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Communication Arts Faculty Listing
Blake Carrington
email
212-774-0865
Giovanna Chesler
Associate Professor of Communication Arts
Director, Theresa Lang Center for Producing
email
212-774-4866
Degrees
M.F.A., San Francisco State University
B.A., University of Virginia
Giovanna Chesler is a Director and Producer of documentaries, narrative films and web based works that address themes of the body, sexuality, and gender. She teaches courses in video production and film theory. Her film work produced through her production company G6 Pictures includes Bye Bi Love (2010) which was recently awarded Honorable Mention in fiction filmmaking from the University Film and Video Association, Period: The End of Menstruation (2006) distributed by Cinema Guild, NY, BeauteouS: The Trilogy (2000-2002) and hand-some (2004), distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. She is developing a feature length fiction film and web television series on sexual health. Her web television project on sexually transmitted infections, Tune in HPV, was developed with students at American University. Giovanna is Co-Producer and Transmedia Producer of Blair Doroshwalther's documentary The Fire This Time which recently received a Sundance Documentary Fund grant.
Chesler is a research and media fellow at the Center for Social Media at American University where she focuses on teaching Fair Use in the video classroom. Her critical theory and publications include essays on sound, documentary, and participatory media activism. She has served on the selection committee for the AFI Silverdocs Film Festival and has curated programs of experimental feminist films for the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research and Ladyfest San Diego. She writes on representations of menstruation in film for the blog re:Cycling .
Chesler works as a cinematographer, shooting for independent filmmakers, video artists and broadcast television. Her work has been discussed in the New York Times , Signs: Films for the Feminist Classroom, and Afterimage.
Recent Publications:
"Re-Presenting Choice: Tune in HPV,” (co-authored with Bree Kessler), in Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions, eds. Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, Stephen Epstein, and Robert Aronowitz (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).
“Truth in the Mix: Constructing the Observational Microphone in High School.” E. Hohenberger (Ed.). Frederick Wiseman: Kino des Sozialen. Vorwerk 8, 2009: 139-156.
"The Audio First Classroom: a sound place for engagement with audio theory and practice" Jump Cut, 2007
Blog writing on film, menstruation art and sound at Re:Cycling and G6 Pix.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Chesler, Giovanna. “Really? We Can Do That?: Teaching Fair Use for Freedom’s Sake” Copy/right(?) Symposium. ASIS&T @ Pratt Institute. Pratt Institute, Manhattan Campus. 1 May 2010. Chesler, Giovanna. “Fair Use in the Classroom.” University Film and Video Association Conference. The University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA. 6 August 2009 “Menstrual Movies: Re-imagining Blood on Screen.” Curated screening, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference. Spokane, Washington. 5 June 2009. “Communication and Sexual Health: Service Learning in Creative Media.” with students in COMM 300: Sexual Health and Communication, NYMAPS Symposium Beyond the Classroom: Co-Educating Students in the Service-Learning Partnership. Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies: The City College of New York. 5 May 2009. “Challenging Dominant Health Discourses through Feminist Film Practice: A discussion by Filmmaker and Web Producer Giovanna Chesler.” Invited Lecture. Department of Women’s Studies, University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI. 16 October 2008. “Home Grown Sexual Health Messages: Connecting personal experiences with medical knowledge.” Invited Lecture. Grand Rounds, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical Center: Ann Arbor, MI. 17 October 2008.
Jennifer Dixon, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
Coordinator for the Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) Minor
Advisor for the Lambda Pi Eta Communication Honor Society
email
212-774-4861
Degrees
B.A.E.D., Northeastern State University
M.A., Kansas State University
PhD., University of Missouri
Dr. Jenny Dixon (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is an assistant professor in the Communication Arts Department and the Coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor. Professor Dixon’s research focuses on the navigation of public and private identities communicated in workplace settings. Specifically, her current research focuses on work and family balance for employees of non-traditional family structures (LGBTQ, polyamorous, non married, etc). Dr. Dixon also examines the material and symbolic worth of diversity training initiatives and nondiscrimination policies. As a secondary research interest, Dr. Dixon explores the diversity of news content on independent, non-commercial, and pedagogical news sources. Recent Publications Dixon, J. (in press). Communicating (St)ageism: Exploring stereotypes of age and sexuality in the workplace. Research on Aging, x, x-xx. Scott, D. K., Chanslor, M., & Dixon, J. (2010). Assessing the ‘alternative’ in alternative media: Democracy Now! vs. the PBS News Hour. Communication Quarterly, 58, 319-340. Recent Presentations Dixon, J. & Dougherty, D. (2012, November). The family hegemony: Exploring How LGBTQ1 and Single Employees Work Around Traditional Family Expectations. Presented at the Organizational Communication Interest Group at NCA annual convention, Orlando, FL. Top Paper Panel. Scott, D. K., Chanslor, M., & Dixon, J. (2012, November). Revisiting Channel One News: A Comparative Assessment of News Quality. Presented at the Media Studies Interest Group at the NCA annual convention, Orlando, FL. Dixon, J. (2011, November). Discerning sexuality by sustaining ambiguity: Maintaining workplace sexualities through ironic and strategic meaning-making. Presented at the Organizational Communication Interest Group at NCA annual convention, New Orleans, LA.
Eileen Doherty
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-774-4862
Degrees
B.A., University of Rochester
M.A., Purdue University
Ph.D., Purdue University
Eileen Doherty received her Ph.D. from Purdue University and joined the faculty of Marymount Manhattan College in the fall of 2012. She teaches classes in Interpersonal Communication and Principles and Theories of Communication. Her research interests include persuasion and strategic message design in applied health contexts, as well as the communication of social support in the context of health issues such as chronic mental illness. She recently co-authored a chapter on supportive communication in The Positive Side of Interpersonal Communication.
Corey Liberman
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-517-0632
Degrees
B.A., University of Delaware
M.A., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Corey Liberman is interested in the role that social network members play in one’s communication practices within relationships, groups, and organizations. More specifically, he has studied the role of network members in the way that one handles interpersonal conflict, if and how network members come to impact small group decision-making, and whether and to what extent network members come to affect such variables as organizational identification, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and employee motivation. In short, Professor Liberman’s research interests involve better understanding the role of social influence, provided by network members, on communicative practices. He regularly teaches Interpersonal Communication (Comm 104), Principles and Theories of Communication (Comm 107), Strategic and Relational Communication (Comm 246), Organizational Communication (Comm 250), Small Group Communication (Comm 258), and Communication and the Future (Comm 400). He has also developed a special topics course entitled Communication and Social Networks (Comm 308), which addresses the role of network members in one’s decision making practices in a multitude of different areas, ranging from one’s decision to end a long-term romantic relationship to one’s decision to engage in risky health behaviors. Corey was a 2007 recipient of the International Communication Association’s Teaching Award.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Liberman, C. J. Pivotal moments of development and change: The study of identification as a defining moment in organizational communication studies. Paper presented at the annual Eastern Communication Association conference. Philadelphia, PA. April 2009.
All of social life is a stage: Using video media to teach the basic interpersonal communication course. GIFTS panel presented at the annual New Jersey Communication Association conference. Union, NJ. March 2009.
Communicating effectively in small group settings: Understanding decision-making, conflict management, and leadership through experiential learning. GIFTS panel presented at the annual New York State Communication Association conference in Kerhonkson, NY, October 2008.
Birds of a feather flock together, or do they? Understanding the homophily/heterophily debate within the organizational communication context. Paper presented at the annual New York State Communication Association conference. Kerhonkson, NY. October 2008.
David Linton
Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-517-0642
Degrees
B.S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
M.Ed., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., New York University
David Linton has been on the faculty of MMC for more than twenty years and holds the rank of Professor of Communications Arts. His research interests and publications are wide ranging including such topics as the media environment of Elizabethan England, the reading behavior of the Virgin Mary, the history of the Luddite movement, and the formation of literary and media canons. He is currently writing a book about the social construction and images of menstruation and teaches an interdisciplinary course on this subject in addition to course in communications theory, media, and public speaking.
Recent Publications:
Keeping Secrets.” Grifith Review. Summer 2008-2009, # 22.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
No Laughing Matter? - From Shame to Humor in Menstrual Product Advertising,” Keynote Address for Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. June 2009.
“Mother/Daughter Relationships in Menstrual Product Advertising.” Crossing Borders Conference at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Bedford Hills, NY. October 17, 2008.
“The Public Period: Menstrual Product Advertising as a Marker of Change in the Perception of Women.” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Minneapolis, MN. June 15, 2008.
Jade Miller
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-774-4867
Degrees
B.A., New York University
M.A., University of Southern California
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Jade L. Miller, works on the political economy of creative production, global media flows, and cultural/media industry development. She is particularly interested in creative industries in the context of urban and regional agglomeration and the development of global cities, including studies of cultural industries policy from the micro to macro level. She is working on a book project on the development of cultural industry hubs outside of dominant global cultural industry networks, with a focus on policy, new technologies, and alternative global connections in financing and distribution. This book has as its key case study the development and shifting shape of the robust Nigerian video film industry, known popularly as Nollywood.
She earned her PhD and MA in Communication from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication under the advisement of Manuel Castells. Prior to academia, she earned a B.A. magna cum laude in art history from NYU and worked in New York's fashion and advertising photography industry. She comes to Marymount Manhattan College after completing a two year Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Communication Department at Tulane University in New Orleans where she worked on the street level geography of film location shooting there.
Recent Publications:
Miller, J. (2012) ‘Global Nollywood: The Nigerian Movie Industry and Alternative Global Networks in Production and Distribution’ Global Media and Communication (scheduled for August 2012 issue) Miller, J. (2011) ‘Producing Quality: A Social Network Analysis of Co-production Relationships in High Grossing vs. Highly Lauded Films in the U.S. Market.’ International Journal of Communication, 5, 1014 – 1033. Miller, J. (2010) ‘Ugly Betty Goes Global: Global Networks of Localized Content in the Telenovela Industry.’ Global Media and Communication 6, 198 – 217.
Anthony Naaeke
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-517-0664
Degrees
B.A., University of Ghana M.A., Duquesne University Ph.D., Duquesne University
Anthony Naaeke's research interests include persuasion in cultural (African) narratives; communicating faith in a postmodern world; and communication and advocacy in development communication. He has published in the Journal of Dagaare Studies and Gender and Behavior.
MJ Robinson
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-774-4867
Degrees
Ph.D. – Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
M.A. – Cinema Studies, New York University
M.A. – English Literature, Loyola Marymount University
B.A. – English Literature, Loyola Marymount University
B.A. – Communication Arts/Film Production, Loyola Marymount University
MJ Robinson regularly teaches Introduction to Film and Video, Contemporary World Cinema, Film History and Communication and the Future, the Communication Arts thesis course. In addition to her academic and teaching careers, Robinson has worked as a film archivist and researcher for independent producers, and was a creative consultant to Meg Ryan and Jane Campion on Campion's 2003 film In the Cut. Most recently, Robinson was the production liaison between Kaledo, KG, an international producing firm and all three Law & Order series. In fall of 2010, Robinson was appointed to a three year term on the WNYC Community Advisory Board, which acts as liaison between the WNYC radio stations and public radio listeners in the New York area. She is currently working on a book: TV on Demand: Curatorial Culture and the Transformation of Television, which will be published by Continuum Press in 2013 as well as a book based on her dissertation: “'Voice of the City?': The Rise and Fall of WNYC-TV.” Her other research and teaching interests include: film theory and history, media and globalization, media policy, the political economy of the media industries and broadcast history.
Recent Publications: "Branding the AdMen of Mad Men: New Media, the Post-Network Era and the Reinvention of American Television." Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch: Thinking About Television’s Mad Men. Eds. Danielle Stern, James Manning, Jennifer Dunn. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. "The Feminine Mistook: Carnival, Feminist Humor and South Park." Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression. Brian Cogan, Ed. Lexington Books, 2011. "Televisuality." Encyclopedia of Gender in Media. Ed. Mary Kosut., SAGE Publications., 2011. Recent Presentations: "Soap Opera, Serialized Story Telling and ‘Quality TV’: Genre Transformation and the post-post network Era." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Boston, MA., April 11-14, 2012. Panel Chair, "Soap Opera Pioneers and the Products of their Labor." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Boston, MA., April 11-14, 2012. "Curatorial Culture and the Transformation of Television." What is Television? A Conference Exploring the Past, Present and Future of Television. University of Oregon, Portland. March 1-3, 2012. "OWN-ing Daytime: New Challenges for Daytime Programming in the Contemporary Television/Televisual Industries." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX., April 20-23, 2011. "Managing Media Production in the Age of Convergence." FLOW Television Conference. University of Texas, Austin. September 30-October 2, 2010.
Alister Sanderson
Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-774-4863
Degrees
B.A., Oxford University
M.A., New York University
Ph.D. New York University
Prof. Alister Sanderson holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Oxford University and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University, where he was a George Amberg Doctoral Research Fellow and specialized in WWII British documentary film. Before coming to MMC, he taught at NYU, Drew University, the School of Visual Arts and Brooklyn College. He also made experimental films, sat on the board of directors of the Millennium Film Workshop, and founded and edited the Millennium Film Journal, a quarterly devoted to avant-garde film-making. In commercial television, Alister was A&E's Creative Director and senior producer during that network's launch. He went on to head up his own communications and production company which was hired for the launches of Lifetime, Lifetime Medical Television, Request Television (America's first pay-per-view channel), the Sci-Fi Channel and TNT. Among other clients were HBO, Showtime, The Movie Channel, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, the New York Times, USA Network, The Long Island Philharmonic, Artpark, Pilobolus, the David Parsons Dance Company, and the NYC Refugee Employment Project. Recently, Alister has been producing, writing and directing for the History Channel (for which he received the American Advertising Federation's Addy award) as well as for Biography, the Kennedy Space Center, the Smithsonian and the National Constitution Center. His own recent films include the award-winning A Little Tour of Manhattan and Sun Tea. Chase Games, made with Prof. Elizabeth Higgins and featuring MMC dance students, was shown in 2005 at the Utah Arts Festival and the Independent Film Festival in Florida. Among the courses Alister teaches are Beginning Video, Intro. to Film & Video, Producing for Television and The Avant-garde in Theatre, Film & Art. He is the Director of CommArts' Theresa Lang Center for Producing, which provides the facilities for MMC students to work creatively in video, sound design, graphic design and interactive multimedia.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Writer/Producer/Director, on-air programming spots for The History Channel and A&E. June – December 2008.
Writer/Producer/Director, two commercials for Kingsborough Community College: The City University of New York. June 2008.
Film screening
The Four Senses and More of Kirche Zeile (Alister Sanderson, director). Marymount Manhattan College. May 6, 2009.
Peter Schaefer
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-517-0678
Degrees
B.A., Northwestern University
M.A., University of Iowa
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Peter Schaefer received his Ph.D. in Communication Studies from The University of Iowa and joined the faculty of MMC in the fall of 2008. He teaches classes such as Principles and Theories of Communication, History and Development of Communication Theory, and Introduction to Film and Video. His research examines histories and theories of new media including the ideology of aesthetics and simplicity in Apple products, interface design and the politics of user participation, and the role of batteries in communication history.
Laura Tropp
Associate Professor and Chair of Communication Arts
email
212-774-4868
Degrees
B.A., Hunter College of the City University of New York
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., New York University
Laura Tropp specializes in media and politics and representations of pregnancy and motherhood in popular culture. She teaches courses in communication theory, media history, campaigns and elections, media law and new communication technologies. Her current research focuses on representations of pregnancy and motherhood in media, and the use of television in voter mobilization drives. Tropp is currently at work on a manuscript on pregnancy and media titled, A Womb with a View: America’s Growing Public Interest in Pregnancy.
Recent Publications:
Forthcoming, Battling the Blues: Representation of Post-Partum Depression in Popular Culture.” Mental Illness in Popular Culture. Ed. Lawrence c. Rubin. McFarland Press. Spring 2011.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
The Fertilization will be Televised. Pregnancy in Popular Culture. Mothers in the Arts, Literature, Media and Popular Culture. Mamapalooza Festival and Conference. New York City. May 20, 2010.
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