Communications
& Theatre Arts Faculty:
Dr.
Gary Edgerton
Chair
of the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts
Professor of Communication/Film Studies
Dr. Gary Edgerton is professor and chair of the
Communication and Theatre Arts Department at Old
Dominion University. He is the Co-Editor of the
Journal of Popular Film and Television, and has
published five books and more than fifty-five essays
on a wide assortment of film, television, and culture
topics in a variety of books and scholarly journals.
Dr. Edgerton is the founder and artistic director
of the annual ODU Film and Video Festival and he
teaches Film as Communication, American Film History,
and International Film History.
Dr.
Robert Arnett
Director
of Film and Video Studies
Associate
Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts/Film
Studies
Katherine Hammond
Director
of Theatre
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film/Digital
Filmmaking
Dr. Jeffery Jones
Assistant
Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts/Film
Studies
Dr. Jeffrey Jones's teaching and research
interests include media and politics, documentary
film, and non-fiction media, with a specific focus
on the ways in which popular culture interacts with
and affects American political culture. Jones teaches
The Documentary Tradition in the film studies program,
and is author of the book Entertaining Politics:
New Political Television and Civic Culture. His
odu home page is: www.odu.edu/al/jpjones.
Dr.
Kyle Nicholas
Assistant
Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts/ Film
Studies
Stephen Pullen
Associate
Professor of Communication & Theatre Arts/Film
Studies
Steve Pullen began his theatre and film education
at Brigham Young Univesity and he went on to study
at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
under West End director, Roger Clisshold, Donmar
Warehouse founder, Brian Astbury and voice coaches
Barbara Berkerey and Pamela Barnard. His original
stageplay, "Hombre y Hombre" was
selected by the Questor's Theatre of Hammersmith
as one of its "Best New Plays" and received
a production at this West End theatre under the
direction of patron Dame Judi Dench. He has a Masters
in Fine Arts in Film Directing and Production from
the University of Southern California and was awarded
the coveted Jack Nicholson Award for Excellence
in Directing. Since graduation from USC Mr. Pullen
has worked as a writer/producer in Los Angeles for
the past 8 years.
Mr.
Pullen has worked as a development writer at MGM,
Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros., and Fox. His projects
include WITHOUT A PRAYER (developed for Jamie Foxx
and Robert De Niro), BRIDGE AND TUNNEL (developed
for Ray Romano & Kevin James), CREATION (developed
for Kenneth Branagh), THE INNOCENTS (developed for
The American Indian Filmmaker's Alliance), WINTER
OF THE HOLY IRON (developed for Amerind Entertainment)
and DAKOTA SPRINGS (developed for Bob Shayne Entertainment).He
has relationships with all major studios and with
dozens of independent production companies and currently
is teaching Comm/Thea 370: The Video Project.
Konrad Winters
Associate Professor of Theatre and Film/Digital
Filmmaking
Mr.
Winters has a Master of Fine Arts in Design (1982)
from Illinois State University (Ill.) and has been
teaching design and technical production on the
college level since 1976. And has produced and directed
several short student films at Old Dominion University
including: DIEner, The White Room, The Travel
Writer, Brothers, and PUSH.
He
has designed and constructed over 100 productions
for theatre and film in both academic and commercial
venues. He teaches courses in digital filmmaking
& production including Cinematography, Lighting
Design for Stage and Film , The Video Project ,Television
Production, Sound Design for Stage and Camera, and
Production Design.
Keith
Flippen
Adjunct
Faculty/ Film Studies
Keith
Flippen is a professional film, television, and
voiceover actor with 20 years of experience and
teaches courses in Voice, Dialects, and Acting for
the Camera.
Shortly after he graduated from Virginia Tech with
BA in Theatre Arts, Keith Flippen participated in
a Soviet-American Actor Exchange program at the
National Theater Institute in Connecticut in 1990.
Upon his return to Virginia Beach from the Leningrad
State Institute of Theatre Music and Film, Mr. Flippen
appeared in a number of critically acclaimed roles
in local and regional theatre and in early 1992,
booking his first major television job on CBS's
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles .
That
fall , Mr. Flippen returned to Russia as the U.S.
Administrator of the Russian American Theatre for
several months working in St. Petersburg, Moscow
and Minsk to produce plays for children in the country
of Byelorus. Mr. Flippen's film credits include
The Wire (HBO), American Gothic (CBS), Minority
Report, Dawson's Creek (WB), Surface (NBC), Virus
, as well as the Emmy Award winning From the Earth
to the Moon (miniseries) and Iron Jawed Angels ,
both for HBO. Recently, Mr. Flippen appeared in
ABC's Same as it Never Was with Lacey Chabert and
Wendi Malik as well as in CBS's Heartless with Melanie
Griffith and Esai Morales. Mr. Flippen has just
finished shooting Ruffian for ABC/ESPN with Sam
Shepard which will air on ABC in July 2007. Over
the years Mr. Flippen has been a talent agent, produced
television commercials, theatre administrator, professional
dialect coach, and is currently owner of The Actors'
Place, Inc., a private acting school in VA Beach.
Lee
Smith
Adjunct Faculty/Digital Filmmaking
English
Faculty:
Dr.
David Pagano
Assistant Professor of English/Film Studies
David
Pagano has a Ph.D. from the University of California,
Irvine, and has
been Lecturer of English at Old Dominion since 2000.
Beginning in the fall
of 2003, he will also be Director of Composition.
His research focuses on
interdisciplinary approaches to the study of time,
especially in gothic,
horror, and apocalyptic narrative. In the area of
film and video, he
teaches The Film (English 312) and World Film Directors
in Context (English
4/525).
Foreign
Languages Facutly:
Dr.
Frederick A. Lubich
Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages
Dr. Frederick A. Lubich is the Chair of the Department
of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Old Dominion
University as well as organizer of its annual international
conference on foreign languages, literatures and
cultures. He received his Staatsexamen in Germanistik
and Anglistik from the University of Heidelberg,
Germany in 1977, his MA in American Studies from
Cornell University in 1978, and his Ph.D. in German
from the University of California, Santa Barbara
in 1983. Dr. Lubich has authored over 35 scholarly
articles and 3 books in both German and English
including Max Frischs 'Stiller', 'Homo
Faber' und 'Mein Name sei Gantenbein' - Modellanalysen
zur deutschen Literatur.
Dr. Lubich's film work includes supporting role
and language consultant for the documentaries Daring
Capers: Tunneling the Berlin Wall (2000) and
Flight From Justice (2001), both for Discovery
Channel, National Cable TV; German voice over for
the theater play And Then They Came for Me, Remembering
the World of Anne Frank (New Jersey Commission
on Holocaust Education); poetry published in over
20 literary journals & anthologies, staged as
cabaret and set to music (LP Earl Records, Vienna);
also translations of film scripts for German-American
co-productions as well as of Yoko Ono’s rock
musical New York Opera for its German premiere.
Dr.
Heidi Schlipphacke
Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages/Film Studies
Dr. Schlipphacke received her Ph.D. from the University
of Washington in 1999. She teaches courses in German
and European Studies in the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures at Old Dominion University
and she organizes the German Film Series. She has
published articles on the family and gender in the
German Enlightenment, Germany and France, and issues
of gender and aesthetics in writings by the Frankfurt
School philosopher Teodor Adomo. She is currently
working on a book on female masochism in German
literature. Dr. Schlipphacke teaches New German
Film: Beyond Fascism and Understanding European
Cinema in the area of film and video studies.
Dr.
Peter Schulman
Associate
Professor of Foreign Languages/Film Studies
