Film and Media Studies Faculty
Chair
Assistant Professor
Email: tavaresn@grinnell.edu
Nicky Tavares is a multimedia arti st whos e work sheds light on systemic inequalities through personal storytelling. Her work has evolved through an array of media 鈥 photography, film, video, animation, sculpture, VR 360, as well as across film genres and presentation formats such as documentary...
Associate Professor
Email: JOHNSOLA@grinnell.edu
Lakesia D. Johnson is Associate Professor of Gender, Women鈥檚, & Sexuality Studies and English at 果冻视频 College. Johnson received a bachelor鈥檚 from Smith College. She earned her J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. in Women's Studies from the Ohio State University. Her areas of teaching and research include...
Associate Professor
Peter-Michael Osera received his B.S. in Computer Science and Applied and Computational Math Sciences and B.A. in the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington in 2006 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. He is currently an...
Assistant Professor
Email: petrusjo@grinnell.edu
John Petrus received his PhD from Ohio State University in 2015. His dissertation project, entitled 鈥淒ragging Down Hegemony: Gender Transgression in Contemporary Managua", addresses how traditional gender roles and heteronormativity are being questioned and protested in contemporary Nicaragua...
Associate Professor
Associate Dean of Curriculum and Academic Programs
Email: phillipsn@grinnell.edu
Nick Phillips received his PhD from Indiana University in 2014. His dissertation, titled 鈥淪pace and the City: Peripheral Communities of Madrid and Barcelona鈥, focused on the production and representation of suburban spaces in contemporary Spanish detective fiction. His research and scholarly...
Associate Professor
Email: quinsaat@grinnell.edu
Sharon Quinsaat is a scholar of social movements and migration and currently Associate Professor of Sociology at 果冻视频 College. She has conducted research using both qualitative and quantitative methods and published on a wide range of topics, including migrant conservatism, diaspora formation...
Assistant Professor
Email: shookjen@grinnell.edu
Jen Shook is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies, whose practice lives at the intersections of dramaturgy, directing, literature, cultural memory, Indigenous studies, community engagement, and digital liberal arts. She previously taught at 果冻视频 as a Fellow in the...