| Associate Professors
Katherine G. Fry
Associate Professor, Deputy Chair, Graduate Division
 Ph.D., Temple University, 1994.
Current research and publications in media and cultural geography,
media criticism, and media ecology. Specializations include mass media and
society, television news, critical cultural studies, advertising.
Recent research includes a book, Constructing the Heartland: Television News and Natural Disaster, Hampton Press, 2003. Other publications include: "Television News: Hero for New Orleans, Hero for the Nation" in Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces; an article on natural disaster news and popular culture in Explorations in Media Ecology; "Starbucks Coffee: Promoting and Selling the Postmodern Brew,"in Critical Studies in Media Commercialism, Oxford University Press; "A Cultural Geography of Lake Wobegon" in the Howard Journal of Communication; and various other critical articles on magazines and German television. Fry is co-director of the Department's Advertising and Culture Archives. Formerly she was a frequent guest and commentatoron "World:Comm".
on sabbatical during the 2008-2009 academic year
For specific appointments, contact professor directly. Phone: 718-951-5000 ext. 2791or 718-951-5555
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.
on sabbatical during the 2008-2009 academic year
Please contact Professor directly for specific appointment.
Phone: 718-951-5000 ext. 2789 ct professor directly. Phone: 718-951-5000 ext. 2789
andy411@mac.com
Irene Sosa
Associate Professor
 Fulbright Scholar teaching and research in Venezuela, Spring 2005
MFA Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University Licenciatura in Mass Communication, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Video maker Irene Sosa has just finished “Sueño Paria” a 15-minute documentary about an ecological tourism project in Venezuela and his promoter Wilfred Merle. Two of her documentaries will soon be out on a DVD as part of a Kartemquin project on the work of artists Nancy Spero and Leon Golub. The Chicago based company produced such documentaries as Hoop Dreams and The New Americans. Sosa and her work are also included in a doctoral dissertation, The Art of Rupture Émigré Artists in Contemporary Perspective by Elizabeth Bachner
She is currently working on her documentary "Shopping to Belong," about the relationship between shopping, the sense of belonging and citizenship in the Latino community, as well as in a series of short experimental videos dealing with the mass media and war. She is also working on a project begun in 2005 on the Venezuelan art critic Margarita D’Amico.
In 2003 she was commissioned to make a retrospective of her work on Nancy Spero (13 documentaries) Including “Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers Nancy Spero in the NYC Subway” 11 min documentary, 2003, "Woman As Protagonist: The Art of Nancy Spero." 45 min. documentary, 1993 : Her short video documentaries on the artist include: "To Soar II," "Minerva," "Sky Goddess," "Madrid," and "Nancy Spero in Derry, Northern Ireland". She also decided to include some work from other sources to produce a four DVD anthology of work on Nancy Spero that was shown at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea in Galicia, Spain that year.
Over the past 5 years she has continued to collaborate with choreographer Merián Soto on several projects: Asi Se Baila Un Son, Prequel, and the Time Machine, multimedia performances that were presented in several venues including, The Joyce Theater and Dance Theater Workshop in NYC.
Since its completion in 1999, Sosa's "Sexual Exiles," a 30 min. documentary about gays and lesbians who left their countries because of their sexual orientation, has been shown in more than 30 national and international venues, and continues to be invited to festivals, exhibitions, and other events.
Sosa's videos have been shown at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Centro Cultural Chacao, EXIT ART, Festival Du Films Sur L'Art (Montreal), the Chicago Art Institute, the University of Illinois, The American Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), WNYC Channel 31 NY, Centre George Pompidou Paris-France, and other national and international venues.
She collaborated as a filmmaker in "Historias" and "Familias," two multimedia dance performance directed by Meriån Soto and Pepón Osorio. She also collaborated with photographer Susan Unterberg on "Close Ties," a photo/video installation presented at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC; and with Pepón Osorio in several of his installations. In 1995 she presented her own piece titled "When I Grow Up," a multimedia performance at the "Rompeforma" festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico and at PS122 in New York City.
In 1998 she was a recipient of the Individual Artist's Fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts; a fellowship from The Andrea Frank Foundation; and in 1995 she received an Individual Artist grant from the New York State Council for the Arts. She has received five PSC-CUNY Research Awards.
In 2003 Sosa was given a Brooklyn College Creative Achievement Award.
In 2004-2005 Sosa was granted a Fulbright fellowship.
Classes for Fall 2008:
TVR27.1 Elem TV Field Production, Monday 2:15pm-6:25pm
TVR730 Production Aesthetics, Wednesday 6:30pm-9:15pm
Phone: 718-951-5000 ext. 2796 email: isosa@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Frederick Wasser
Associate Professor
 Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1996.
Veni, Vidi, Video; Awarded The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology in 2003
The Hollywood Empire and the VCR (Austin TX: University of Texas Press)
Professor Wasser's academic scholarship is inspired by the communications question of the relationships between mass culture and its audiences, particularly in the film industry. This has come out of his experience in Hollywood where the greatest energy is in putting together the resources to make a film, rather than actually making a film. It is the distributor, he says, who indirectly puts together these resources, by matching the audience to the film. Therefore the distributor is key to understanding the relationship between the film and its audience. Wasser has written on film distribution, its grassroots possibilities, trans-national distribution and distribution of films in various media.Professor Wasser's interests include history and communications, political economy of communication, media ecology, film and television, aural media, new media, study of culture, mass media and social theory, copyright and the arts, Scandinavian literature, Norwegian medieval architecture, and theater.Professor Wasser has extensive practical experience in the film and television industries, in all phases of production. He edited the last "biker" film made in Hollywood, Hellriders (1986) starring TV's Adam West ("Batman") and Tina Louise ("Gilligan's Island), and his sound editor credits include Nightmare on Elm Street IV (1988) where he put the click in Freddy Kruger's razor fingers, and Missing in Action (1984), for which he created the "yummy chewing sounds" of Chuck Norris eating a rat. Wasser has also worked in a New York City fashion advertising firm, as a freelance magazine reporter, and as a film reviewer in print and on radio. More offbeat assignments include a tour as a deckhand on a Mississippi oil towbarge.
Professor Wasser has published several book chapters, and articles in Cinema Journal, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journal of Communication, and elsewhere. He is currently contributing columnist to FLOW.
His columns are available at http://idg.communication.utexas.edu/flow/
His online article entitled "Media is Driving Work" is available in the Journal of Media and Culture 4(5) (2001) online at http://www.media-culture.org.au/
Classes for Fall 2008:
TVR 710 Broadcast Seminar, Thursday 6:30pm-9:15pm
TVR30.5W TV/R Criticism, Tuesday & Thursday 11:00am-12:15pm
Office hours:
Tues. 10:30am - 12:15pm
Thurs. 10:30am - 12:15pm
Room: 405A Tel: (718) 951-5000 ext. 2790.
FWasser@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.
Classes for Fall 2008:
TVR 17 TV/R Advertising (Same as BUS 50.7) Tuesday & Thursday 2:15pm-3:30pm
TVR 17 TV/R Advertising (Same as BUS 50.7) Tuesday & Thursday 3:40pm-4:55pm
Also Business Courses. Please see schedule of classes for BUS courses.
Office hours:
Tues. 1:45pm - 3:15pm
Thurs. 1:45pm - 3:15pm
Office: 407s A Phone: 718-951-5000 ext. 2788.
Please contact Professor 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, 1993
BA Cum Laude, Honors (Philosophy), Colgate University, 1991
Interactive media artist John J.A. Jannone is a sound artist, performer and designer of experimental electronic instruments. His work has been presented in New York City at the Merce Cunningham Studio, the Medicine Show Theater, Roulette, Dixon Place, Whitebox Gallery, Studio 18 Gallery, the Joyce SoHo, The Kitchen, The Knitting Factory, Independent Art Here, and the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center. He performed at the International Computer Music Conference in Havana, Cuba in 2001, and has twice been selected for presentation at the Connecticut College Biennial Symposium on Art and Technology (2001, 2003). Recent projects include collaborations with composers Holland Hopson and Bernadette Speach, video artist Marisela LaGrave, choreographers Anita Cheng and Kristin Fieseler, and actor Karl B. Stewart. His music appears in the new film Data's Congestion, produced by Maria Pessino. He received a Meet The Composer grant in 2002 and a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant in 2004 for research in multimedia control interfaces, motion capture, and immersive performance environments.
John is an associate professor at City University of New York. In addition to teaching studio television production and television aesthetics in his home department of Television and Radio, he teaches computer music composition in the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College, and is the director of the College's new graduate program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts .
He has taught previously at Pratt Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Hudson Valley Community College. He holds an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BA in Philosophy, Cum Laude, from Colgate University. He is a director and vice-president of Ballibay for the Fine and Performing Arts.
No Television and Radio courses for Fall 2008. Please see PIMA and Conservatory of Music.
Office hours:
Mondays: 1:15pm to 3:15pm
Tuesdays: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
For a specific appointment, please contact professor directly.
718 951 4203 (office - 376G) (fax 4418)
718 951 5000 x1229 (center for computer music - 250/251G)
jannone@mac.com
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