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Jesse Alemán (PhD, University of Kansas) is an assistant professor of English whose publications and teaching focus on nineteenth-century American and Chicana/o literatures. He examines the Southwest in particular as a site of colonial conflict, complicity, and socially significant cultural production and is currently working on a book on the popular fiction of the U.S.-Mexico War. To contact, please call the English Department at 277-3209 or email to jman@unm.edu.
Ed Angel (PhD, University of Southern California) is Professor of Computer Science and Media Arts. Instrumental in establishing and designing our course in 3-D computer imaging to serve students in the arts and humanities as well as Computer Science, he also directs the Arts Technology Center and is the Principal Investigator of the Digital Pueblo Project. Author of Interactive Computer Graphics and OpenGL Prime, Professor Angel was named the first UNM Presidential Teaching Fellow. To contact, call 277-6560 or email angel@cs.unm.edu.
Susan Dever (PhD, Stanford University) serves as Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Media Arts. She has created and taught numerous Media Arts courses regarding “race,” class, gender, and sexuality in U.S. and foreign cinemas. Specializing in Latin American, Latino, and “Third World” filmmaking, she is the author of Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas: From Post-Revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamérica. She was awarded UNM Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 2001.
Nina Fonoroff (MFA, San Francisco Art Institute) joined the Department of Media Arts as Assistant Professor in Spring1999. An independent film and videomaker, her work regards intersections of personal and social dimensions. The Accursed Mazurka and A Knowledge They Cannot Lose have been screened at venues from the Museum of Modern Art to The Learning Channel. She has earned numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. To contact, call 277-9469 or email at nfonoroff@aol.com.
Eva Hayward holds a BA, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of New Mexico, an MA and from the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is currently a PhD candidate in the same program. She has received numerous academic fellowships, awards, and grants, including a 2001 and a 2003 Regents Fellowship from University of California. She has lectured widely on issues of transgender identity, politics, and representation, and has been involved in numerous activist organizations that focus on transgender concerns.
Michael Kamins (MA, University of New Mexico) is a documentary filmmaker and Executive Producer at KNME-TV. Through PBS, his work has been shown nationally and around the world, including such venues as the Latino Film Festival held at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. An Emmy Award winner, he has been a member of the Media Arts adjunct production faculty since 1989. To contact, call 277-0434 or email at mkamins@knme.org.
Bryan Konefsky (MFA, University of New Mexico) is Adjunct Instructor and a media artist whose creative work gravitates toward low-tech/hybrid approaches to the moving image arts. His video essays have been screened at venues such as The Kitchen and Knitting Factory in New York, L.A.C.E., the AFI Film Festival, and the Long Beach Museum in California. He has received grants from the NEA Regional Fellowship Program, and has been a resident artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Contact at 277-2129 or email at bryank@unm.edu.
Matthew McDuffie (MA, University of New Mexico) is Adjunct Instructor and a working, professional screenwriter. He is the author of numerous scripts from a variety of production companies including Eddie Dodd (Columbia Television), Fruitcake Weather (United Artists), A Cool, Dry Place (Twentieth-Century Fox), Eulogy for Joseph Way (Warner Brothers), and The Hungry Earth (HBO), among others. A graduate of UNM’s Department of Theatre, McDuffie courses serve a wide audience. To contact, call 277-6262.
Carl J. Mora (PhD, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) is the author of Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-1988, forthcoming soon in its third edition. Numerous articles on Spanish cinema include “The Odyssey of Spanish Cinema” and “Spain’s Cinema of ‘The Autonomies.’” Work on Mexican filmmaking ranges from articles on Sara García to Alejandro Galindo. Adjunct Instructor Mora, former Managing Editor of UNM Press, has recently retired from Sandia National Labs as Publications Coordinator and Technical Writer. To contact, call 277-6262.
James Roy (BA, University of New Mexico) serves as Technical Coordinator and Adjunct Instructor for the Department of Media Arts, where he earned one of the Department’s first two bachelor’s degrees. He was a video producer for two years for the City of Albuquerque, and has worked on numerous feature film projects and stage productions, including the recent production of Plunda. To contact, call 277-5069 or email at jasroy@unm.edu.
Ann Skinner-Jones (MFA, San Francisco Art Institute; MA, University of New Mexico). An Adjunct Instructor in both the Women Studies Program and the Communication and Journalism Department, Skinner-Jones was the first recipient of the UNM Adjunct Teacher of the Year Award in 2001. Having worked as a Visual Anthropologist in Japan and Vanuatu, she has received many professional awards, lecturing and exhibiting her photography and videos widely. To contact, please call Women Studies at 277-3854.
Christopher Shultis (PhD, University of New Mexico) is Regents' Professor of Music at the University of New Mexico. He is both a composer and scholar and has written extensively about John Cage. His article, "Cage in Retrospect" won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in 1997, his book Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition was published in 1998 and two book chapters "No Ear for Music: Timbre in the Early Percussion Music of John Cage" and "Cage and Europe" are or will be published in 2002, the latter appearing as one of three central chapters in The Cambridge Companion to John Cage. To contact, please call the Music Department at 277-4449 or email to cshultis@unm.edu.
James Stone (PhD, University of New Mexico) For many years Graduate Assistant and Adjunct Instructor in the Department, Stone has taught many Media Arts courses, lectured widely across campus and at national conferences, and created video works. His dissertation, “Screening the Yank: The Cinematic Americanization of British National Identity, 1930-1960,” explores cross-cultural relations and nationhood. To contact, please call 277-9469 or email at jstone@unm.edu.
Shelley Brisson
Administrative Assistant, 277-6262
Stephanie Eberhard
Department Administrator, 277-9745
Claudine Lonergan
Accountant, 277-9096
James Roy
Technical Coordinator, 277-5069
