Category Archives: Faculty News

Gratson takes public communication course to NY

By murphyp | Published: October 23, 2009
Starting in fall 2009, Professor Scott Gratson began offering a StOC class focusing on the role of public communication within New York City. Nearly 30 students study aspects of New York, and also visit StOC, SCT and Temple alumni as well as city leaders in Manhattan. Students are investigating communicative and civic organizations within the city's various neighborhoods and organizations. Speakers include a United Nations ... Read more »
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FMA Professor Tajiri’s feature film screens in Los Angeles

By reatajiri | Published: October 23, 2009
Filmmaker Rea Tajiri's debut feature film from 1997, Strawberry Fields, was screened Oct. 3 as part of the ID Film Fest's Class of '97 program at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. She shared the program with Justin Lin and Quentin Lee's Shopping For Fangs, Chris Chan Lee's Yellow, and Eric Nakamura and Michael Idemoto's Sunsets. Tajiri spoke ... Read more »
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Theater Department notches victories at Barrymore Awards

By jcronin | Published: October 8, 2009
Theater Department notches victories at Barrymore Awards Adjunct Professor Jennie Eisenhower, THEA, has added a second Barrymore Award to ... Read more »
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Obituary: Hiley H. Ward, 80, Professor Emeritus, Journalism

By jcronin | Published: October 5, 2009
Hiley H. Ward of Warrington, Pa., a journalist, author of 14 books and teacher whose work was honored by the Pulitzer Prize committee, died Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009, surrounded by family at his home. He was 80. He was born in Lafayette, Ind., to Hiley Lemen and Agnes Fuller Ward. His wife of 32 years, Joan Bastel, is retired from the position ... Read more »
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Theater Department shines in two Philadelphia plays

By jcronin | Published: October 5, 2009
Nathan The Wise, presented by People's Light & Theater, starring David Strathairn, also featured Luigi Sottile, THEA '07, Graduate Student Kathryn Petersen, M.F.A. playwriting, and Adjunct Professor Peter DeLaurier, THEA. The Arden Theater's production of The History Boys features performances by Evan Jonigkeit, THEA '05, who also is the director of development for the Mauckingbird Theater, and Ankit Dogra, THEA '06.
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Theater professor’s dramaturgy work seen on Broadway

By jcronin | Published: October 5, 2009
Assistant Professor Edward Sobel, THEA, was the dramaturg for a new Broadway play. Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts opened Oct. 1 at Music Box Theatre. It stars Michael McKean. Sobel was also the dramaturg for Letts' Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play August: Osage County.
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Former Journalism professor publishes 4th book

By jcronin | Published: September 18, 2009
Patricia Bradley, professor emerita and former chair of the Department of Journalism, has published her fourth book, "The Making of American Culture, 1900-1920, A Social History" (Palgrave Macmillan). The book integrates communication, social history and sociology as it examines influences at work in art, dance, film, theater and other cultural forms that influenced the construction of American ... Read more »
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FMA Professor Ryan publishes book

By jcronin | Published: September 17, 2009
Michael Ryan has published "Cultural Studies: An Anthology," Wiley-Blackwell, January 2009. In addition, he has two forthcoming textbooks: "An Introduction to Film Analysis: Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film" (Continuum forthcoming 2010) and "Cultural Studies: A Practical Introduction" (Wiley forthcoming 2010). He also serves as general editor of "The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory" for Wiley.
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FMA Professor Cagle publishes essay

By jcronin | Published: September 17, 2009
Chris Cagle has published an essay “When Pierre Bourdieu Meets the Political Economists: RKO and the Leftists-in-Hollywood Problematic,” in Convergence Media History, edited Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake (Routledge, 2009).
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BTMM Professor Vacker to be editor of Media Environments Anthology

By naoko | Published: September 17, 2009
Barry Vacker, BTMM, received a contract to edit Media Environments, an innovative text-anthology that completely rethinks the textbook for courses such as "Mass Media & Society." Media Environments has several significant innovations and will be marketed nationally; available for adoption in fall 2010. Vacker's invited essay, "Big Bang Theory," was published in Useless (Volume 9, 2009), an international ... Read more »
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