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Associate Professor of Media & Cinema Studies Education Course Specialties Background Derek Long is a historian of media industries, specializing in the Hollywood studio system, film distribution, and digital approaches to cinema history. His first book, Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System (University of Texas Press, 2024), examines the history of film […]
Senior Lecturer of Journalism Senior Lecturer of Media & Cinema Studies Education Course Specialties Background Dr. Heuman’s research explores media industries and regulation (especially television), with an emphasis on the regulation of media work. His different projects come together in a concern for the cultural life of media industries and their regulation (from content regulation […]
Associate Professor of Journalism Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Recipient of the 2020 Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award and named the 2014 Associated Press Media Editors Innovator of the Year for College Students, Stretch Ledford has worked as a journalist telling stories through audio, photographs and video in more than 55 countries. His career […]
Professor Emeritus of Journalism Education Course Specialties Background Johnson started his journalism career as a staff photojournalist at The News-Gazette in Champaign and has been teaching at the University since 1988. Johnson’s work has been published in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, USA Today, Newsday and others. Research and Creative […]
Knight Chair Professor in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting, Department of Journalism Background Professor Brant Houston holds the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois. Houston teaches investigative and advanced reporting in the Department of Journalism in the College of Media at Illinois. He also […]
Interim Department Head of Media & Cinema StudiesProfessor of Communications (Department of Media & Cinema Studies and Institute of Communications Research) Education Affiliations Course Specialties Research and Creative Endeavor My research concerns a wide variety of media and contexts—from popular media of the 20th century (cinema, television, telephony, radio) to “new media” and forms of […]
Senior Lecturer of Media & Cinema Studies Education Course Specialties Background Victor Font founded his own audiovisual company in the ’90s. He has been in the production business for more than 25 years. As principal of Prodimag his professional work has involved direction, production, postproduction, and services for worldwide production companies. In 2004 he founded […]
Instructor and Technical Coordinator for Richmond Studio Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Erdey previously worked as a news photographer/editor for the television station WCIA in Champaign, Illinois. Other stations include CLTV, WFLD-Fox32, WCIU, CNN Chicago Bureau, all based in Chicago. He is a current board member of IJEA and has served as the Executive Director of […]
Swanlund Chair Professor Emeritus of Journalism Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Leon DeCosta Dash, Jr., born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, grew up in Harlem and the Bronx. He graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a minor in Political Science in 1968. Before graduating, he held an internship as a […]
Senior Lecturer of Advertising Education Course Specialties Background Dionne has an extensive history in business, sales and media. With professional experience in radio, television production, and real estate, she has a unique perspective and dedicated to bridging the gap between academia and industry. Dionne is the Designated Managing Broker/Owner of LIVE Real Estate Group, a […]