| Associate Professors
Katherine G. Fry
Associate Professor
Director of Communication
 Ph.D., Temple University, 1994.
Current research and publications in media and cultural geography, media criticism. Frequent guest and commentator on “World:Comm.” Has taught previously at Drexel University and Ursinus College. Served as Editorial Assistant for Critical Studies in Mass Communication. Specializations include mass media and society, critical cultural studies, communication theory and international mass communication.
Recent and upcoming research publications include the article, “Myths of Nature and Place: Network Television News Coverage of the Great Flood of 1993” in the proceedings of the 54th Annual conference of the New York State Speech Communication Association; and an essay entitled “Starbucks Coffee: Promoting the Postmodern Brew,” in the forthcoming 1999 anthology, Critical Studies in Media Commercialism by Oxford University Press. Also nearly completed is a book proposal for, "Constructing the Heartland: Television News and Natural Disasters", the culmination of several years’ research on how television news reports natural disasters.
A Cultural Geography of Lake Wobegon was published in 1998 in the Howard Journal of Communication.
TVRA 4430W Television and Radio Criticism - Monday and Wednesday 12:50pm - 2:05pm
TVRA 7710X Media Studies Seminar - Wednesday 6:30pm - 9:15pm
TVRA 7714X Critical Analysis of Media - Thursday 6:30pm - 9:15pm
TVRA
7769X Fieldwork in Electronic Media - TBA
TVRA 7960X Special Problems - TBA
Mon: 10:30pm - 12:00pm
Wed: 10:30pm -12:00pm
Office: 303b A
Phone: 718-951-5600 ext. 2791
Please contact Professor Fry directly for appointments.
Email: katfry@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Adrian Meppen
Associate Professor
 M.S., Columbia University, 1963.
News Producer, Editor and Writer, WCBS-TV, New York. News Editor, The New York Times. Reporter, The Wall Street Journal and Newsday. Author of a broadcast news text published by Macmillan. Vice President, Writers Guild of America, East. Professor Meppen is the Coordinator of the Broadcast Journalism program in the department of Television and Radio.
Please note that Professor Meppen is currently on medical leave.
Please contact Professor Meppen directly for specific appointment.
Phone: 718-951-5555 (Brooklyn College) / 908-309-5376 (CELL)sor directly. Phext.2789
andy411@mac.com
Irene Sosa
Associate Professor, Deputy Chair, Graduate Division
Fulbright Scholar
MFA Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
Licenciatura in Mass Communication, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Irene Sosa began working in film in 1982 and since then has made over 30 documentaries. She has also worked as camera-person in film and video, and collaborated with other artists in multimedia installations and dance performances. Her work has been shown in many national and international venues and has received recognition in the press and by others who have taken up her contributions in their writings. An interview with her is part of a book, A New York State of Mind, by Alejandro Varderi (2008) and she is one of the subjects used in a doctoral thesis titled “The Art of Rupture: Émigré; artists in contemporary perspective” (2006).
Her most recent piece, “Shopping to Belong” explores the search for cultural citizenship in the Latino community through consumerism. “Shopping to Belong” has been the subject of various articles, the latest of which appeared in 2010 in the University of Barcelona’s online journal. http://guionactualidad.uach.cl/spip.php?article4154
She is currently working on a project that explores issues of architecture and culture, and how buildings reflect our ever-changing social reality. The documentary will focus on an award winning building in the heart of Caracas that was left unfinished and abandoned and has recently been taken over and become a “horizontal slum”.
In 2004 she was commissioned by the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea in Galicia, Spain to make an anthology of her work on Nancy Spero (13 documentaries) as part of a retrospective of the artist. Two of these documentaries are included in the DVD Spero/Golub produced by Kartemquin films. Since its completion in 1999, Sosa's “Sexual Exiles” has been shown in more than 30 national and international venues, and continues to be invited to festivals and other events. The documentary is about gays and lesbians who left their homeland because of their sexual orientation.
Sosa has been the recipient of various grants and awards, including: an Individual Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a fellowship from The Andrea Frank Foundation, an Individual Artist grant from the New York State Council for the Arts. She has also received five PSC-CUNY Research Awards as well as a Brooklyn College Creative Achievement Award.
TVRA 3871 Elements of Television Studio Production - Thursday 2:05pm - 6:25pm
TVRA 4175 Television and Radio Colloquium - TBA
TVRA
4176/4177 Television and Radio Internship - TBA
TVRA 7852G Thesis Development II - TBA
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Tues:
10:00am -1:00pm
Thurs: 11:00am - 1:00pm
Please note that Professor Sosa is acting chair for Spring 2012.
Office: 407s A
Phone: 718-951-5600 ext. 2796
Please contact Professor Sosa directly for appointments.
isosa@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Barbara Jo Lewis
Associate Professor,
Department of Television and Radio and Department of Economics
 Ph.D., New York University, Culture and Communication, 1997.
MFA, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 1977.
BA, Washington University, 1973
Current research and publications extend doctoral studies in culture and communication and include the following articles: “Children of the Mechanical Bride: Additional Abstractions of Human Stereotypes” in the proceedings for “The Legacy of McLuhan: A Symposium” sponsored by Fordham University; “Cyborg Consciousness: Conceptions of Human Identity in a Technological World” in the Proceedings of the 55th Annual conference of the New York State Communication Association; and “Hello Dolly: Media Coverage of Cloning Events and the Popular Imagination” to be presented at the National Communication Association conference.
For more than a decade, has been an advertising agency producer employed by a number of large agencies including Wells Rich Greene, DMB&B, and Ketchum. Awards include AFI for MFA thesis film, “Larissa,” post-production recognition on Emmy award-winning documentary “Countdown to Collision,” and George Ketchum and Chicago Film Festival award for “Anything Goes.”
Taught photography through an Assistantship with George Washington University at Airlie Productions/Raven’s Hollow, Ltd.
See also: Professor Lewis' page at the Department of Economics, which includes a complete list of conferences and publications.
TVRA 2517 Television and Radio Advertising - Online
TVRA 2517 Television and Radio Advertising* - Tuesday and Thursday 2:15pm - 3:30pm
*Cross-listed as BUSN 3130. Please see schedule of classes for BUSN courses.
Office: 407s A
Phone: 718-951-5600 ext. 2788
Please contact Professor Lewis directly for appointments.
barbaraj@brooklyn.cuny.edu
John Jannone
Associate Professor, CUNY Director,
Program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts
 MFA (Electronic Arts), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2003
BA Cum Laude, Honors (Philosophy), Colgate University, 1991
Studies cooperation, coordination, and collaboration with a particular interest in collective art-making and live performance. He is an Associate Professor at Brooklyn College, and designed the College’s two graduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) which he directed through the spring of 2008. He teaches courses in multi-camera television production, computer programming, and performance. He is in the beginning stages of developing a curriculum in cooperation, coordination, and collaboration studies. He is the recipient of numerous grants, including National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation and CreativeIT grants. John co-directs a family of summer arts camps for children; learn more at http://www.ballibayCamps.com.
TVRA 7782G - Advanced Problems in Studio and Video Field Production - Tues11:00am - 1:45pm
Office: 505s A
Phone: 718-951-5600 ext. 4203
718 951 4203 (office - 376G) (fax 4418)
718 951 5000 x1229 (center for computer music - 250/251G)
Please contact Professor directly for appointments.
jannone@mac.com
Irina Patkanian
Associate Professor
 BS in English Philology, University of St. Petersburg, Russia 1991
MA in Linguistics, University of Iowa, 1995
MFA in Film and Video Production, University of Iowa, 1999
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Irina Patkanian came to the U.S. in 1991. After receiving her two Master's degrees from the University of Iowa in 1999, she moved to New York City. She worked at Columbia University's Center for New Media, Pinnacle Systems, NNS, and Well Spring Film Distribution Company. Irina Patkanian is the president and cofounder of a non-profit film and theater company "In Parentheses" which produces stage and screen adaptations of contemporary literary texts and international documentaries. Irina directed/produced documentaries in Russia, France, Egypt, Italy, Greece, Armenia, Mozambique and China. Her documentary "My American Neighbor" about perception of America and the American dream abroad won "best short documentary" award at the Chicago's "Peace on Earth" film festival, and has been distributed by the "Films for the Humanities & Sciences." She is currently working on a documentary feature about Kamchatka, Russia, for which she received the 2011 Jerome foundation grant, and a short animated film about Mozambican civil war, for which she received the 2010 NYSCA grant (Individual Artists/Film). Professor Patkanian has been teaching at Brooklyn College since 2001.
Irina Patkanian's personal web site
www.irinapatkanian.com
In Parenthesis, Inc. (non-profit film & theater company)
www.inparenthesis.org
Living Here: A Kamchatka Tale.
www.kamchatkamovie.com
My American Neighbor
www.myamericanneighbor.com
Class Blogs
Office: 405 A
Phone: 718-951-5600 ext. 2790
Please contact Professor Patkanian directly for appointments.
ipatkanian@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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