Faculty

Andrew P. Allsup

Visiting Lecturer in Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

Jonathan J. Cavallero

Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

Bollywood, film and television studies, film festivals, issues of diversity equity and inclusion in pedagogy, issues of race and ethnicity in film and television, Italian Americans and media, media aesthetics, media authorship, U.S. cultural history

Stephanie Kelley-Romano

Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

feminist approaches to politics and television, genre studies, genre studies of conspiracy and captivity, myth and narrative in popular and political culture, mythic and narrative construction of alternative belief systems, rhetorical theory and criticism, television genres

Charles I. Nero

Benjamin E. Mays ’20 Distinguished Prof of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

Sammi Rippetoe

Visiting Assistant Prof of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies & Dir of Debate