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  • Marvin Smith
    Marvin Smith
    Professor
    RTV 104
    Phone: 509.359.6673

    MA, University of Texas

    Teaching Areas: Writing, Law, Film Theory and Criticism.

  • Tom Mullin
    Tom Mullin
    Professor
    RTV 104
    Phone: 509.359.6389

    Tom Mullin teaches production, screenwriting, acting and theory/criticism. He received the Centel Faculty Achievement Award in 2000, the Edmund J. Yarwood Award in 2000-2002, 2004-2009 and the Dean's Faculty Award in 1997. He has published articles in Cineaction, Humanities Today, and the Owen Wister Review. He is the writer, producer and director of both dramatic and non-fiction programs distributed to PBS stations nationwide.

  • Pete Porter
    Pete Porter
    Assistant Professor
    RTV 204
    Phone: 509.359.6136

    Dr. Pete Porter teaches filmic arts history and theory/criticism.  He also serves as director of The Spokane International Film Festival. Before joining the film faculty in 2004, Porter earned a PhD from Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich., and degrees from Indiana State and Grand Valley State. His dissertation argues that the ancient literary form Menippean satire, a travesty of The Odyssey, the work of Plato, and old comedy, has taken shape in movies from Duck Soup (1934) to The Big Lebowski (1998).

    Dr. Porter's recent work studies media representations of non-human animals from a cognitive-ethical perspective. He is the Film Review Editor for Society & Animals, an international journal of Human-Animal Studies. He has published in S & A, The Journal of Moving Image Studies, and the Michigan Academician.  Dr. Porter serves as faculty advisor to the EWU Film Society and on the board and The Friends of Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

  • Sarah Lee Monroe
    Sarah Lee Monroe
    Assistant Professor
    RTV 104
    Phone: 509.359.6135

     

    M.F.A. Film and Media Arts, Temple University

    Teaching Areas: Production, Screenwriting, Film History

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