructure studies, critical theory, media history and theory, cultural studies
Critical media studies, mass communication theory, and urban communication
MENA studies; comparative literature; discourse analysis; film&media
the politics of memory, affective engagements with the past, political subjectivity, visual culture, the Frankfurt School, race in mass culture, politics of aesthetics
Film history, film reception, "useful" film, Latin American film and other forms of mass media, Latin American literature, service-learning.
global and transnational cinema; incarceration and security; diaspora and migration; violence and human rights; colonialism; Indian, Irish, and Latin American film; race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
Teaching and research interests: Greek and Roman literature, classical mythology, Roman history, the classical tradition; classical literature, history, and myth on film.