Faculty

Regular Faculty

Katarzyna Marciniak

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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ADF

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 advance social change.
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Aleem Hossain

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

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., Ph.D., USC School of Cinematic Arts
Amanda Tasse is a media artist, filmmaker, and art director that explores uses of experimental visual storytelling to address urgent existential risks to human and environmental health and well-being.
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Non-Tenure Track Faculty

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Christina Aushana

Visiting Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture
B.A., Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
Christina Aushana is a feminist media studies scholar and performance ethnographer with a background in communication/film studies, cultural anthropology, performance studies, and feminist film theory.
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Joanne Mony Park

Resident Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Culture
B.A. University of California, San Diego; M.F.A. New York University
Joanne Mony Park is a Korean-American filmmaker and educator from Los Angeles whose work explores diasporic experience, queer identity, and the in-between spaces of hyphenated lives.
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Mo Perkins

Visiting Instructor, Media Arts & Culture
B.F.A. University of California, Santa Cruz; M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Mo Perkins is a feature film and episodic director and writer who has worked in almost every genre.
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Courtney Stephens

Visiting Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Culture
B.A. University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A. American Film Institute
Courtney Stephens is the director of four feature films. 
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Garret Williams

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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Advisory Committee

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Teddy Pozo

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Teddy Pozo is a multidisciplinary scholar and artist working on video games and the sense of touch through haptic technologies and aesthetics.
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Our Staff

Diana Keeler
Diana Keeler
Senior Director of Digital Media & 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: Tuesdays & Wednesdays...

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Brock Forrette
Equipment Specialist
forrette@oxy.edu

B.A., Montana State University
Brock Forrette supports the Media Arts & Culture Department as Film Equipment Specialist, overseeing production equipment, media systems, and day-to-day operations while assisting faculty and students across productions.

Contact Media Arts & Culture
Weingart 109
Phone: (323) 259-2749