UC Riverside | Department of Media and Cultural Studies

Faculty

	Toby Miller, Professor and Chair Director Education Abroad Program, Mexico CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3136 Phone: 951-827-5665 E-mail: toby.miller@ucr.edu Toby Miller is a British-Australian-US interdisciplinary social scientist. He is the author and editor of over 30 books, has published essays in more than 100 journals and edited collections, and is a frequent guest commentator on television and radio programs. His teaching and research cover the media, sports, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy, as well as the success of Hollywood overseas and the adverse effects of electronic waste. Miller's work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, German, Spanish and Portuguese. He has been Media Scholar in Residence at Sarai, the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in India, Becker Lecturer at the University of Iowa, a Queensland Smart Returns Fellow in Australia, Honorary Professor at the Center for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, CanWest Visiting Fellow at the Alberta Global Forum in Canada, and an International Research collaborator at the Centre for Cultural Research in Australia. Among his books, SportSex was a Choice Outstanding Title for 2002 and A Companion to Film Theory a Choice Outstanding Title for 2004. Born in the United Kingdom and brought up in England, India, and Australia, Miller earned a B.A. in history and political science at the Australian National University in 1980 and a Ph.D. in philosophy and communication studies at Murdoch University in 1991. He taught at Murdoch, Griffith University, and the University of New South Wales and was a professor at New York University from 1993 to 2004, when he joined the University of California, Riverside. Miller is now chair of a new Department of Media & Cultural Studies and lives near the ocean in Los Angeles.
	Derek Burrill, Associate Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3121 Phone: 951-827-1261 E-mail: derek.burrill@ucr.edu Professor Burrill's research focuses on digital games, media, gender, and the body. His book, Die Tryin': Videogames, Masculinity, Culture, was published by Peter Lang in 2008. His work has appeared in Modern Drama, Text Technology, Social Semiotics, and Television and New Media, as well as in anthologies such as ScreenPlay, Spirited Away, and Resolutions 3. He earned his Ph.D. in Performance and Culture at U.C. Davis in 2001. Professor Burrill sits on the editorial boards of Games and Culture and the Journal of Games and Virtual Worlds. He is also an active producer of digital and analog art.
	Lan Duong, Assistant Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3141 Phone: 951-827-5681 E-mail: lan.duong@ucr.edu Lan Duong is an Assistant Professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at UC Riverside. She is working on a book entitled, Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism (forthcoming, Temple University Press). The book explores the films and literature of the Vietnamese and Vietnamese diaspora through the cultural politics of collaboration. Dr. Duong’s second book project, Transnational Vietnamese Cinemas: Imagining Nationhood in a Globalized Era, examines Vietnamese cinema from its inception to the present-day. Her research interests include feminist film theory, postcolonial literature, and Asian/American film and literature. Her critical works can be found in Amerasia, Asian Cinema, Discourse, Velvet Light Trap, and Transnational Feminism in Film and Media. She is also a poet and has been published in Watermark, Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Poetry, Tilting the Continent, and Crab Orchard Review. Dr. Duong teaches classes on Introduction to Cultural Studies, Introduction to Film, Feminist Film Theory, Asian American Women's Films and Literature, Asian Horror, Southeast Asian Diasporic Literature and Film, Vietnamese Cinemas, Chinese Cinema, Hong Kong Cinema, and The Vietnam War in Film. She has recently received the Fulbright Scholar Award to work on her second book.
	Keith Harris, Associate Professor, Department of English CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3126 Phone: 951-827-1016 E-mail: keithh@ucr.edu Professor Harris joins UCR after his graduate work in Cinema Studies at New York University. His areas of specialization include film, African-American and Africana Cinema, gender studies and queer theory. However, his recent research and writing interests primarily concern masculinity, performance and gender(s) as ethical constructs within performance and cultural production. His recent publications include the manuscript, Boys, Boyz, Boies: An Ethics of Masculinity in Popular Film, Television and Video (Routledge 2006) and "‘Untitled’: D'Angelo and the visualization of the black male body" in Wide Angle (2004). Scheduled publications (2006-2007) include "‘Stand up, boy!’: Sidney Poitier, 'boy' and Filmic Black Masculinity," in Gender and Sexuality in African Literatures and Film and "Clockers (Spike Lee 1995): Adaptation in Black," in The Spike Lee Reader.
	Tabassum "Ruhi" Khan, Assistant Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3145 Phone: 951-827-1050 E-mail: rkhan@ucr.edu Tabassum “Ruhi” Khan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, received her PhD from Ohio University in 2009. Her research explores forces of globalization in localized spaces, with a special focus on youth and minority populations. She studies transnational imagery (including commodities, brands, lifestyles, professions) in the construction of emergent identities. Specifically, she is committed to a long-term ethnographic research project that explores the minority Indian Muslim youth population, living in a historically and physically segregated enclave in the heart of New Delhi, India. Her research investigates the everyday life experiences and the construction of self among the Muslim youth in relation to global media. She examines the intersecting and conflicting discourses shaped by globalization and the entrenched sociocultural and religious practices that influence the shifting identities of the youth. Dr. Khan teaches courses on media and popular culture (including a course on Bollywood cinema), globalization and identities, and the politics of representation. Prior to pursuing an academic career, she worked as a television producer and channel manager with Discovery Channels International, National Geographic International, and STAR TV, in Washington DC, New Delhi, and Hong Kong.
	Tim Labor, Associate Professor, Department of Music Department of Media & Cultural Studies ARTS 141 Phone: 951-827-5703 E-mail: tim.labor@ucr.edu Tim Labor, Associate Professor for the Department of Music and Department of Media & Cultural Studies, is a composer and sound designer specializing in music composition and sound design for theater and film. He holds a Bmus from Queens University (1987), where his principal teachers included Istvan Anhalt, Bruce Pennycook, and Clifford Crawley, and graduate work at the University of California, San Diego, where his teachers included Roger Reynolds, F. Richard Moore, Rand Steiger, Brian Ferneyhough, and Joji Yuasa. Tim's awards include the Maurice Dubin Award in Composition (1987); the Queen's Medal in Music (1987), a PROcan Award (1989); the Rodolphe Mathieu Award (CAPAC, 1990), a SOCAN Award (1995), grants from the Canada Council, and both LAWeekly and Ovation Award nominations for theatrical sound design and music composition. As a film and media composer, Labor has collaborated in composition or sound design for a variety of projects, including computer games (Everquest, Re-Elect JFK), video, dance, and theatre. Tim is a regular participant at Idyllwild Arts, providing music direction, original composition and sound design for recent Childrens' Center's programs in youth musical theatre and Shakespeare and has also collaborated with Mira Costa High School (Twelfth Night: Xtreme Sports Tourney, Tommy, and I have a friend who..., amongst others) and the University of Southern California (Trois Soeurs). Recent Los Angeles Productions include Eden (Elephant Theatre), Sex and Imagining, The Swine Show, Serial Killers, and 365 Days (Sacred Fools), Beautiful City, Travesties, Macbeth (Open Fist Theatre Company) and remounts of the Ovation-nominated Open Fist production of John DeGroot's Papa at the Open Fist, and in San Francisco, and Florida. His film music has been featured in Gold Cap Productions' short film Fartman: Caught in a Tight Ass for Howard Stern's "Howard.TV," and Never Say Macbeth, a feature film recently shown at the prestigious "Dances with Films" festival. Upcoming projects include music and sound design for The Flu Season (Circle-X Theatre Company), sound design for the world premier of Michael Franco's The Room (Open Fist), Spring Comes, a short animation by Yoko Koizumi, amongst others.
	Ken Rogers, Assistant Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3125 Phone: 951-827-1017 E-mail: ken.rogers@ucr.edu Website: http://kenrogers.org Kenneth Rogers is Assistant Professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside. His interdisciplinary research and publication is concerned with the intersection of labor, attention, political economy, art practice, and digital media. His current book project, The Attention Complex: Media Technology and Biopolitics (forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan 2012), maps out how contemporary media technologies like video games, search engines, mobile computing applications, and social networking platforms are part of a larger biopolitical strategy that directs, manages, and governs the conduct of individuals at the level of human biology. He has published on contemporary art and photography, alternative media, crowdsourcing, critical pedagogy, attention, and biopolitics. Ken is President of the Board of the prominent Los Angeles-based media arts organization Freewaves, and he an editorial board member of Resilience: A Journal of Sustainable Critique, a new digital, peer-reviewed journal. He is also the recipient of both UCHRI and UCIRA grants for 2010-2011; has been a fellow at the Center for Ideas and Society at UC, Riverside; is co-recipient of a three-year Mellon grant on affect and interactive media; and has been an invited lecturer and programs moderator at a variety of venues, including the LA Public Library, LACMA, the Getty Research Institute, the Kitchen, the Scripps Humanities Institute, the Otis Integrated Learning Program, and New York University.
	Freya Schiwy, Associate Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3118 Phone: 951-827-5680 E-mail: freya.schiwy@ucr.edu Professor Schiwy is interested in processes of decolonization. She focuses on the way power and knowledge are constituted and contested through diverse media and on how constructions of race and gender play themselves out in these processes. She is currently working on a book project titled “Broadcasting Dissent.” The book examines the notion of the political in light of contemporary debates in cultural theory and community media in Oaxaca, Mexico and Bolivia. Freya Schiwy is author of Indianizing Film: Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology. Rutgers UP, 2009. She has co-edited a special issue of the journal Social Identities titled Digital Media, Cultural Production, and Speculative Capitalism, 2009; the book Indisciplinar las ciencias sociales, Quito 2002; and a dossier on the geopolitics of knowledge in Nepantla. Views from South 2001.
	Setsu Shigematsu, Assistant Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3122 Phone: 951-827-5679 E-mail: setsu.shigematsu@ucr.edu Professor Shigematsu completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University, with training across the fields of Asian/Japan Studies, Asian American Studies, feminist and gender studies. Her intellectual and scholarly concerns include the historical relationship between U.S. and Japanese imperialisms, transnational liberation movements, comparative feminist and critical theory, and media and cultural studies. Dr. Shigematsu's monograph, Scream from the Shadows: The Women's Liberation Movement in Japan (spring 2012), offers the first sustained analysis of this radical feminist movement that emerged in 1970, with its lessons for contemporary politics. This book provides a history of this movement's formation amid the radicalism of the late-1960s, its politics, internal dynamics and its contributions to feminist politics across and beyond Japan. She is also the co-editor of Militarized Currents: Towards a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific (2010), with Keith Camacho (UCLA). This anthology examines the militarization of Asia and the Pacific as an extension of U.S. and Japanese colonialisms in the region, with a focus on gender and indigenous resistance. Professor Shigematsu is the director, writer and co-producer of Visions of Abolition, a new feature-length documentary about the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement (92 min). The film documents the rise of the prison industrial complex in the U.S. in relation to the history of slavery, capitalism and the war on drugs. Visions of Abolition focuses on women's experience in the prison system and their activism in the prison abolition movement, providing a critical exposé of the racial and gender violence perpetuated by the prison system. Designed as a teaching tool, this film is being used in university and college courses across the nation and internationally. DVDs are available at www.visionsofabolition.org.
	Andrea Smith, Associate Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3137 Phone: 951-827-5140 E-mail: andy.smith@ucr.edu Professor Smith received her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz in 2002. Previously, she taught in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her publications include: Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. She is also the editor of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, and co-editor of The Color of Violence, The Incite! Anthology. She currently serves as the U.S. Coordinator for the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, and she is a co-founder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. She recently completed a report for the United Nations on Indigenous Peoples and Boarding Schools.
	Wendy Weiqun Su, Assistant Professor CHASS Interdisciplinary South, Room 3134 Phone: 951-827-1014 E-mail: wendy.su@ucr.edu Wendy Su received her Ph.D.in Mass Communication at University of Minnesota in 2009. Her research falls on the intersection of global communication, Chinese media studies, and cultural studies. Specifically, she is interested in China’s cultural policy study, cultural industries research, transnational film studies, audience research, and the impact of transnational capital and American culture on China’s media and cultural landscape. Her academic works can be found in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Global Media and Communication, Asian Journal of Communication, and the Journal of Peking University. She is currently working on a book manuscript that critically reviews China’s encounter with global Hollywood from 1994 to 2010, and analyzes the changing government policy, intellectual debates and resistance in China regarding Hollywood imports. She is a recipient of UCR Regents’ Faculty Fellowship for the 2010-2011 academic year. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., she was a long time journalist in mainland China and Hong Kong, and edited a book and published numerous articles in news outlets both in and outside China. Dr. Su teaches courses on Introduction to Media Studies, Global Communication, History of Media Theory, as well as Chinese Media and Society.