UC Riverside | Department of Media and Cultural Studies

Faculty

	Toby Miller, Professor and Chair CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3136 Phone: 951-827-5665 E-mail: toby.miller@ucr.edu Toby Miller, a Professor and Chair in the Department of Media & Cultural Studies, studies media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy via political economy, textual analysis, archival research, and ethnography. Editor of Television & New Media and Editor and Co-Editor of book series Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Lang) and Sport and Culture (Minnesota), he was also Chair of the International Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division, Editor of Journal of Sport & Social Issues, and Co-Editor of Social Text, the Blackwell Cultural Theory Resource Centre, and the book series Film Guidebooks (Routledge) and Cultural Politics (Minnesota). He has recently become the co-editor of Social Identities. After working in broadcasting, banking, and civil service, Toby Miller became an academic in the late 1980s, when cultural studies was starting its boom, and was able to parlay a combination of his work experience, theoretical interests, and political commitments into a new career, since which time he has taught media and cultural studies across the humanities and social sciences at the following schools: University of New South Wales, Griffith University, Murdoch University, and NYU. He is at UCR across three departments and a program, with the intention of sustaining and developing a dynamic interdisciplinary research environment in media and culture.
	Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair, Department of Creative Writing Professor of Media & Cultural Studies CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 4119 Phone: 951- 827-6076 E-mail: chuck.whitney@ucr.edu D. Charles (Chuck) Whitney is professor and chair of the Department of Creative Writing and professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. A former newspaper and wire service journalist, Whitney was, before joining the University of California faculty, on the journalism or mass communication faculties at the University of Texas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ohio State University and Stanford University. The author or editor of six books and more than 80 book chapters, journal articles, technical papers and reports, Whitney is also an editor of the Encyclopedia of Journalism, to be published in 2009 by Sage Publications and is a current or former member of the editorial boards of 12 academic journals.
	Keith Harris, Associate Professor, Department of English CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3126 Phone: 951-827-1016 E-mail: keithh@ucr.edu Professor Harris joins UCR after his graduate work in Cinema Studies at New York University. His areas of specialization include film, African-American and Africana Cinema, gender studies and queer theory. However, his recent research and writing interests primarily concern masculinity, performance and gender(s) as ethical constructs within performance and cultural production. His recent publications include the manuscript, Boys, Boyz, Boies: An Ethics of Masculinity in Popular Film, Television and Video (Routledge 2006) and "‘Untitled’: D'Angelo and the visualization of the black male body" in Wide Angle (2004). Scheduled publications (2006-2007) include "‘Stand up, boy!’: Sidney Poitier, 'boy' and Filmic Black Masculinity," in Gender and Sexuality in African Literatures and Film and "Clockers (Spike Lee 1995): Adaptation in Black," in The Spike Lee Reader.
	Tim Labor, Associate Professor, Department of Music Department of Media & Cultural Studies ARTS 141 Phone: 951-827-5703 E-mail: tim.labor@ucr.edu Tim Labor, Associate Professor for the Department of Music and Department of Media & Cultural Studies, is a composer and sound designer specializing in music composition and sound design for theater and film. He holds a Bmus from Queens University (1987), where his principal teachers included Istvan Anhalt, Bruce Pennycook, and Clifford Crawley, and graduate work at the University of California, San Diego, where his teachers included Roger Reynolds, F. Richard Moore, Rand Steiger, Brian Ferneyhough, and Joji Yuasa. Tim's awards include the Maurice Dubin Award in Composition (1987); the Queen's Medal in Music (1987), a PROcan Award (1989); the Rodolphe Mathieu Award (CAPAC, 1990), a SOCAN Award (1995), grants from the Canada Council, and both LAWeekly and Ovation Award nominations for theatrical sound design and music composition. As a film and media composer, Labor has collaborated in composition or sound design for a variety of projects, including computer games (Everquest, Re-Elect JFK), video, dance, and theatre. Tim is a regular participant at Idyllwild Arts, providing music direction, original composition and sound design for recent Childrens' Center's programs in youth musical theatre and Shakespeare and has also collaborated with Mira Costa High School (Twelfth Night: Xtreme Sports Tourney, Tommy, and I have a friend who..., amongst others) and the University of Southern California (Trois Soeurs). Recent Los Angeles Productions include Eden (Elephant Theatre), Sex and Imagining, The Swine Show, Serial Killers, and 365 Days (Sacred Fools), Beautiful City, Travesties, Macbeth (Open Fist Theatre Company) and remounts of the Ovation-nominated Open Fist production of John DeGroot's Papa at the Open Fist, and in San Francisco, and Florida. His film music has been featured in Gold Cap Productions' short film Fartman: Caught in a Tight Ass for Howard Stern's "Howard.TV," and Never Say Macbeth, a feature film recently shown at the prestigious "Dances with Films" festival. Upcoming projects include music and sound design for The Flu Season (Circle-X Theatre Company), sound design for the world premier of Michael Franco's The Room (Open Fist), Spring Comes, a short animation by Yoko Koizumi, amongst others.
	Derek Burrill, Assistant Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3121 Phone: 951-827-1261 E-mail: derek.burrill@ucr.edu Professor Burrill's expertise and research includes digital media and video games, particularly in relation to theories of the body and masculinity. His dissertation focused on digital culture - the cultural matrix surrounded by and subsumed by digital technologies - and how live performance practices, video games, and masculinity coalesce to produce a new technological subjectivity for the 21st century. Secondary areas of research include cinema, televisual studies, and communications theory, as well as informatics and digital media production. Current works include a chapter entitled "‘Oh Grow Up, 007’: The Performance of Bond and Boyhood in Video Games," in the anthology ScreenPlay, "Jet Set Kids 2000" in Spirited Away, and the articles "Out of the Box: Performance, Drama and Interactive Software" (Modern Drama), "Watch Your Ass!: The Structure of Masculinity in Video Games," (Text Technology), "Check Out My Moves" (Social Semiotics), and "ZeroDegree" with Andrew Strombeck, in the journal Open Spaces. He also serves on the editorial board for Games and Culture: The Journal for Interactive Media.
	Lan Duong, Assistant Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3141 Phone: 951-827-5681 E-mail: lan.duong@ucr.edu Lan Duong is an Assistant Professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at UC Riverside. She is working on a book entitled Family Binds: Betrayal and Loyalty in Viet Nam and the Diaspora. The book explores the films and literature of the Vietnamese and Vietnamese diaspora through the theme of treason and the practices of collaboration. Dr. Duong's second book project, From the National to The Transnational: Cultural Revolutions of Vietnamese Cinema, examines Vietnamese cinema from its inception to the present-day. Her research interests include feminist film theory, Asian/American literature and films, postcolonial literature and theory, youth culture, gender, and sexuality. Her critical works can be found in Amerasia, The Journal of Asian Cinema, and Transnational Feminism in Cinema and Media. She is also a poet and has been published in Watermark, Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Poetry, and Crab Orchard Review.
	Ken Rogers, Assistant Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3125 Phone: 951-827-1017 E-mail: ken.rogers@ucr.edu In addition to teaching the history of photography, experimental film, video art, and new media at New York University for the past five years, Kenneth Rogers comes to UCR as the former director and head curator of the Maiden Lane Exhibition Space in lower Manhattan from 2000-2003 and is the co-founder of Chatham Arts, a new exhibition space in Pittsburgh, PA. His recent research reevaluates artists' film and video production in the U.S. between 1965 and 1975. He maintains that this body of work destabilized philosophically grounded and self-contained interpretations of media ontology through the strategic use of open textuality.
	Freya Schiwy, Assisstant Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3118 Phone: 951-827-5680 E-mail: freya.schiwy@ucr.edu Freya Schiwy has taught and published in the fields of Latin American film, literature, and cultural theory. She is interested in the way power and knowledge are constituted through diverse media and how constructions of race and gender play themselves out in these processes. Professor Schiwy is currently writing a book on fiction and documentary video by indigenous mediamakers in the Andes that is based on research in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. The study theorizes gender and coloniality and bridges debates in subaltern studies and film criticism. It relates indigenous video to Latin American Third Cinema and argues that contemporary indigenous media is redefining decolonization in a world shaped by multiculturalism and neoliberal markets. Her next project explores feminist and queer theory in Latin America across a variety of theoretical essays, audiovisual, testimonial, as well as performance pieces from Chile, Mexico, and the Andean region.
	Setsu Shigematsu, Assistant Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3122 Phone: 951-827-5679 E-mail: setsu.shigematsu@ucr.edu Professor Shigematsu completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University, with training across the fields of Asian/Japan Studies, Asian American Studies, feminist and gender studies. Her intellectual and scholarly concerns include the historical relationship between U.S. and Japanese imperialisms, transnational liberation movements, comparative feminist and critical theory, and media and cultural studies. Dr. Shigematsu is writing a book which offers a cross-disciplinary analysis of the history, politics and philosophy of the women’s liberation movement that emerged in Japan from the late 1960s to the 1970s. She is also co-editing an anthology entitled, Gender and Militarism Across the Asia-Pacific, with Keith Camacho, Historian of Pacific Studies at UCLA. She was a recipient of the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2005.
	Ruhi Khan, Acting Assistant Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3145 Phone: 951-827-1050 E-mail: rkhan@ucr.edu "Ruhi" Khan will receive her Ph.D. in Mass Communications from Ohio University, Athens in Fall 2008. Her research focus is media, minority populations, identity. Her research focuses on minority Muslim youth populations from a segregated Muslim enclave in New Delhi, India. The ethnographic media reception study investigates the relationship of Muslim youth with global media narratives within the context of liberalization and globalization of Indian economy. It analyzes how competing media narratives of consumerism, materialism, nationalism and the marginalization of minorities in media influences the construction of their identity as individuals, Indians and Muslims. Her research interests include postcolonial scholarship, construction of minority identities, global media flows, and relationship between media and democracy. She has been a consultant to the Public Broadcasting Corporation of India, The Times of India, English Daily, and the World Bank.
	Andrea Smith Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3137 Phone: 951-827-5140 E-mail: andy.smith@ucr.edu Professor Smith received her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz in 2002. Previously, she taught in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her publications include: Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. She is also the editor of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, and co-editor of The Color of Violence, The Incite! Anthology. She currently serves as the U.S. Coordinator for the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, and she is a co-founder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. She recently completed a report for the United Nations on Indigenous Peoples and Boarding Schools.