Charles Ramirez-Berg
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
Assosiate Professor

Ramirez-Berg writes screenplays, has published fiction, poetry, and a children's book, The Gift of the Poinsettia (co-authored with Chicana poet Pat Mora), (Arte Público Press/U. of Houston, 1995). He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1997-1998. He is also a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers (1996), a recipient of the 1999-2000 Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, and numerous other teaching awards.

Cauleen Smith
RTF Faculty Member
Experimental Filmmaker

Cauleen Smith is a new faculty member joining the Dept in Fall 2002. She is well-known for her experimental short films and videos; and her most recent feature film is currently playing on the Sundance Channel. She has been selected for both the Writer's Lab and the Director's Lab at the Sundance Institute. She has been a judge at numerous film festivals, including the Cinematexas Short Film and Video Festival based here at UT. She has her MFA from the UCLA School of Film, Theater and Television.

Nancy Schiesari
Assistant Professor

For the past five years, Schiesari has been teaching Film Production courses at graduate and advanced undergraduate level, while continuing to work professionally and creatively as a cinematographer and director.
Prior to teaching at UT, Schiesari taught film in England, as a tenured faculty member at the London Institute, formerly known as the London College of Printing. Schiesari also worked professionally as a director of photography on documentaries and dramas produced by Channel Four and the BBC.

Sandy Stone
Associate Professor

Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone is Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the Convergent Media program of the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin; Senior Artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts; and Fellow of the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine. She has been a visiting lecturer in the departments of Communication and Sociology at the University of California San Diego, where she taught film, linguistics, gender, cultural studies, and feminist theory.

Sharon Ross, PhD
Assistant Professor

Sharon is a PhD graduate from UT with a degree in RTF. She has a master's
degree in Women's Studies from Ohio State. In addition to teaching in the
Communication College's Fellows Program, Sharon's work focuses on the
representation of gender and sexuality in film and TV. Sharon's
dissertation was on fans of Buffy and Xena.

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