Founded in the 1970s, the OSU Screen Studies Program now has six faculty members with diverse theoretical and historical approaches:

> > > Hugh S. Manon, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Pittsburgh), specializes in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory as well as classical Hollywood crime genres, noir culture, lo-fi aesthetics, cuteness aesthetics, and cult cinema. He has published in Cinema Journal, Film Criticism, International Journal of Zizek Studies, and Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, as well as several anthologies. He recently led a graduate seminar on Lacan and His Followers and has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Lo-Fi and Punk Aesthetics. He is currently completing a book that links the rise and decline of classic American film noir with the advent of television. (more)

> > > Robert Mayer, Professor and Director of the Screen Studies Program (Ph.D. Northwestern), teaches film history as well as early modern British literature and critical theory. He is the author of essays on the history of history, the early English novel, and screen adaptations of eighteenth-century fiction including "Robinson Crusoe in Hollywood." He is the editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen (Cambridge 2002) and the author of History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe (Cambridge 1997). He is currently writing a book on Walter Scott's literary correspondence as a key event in the history of reading and authorship. (more)

> > > Brian Price, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. New York University), specializes in international cinema (especially France), color, film theory, and continental philosophy. He is co-editor of World Picture, an online journal of cultural theory and the image. He is completing a book entitled Neither God Nor Master: Robert Bresson and the Modalities of Revolt, under contract with the University of Minnesota Press. Price is also co-editor with Angela Dalle Vacche of Color, The Film Reader (Routledge 2006) and On Michael Haneke, which he is currently co-editing with John David Rhodes (forthcoming from Wayne State UP). He offers courses on a wide range of topics including the history of film theory, avant-garde cinema, color, and the French New Wave. (more)

> > > Meghan Sutherland, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Northwestern), specializes in American television and video art, the relationship between politics and aesthetics in popular or "low" entertainment, media and performance theory, and continental philosophy. She is the author of The Flip Wilson Show (Wayne State UP, 2008), a co-editor and founder of the journal World Picture, and has published essays in Framework, Senses of Cinema, and Cultural Studies. She is currently working on a project about the spectacular aesthetics of variety entertainment in national and global media culture. She offers courses on Autobiography and Media, Television as Common Culture, Experimental Video, Television and the State, and Realism and Reality. (more)

> > > Stacy Takacs, Assistant Professor of American Studies (Ph.D. Indiana), is an associate of the Screen Studies Program. Her research focuses on the role of television in the mediation of power relations, especially in the context of globalization. She has published in journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Cultural Critique, Spectator, and The Journal of Popular Culture. She is working on a manuscript entitled Terror TV: U.S. Television in the Post-9/11 Context, and has taught graduate courses on Convergence and Cultural Studies. (more)

> > > Jeffrey Walker, Professor (Ph.D. Penn State), teaches courses on film comedy and film adaptation. His primary research area is colonial and early ninetenth century American literature; he has published a book on Benjamin Church, an edition of Cooper's The Spy, and an essay on film and Cooper: "Deconstructing an American Myth: The Last of the Mohicans." He has won the Phoenix Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching and two Fulbright Lectureships. Two books, Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper, and Leather-Stocking-Redux: Or, Old Tales, New Essays, are in press. He co-edits a new journal, Literature in the Early American Republic. (more)