R.H.W. Dillard, professor of English; B.A., Roanoke College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Richard Dillard's courses in film as a narrative art focus on close readings of films by a single filmmaker or in a single genre. The courses feature the work of Ingmar Bergman, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Val Lewton, Roman Polanski, Josef von Sternberg, or Orson Welles, as well as studies in the horror film. In addition to his novels, short stories, poems, and literary criticism, he has written essays on the horror film and the films of Fellini and is the author of the critical monograph, Horror Films (1976). He is also the co-author of the screenplay of Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, a film which, according to Leonard Maltin, "has gained a peculiar cult reputation"!

Amy Gerber-Stroh, assistant professor of film; B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, School of Film/Video

Amy Gerber-Stroh has produced and directed over 30 documentaries and art films. She has had significant professional film experience in Hollywood and New York, working on several 'B-movie' features by Roger Corman and as casting associate on twelve major motion pictures, including Goldeneye and The Mask of Zorro. Her documentary feature, Public Memory, was completed in 2004. Her new film, My Grandfather Was a Nazi Scientist: Opa, von Braun and Operation Paperclip, is on the festival circuit now.