MCS at SCMS!

The 2015 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference was held from March 25-29 in Montreal, and many of DePaul's MCS faculty were there presenting their research

Luisela Alvaray co-chaired a panel entitled "Constructing Otherness, Deconstructing Patriarchy and Eurocentrism," presenting her paper “Women, Immigrants, and Natives: Re-centering Otherness in Icíar Bollaín’s Films.”

Paul Booth participated in a workshop entitled "The “F” Word: Fan Studies In and Beyond the Academy" and also presented his paper “Playing The Hunger Games and Fan Paratextual Participation” as part of the panel "Playing Fans: Games and Fandom in Media Studies."

Blair Davis chaired a panel entitled "Watchmen and Media Studies," presenting his paper "Watchmen and Canonization."

Michael DeAngelis presented a paper entitled "Fassbinder's Apartment Plot" as part of a panel on "The Apartment Complex: Apartment Plots in Global Context"

For more on SCMS and next year's conference in Atlanta, see: http://www.cmstudies.org/default.asp?

New article by Prof. Kelly Kessler

Prof. Kelly Kessler has published a new article entitled "Finding the Face-to-Face When You Have No Face: Fostering Student-Student and Student-Professor Engagement in the Online Media Classroom."



She chronicles her work teaching online at DePaul, as well a some of the innovative approaches she has used in her online courses.


The article was published as part of the Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier:

http://www.teachingmedia.org/finding-the-face-to-face-when-you-have-no-face-fostering-student-student-and-student-professor-engagement-in-the-online-media-classroom/

"Personalization, variety, interactivity, and agency can help create a vibrant learning and teaching space, and hopefully one that doesn’t encourage your students to binge watch Breaking Bad while listening to the lectures," says Prof. Kessler.