Film and Media Studies Faculty
Chair
Associate Professor
Email: riveraal@grinnell.edu
Art and architectural historian Fredo Rivera ‘06 is Associate Professor of Art History at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½, where they teach classes on modern and contemporary architecture and urban visual culture, as well as the art of the Americas, with a focus on the Caribbean. Professor Rivera’s research...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: elytaryn@grinnell.edu
Taryn Ely’s teaching and research focus on experimental cinema, popular film, and spectatorship as reflections of experiences and debates in social and political history, specifically the inequalities surrounding disability, gender, colonialism, and class. She is currently expanding her doctoral...
Assistant Professor
Email: rania@grinnell.edu
Arya Rani’s research and teaching interests include global cinema, visual anthropology, and moving image archival studies. Her current book project Blink-and-you-will-miss-it: Aesthetics and Politics of B-roll in Cinema introduces B-roll as a productive methodology to read films across genres...
Assistant Professor
Email: reznickj@grinnell.edu
Jordan Reznick is a photo historian and photographer who researches Native North American, settler colonial, and transgender histories of photography. His current research examines how Indigenous ecological science shaped nineteenth-century landscape photographs in California. Reznick was 2022-2023...
Assistant Professor
Email: shookjen@grinnell.edu
Jen Shook is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies, whose practice lives at the intersections of dramaturgy, directing, literature, cultural memory, Indigenous studies, community engagement, and digital liberal arts. She previously taught at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ as a Fellow in the...
Email: tammc@grinnell.edu
Curtis James Tamm is a filmmaker and sound artist exploring the tension between myth and materialism. Tamm has exhibited solo and collaborative works at venues such as Berkeley Art Museum (USA), Rubin Museum of Art (USA), Mengi Performance Center (Iceland), Titanik gallery (FI), Santozeum (GR)...
Associate Professor
Email: tavaresn@grinnell.edu
Nicky Tavares is a multimedia artist whose work sheds light on systemic inequalities through personal storytelling. Her work has evolved through an array of media – photography, film, video, animation, sculpture, VR 360, as well as across film genres and presentation formats such as documentary...