Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
nanette.acosta@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0641, +1 512 471 0642

Expertise: costumes, costume design, undergraduate teaching, recruitment, theatrical design, theatre design, film design

M. K. Hage Centennial Professor in Education, Counseling Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
rainslie@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0364, +1 512 471 4407

Expertise: Explores the intersection of psychology and culture through such topics as the psychological experience of immigration, ethnic conflicts and the impact of violence within communities, and the relationship between individual and collective identity. Is also interested in US-Mexico health, including addressing health disparities. <em>Note: Dr. Ainslie will not be taking new students for the 2023 academic year.</em>

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
mary.beltran@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0021, +1 608 320 9041

Expertise: U.S. Latina/o media studies; racial diversity and the U.S. media industries; mixed race and media culture; U.S. television and film history; feminist media studies; media activism and independent media production

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
charles.ramirezberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9925

Expertise: Latinos in US films; film history; narratology; Mexican cinema

Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
lberte@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8769

Expertise: Eighteenth-century British literature and culture; representations of World War II in literature, film and journalism

Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
brummett@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: popular culture and persuasion; social style, including steampunk; media criticism; apocalyptic rhetoric; epistemology and rhetoric

Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
bruster@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3635

Expertise: Shakespeare; drama; English Renaissance literature; film; theory

Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
quetta.carpenter@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Acting, stage acting, television acting, film acting, Shakespeare, directing, adaptation

Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
kcather@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: modern Japanese literature and film; censorship, suicide, and death in modern Japan; adaptations; translation theory and practice

Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
cullingford@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4210, +1 512 471 4991

Expertise: Only children, Irish literature, politics, and culture; modern poetry; women's studies; drama and film; Shakespeare; the relation between high and popular culture

Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
tracy.dahlby@utexas.edu

Expertise: Journalism and media criticism; coverage of international affairs, including Northeast and Southeast Asia; coverage of U.S. relations with Asia; foreign reporting; journalistic storytelling; professional practice instruction for students

Professor of Practice, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
katedawson@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6111

Expertise: Journalism, broadcast journalism (TV, radio), documentary film.

Professor, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
delozanne@physics.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5544, +1 512 471 6108

Expertise: Superconductivity; nanostructures; scanning probe microscopy

Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts
ruvalcaba@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4936
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Queer studies; violence; border studies in literature, film, and the arts

Professor and Dick Rothwell Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
ekerdt@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4689

Expertise: Dr. Ekerdt's research is on the surface, growth and materials chemistry of metal, dielectric, ferroelectric, and polymer thin films. We seek to understand and describe nucleation and growth of films and nanostructures, their structure-property relationships, and site-specific reactions that lead to their formation. The programs are motivated by applications in electronic materials, energy and sensors. The research programs are highly interdisciplinary and involve collaborations with faculty in chemical engineering, physics and electrical engineering, and researchers in industry.

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
cfrick@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Film/media preservation and digital libraries. Media history; moving image archiving; online streaming platforms; film history and preservation;

Assistant Professor, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
james.gabrillo@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: pop music, digital technologies, film and television, multimedia, Philippines

Professor and Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering No. 5, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
hops@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Thin films and interfaces in microelectronics materials; Reliability of interconnect and packaging structures; Polymer films and metal-polymer interfaces

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Cockrell School of Engineering
ruihuang@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7558

Expertise: Mechanics of integrated materials and structures at micro and nano scales; Reliability of advanced interconnects and packaging for microelectronics; Mechanical instability of thin films and nanostructures; Multiscale modeling and simulations.

Department Chair, Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
noah.isenberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6680

Expertise: film historian; author

Professor, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering
kpj@che.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4617

Expertise: We utilize fundamental concepts in colloid and interface science, materials chemistry, nanotechnology, and polymer science to design, synthesize, and characterize materials for advanced performance in energy, pharmaceutical, and biomedical applications. We focus on Advanced Functional Nanomaterials: functionalization of metals and metal oxide/polymer systems Nanoparticle Interactions with Liquid and Solid Interfaces: engineered interfacial interactions in solids and oil/water and gas/water systems Nanocluster Self Assembly Platform for Enhanced Properties: protein nanoclusters, photonic NIR gold nanoclusters, metal oxides for subsurface imaging and catalysis

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
skelban@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6037

Expertise: Screenwriting, television and film industry.

Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
dekovar@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5185

Expertise: Production and characterization of nanoparticles; Nanostructured thick films; Solid oxide fuel cells; Honeycomb ceramics

Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
jnloehlin@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4993

Expertise: Shakespeare in performance (stage and film); Renaissance drama; modern drama

Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
jennifer.mcclearen@utexas.edu

Expertise: feminist media; gender, race and sexuality in sports media; women's sports

Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
cnault@utexas.edu

Expertise: grassroots queer transmedia

Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
neuberger@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Modern Russian history, film & photography history, visual cultures, cultural politics

Adjunct Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
parmesan@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Global warming, climate change, insect ecology, butterfly biology

Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
drperez@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7853, +1 512 471 4557

Expertise: Chican@ literature; American literature; popular culture; cultural studies; film

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
aperren@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1524

Expertise: business of Hollywood; TV and film production; distribution and exhibition; talent management/representation; streaming services; American comic book industry; history/contemporary indie film sector

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
pjraval@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4071

Expertise: filmmaker; subcultures and identities

Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts
creed@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4936

Expertise: Cervantes, Spanish Drama, Early Modern Mediterranean World, Transatlantic Studies, Cognitive Studies, and Comparative Literature

Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, College of Pharmacy
jsamuel@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9756

Expertise: Focuses research on South Asian American college students, diversity training efficacy for student leaders, and work/life integration for student affairs administrators.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
tschatz@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Film and television history and criticism; media industry studies (history, economics, etc.); Hollywood studios and the ''studio system''; film genre; Hollywood filmmaking; American cinema

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
suzanne.scott@utexas.edu

Expertise: fan studies; media convergence; participatory culture; transmedia storytelling; comic book culture

Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
asebro@utexas.edu

Expertise: critical media studies at the intersection of television, film, comedy, gender and African Diaspora

Professor, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
msharma@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3161, +1 512 471 3257

Expertise: Formation damage; Petrophysics; Fluid flow in porous media; Hydraulic fracturing

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
andrew.shea@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5303

Expertise: director; screenwriter; producer; documentary filmmaker

Professor Emeritus, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
dsherzer@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: 20th century French literature and film postcolonialism; Samuel Beckett Marguerite Duras Claude Simon Maghrebi French writers and directors, New novel, New wave, Theater of the Absurd, Arts & Humanities; communication.

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
yake@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: social cinema; independent cinema; storytelling; television writing and directing; directing actors

Assistant Professor of Practice, College of Fine Arts
matt.smith@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5327

Expertise: Lighting, Projection, Design, 3D Projection Mapping

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
paul.stekler@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Politics, Southern politics, political campaigns, political advertising and how polls affect campaigns and campaign messaging; documentary filmmaking

Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
pstrong@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8524, +1 512 471 9056

Expertise: Cultural, historical, feminist anthropology; Identity and difference; Politics of representation; Public culture; Youth organizations; Museum studies; Public humanities; Medical humanities; US, Indigenous North America.

Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
sharon.strover@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6652

Expertise: The Information Society; telecommunications policy, including telephone cable and satellite systems; international cultural policy with respect to film and television; and the digital divide.

Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts
lbthompson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4656

Expertise: African American Literature, Film, Cultural Studies, Black Feminist Theory, Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance

Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
scott.tinker@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0209, +1 512 471 1534

Expertise: Global energy supply and demand, Technology Administration, Multidisciplinary reservoir characterization, Carbonate sedimentology, Sequence stratigraphy, 3-D reservoir modeling, Resource assessment.

Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
craig.watkins@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4071, +1 512 471 6676

Expertise: Race and pop culture; youth culture; digital media and social media; hip-hop culture and music; video games; the history of Black American cinema and the films of Spike Lee; digital media; young people and behaviors with social and online media.

Associate Professor, Cockrell School of Engineering
webber@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6867

Expertise: Energy policy; Energy & Water; Alternative and renewable energy; Biofuels; Energy in Texas; Smart Grid; Power Sector

Professor Emeritus, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
weinstock@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Sámi culture and civilization, history of skiing, promotion of Scandinavian Studies in the U.S., Norwegian Language and Literature, Scandinavian Music, Scandinavian Linguistics, Old Norse Language and Literature, General and Historical Linguistics, Scandinavian Music

Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu

Expertise: Astronomy; Stars and stellar evolution; supernovae; compact stars, neutron stars and black holes; accretion disks; nucleosynthesis; gamma-ray bursts, astrobiology