Catherine Eleise Lee

Association of Art Historians, Higher Education Academy

Catherine Lee is a senior lecturer in Historical and Theoretical Studies in Art & Design at the University of Huddersfield.

John Ottenhoff

MLA, NCTE, Renaissance Society of America, Educause, CLAC

John Ottenhoff is Vice President of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, a consortium of 14 independent liberal arts colleges located in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Colorado.

Michelle Glaros

American Association of University Professors, University Film and Video Association, Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Michelle Glaros is an Associate Professor of Communication at Centenary College of Louisiana where she teaches digital filmmaking and media studies. Her research interests include documentary and experimental film, new media arts, academic labor studies, and fair use. She has published in frAme: Journal of Culture and Technology, Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments, and Academe. Currently, she is completing experimental documentary about the cultural identity of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Zivah Perel

Northeast Modern Language Association, Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English

A book on Iraq war narratives (film, novel, and memoir)

TEE Kim Tong

Diaspora Studies, Asian Modernism

TEE Kim Tong is Associate Professor at National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, TAIWAN

Barbara Taranto

SAA, Metropolitan Library Association, IEEE, DLF, CNI, code4Lib, Intranet Professionals, SLA

Repository Development, Future Information Environment, Cloud Computing - DuraCloud

Gideon O. Burton

Academic Evolution blog, Biography - Eugene England, New Media Rhetoric

Gideon Burton is Asst. Professor of English at Brigham Young University

Mary G. Filice

National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/Midwest (NATAS), Independent Feature Project (IFP), Association of Women Journalists (AWJ), Convergence Chicago

Researching the impact of media convergence and mutlitasking on student learning and critical thinking. Chosen as a National CASTL Institute scholar (June 2009) focusing on this reserach., Conducting a break-out session at the 29th International Critical Thinking Conference (July 2009): Truthiness, Trust, and Technology: Critical Thinking in the Age of Convergence., Conduct a series of media literacy workshops for Split Pillow, an alternative filmmaking cooperative., Developing a multiplatform "film" based on August Strindberg's one-act The Stronger.

Mary Filice is tenure-track faculty and coordinator of the Media Concentration of the Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management Department, Columbia College Chicago. As an independent filmmaker and consultant Mary recently assisted Percolator Films (formerly Reetime Film and Video Forum) on their first film festival, The Talking Pictures Festival, which took place in Evanston, IL May 1-3. Mary is also a media literacy advocate conducting a series of media literacy/filmmaking workshops for middle-school children in conjunction with the alternative filmmaking group Split Pillow. Mary has a MA in Film/Video from Columbia College and BA in Theater from Loyola University.

Janet Simons

Educause, ELI, NERCOMP

-investigation of multimedia literacy and its relationship to learniing, -scholarly multimedia communication, -investigation of academic support models at the course level

Janet Simons is an instructional technologist at Hamilton College supporting the scholarship of teaching, digital humanities, and faculty development programs.

Kathleen Nash

AAR, SBL

Rachel Payne

MLA, TESOL, NERALLT, AATSP, ACTFL

“Re-evaluating Our Roots: Contemporary Latin American Women’s Writing and the Bildungsroman”, “Effectively Using YouTube in a Differentiated Foreign Language Classroom”

Rachel Payne is a Doctor of Modern Languages candidate at Middlebury College

Alexandra Juhasz

Writing and making and teahing on YouTube: www.youtube.com/mediapraxisme, Revolutionary media database: www.media[raxis.org

Alexandra Juhasz is a Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College.

Bernie Cook

Society for Cinema and Media Studies, American Studies Association

Hymns to Elsewhere (a multi-discliplinay, multi-media research collaboration)

Dr. Bernie Cook is Associate Dean in Georgetown College and Adjunct Professor of American Studies at Georgetown University. Dr. Cook is editor of Thelma & Louise Live! The Cultural Afterlife of an American Film (University of Texas Press 2007) and has published articles on television news coverage of warfare and on violence in American fiction film. In 2008, he produced Why Y'all Are Here, a short video documentary about service learning. He earned his PhD in Critical Studies in Film and Television from the School of Theater, Film, and Television at UCLA. Since 1998, he has created and taught film and media studies courses in the English Department, the American Studies Program, and the Program in Justice and Peace at Georgetown. In 2001, he participated in the Documentary Film Institute at George Washington University, collaborating on a short documentary, Changing Room (2001), which has screened at film festivals in Washington, San Francisco, and Phoenix.

Julia Lesage

Co-founder and co-editor of Jump Cut media review at ejumpcut.org

Richard Edwards

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), New Media Consortium (NMC)

Podcasting: "Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir" http://outofthepast.libsyn.com, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Digital Literacy, Remix Culture and the Moving Image

Richard L. Edwards received his Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Saint Mary's College of California.

Tim Anderson

Society for Cinema and Media Studies, International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Tim Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Denison University.