34 faculty and 34 courses in Communication at Tulane University.
- Vicki Mayer, Professor h-index 16
Communication and media industries Community and alternative media Critical political economy Cultural geographies and histories of media Identity and media Media production studies Media audiences and consumption Regional communications in
Notable: “Living Telenovelas/Telenovelizing Life: Mexican American Girls' Identities and Transnational Telenovelas” (2003) · 67 citations
- Mauro Porto, Professor & Department Chair h-index 11
Notable: “Frame Diversity and Citizen Competence: Towards a Critical Approach to News Quality” (2007) · 114 citations
- Ferruh Yilmaz, Associate Professor h-index 8
Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Criticism Culturalization of Discourse The Role of Gender and Sexuality in the Debates on Immigration, War, and Islam Populism and Far Right The Production of Islam/West Distinction Selected Publications “F
Notable: “Right-wing hegemony and immigration: How the populist far-right achieved hegemony through the immigration debate in Europe” (2012) · 198 citations
- Muira McCammon, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Notable: “Situating dead-and-dying platforms: technological failure, infrastructural precarity, and digital decline” (2022) · 16 citations
- William Saas, Senior Professor of Practice, Director of Undergraduate Studies h-index 3
- Aidan Smith, Adjunct Professor
- Antonio Gómez, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies
Narratives of dislocation, especially from Cuba and Argentina, new poetics of documentary in Latin American, and the writing of recent history in a postnational context. He is the author of Escribir el espacio ausente . Exilio y cul
- Carole Spitzack Daruna, Professor Emerita
- Casey Beck, Professor of Practice, Cinema Studies
- Charlotte Orzel, Visiting Assistant Professor
On media aesthetics, histories, and globalization; media industry studies; film exhibition and technologies; and cultural studies. She is presently developing a book project, tentatively titled Cinema Circuits: Domestic Theater Chains and G
- Constance J. Balides, Associate Professor
- Daniella Zalcman, Professor of Practice
- Edmond Ernest dit Alban, Assistant Professor
Animation and Anime Studies Transmedia Studies Film and Multimedia Industries Game Studies Queer Theory Fan Studies Selected Publications Journal Articles: "Imagining Diversity: Mapping the Potential and Limits of a Queer Otaku Theory." Mec
- Esra Özcan, Senior Professor of Practice
Representations of gender in news photographs Postcolonial feminism Islam and Muslims in the media The politics of dress in Turkey Religion, politics and the media in Turkey Selected Publications Book Özcan, Esra (2019). Mainstreaming the H
- Felicia McCarren, Professor of French, Cinema Studies
- Hongwei Thorn Chen, Assistant Professor, Communication and Asian Studies
Hongwei Thorn Chen is a scholar of Chinese and east Asian film and media cultures. Chen's research is interested in how institutions attempt to govern with technological media, and how media, in turn, trigger crises of governmental reason.
- Jane Pyo, Assistant Professor
Digital politics, global digital platforms, and democracy. Her book project, Who is the Parasite? Digital Attacks and New Modes of Digital Politics in South Korea , examines how digital platforms reshape civic politics and news org
- Jerome Dent, Assistant Professor, Communication and Africana Studies
- Jolene Pinder, Professor of Practice
- Justin Wolfe, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies
Nation-formation, race and ethnicity, and the African Diaspora. Teaching Interests While my research concentrates on Central America, my teaching ranges much more widely across the region and tackles diverse themes. I offer a number
- Kai-man Chang, Professor of Practice
East Asian Cinemas, Chinese film and literature, feminism, queer theory, diaspora studies, postcolonialism, and childhood studies. He has published a number of articles on Taiwan New Cinema and Hong Kong martial arts cinema. Researc
- Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies Director of Graduate Studies
- Kate Baldwin, Professor of English (Affiliated)
- Ko Bragg, Professor of Practice
- Krystal Cleary, Senior Professor of Practice
Professor Krystal Cleary conducts her research at the nexus of critical disability studies, media studies, and intersectional feminist and queer theory. Her research focuses on representations and discourses of disability in popular culture
- Laura-Zoë Humphreys, Associate Professor & Associate Chair
Cinema and censorship, gender and media piracy, digital media and disinformation, transnational media, and post/socialism, and a decades-long ethnographic commitment to Cuba in its multiple global geo-political contexts (the Caribbean, L
- M. Kathryn Edwards, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies
Professor Edwards is a specialist of contemporary France and the second overseas empire, with a strong interest in historical remembrance. Her book, Contesting Indochina: French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War , examine
- Michael Syrimis, Associate Professor of Italian, Cinema Studies Coordinator
Es on Italian cinema and literature as well as the interaction between these two media at moments marked by radical shifts in twentieth-century Italian culture, such as the 1910s, ’30s, ’40s, and ’60s. He is particularly interested in the r
- Michele White, Professor
Michele White studies media and visual culture, with a research emphasis on the theories that can be developed for analyzing new communication technologies and the representations and political implications that occur with the internet. Her
- Nathan Halverson, Professor of Practice
- Peter Kunze, Assistant Professor
- Ron Gard, Professor of Practice (Affiliated)
- Tupur Chatterjee, Assistant Professor
- Watufani M. Poe, Assistant Professor
In the areas of Black Queer/Trans Diaspora Studies, feminist ethnography, racial intimacies, as well media and cultural production within social justice movements. His manuscript project, "Resisting Fragmentation: The Embodied Politics
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.