Teaching.

Teaching Experience

The University of Alabama

• Senior Fellow, Blount Scholars Program (2020-)
• Professor, Department of J/Creative Media (formerly, Telecommunication and Film, 2002-2020)
• Associate Professor, Department of Telecommunication and Film (1986-2002)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunication and Film (1980-1985)

The University of Arizona

• Visiting Scholar, Department of Media Arts (summers, 1997-99)

Northwestern University

• Teaching Assistant, Radio-TV-Film Department (1977-1979)
• Grader, Radio-TV-Film Department (1977)

Wilbur Wright College (Chicago, Illinois)

• 1979 Instructor, Evening Division

Courses Taught

The University of Arizona:

• Concepts in New Media

The University of Alabama:

• Understanding and Deconstructing Television (2020)
• Film and Media Theory (2018)
• Humor in American Television (2014)
• Topics in Mass Communication Theory (graduate seminar; 2000)
• Star Images, Star Performances (graduate seminar: 1998)
• Approaches to Film Style (graduate seminar)
• Introduction to Film Theory (graduate seminar)
• Contemporary Film Theory (graduate seminar)
• New Media: Theory & Practice (2000, 1998)
• Seminar in American Cinema (2014, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997)
• Motion Picture History and Criticism (introductory survey; 2020, 2019, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996 [first online syllabus])
• Film Fundamentals (super8 & 16mm filmmaking)
• Film/Video Narrative Production (1997)
• The French Film (2018, 2017, 2013, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997)
• The German Film
• Western European Cinema
• Melodrama and Soap Opera
• Women/Cinema/Ideology
• Critical Studies in Television (2018, 2013, fall 2000, spring 2000, 1999, 1997)
• Television Workshop
• Broadcast Criticism
• Introduction to Mass Communication

Northwestern University

• Introduction to Film History and Criticism (teaching assistant)

Wright College

• The John Ford/John Wayne Westerns