Adjunct Faculty
Robert Kolker
Robert Kolker has taught film and digital studies at the University of Maryland, where he is Emeritus Professor. He recently served as Chair of the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is author of A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, and Altman (3rd ed); the textbook and interactive CD-ROM, Film, Form, and Culture; The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema. He is editor of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook' Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays; and The Oxford Handbook on Fim and Media Studies (forthcoming). The Media Studies textbook will be published by Blackwell in 2007.
Professor Kolker's CV can be found here.
Bill Reifenberger
With documentaries for PBS, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel and more, filmmaker Bill Reifenberger brings expertise in film and video production to the Media Studies Program. His films include Fulbright: The Defining Hour, The Tuskegee Airmen, and Lee: Beyond The Battles. He is currently in production on a ten part series on American gardens and a look at the University of Virginia through the lens of local photographers. Bill joined the Media Studies Department in 2002. He received a B.A. in political science from Pennsylvania State University, followed by his M.A. in Documentary Film and Video Production from Stanford University.
Paul Wagner
Paul Wagner has been producing and directing award-winning films for twenty-five years. His documentaries include The Stone Carvers (Emmy Award and Academy Award, PBS broadcast 1985), Out of Ireland, The Story of Irish Emigration to America (Sundance Film Festival, PBS 1995), Signature: George C. Wolfe (National Educational Telecommunications Association Best Public Television Program of the Year, PBS 1996), and A Paralyzing Fear, The Story of Polio in America (Emmy Award, Eric Barnouw Award for Best Historical Film of 1998, PBS 1998). His narrative feature, Windhorse (Toronto, Rotterdam, Tokyo Film Festivals, Best U.S Feature/Best Director Santa Barbara Film Festival, U.S. theatrical release by Shadow Distribution), is a story about cultural conflict filmed on location in Tibet and Nepal.
For more about Paul Wagner visit paulwagnerfilms.com or windhorsemovie.com.
Paul Wagner's CV can be found here.
