Regular Faculty
Allison de Fren, Chair
Associate Professor, Media Arts & Culture
B.A., Grinnell College; M.F.A., New York University; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Allison de Fren teaches new media theory and practice.
Broderick Fox
Professor, Media Arts & Culture
B.A., Harvard University; M.F.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California
Broderick Fox is a media practitioner and scholar whose creative work, teaching, and scholarship engage media production, documentary studies, media aesthetics, and the potential for digital media technologies to expand voice and produce social change.
Aleem Hossain
Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Culture
B.A., University of Chicago; M.F.A., UCLA
Aleem Hossain is a filmmaker and VR creator interested in expanding how we tell stories and who gets to tell them. He recently wrote and directed the sci-fi film After We Leave and completed an anti-bullying VR project for Google. Read his Oxy Story profile.
Katarzyna Marciniak
Professor, Media Arts and Culture
M.A., University of Lodz; M.A., University of Montana; Ph.D., University of Oregon
Marciniak focuses on the aesthetics and politics of transnational visual cultures, particularly on representations of foreignness, immigration, national (un)belonging, and the construction of border zones as sites of contention.
Amanda Tasse
Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture
B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art; M.F.A., P.h.D., USC School of Cinematic Arts
Tasse has over 15 years experience working as an animator, designer, and director in the film industry and media art world.
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Vivian Lin
Visiting Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture
B.A., UC Berkeley; M.P.S., NYU; M.F.A., Sandberg Instituut; P.h.D., City University of Hong Kong
John Luke Noonan
Visiting Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Culture
B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; M.F.A., University at Buffalo
Our Staff
Director of Digital Media and Production, MAC
Diana Keeler teaches courses in Digital Design, Motion Design, and Advanced Editing in addition to managing the MAC lab spaces, software, production equipment, and student worker program.
B.A., Occidental College; E.M.B.A., Quantic School of Business and Technology
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