Faculty

Regular Faculty

Katarzyna Marciniak, Chair

Professor, Media Arts and Culture

M.A., University of Lodz; M.A., University of Montana; Ph.D., University of Oregon

Katarzyna 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.

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Allison de Fren

Professor, Media Arts & Culture

B.A., Grinnell College; M.P.S., New York University; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Allison de Fren is a media maker and scholar whose research-practice falls at the intersection of sexuality/gender, film/media, and science/technology, often tracing a line from contemporary representations to earlier conceptual histories and audiovisual practices.

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Broderick Fox

James Irvine Professor of 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.

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Aleem Hossain

Associate Professor, Media Arts & Culture

B.A., University of Chicago; M.F.A., UCLA

Aleem Hossain is an award-winning screenwriter and film director.

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Vivian Lin

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

Vivian Wenli Lin is a media artist and educator with a background in psychology, documentary film, video art, and interactive installation.

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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.

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Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Adrienne Adams

Visiting Instructor, Media Arts and Culture

B.A. Occidental College; M.A. University of Southern California; Ph.D. (in progress) University of Southern California

Adrienne Adams (they/them) explores the entanglement of technological obsolescence and black sex/gender from the vantage points of Caribbean cultural studies, elemental and new media studies, and…

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Michael Luo

Visiting Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Culture

B.A., M.F.A., UCLA

Michael Luo (he/him) is a game maker and artist.

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Garret Williams

Visiting Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Culture

B.A., Augsburg University; M.F.A., The American Film Institute Conservatory

Garret’s films as a writer/director have screened at Sundance, Berlin, SXSW, New Directors/New Films at the MOMA, and many more festivals, domestic and international, earning multiple awards. He is a DGA member, Sundance Institute Fellow, Film Independent Fellow, and Tribeca Film Institute Fellow.

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Our Staff

Diana Keeler

Director of Digital Media and Production, MAC

(323) 259-2642

dkeeler@oxy.edu

B.A., Occidental College; E.M.B.A., Quantic School of Business and Technology
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.
Office Hours: Wednesday & Thursday...

Brock Forrette

Equipment Specialist

Faculty

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Katarzyna Marciniak, Chair

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

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