Faculty
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Program Director
Klaus Phillips, professor of film and German at Hollins; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
He is a specialist in German cinema and directs the annual Hollins Colloquium on German film. Author of many essays, reviews, and translations, he is also editor of New German Filmmakers, and co-editor of Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Literature und Geschichte.
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Hal Ackerman has been on the U.C.L.A. screenwriting faculty since 1985. His students have won every major screenwriting award, and numerous screenplays written in his classes have become films, including Gas, Food, Lodging, and most recently, A Walk on the Moon. As a screenwriter he has sold his work to all the major studios and TV networks. His latest book is Write Screenplays That Sell: The Ackerman Way.
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Tim Albaugh, M.F.A. in Film and Television, U.C.L.A., has taught screenwriting at U.C.L.A. since 1997. His students have sold scripts to all the major studios. The latest film written in his class was The Machinist, written by Scott Kosar and starring Christian Bale. Along with his producing partner, Sean Sorensen, Tim has various projects in development under their Popular Films banner including Sealand at Warner Brothers with Mike Newell directing; Weasel for Echo Lake Productions (Tsotsi, Levity), Croak for Hudson River Productions (Better Luck Tomorrow), and What Is Life Worth, the true story of Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Tim wrote the film Trading Favors starring Rosanna Arquette.
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Reza Allamehzadeh, Iranian filmmaker released from political imprisonment after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and living in exile in the Netherlands since 1982, has been writing and publishing novels and short stories in his native Farsi and making a number of films, including 10 documentaries for Dutch television, a feature-length film, and several shorts for children. |
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Jen Boyle, (Homepage) assistant professor of English at Hollins; B.S., California Polytechnic University; B.A. in English from California State University, Fullerton.
She completed her M.A. in Comparative Literature and Ph.D in English at the University of California, Irvine. Jen has published articles and book chapters on new media, perspective technics and affect in Milton, queer and transversal theory and film, becoming-animal and the Enlightenment, and technoculture and sexuality. She is completing a book, The Anamorphic Imaginary: Perspective Media and Embodiment in Early Modern Literature and Technoscience and editing a collection of essays, Reproducing Mnemosyne: Biopolitics, Technics, and Aesthetics. She is also collaborator-author of new media art installations, including "The Hollins Community Project" in collaboration with Virginia Tech. During 2006-07, she was the Carol G. Lederer Fellow at the Pembroke Center at Brown University, and has held a fellowship at the Folger Institute and been a scholar in residence at the Dibner Library in Washington D.C.
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Edward Buscombe was educated in England and was Head of Publishing at the British Film Institute for over twenty years. A leading authority on the Western, Buscombe is the author of numerous books on the Western, horror films, and British television. He has delivered guest lectures and conducted seminars at a number of major universities, including Brown, Columbia, London, Northwestern, Oxford, Toronto, and Yale. |
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John E. Davidson directs the Ohio State University Film Studies Program, and is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures. He teaches course in film theory and history, as well as German culture, arts, and intellectual history from 1850 to the present. His publications include The Father of the Other German Cinema (monograph on Ottomar Domnick, in progress); Framing the Fifties: Film in a Divided Germany (Berghahn, co-edited with Sabine Hake); Deterritorializing the New German Cinema (U Minn Press); a forthcoming special edition of Studies in European Cinema on “aesthetics and European film studies”; and, articles on topics ranging from cinema and ecology to representations of the radical right in Germany to the literature of Sudanese author Tayeb Salih to a short history of the garden gnome. He is currently developing a project entitled “Calling, Cars, Kino: Mobilizing Labor in German Cinema.”
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Doris Dörrie, among Germany’s most acclaimed filmmakers, is a regular visiting professor at Hollins. She is a graduate of the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in Munich. Among her films are Kirschblüten (aka Cherry Blossoms, 2008), Bin ich schön? (aka Am I Beautiful?, 1998), Happy Birthday, Türke! (aka Happy Birthday!, 1991), and Männer (aka Men, 1985). Dörrie is also an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, and books for children. |
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Amy Gerber-Stroh, assistant professor of film at Hollins; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, School of Film/Video, 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.
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Jan-Christopher Horak, Ph.D., Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Muenster, Germany; M.S., Boston University, is Acting Director of the Moving Images Archives Program at UCLA. Former appointments include Curator of the Hollywood Entertainment Museum, Director of Archives & Collections at Universal Studios, Director of the Munich Filmmuseum, and Senior Curator at the George Eastman House; he has taught at the University of Rochester, the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen, Munich, and the University of Salzburg. He is the author of several books, including Making Images Move: Photographers and Avant-Garde Cinema (1997), Berge, Licht und Traum. Dr. Arnold Fanck und der deutsche Bergfilm (1997), and Lovers of Cinema. The First American Film Avant-Garde 1919-1945 (1995). Over 200 of his articles and reviews have appeared in publications around the world.
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Mary Johnson, Ph.D., Ohio State University.
She is an associate professor of film at the University of Central Florida, specializing in writing for film and television. In addition to her award-winning screenwriting, Johnson is the author of Inangaro (Logan Film Press, 1987) and The Scriptwriter's Journal (Focal Press, 1985). |
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Jon Klein, M.F.A. in Film and Television, U.C.L.A., is a professional writer whose work has been seen on both stage and television. The author of twenty produced plays, he adapted his play, T Bone N Weasel, for a film on the TNT network, starring Gregory Hines and Christopher Lloyd. His stage adaptation of the children’s classic, Bunnicula, is scheduled for a national tour, including the Kennedy Center. He teaches screenwriting and playwriting at Catholic University.
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Mari Kornhauser, a U.C.L.A. Film School graduate. She has written and co-produced Zandalee, starring Nicholas Cage, and The Last Ride, starring Mickey Rourke. Kornhauser has also written on assignment for 20th Century Fox, Tri-Star, and others. Her debut feature, Housebound (2000), which she wrote and directed, has won awards at film festivals around the world. She divides her time between Los Angeles and New Orleans. |
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Christa Maerker, Berlin filmmaker, journalist, film critic, and author. She has been writing screenplays and has shot 50 documentaries for television since the early 1970s. Maerker has worked with the Berlin Film Festival since 1979. Her most recent book is Marilyn Monroe und Arthur Miller: Eine Nahaufnahme (close-up). |
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Adrienne McLean, Ph.D., Emory University.
She is professor of film studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and author of numerous published essays and book chapters on film. Her books include Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2008), Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom (Rutgers University Press, 2004), and Headline Hollywood: A Century of Film Scandal (Rutgers University Press, 2001).
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Gabriel Paletz earned the first Ph.D. in film history and theory with a minor in film production from the University of Southern California. In Los Angeles, he also headed the Speakers Program of the Directors Guild of America, and helped to program films for Grauman’s Egyptian and other historic theatres in Hollywood. Currently lead instructor of screenwriting and documentary at the Prague Film School in Prague, Czech Republic, he has written on film industries and festivals throughout Europe for numerous popular and scholarly journals.
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Gilberto Perez, professor of film studies at Sarah Lawrence College, M.A., Princeton University.
Perez, who has taught film at Princeton and Harvard as well as Sarah Lawrence, is the author of The Material Ghost (Johns Hopkins University Press), a large study of films and their medium. He is the film critic for the Yale Review and a contributor to Raritan, the Nation, the Hudson Review, Sight and Sound, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books.
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Stephen Prince, professor of communication studies, Virginia Tech; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication.
His interest areas include film criticism and history, with special interests in Japanese cinema and American Westerns. His books include Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film (Allyn And Bacon, 1997), Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film (Praeger, 1992), and The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa (Princeton University Press, 1991). Two new books on cinema of Sam Peckinpah will soon appear from University of Texas and Cambridge University Presses. He is past president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the world’s largest organization of film scholars, academics, students and professionals.
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Laura Shamas, Ph.D., is a screenwriter, an award-winning playwright, and a film consultant. In a chapter in her new book We Three: The Mythology of Shakespeare's Weird Sisters (Peter Lang, 2007), she traces the impact of female trios in contemporary movies as related to folklore and mythology. She's taught screenwriting at Pepperdine University (Malibu) and instructed screenwriters in UCLA Extension's Writing Program. Shamas has consulted on eight movies in the past five years. Her dramatic writing textbook, Playwriting for Theatre, Film, and Television, was published in 1991 (Betterway). With Jon Klein, she was awarded a 2006-2007 Aurand Harris Fellowship from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America to write a holiday play based on folklore and myth.
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Bradley Wigor is a writer, director, and producer, living and working in Los Angeles and Toronto. His most recent independent film premiered 2007 at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, and his Emmy Award-winning film for the Showtime Network, The Sandy Bottom Orchestra, based on the book by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson, was nominated for the Humanitas Prize. Wigor’s other work in television has received numerous awards including the Emmy, the Humanitas Prize, Chicago Film Festival, Ohio State, and National Education Association Awards. For his film, Love in the Dark Ages, Wigor was also nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award. |
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